...The southern land of ______ reigns heavy forests and dewy, lush grass and the people within were jolly and full of life. Satyrs run rampant in the nearby forests, their wine glasses never emptying. And the Water Nymphs take joy in leading strangers to their depths and spend their time singing their sickeningly sweet melody. All of the land was under the peaceful rule of ____, a moralistic king with a never-ending love to his people and those he cared about. He was well loved by all, or at least many held high respect for him. He and his family have ruled over ____ for many generations and this year was no different. Within his own court he had an army that would come to his every whim. Priests and scholars wrote for him and told him many stories to entertain him. Scientists provide help to the people and come up with such vast theories that people can’t help but marvel at. Within the massive stone walls of the the castle stretched acres across a large meadow with many structures attached, flowing from building to building. By the time the sun had begun making its way down to kiss the peaks of the mountains, the west wing of the castle had already began putting out lanterns that emitted a warm glow on the cold stone below. Some strolled outside, setting up blankets and stacking books upon the dew covered ground. Some even set up telescopes in hopes of getting a closer look at the event that was about to happen. The astronomers were practically buzzing with excitement. Whispers...
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..." My civilization " Have you ever wondered what are the factors that our ancestors filtered to choose the land they built their civilization on? For example, if you had to choose between a nice river valley surrounded by other civilizations or a secluded island, what would it be? I believe that if I were in charge of a large group of people 1000 years ago I would choose the river valley for three important reasons. Firstly,the river valley will provide me with water so I'll be able to grow crops, secondly I'll be surrounded by other civilizations which gives me an opportunity to trade, and finally once my civilization is strong enough I have the opportunity to expand. I am inclined to believe that water is the most important element on earth, because one of the greatest civilizations in history was built on the benefits of water.The ancient Egyptians "pharaohs" depended on water to survive, using water they were able to feed and dress their people. Which had let me to believe that my geography is my destiny, and that's why I chose the river valley. In addition to the availability of water, the trade of goods and services between people as well as nations has been going on for far more than I can remember.The river valley is surrounded by other civilizations which presents a perfect opportunity for the trade of goods and services.For example, using the river's water to my advantage I can trade my crops for other goods I can't produce. in my own point of view I tend to believe...
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...Glossary Abrasion – waves erode coastline by throwing pebbles against cliff faces Adventure holidays – more active with more risk, off the beaten track, in more unusual destinations Ageing population – increasing percentage of old people (aged 65 and over) Agri-business – type of farming that is run as a big business (no longer a way of life) Aid – money, goods and expertise given by one country to another, either free or at low cost Anticyclone – area of high pressure Appropriate technology – level in terms of size and complexity that makes it suitable for local people to use Arch – rocky opening through a headland formed by wave erosion Arête – sharp-edged two-sided ridge on the top of a mountain Bar – ridge of sand or shingle across the entrance to a bay or river mouth Beach – sloping area of sand and shingle between the high and low water marks Biodiversity – level of plant and animal variety in an ecosystem Birth rate – number of live births per 1000 population per year Boulder clay/till – all materials deposited by ice, usually clay containing sharp-edged boulders of many sizes Brown earth – uniform brown-coloured soil that forms under deciduous woodland Brownfield site – area of previously built-up land that is available to be built on again Carbon credits – each one gives the buyer the right to emit 1 tonne of carbon into the atmosphere Carbon footprint – emissions of carbon dioxide left behind by burning fossil fuels Carbon trading – companies...
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...example is located on the south eastern American coast. Submergent Rias Rias are caused by a rise in sea level or a fall in coast levels (due to tectonics) maybe both this cause a previously dry area of land to become permanently submerged. Examples include Portsmouth, Plymouth and Southampton. Fjords A long narrow inlet with steep sides or cliff faces. They are created by previous glacial movements which form a U-shape valley due to the ice forcing its way through the land. Once the ice melted it leaves the U shaped valley that become fjords. Fjards Fjards are rocky inlet of the sea, usually found along relatively low-lying coasts. Formed by the submergence of a glacial valley, fjards are characteristically more irregularly shaped than the fjords. Like fjords, they may be quite deep and may have thresholds at their mouths. Fjards are often connected by mazes of channels but are not typically river-fed estuaries. Dalmatian Coast These form when valleys run parallel to the coast and flood due to a rise in sea level. The tops of the valleys are above water and appear as islands running parallel to...
