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    There has been four major law change that affect the way that california is the way today.The first of the four changes is term limits, they change this rule so that there would be no more career politician , but that not the case. In the old rule term limits rules you were allowed to be in the senate for 6 terms and in the assembly for 3 term. Now the term limits you get 12 terms not matter where you are. This new system bring in a lot of advantage, and little disadvantage but there is always

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    Peer Production: An Agent of Good or Evil?

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    Peer Production: An Agent of Good or Evil? A Comparative Essay in the Context of Wikipedia Traditionally, centralized organizations such as governments, religious institutions and universities were responsible for information production and sharing. However, over the past decade, the Internet has decentralized the process and promoted open-source software (OSS). OSS is software that is freely used, edited, and shared by anyone. As a result of OSS, users are able to generate content, also known as

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    As a college degree seems to be the minimum education requirement in today’s society for an entry middle class job, the need for textbooks in those college courses comes along with that. A common issue most college students are faced with is the high price of textbooks. When it comes to textbooks, there is a conflict of interest between the consumers and publishers. The textbook industry consists of five major publishers, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson, Thomson Gale and Wiley. Combined

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    The Open Boat Essay

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    Crane's "The Open Boat" implies the overall relationship between the individual and nature. This sentence also implies the limitations of anyone's perspective. The men in the boat concentrate so much on the danger they are in, that they are oblivious and unaware to everything else; in other words, maybe lacking experience. "The Open Boat" begins with a description of four men aboard a small boat on a rough sea. The central theme of this story is about confronting Nature itself. "The Open Boat" is

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    The Death of Print

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    player’s new nose job (all actual headlines on Yahoo’s homepage)? Imagine reading a book and every other page being something completely irrelevant to the book itself. “Imagine a tablet, maybe half an inch thick, shaped when held one way like an open book or magazine, when turned sideways much like a single page of a newspaper. It weighs six ounces. It’s somewhat flexible, which makes it easy to transport. Its screen, utterly glare-free, neither flickers nor fades nor grows dull” (Okrent 579).

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    English Tragedy Script

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    husband will probably be worried if I don’t get home early. Meredith: You call this early? Well, if you must… Eddielaine: (finishes her drink and stands up from the bar stool.) Good bye Meredith… Meredith: bye Eddielaine… (Curtains close. Curtains open. We see Eddielaine enter the living room where Veronica and Nicholas were.) Nicholas: Eddielaine! You…You’re home! Eddielaine: Why Nicholas? Are you surprised? I see we have a guest. An unwelcome guest. Veronica…why are you here? Veronica: Well Eddielaine

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    Halløj

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    carved from stone. For a split second Tom sees the miniature double of the squat brown man who has let him into the house.  Paintings fill the walls. But tom will not allow himself to linger before Posner’s tropics. Nevertheless, as he comes to the open door of the room where the woman has been vacuuming, he halts. Gleaming wood and muted jewel tones repeats the message of wealth tempered by taste that the house has been designed to communicate.  C.  Dette er et godt eksempel på hvorfor maskeineoversættelse

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    Defining Goffman's Total Institution Essay

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    To examine how far Lennox castle hospital was an example of what Goffman called a ‘Total Institution’ I will first need to explore Goffman’s definition of this, along with the four factors that he identified as characteristics of a ‘Total institution’ I will then go on to discuss how these four factors fit with Lennox castle hospital and determine whether or not it fell into Goffman’s model of a ‘Total Institution.’ In order to discuss how Goffman’s four factors fit with Lennox castle hospital

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    Benin Art in Museums and Galleries Essay

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    The display of Benin art in museum and galleries reflect the attitudes and perceptions of Europeans towards non-western artefacts, especially African. Thus as European attitudes change towards non-western art since the discovery of Benin art in 1897, Benin art has been revaluated and re-categorised. Initially there was a great deal of debate about Benin art and its display, as it did not equate with the perceptions then held about Africa. Until the British conquest of Benin in 1897, little was

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    The Pros and Cons of Open Source Essay

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    Open Source: Good and Bad Introduction: In the following paper I will be discussing the use of open source software as part of a larger project. Example uses of this include incorporating existing publicly available source code within another piece of software. Because the term open source has such broad implications, I will attempt to explain it within the context of this paper. Open source code comes with many different licenses such as GPL, BSD, and MIT. I will describe the most popular licensing

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