This writer has been through many different paths in life, his writing has the tendency to draw in all types of people: the heavily political, the heavily athletic, and the heavily psychotic. ... He finds a job in the spring of 59 at the Middletown Daily Record, which upset the Advertisers, and was fired in the summer for attacking the candy machine. ... This loss spikes his interest in Politics. ... His writings on politics and his "Fear and Loathing" series gained him this title, and reinforced the acceptance of Gonzo Journalism. ... This was another politically centered book that contin...

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The ability to create intelligent machines has intrigued humans since ancient times and today with the advent of the computer and 50 years of research into AI programming techniques, the dream of smart machines is becoming a reality. ... It has long been possible to make machines that looked and moved in human-like ways.3 Machines that could spook and awe the audience - but creating a model of the mind, in that day in time were off limits. ... Any modern computer is essentially a modified Turing machine. The question at the center of artificial intelligence is: "Are human beings also Turing m...

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Another control mechanism perfected by Ceausescu was "rotation", a policy applied after 1971 to strengthen his personal power at the expense of political institutions . ... He believed that machine building, and petrochemical industries, where the most important industries that Romania had to focus . ... The government was afraid that the intelligentsia would ask for more rights in the country and therefore the government decided to lower their participation in politics. ...

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Computer generated graphics lets the audience see in full detail what the machines that have taken over the world look like. ... Also, a group called "rage against machine" makes the song that the audience hears in the last scene, after Neo steps out of the phone booth. The name of this group links back to technology, the human revolution, humans are angry at the artificial intelligent machines that they themselves have created. ... Everyone in the Western world now wants to know if these political leaders are misleading their citizens or if what they say is actually true. ...

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John Locke – Life Sketch Locke is the greatest figure in the history of political thought. ... He found his political works too taxing; he could not cope up with it. ... He got himself involved in Whig politics, where he helped plan William of Orange's expedition to England. ... His whole political theory is based on his perception of human nature. ... Political Thought-Wayper. ...

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Industrial capitalism is an efficient , impersonal slaughtering machine that sacrifices its workers. ... Love's Pilgrimage (1911) attempted to move away from the more political-social style, but in 1913 Sinclair began to investigate the great Colorado coal strike and the methods used by the Rockefeller to suppress it; as a result of the publicity he brought to the owners? ... By this time, he had moved to California, where he began a lifelong career of political activism and journalism devoted to exposing the evils of greed and materialism: Between 1917 and 1927 he wrote a series of pam...

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He pulled a black shroud off a table and there was the machine, a shiny chrome box in the shape of the letter X, with a big green jewel in its center. ... Blackley's friends had a moment of horror when the action stopped on the screen; they thought the machine had crashed. ... It wasn't, perhaps, the most politically correct name for a project at a company that would need plenty of support from Japanese game publishers, but it was pure Mr. ... They criticized the Xbox, loaded with a $55 hard disk drive, as too expensive for a machine that needed to sell at less than $300 in order to ...

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After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. With the help of Jack Hess and Joe Murray, Roosevelt was elected to his first political office in 1881 as a representative for the New York Assembly. ... He would not be bound by the political machine and would fight for what he believed in. ... As Governor, he once again distanced himself from the political machines, the same ones that got him elected. ... McKinley was looking for a running mate, and Platt saw this as the opportunity to nominate Roosevelt Vice President, since they really did not do much in politics. ...

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After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. With the help of Jack Hess and Joe Murray, Roosevelt was elected to his first political office in 1881 as a representative for the New York Assembly. ... He would not be bound by the political machine and would fight for what he believed in. ... As Governor, he once again distanced himself from the political machines, the same ones that got him elected. ... McKinley was looking for a running mate, and Platt saw this as the opportunity to nominate Roosevelt Vice President, since they really did not do much in politics. ...

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This machine was simple in design yet extremely effective. The entire goal of the machine was to put in picked cotton and end up with seeded pure cotton. ... Someone, it didn't matter who because it took no talent, took a couple of pounds of raw cotton and fed it into the top of the machine. ... This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton short staple cotton--that was especially well suited to the climate of the Deep South. ... He decided he would build a machine that would clean cotton faster than it could be done by hand. ...

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Standard industrial coiling machines can handle steel bar up to 3 in (75 mm) in diameter, and custom springs have reportedly been made from bars as much as 6 in (150 mm) thick. ... Quenching Then, the coiled metal it is immediately removed from the coiling machine and plunged into oil to cool it quickly and harden it. ...

