He withdrew so he could spend time educating his children because he disagreed with the education given to children at school. ... By the time he was seventeen he wrote an essay on conic sections, which is, a work in projective geometry that contained a theorem on conic sections that was named after him. At the age of eighteen Pascal invented the adding machine, which is now known as the calculator. ... The principles of this adding machine were extended into a hand-cranked calculator during the 18th and 19th century, and by the 20th century, the electronic computer began to replace th...

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The mother, Vashti, did all her tasks with the help of the machine. ... The reader can observe that Vashti practically worships the machine. ... She refers to the machine in a holy manner. ... Today, many scientists agree that pollution levels in the air are at an all-time high and we may not be able to continue inhaling it. ... Forster, through exaggeration has uncovered several issues that exist today, back in his time. ...

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Science fiction is a genre of literature that is very hard to define because it varies drastically in themes. ... Science fiction is how the world one day may look and most of the time it is the worse case scenario, where technology plays an important role in society. ... Wells, "The Time Machine: an invention" written in 1895 and "The War of the Worlds" written in 1898. ... The first time they emerged was in Hugo Gernsback's magazine "Wonder Stories", after "Amazing Stories" had disappeared. ... Science fiction was seen as serious literature, perhaps because people thought that it c...

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Art, Literature and Society from 1955-1970 Fear and Loathing in a Clockwork Age Ah! ... The post-war generation developed an interesting love-hate relationship with the mass culture of it's time. ... The sexual, spiritual, and intellectual freedom and autonomy that characterized the Haight-Ashberry scene were closer to the Whitmanesque ideal than anything achieved during his life time. ... The war machine of WW2 had given many women their first pay check. ...

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Oscar attended the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen where he grew a passion for Greek and Roman literature. ... In Wilde's time, the practice of homosexuality was a criminal offense. ... And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, the motion is no more. ... The Aesthetic Movement, which coincided with the Industrial Revolution at the end of the nineteenth century, emphasized the artistic aspect of a man's work in producing a variety of goods, from furniture to machines to literature Oscar Wilde, however, proposed that the principles of the Aesthetic Movement ...

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National Literature Before the war of 1812, there was basically no true American literature besides political essays. ... By 1820, literature could finally be supported as a profession. ... Most of the time, the new immigrants were treated horribly by the Americans. ... The Factory System and Market Economy British inventors perfected a series of machines for the mass production of textiles in 1750. ... America was much slower to embrace the machine than other countries in Europe. ...

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This is because much of Bradbury's literature has to do with illusory ideas. ... Fahrenheit 451, which is sometimes just referred to as Fahrenheit, is one of Bradbury's most famous pieces of literature. ... After Montag leaves the technological city, he goes into the forest and meets the "book people" who further show him that the machines of the city are negative and bad and nature and the Earth is pleasant and proper. ... Ray Bradbury has experienced or has realized many other circumstances having to do with censorship of his own literature as well as the literature of others. ...

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James Thurber was a writer during this time period. ... Critics often described him as being, "One of the foremost humorists in American literature."... At this period of time, it was the twilight of the Victorian era. ... Mitty spends the time badgering Mr. ... James Thurber was not only frustrated by women, machines were also a common cause of his frustration. ...

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Chaplins character is a proletarian, a man defined by his labour in much the same way as a machine. ... In Walter Benjamins essay "The Flaneur" the author suggests that the first literary endeavor of this new species of city dweller was "panorama literature" or "physiologies". ... The only other time in the film he is given an identity that isn't a job is when he is in jail. ... He has been doing this for so long that even when it comes time for him to break for lunch he has taken on the twitching rhythms of his machine. ... This meant that their primary interest was to pass the time as ...

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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One critic writes, "The democratic institutions which might have provided a means of change have all been bought off by the "Machine." ... Democracy does not help anyone apart from its institution at this point in time. ... Sinclair writes, "...it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust..." (317). ... Modern American Literature. 4th ed. ... American Literature in the Twentieth Century. ...

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The original is a masterpiece of Gothic literature however. ... There are some among us who believe it possible to create machines that can think and maybe even feel like us. Which does raise some disturbing questions of whether we should really want robots or machines to think and feel like we do. Frankenstein contains elements of two major genre of literature: the gothic and science fiction. ... Mary Shelley used some of the most recent technological finding of her time to create Frankenstein. ...

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The "Clock Jack" was a mechanical figure that could strike time on a bell with its axe. ... However, it is literature where human kinds vivid imagination has often reflected our fascination with the idea of creating artificial life. ... For Shelly, a robot looked like man but had the ability to function like a machine. ... From that time there has been a proliferation of work in autonomous driving machines that cruise at highway speeds and navigate outdoor terrains in commercial applications. ... The day when all dangerous or hated jobs are performed by machines not people. ...