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...grow as a whole as long as we keep killing each other’s youth. The youth are fighting in the wars of today many not even being able to see tomorrow. The implications that war brings a sense of supreme power and security to the Americas does not make up for the trauma, PTSD disorders, and emotional detachment issues our soldiers face at the end of the day. Trauma can be experienced one of two ways, physical being wounded or hurt on the outside or mental trauma which is experienced inside the individuals own mind. Both can affect a person’s life drastically, but it’s the mental patients that give the appearance that they have no problems, but upon further examination end up being the lives that where affected the most. In the film “In the Valley of Elah” by Paul Haggis a young woman goes to the police after her war veteran husband drowns their dog in the bathtub, believing she’ll be next only to be turned away. It is very clear that the woman’s husband is suffering from mental trauma. That is why he drowned the dog. Trauma can make you do things you never thought humane. Trauma can change your whole process of thinking. Trauma can change the life of an individual. Car accidents, terrorism, and war are just some of the few causes of PTSD. Kind of like trauma a person diagnosed with PTSD may not always look ill. In fact a person with PTSD can look like a normal everyday citizen. But their brains have been turned to mush that they cant...
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...Technology is binding the world of work and the world of home in ways that redefine what is means to be in each. Some changes are dramatic, others are subtle, but the changes are experienced in the mundane activities of everyday life. To begin this presentation I will tell you a story. This story may not reflect your own lives, but I imagine some details will have a familiar ring to them. John is a middle-aged product development manager at a high tech company in Silicon Valley. He bemoans the fact that he no longer has the kind of personnel support he had even 10 years ago. While he shares an administrative assistant with several other managers, he is now expected to handle his own communications, create his own presentations and manage his own time and financial budget. After all, he now has a PC to improve his productivity, and interactive on-line calenders to manage his time. The nature of his work means that he is in constant contact with engineers, the general managers above him, and his counterparts in different sites in his international company. He has more contact, and more in common, with his counterpart in Taiwan than the person in the next cubicle. He tries very hard not to take too much work home with him, preferring to work late on site, but the international nature of his work means he is on the phone at midnight and at dawn. He is grateful for E-mail and voice mail since they can fit his schedule. Realistically, he thinks...
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...jeopardy and this government program is a way of depressing wages. These assertions could be no farther from the truth. Advocates of additional H-1B visas are the major high tech companies in Silicon Valley such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. These companies are all in favor of raising the current yearly cap and have been publicly lobbying for this. These tech companies have highly specialized jobs that domestic workers are not fit for. By bringing in foreign immigrants with these specialized skills allows these Facebook, Google, etc. to continue their innovation and growth. The tech titans of Silicon Valley are growing at such a rapid pace, the domestic job market is unable to catch up. According to Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Chief Counselor, the economy produces 120,000 new jobs per year that require STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer, & Math) skills, but colleges are only producing 40,000 STEM graduates a year.* The shortage could cause economic slowdown for these companies. The H-1B program is there to fill in the gaps. By increasing the H-1B cap, America will be attracting the best and brightest. Innovative immigrants have always been vital to America’s growth, job creation, and global competitiveness. Foreign immigrants have founded more than half of Silicon Valley start-ups creating over 450,000 jobs and generating over $52 billion in revenue. Not only...
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...1 INTRODUCTION People have been thinking about artificial intelligence since before the 1950's. It was in that time that Alan Turing proposed the “Turing Test”. Which measures how well a computer can think by having an interrogator ask it and a human questions. If the interrogator cannot determine which is human and which is machine then the machine has passed the Turing test.[1] Its been 15 Years since Deep Blue beat the world chess champion Gary Kasparov. And since then chess computers have continued to improve dominate. Most notably Deep Fritz the desktop chess program beating Vladimir Kramnik.[2] Just 2 years ago IBM developed “Watson” a computer that played Jeopardy and beat former winner Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.[3] With A.I. Improving the question of how intelligent machines should be used to interact with humans becomes more and more relevant. In what ways can A.I. be used to interact with people and what moral implications exist? 2 A.I. IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR Intelligent machines are already being used by many private companies. These are in the forms of autopilot, data mining, facial recognition, etc. Those are not form of A.I. that humans interact with. There some modern uses of A.I. Humans interact with such as automated systems and there will be more as technologies develop. Something else that will come along with the development of artificial intelligence is robots as domestic helpers. And both of these will bring with them many ethical questions to...
