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Open by Andre Agassi Through the eyes of an eight year old, Andre Agassi shares his private life and background of becoming a world famous tennis player, in his autobiography Open from 2009. Already from the beginning Andre Agassi narrates about the family’s more or less tense relationship to each other and how the tennis player’s career is affected of his social heritage. This is the three main themes Andre Agassi gets around in his story about his early life. First, Andre Agassi tells about the

day Niko got tired of his lifestyle and decided to change so he set his mind to get out of his gated community and see the world. He knew only one way to get out and that was to sneak out. “Niko, come on throw the ball back or I’m going in,” barked Kaspar. “Why would I? It’s the same thing everyday. Don’t you ever wonder what is beyond our gate? Don’t you want to see the world?” asked Niko. “Well, I do sometimes,

Tiger Woods Will Become The Greatest Golfer Ever The question on the mind of the golfing fraternity around the world is: Is Tiger Woods the greatest golf player of all-time? My strong opinion is definitely not. There are many reasons for myself adopting this point of view, and these include the fact that Woods has no strong resistance for him to be closely challenged from winning tournaments by multiple strokes, I feel although Woods is too inexperienced to be the greatest player of all-time and

Introduction about Linux Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. Linux is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and

through Pi’s perspective from the raft. He describes the horizon as a circle: his “gaze is always a radius” (216), carving out the circle that confines him. While he is stuck on the raft, Pi is isolated by his own vision. Incapable of seeing the vast world beyond his place and time, he’s left with no hope for survival or for rescue. Pi is stranded at sea for 227 days: during this time, he learns that “to be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the center of a circle” (215). In every direction he

many chapters in multi-author books such as The Openness of God while authoring many journals as a member of the Evangelical Theological Society. Possibly the most notable proponent of open theism is the late Clark Pinnock. Through his education and personal theological reflection, Pinnock moved from Calvinism to open theism. Pinnock was raised in Park Road Baptist Church in Toronto, Canada where he was influenced by many “moderate” voices such as C.S. Lewis that followed WWII. Pinnock attended

Stephen Crane's Theme of Community Stephen Crane is well known in the literary world for his many underlying themes. In Stephan Crane's "The Open Boat," one of the many themes that can be seen is that of community. He brings to life the importance of the each individual's role in the group setting. Crane uses a dire situation in which men's lives are in the hands of each other to show that without group togetherness no one would make it. He shows the group being given false hopes from outside

congratulate the Open University of Hong Kong and its Centre for Research in Distance and Adult Learning (CRIDAL) for this endeavour. I am told that the conference will focus primarily on Asia, but the participants, over 100, have come from all over the world --- the subject is surely of global importance. Let me therefore add a word of welcome to the overseas participants. I wish you a pleasant stay in Hong Kong and fruitful deliberations at the conference. The operating environment for open and distance

Q1: Explain the difference between an open and a closed question. Give examples of each. The difference between an open question and a closed question is that a closed question is where you are only required to answer with a yes or no and an open question is when you are expected to answer with more than one word or putting more though into your response. An example of an open question is “What is the uv ray difference between summer and winter and how does it change?”, “What are your opinions on

running the most processor intensive task in the background.  Able to increase performance in areas such as data mining, mathematical analysis, and Web serving. 4) What are the current trends in software platforms?  Define and describe open source software and Linux and explain their