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It is the battle of two sides made of trained fighting machines, previously known as young men, many of whom do not understand for what they are fighting. These feelings of war have carried through to future generations as well; young people of today have not experienced a war first hand, but can still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. ... He then realizes that he is no longer an individual man, but a trained killing machine. ... Until a recent tragedy in America, children may have never experienced what a time of war felt like. ...

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Dissatisfied with the shoe trade, he took up acting and studied literature, grammar, and speech. ... But at the time, the idea of hearing voices coming from a machine, rather than a person, seemed like a miracle. ... "Alexander Graham Bell also had to fight in court, this time to maintain his claim that he was the inventor of the telephone. ... In 1888 he came up with the telautograph, a telegraph-based machine that could transmit patterns of dots and lines on paper "a very early attempt at the fax machine.""... At the same time, all telephones in the United States went quiet for one mi...

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In addition, the Church of Christ in Christian Union preached a strict moral code which forbade drinking, dancing, movies, swimming, swearing, popular literature, and moral injunctions against violence and war. ... On September 12th, the Division engaged the enemy for the first time in the St. ... Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns. ... Because the Church of Christ in Christian Union cond...

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The industrial revolution was a time of drastic change and transformation from hand tools, and hand made items to machine manufactured and mass produced goods. ... The government, the arts, literature, music and architecture and man's way of looking at life all changed during the period. ... They were priezed by the factory owners because their small size permitted them to crawl among the machines to carry out repairs. ... This was extremely dangerous as the children were expected to carry out the task while the machine was still working. ...

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Beowulf with fourteen companions sets sail and goes to the Danes to attempt to slay the evil meat eating machine. ... Beowulf illustrates some important aspects of time and history. ... With the exception of a few reminiscences and indirect reference by various characters, the setting concluding Beowulf's return from Denmark to his homeland handles time in a basically linear manner, leaving no question on the chronology of events that unravel in the poem. ... It is unlike any other poem in English literature or any other Germanic literature, and Tolkien's description of Beowulf as a ...

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Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 that was owned by General Electric. ... However, Lakeside had drastically underestimated the time that the young Bill Gates would spend on this machine. He and other students would spend all day and night, learning, and writing programming from any literature they could find. Within a few weeks of learning about computers, the students had used up all of the school's bought time. ... He knew that the home computer market was about to explode, and that someone would need to make software for the new machines. ...

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The novel is not remembered for being a classic work in literature but rather an important book in history in that it changed the way America looked at food in the early part of the century. Sinclair loses his argument for Socialism at around the time when the characters in the book lose their humanity. ... In just a short time later, Jurgis" son Antanas drowned in the street. ... (212) This is the beginning of Jurgis" socialist way of thinking and it seems ideal for him, but at the same time, it seems like a last resort for someone so unfortunate that they are actually removed from a human ...

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A clear view of the discrimination that existed in that time period against non-whites and women was evident by the time the conclusion of the book was reached. ... Although this book is not the kind that exciting motion pictures are made of, It was regarded as one of the masterpieces of American literature. ... After his involvement in the war on the allied side with a machine gun battalion, he returned to his home in Chicago. ... The book mirrored the time in which it was written well. ...

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In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's novel 1984, there are very common similarities in both contrast and comparison of themes and I intend to learn from these themes the effects of governments the control its people and how every society has flaws and how they can be changed, and the themes that are displayed in both novels are technology, control of information and history, and the dangers of totalitarianism, but at the same time in 1984 there is language as mind control, and in Fahrenheit 451 there is knowledge versus ignorance. ... With telescreens visible...

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Introduction As time passes by, technology continues to evolve. ... Almost all the things around us were made by computers with the aid of modern machines. ... "Effects of computer usage to the academic performance of students" Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The scope of Computer effects derives a wide scope of related literature that is worth mentioning. ... Many of us will feel crippled without a computer, as we have gotten so used to this machine. ... Children today are forgetting how to write and many blame their awful hand writing on this machine which has taught everyo...

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I would also like to thank my committee members for giving the relevant information out of their valuable time and letting me undertake the primary research required for this project. ... Survey of the Literature 2.1 Literature Perspective Over the years, a number of security techniques have been developed that help in handling computer security and in reducing the chances of computer security breach. ... So to have a complete idea about the work done by early researchers in this area, the perspective of the literature is taken as vast so that varied areas related to security are covered. 2....

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