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Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902. ... In that campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor. ... Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to pronounce American war aims through a a series of ideas he had known as the Fourteen Points, this would establish a general association of nations indubitably guaranteeing political independence and territorial integrity to great and small stat...

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The world champion said that man would always beat machine, he was devastated at the loss. Machine had just proved it could beat the best at intelligence. ... In the Terminator, we use a time machine to stop the emergence of our enemies (so far unsuccessful). ...

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All that the factory owners needed was a dependable supply of labor to tend the machines. ... The factory owners at Lowell believed that machines would bring progress as well as profit. ... They increased the number of machines that each girl had to operate. ... They worked side by side, had the same interests and held similar political views. ... In the past, they had taken great pride in their handicraft skills; now machines did practically all the work, and they were reduced to the status of common laborers. ...

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Factors including the U.S. government's policy mechanisms, it's bureaucracy and public opinion, coupled with the narrow domestic political mindedness of President Roosevelt, lead us to ask; Why was the American government apathetic to the point of culpability, and isolationist to the point of irresponsibility, with respect to the systematic persecution and annihilation of the Jewish people of Europe during the period between 1938-1945? ... With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant se...

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The Chinese had a great influence over the Vietnamese's way of life, including their educational, social, and political systems. Chinese political and social institutions were introduced. ... In Vietnam, the Chinese influence was actually used to some extent in political institutions. ... For several hundred years, Vietnamese political and social institutions continued to be based on Chinese models. 6. ... Most Vietnamese did not develop a strong sense of participation in the political process. ...

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Malay is a minority group in Sabah but politically the every day affairs of political life is very much overshadowed by that of the Peninsula[2]. ... Nowadays, the nearest equivalence in Britain probably is "I've got a computer game machine" or "I've got a virtual reality machine". ...

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The frequent center of stormy political activity; criticism and abuse were often showered upon him. ... His father then gave up any notion of Winston's following his own footsteps into the political arena. ... The next year he resigned from the army to enter politics. ... When given this position, Churchill began to urge the development of modern weapons such as tanks, machine guns, and airplanes to end the war quicker. Churchill loathed the Bolsheviks and used his political positi...

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It also brings with itself another concept of dominance and political structures. ... " Science has come to end the continuum from pure experience to pure abstraction and from organism/nature to machine/science. ...

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In a country as vast and as culturally diverse as Canada, many different political opinions may be found stretched across the country. ... To represent these varying political views, Canada has four official national political parties to choose from the Liberals (who are currently in power), the Progressive Conservatives, the New Democrats, and the Reform Party. ... Over the years, the NDP has become a large force in Canadian politics, becoming an alternative to the Conservatives and Liberals. Even to the casual Canadian political observer, the NDP is generally regarded as...

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Such was the popularity of these machines that a programme called jukebox jury started. ... Who's enemies, whether they were the Daleks' or the Cybermen', very scary and the concept of a time machine fascinating, yet fun. ...

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During the gilded age, when Roosevelt was ending college and starting his political life, the government allowed the industry to grow with any interference. ... At Harvard he followed politics very closely and during his spare time he would often help the campaigns of republican candidates. ... His first real political job was as a New York State assemblyman, 1882-1884. ... He returned to the political scene in 1888 to back President Harrison in the Midwest. ... This is one of the first times we see him change the trends of politics in the Gilded Age. ...

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The organization and training was the reason why the army won so many wars its been said, "a small force, highly trained, is more likely to win battles than a raw untrained horde. " In the end this once magnificent machine diminished to nothing more than an unorganized group of people with absolutely no fighting skill, which gave them no protection from the barbarians. ... He paid no attention to his country or the politics; he watched chariot racing and lion baiting all day. ...

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The engineer explained all about the machine and even let Ford fire the engine and run it. ... Although he yearned to go to Detroit and work in the machine shops, Ford stayed on the farm helping the family until he was seventeen. ... Fancying himself a political pundit and all-around sage, he allowed himself to be drawn into national and even world affairs. ...

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The engineer explained all about the machine and even let Ford fire the engine and run it. ... Although he yearned to go to Detroit and work in the machine shops, Ford stayed on the farm helping the family until he was seventeen. ... Fancying himself a political pundit and all-around sage, he allowed himself to be drawn into national and even world affairs. ...

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