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...11/26/12 The Surprising Winner in the HP-Oracle Slugfest (HPQ, IBM, INTC, MSFT, ORCL) The Surprising Winner in the HP-Oracle Slugfest By Cindy Johnson | M ore Articles June 27, 2011 | Comments (1) Don't let it get aw ay! Keep track of the stocks that matter to you. Help yourself with the Fool's FREE and easy new watchlist service today. Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to work the sidelines. That doesn't seem to be lost on IBM (NYSE: IBM ) as Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL ) go through the computer industry's version of a nasty breakup. As the Silicon Valley turns It started when Oracle tied the knot with Sun Microsystems in a January 2010 acquisition. Then HP sent former CEO Mark Hurd packing last August after -- long story short -- a Click Here Now contractor accused him of sexual harassment. Oracle's Larry Ellison rushed to publicly defend Hurd's honor and shortly thereafter offered Hurd a new home as co-president of the software giant. Now HP has sued Oracle, claiming its March 2011 decision to quit supporting Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC ) high-end Itanium processors is a breach of contract with HP. To be sure, Oracle wasn't the first software maker to stoke concerns about the future of Itanium -- and thus about HP's high-end systems. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT ) and Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHT ) previously pulled support. Used to play well with others HP uses Itanium in mission-critical computers that compete with Sun's SPARC-based and IBM's...
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...The Company’s success depends largely on the continued service and availability of key personnel. Much of the Company’s future success depends on the continued availability and service of key personnel, including its CEO, its executive team and highly skilled employees in technical, marketing and staff positions. Experienced personnel in the technology industry are in high demand and competition for their talents is intense, especially in the Silicon Valley, where most of the Company’s key personnel are located. There can be no assurance that the Company will continue to attract and retain key personnel. The stores employ experienced and knowledgeable personnel who provide product advice, service and training. The stores offer a wide selection of third-party hardware, software, and various other accessories and peripherals that complement the Company’s products. Employees As of September 25, 2010, the Company had approximately 46,600 full-time equivalent employees and an additional 2,800 full-time equivalent temporary employees and contractors. A job at Apple is unlike any other you’ve had. You’ll be challenged. You’ll be inspired. And you’ll be proud. Because whatever your job is here, you’ll be part of something big. Every piece of packaging. Every swipe of the finger. Every “How can I help you?” Everything. And it doesn’t matter just some of the time. It matters all of the time. That’s how we do things at Apple. The result is some of the best-loved products...
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...What are clusters? Why are policy makers so keen to promote them? Innovation recently has become very hot topic to general public or at least it is a bit trendy to talk about it between politicians. You can’t blame where it is very arguable that we innovate more now than ever before, we definitely talk about it more. Therefore also innovation clusters have been one of the hot topics within academics, politicians and just people who are just a bit interested into innovation. But what is innovation clusters have been defining generally and what are grounds of successes, what is innovation cluster impact on innovation and economic growth is argued a lot in academic literature. “The notion of a cluster was first put forward by Alfred Marshall (1890). He used the term “industrial district to describe agglomerations of small specialised firms found in particular localities. He cited as examples the cotton industry in Lancashire and the cutlery trade in Sheffield. He explained the success of these industrial agglomerations in terms of external economies of scale, where the close proximity of large numbers of small firms generated a market for increasingly specialised services. According to Marshall (1890), agglomeration economies around three sources of collective efficiency, namely: a local pool of specialised labour, firms specialising in the intermediate stages of production and knowledge spill-overs. “(David Smith, 2010, Exploring Innovation, P 267-268). However Marshal...
