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suit, and his shoes were down at heel, but he looked confident, even arrogant, standing with his legs apart and his hands in his pockets. As she watched, he crossed the road and disappeared from sight. She was glad Mrs Laurence had warned her not to open the door; the man was unsettling, and

In the story "The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane, Crane uses many literary techniques to convey the stories overall theme. The story is centered on four men: a cook, a correspondent, Billie, an oiler who is the only character named in the story, and a captain. They are stranded in a lifeboat in stormy seas just off the coast of Florida, just after their ship has sunk. Although they can eventually see the shore, the waves are so big that it is too dangerous to try to take the boat in to land. Instead

takes place and how to use that education to your greatest benefit; not only during the school education but also the looking at the surrounding world. Rita, an uneducated lady, is unhappy with the limitations of her social class and feels that to escape the limitations she needs to get a properly recognised education. She therefore decides to do an Open University course in English literature. This she believes will greatly increase the horizons of her life and remove some of the limitations that

would dependably be there. Life isn't guaranteed for tomorrow so then it turned out to be clear to me that anybody can leave this world in a matter of seconds willing or unwillingly. Following my dad's demise in July, many occasions were just appropriate around the bend. When Thanksgiving came I ensured that when family came over I was never again closed out to the world obviously. I

the internet is not a hard thing to do, the costs of copying are not high, and people can do it anonymously. There has been a push in the last twenty years for a more aggressive enforcement of rights and laws for new forms of media. In 1998 the world saw the passing of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which was an attempt by the US government to combat copyright to strengthen legal protection of intellectual property rights holders in the midst of emerging new information communication

The History and Philosophy of Open Source The open source movement was born in 1984, at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab when Richard M. Stallman quit his position at the university to begin the GNU Project. Having grown tired of seeing his colleagues being hired off by corporations and signing nondisclosure agreements for their work, he set off to create a completely free, open operating system. Though he specialized in the field, building such a system from the ground up is nearly impossible

a long battle for women athletes. According to ESPNW, Williams made her first public mention of the need for grand slam events to award equal prize money to men and women back in 1998,after a first round Wimbledon match. At the time in the world, the U.S. open was the only grand slam tournament that awarded equal prize money to male and females champions. At Wimbledon, one of the major grand slam events and

approach no significant differences were observed between group understandings of new banking crimes and found that they had identical ranking of responses. Additionally using an approach by Schuman and Scott (1987), half the participants were asked open questions and the other closed questions, this also highlighted the impact of question form on ranking of responses and showed no definate ordering of response choices could be made. Key words: Banking crimes, public understanding, questionnaire

become 'dead familiar' this shows that Rita has now become a different person. Before Frank had met Rita he was unhappy with his life he was drinking a lot, bored of lecturing and teaching so he decided he would so some work with the Open University and of course Rita was his first student. 'Can I offer you a drink? ... Scotch' After Rita has been to Summer School, she treats Frank differently. She has realised that she doesn't just need Frank as a teacher anymore

Open Boat Symbolism allows writers to suggest their ideas within a piece of literature. This is found in most types of writing. Stephen Crane expresses this in his short story, The Open Boat. Through symbolism and allegory, it is demonstrated that humans live in a universe that is unconcerned with them. The characters in the story come face to face with this indifference and are nearly overcome by Nature’s lack of concern. This is established in the opening scenes, the “seven mad gods” and in the