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    used by Kate Chopin's in “The Story of an Hour” give the reader a sense of Mrs. Mallard’s new life appearing before her through her view of an “open window” (para. 4). Louise Mallard experiences what most individuals long for throughout their lives; freedom and happiness. By spending an hour in a “comfortable, roomy armchair” (para.4) in front of an open window, she undergoes a transformation that makes her understand the importance of her freedom. The author's use of Spring time imagery also creates

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    or web design needed to do this changes once the open source content management system has been installed. The most important thing that one needs to note is that when he or she uses CMS, one does not need to know how to code to make various changes. When choosing the content management system all you need to do is that choose a content management system that will fit your needs effectively, and the best content management system is open source. Open source is a platform that built

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    There is a running joke in the geeky realm of our society that says there are two types of people in the world, those who use iPhones and those who use Androids. Most of the time, people either love or hate either gadget, there isn’t much room to have mediocre feelings towards these devices. They are both amazing handheld devices, which perform a multitude of tasks. They guide us, entertain us, teach us, organize us, the list can go on and on. The Android and iPhone are two very comparative devices

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    Our approach consists of following steps. First, we collected a corpus of code fragments, containing 127 code fragments, extracted directly from the Eclipse and NetBeans Official FAQs. Second, we hired human annotators to suggest summary lines i.e., Gold Summary Lines (annotation). Third, we introduced crowdsourcing (data-driven) as a problem solving model in software artifact summarization paradigm, as it had not been employed before for software artifact summarization, for extracting code features

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    Microsoft is a company that has built its momentum by empowerment. According to the company’s CEO what is different about Microsoft is that they make things that help other people make things. They are well poised to ignite a new revolution in which digital technologies democratize access to people across economic strata, organizations of all sizes, entrepreneurs, researches and students everywhere. To successfully deliver that promise of empowerment, Microsoft focuses on the reinvention of productivity

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    Financially, it is more beneficial for districts to purchase tablets and online textbooks compared to traditional textbooks. In order to use school budgets most efficiently, it is vital that funds are directed towards the most resourceful items for the students. As the state funding for public schools decreases, this becomes a more prominent concern. Tablets provide a simple fix to the need of a modern, cost saving solution. According to one resource, the average textbook costs $70 each, verse

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    Tablets Vs. Textbooks

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    ”Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture” (Thomas Edison). An idea that was destined for failure has now been made into the key source to get students and teachers more interacted while in a classroom setting. Tablets such as the iPad and the Microsoft surface have made this idea possible, showing students that there is another alternative to the traditional method

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    Textbooks are getting more expensive as the years go by, publishers add extra materials to raise prices, and new editions are published frequently, often with little to no real content change. These problems are even worse today, as the cost of books keeps rising to the point where some students will decline to take a class due to the cost of the material. A 2004 study by the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) along with the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group

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    Netscape Ipo

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    It all started with the development of a graphical software program that gave rise to the notion of "surfing" (Netscape 's). Netscape Communications can trace its roots to a group of science students working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who turned a simply software program called 'Mosaic ', into a platform that enabled non-technical computer users to access and retrieve information that was becoming more and more available on the worldwide web. Founded in 1994, Netscape Communications

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    “The Open Boat” The relationship between man and nature Many stories talk about the idea of fate, the idea that no matter how much a person tries to survive, nature ultimately chooses the person’s path of life. The short story, “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane illustrates the relationship between nature and man and how nature’s indifference towards man’s effort for survival. In this account, the narrator, Stephen Crane explains to the readers that no matter how hard one tries to fight nature in

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