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...ant to know what it takes to get into Columbia University, which had a 6.9% acceptance rate this year? We just got a clue thanks to Peter Jacobs at IvyGate, who discovered an online folder where students who were accepted into Columbia's class of 2017 are sharing their Common App essays. Columbia is one of hundreds of colleges that accept the Common App, a standardized undergraduate college application. One of the most daunting parts of the application is the essay, where applicants are asked to write up to 650 words about nearly any subject under the sun. Unfortunately, the Google Drive folder was deleted shortly after we discovered it. But we picked out a few noteworthy opening paragraphs, below, and you can read more about what was in the essays over at IvyGate. The 'life as a movie': Google Drive The dramatic opening: Google Drive The hipster paradox: Google Drive The extended resume: Google Drive The romance novel: Google Drive SEE ALSO: 25 Colleges Where Students Are Hot And Smart Ads by Google Ivy League Math TutorsAll tutors Ivy League. Stat, Trig, Geometry, Algebra. Free Lesson. manhattanivyleaguetutors.com Recommended for You 17 Celebrity Before-And-After Plastic Surgery Disasters 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success -- By The Numbers 23 Secrets To Booking Cheap Flights Please follow The Life on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Julie Zeveloff on Twitter. Ask Julie A...
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...earn their living. So a plant for high-volume manufacturing is a good way of employing many people. Even now there are a lot of semi-literature people in China. This resource can manufacture products which need semi-skilled labour most efficiently because of their low wage. Thus, Logitech uses China to manufacture mice. While Taiwan, it is giving land in their industrial parks at very nominal rates. Taiwan’s IT industry is also expanding and the quality is high level. So Taiwan had developed a strong supply base for computer parts, it has skillful people. Logitech is taking advantage of the facilities. As regards California, it is the closest Alameda County city to Silicon Valley. Having an office in California provides opportunities to interact with the other IT companies. For an IT company, Silicon Valley is special place. It also brings them advanced ideas. Due to these, Logitech chooses California as a centre for R&D. Since there are many large corporations in California, their marketing division is also there....
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...Closing of National Beef Plant in Imperial Valley Jamie Leon Comm/215 September 8, 2014 John Cantlon In the late 1980’s, access to efficient beef processing plants began to wane in the Southwest as packers moved toward the nation’s interior. Meanwhile, the region’s cattlemen were fine-tuning large-scale feeding programs using the region’s ready supply of Holstein steer calves. So, in 1999, Gary Oden of Wellton, AZ and Bill Brandt of Brawley, CA, set the wheels in motion, and a group of area cattle producers organized to take Brawley Beef, LLC, from idea to reality. Through their efforts, the first cattle were harvested and processed in December 2001 at the new packing plant in Brawley, CA. Even with the combined efforts of the group of cattlemen, making Brawley Beef work has not been easy. The nation was still in a daze from the September 11, 2001 disasters when the first cattle were harvested. At the same time, the firm found itself in the middle of a battle over the anti-dumping tariffs placed on the U.S. beef exports to Mexico. Since April 2000, Mexico had imposed a complex set of specific duties on most beef carcasses and cuts on a company-by-company basis. Small and medium-sized exporters were disproportionately affected. Eventually, a North American Free Trade Agreement panel agreed the tariffs were inappropriately applied and those tariffs were lifted in October. Meanwhile, the producer-owned meatpacker was able to keep its head above water due to the...
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...Sample Student Speech Outline (Informative Speech) Name: Chris Garcia Topic: Aztecs Specific Purpose: To inform about the Aztec civilization I. Introduction A. Attention-getter: Have you ever wonder you made the fist chocolate drink or who came out with the color red or who use for the first time the tomatoes the Aztec where the first ones B. Thesis: Today you will know some Aztec history and achievement and the fall of their empire and about their decent C. Preview: Today I will explain some aspect of the Aztec civilization and not only the old Aztec civilization but also the new generation D. Credibility: I have study the Aztec history for one year and half E. Relation: Many of you are not from Aztec decent but never less in some point of your live you want to know little about you background [Transition: Let’s begin with Aztec history.] II. Body A. According to Rand Genera an Instructor of Reedley College the Aztec homeland was Aztlan and then migrated to Mexico. Aztlan was at Utah, Colorado, Nevada 1) During the migration the Aztec where lead by ten leaders one was Tenoch (cactus on a stone) later became the first Aztec emperor 2) They where looking for a symbol, that symbol was an eagle in a cactus eating a snake and where they found that symbol that’s where their new home was going to be 3) Eventually they found the symbol, they called their new home Tenochtitlan [Transition: Now...
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