The Equalizer

Quality in Cars In its deep desire and dedication to help drivers and passengers get the most out of their music listening experience on every road trip, Gracenote has recently premiered a new technology for carmakers that automatically adjusts the equalizer settings in car audio systems for the song being played. The revolutionary Gracenote Dynamic EQ™ will employ the company’s industry standard music recognition technology and musical datasets to recognize a song and automatically fine-tune the audio

psychological suffering of Rodion Raskolnikov, or Rodya, after he murders two women and steals their money. At the outset of this journey, Raskolnikov, overhears locals complaining about a bitter old woman who owns a pawn shop. Viewing himself as an equalizer, Rodya uses the locals’ animosity to justify to himself the murder of the austere pawn shop owner and her sister. Shifting between guilt, pride, and indifference, his already distraught mental state is exacerbated by the opinions of those who surround

worm is used by a peasant to catch a fish to sustain the peasants hunger, and the worm has fattened itself from a king prior to being used by the peasant. Thus, saying that the peasant fed off a king. Once again, expressing that death is the great equalizer. To further emphasize this conclusion, “When death conquers life, it seems that there is a long distance between the deadman and his past life” (Ahmadi & Tayari). It’s evident that the case is made that death does not care about social status or

illuminated manuscripts, and ivory objects preserve the viewpoint of death that was most likely shared by the majority of people during this time. Furthermore, these pieces of art reaffirm topics of discussion from class, such as death being an equalizer of society and

All men may be created equal, but once born equality becomes more of a situation of where you are born then anything else. If you are lucky, enough to be born in a private well funded hospital, in a wealthy part of the country. Your sense of equality will be very different from someone that has been born in an old run down underfunded Hospital in a poor neighborhood. A perfect example of this point comes from the movie The Long walk home staring Sissy Spacek and Whoopee Goldberg. In The long Walk

In an indifferent society that only tracks, copies, and pretends, diversity is unthought of. However, Guy Montag, the protagonist in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, is not like the rest of his society. Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic time where independent thinking is outlawed. Bradbury’s novel represents a time and place in which individuals who want to learn and grow are thought of as uncivilized. These “uncivilized” people are being thrown into insane asylums because

Social Darwinism and Nature in “The Open Boat” Are all members of society subservient to each other, working to death? “The Open Boat” is an American Naturalist short story written by Stephen Crane in 1897 during the second industrial revolution, a time of economic growth, increased immigration to the United States, and little regulation of corporations and working conditions. In the story, four men of different social class are stranded at sea in a boat no bigger than a bathtub. They must work

an equalizer, multi-channel playback or digital analog converter for more options using GPS, listen to music or speaking on a connected smartphone easier. Multi-Channel Playback An in-dash DVD player can divide sounds into two to four multiple channels. Playing certain audio through different speakers enhances the listening experience A multi-channel in-dash DVD player can deliver sharper sound effects from an adventure movie in one or more channels and dialogue in another channel. Equalizer An

Anger (A friend or a foe) The world is full of angry people. Hot words are said without a thought of their consequences. It is basically a form of an intense emotional response. As sir, Mark Twain has rightly said “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured”. Although, not everyone takes to expressing anger through violent behaviour, but the loss of self-control does sow the seeds of violence. Sometimes, the anger is invisible

In a push for education equality and against exploitation by for-profit colleges, the Obama administration has unveiled a "College Scorecard" highlighting schools with the biggest bang for your buck. The end-product of a two-year investigation of 7,000 institutions of higher education, the College Scorecard differs from other university ranking systems by comparing college costs to graduation rates, loan repayment rates, and average post-graduate salaries. The resulting college search engine tool