...#1 굵지 않은 비가 보슬보슬 내리는 밤 길, 두 남자가 큰 나무 아래에 비를 피해 서있었다. 하지만 잎이 반쯤 저버린 가을나무였기에 비를 피하는 데는 별 효력은 없었다. 이미 마을에서 상당히 떨어져 돌아가는 것도 여의치 않았다. 나무 아래에 있던 두 남자 중 한명은 사대부가의 양반인 듯 연청색 도포에 커다란 갓을 쓰고 있었고 다른 한 남자는 양반을 호위하는 무사인 듯 상투를 틀지 않은 긴 머리를 허리까지 드리우고, 등과 허리에 두개의 긴 환도(還刀)를 차고 있었다. 양반이 하늘을 보며 조용하게 말했다. “운아. 쉬이 그칠 비가 아닌 듯 싶구나. 보슬비라 가벼이 여겼더니, 아무래도 내 고집으로 또 너를 곤혹케 만들었나 보구나.” 무사는 아무 말 없이 눈을 감은 채 고개를 숙이고 주위의 모든 움직임을 읽고 있었다. 먼 곳을 보던 양반이 무언가를 발견하고 반갑게 말했다. “아! 저기 산자락에 집이 한 채 보인다. 잠시 비를 피해 가자꾸나.” 양반은 말을 끝내고 뒤도 돌아보지 않고 무언가에 홀린 듯 빠른 걸음으로 산자락을 오르기 시작했다. 무사는 미처 만류하지 못하고 주위를 경계하며 뒤따랐다. 가까이 다가가 선 집은 허리 높이의 돌담이 둘러진 작고 깔끔한 초가집이었지만, 이상하게도 대문만큼은 높고 대문처마까지 있었다. 양반이 작은 목소리로 말했다. “운아. 주인을 청하거라.” 하지만 무사는 말 대신 눈을 들어 대문처마 위로 솟은 솟대를 올려다 볼 뿐이었다. 무사의 눈길을 따라 양반도 눈길을 두었다. “저것이 무엇이냐.” “솟대이옵니다. 여긴 무당이 사는 집입니다. 드시면 아니 되옵니다.” 무사의 차분하지만 강경한 목소리에 양반은 더 이상 집 안으로 들어가려는 시도를 하지 못했다. 하지만 무사는 피곤하고 추운 기색이 만연한 양반의 모습을 어찌 할 수 없어 더욱 고개만 숙일 수밖에 없었다. 이때 안에서 사람의 기척이 느껴져 무사의 오른 손은 재빨리 왼쪽 허리에 찬 환도의 칼자루를 잡았다. 대문 안쪽에서 터덜거리는 발소리가 가까워지더니 이윽고 바로 대문 앞에서 멈췄다. 무사의 손에 힘이 들어갔다. 대문 안쪽에 멈춰 선 자에게서 검의 기운이 느껴졌기 때문이었다. 무사의 목소리가 대문을 가르고 들어갔다. “누구냐!” “어이가 없습니다. 객이 누구냐고 묻는 경우가 어디 있습니까? 그 물음은 이쪽의 것이 아닙니까?” 퉁명스러운 여인의 목소리였다. 무사가 다시 입을 열었다. “여인이 어찌 검을 지녔는가?” “놀랍습니다. 어찌 보지도 않고 제가 검을 가진 것을 아십니까? 역시······. 앗! 이런 말을 하려는 것이 아니라, 흠! 우리 아가씨가 안으로 드시라는 말씀을 올리라고 하였습니다.” “어찌 검을 지녔는가!” 다시 다잡아 묻는 무사에게 여인이 투박한 답을 던졌다. “이런 외진 곳에 여인 둘만 살고 있습니다...
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...[1] The U.S. is 5% of the world’s population, yet we use 30% of the world’s resources. [2] What two things do we do with the little leisure time we do have? The two things we do with the little leisure time we do have is watch tv and shop. [3] What is the difference between perceived obsolescence and planned obsolescence? Give examples. Planned obsolescence, “Designed for the dump” which means companies create stuff that’s designed to be useless and breaks easily so we can throw away to buy new products. For example, plastic bags, mops, camera and computer software Perceived obsolescence brainwashes society to throwing away stuff that still have value by changing the look of the same item they may have. If you have a one year old ipad, a newer ipad mini comes out with the same processor and picture display, but because its smaller and newer it lures consumers in. A couple examples of perceived observations are fashion, video games, computers, and phone. [4] Annie Leonard says that “we aren’t paying for the stuff we buy.” What does this mean? Products that are made in factories aren’t paying the full cost of production. Cost of productions are externalized to undeveloped countries. Which causes pollution in the air that they breath that eventually harms them. So, the products we buy the workers’ pay for through their health insurance essentially. [5] Briefly explain why our primary identity in the U.S. now one of consumers. Use information from the...
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...necessarily have to burn or even to destroy books so as to kill the culture but they simply have to stop reading these books. This phrase is absolutely true since if the society has the least clue and information on the cultural stuff; it is left with no power that will defend the culture when it starts to fall apart. Adolf Hitler gave a command that all documentaries and books that had Nazi ideologies were to be burned downed so as to prevent the spreading of the message in them. This could be clearly termed to be ignorance since it were better of if they would just negate the information that the books passed rather than burning them down. Negating the information by declaring them to be false would have the best solution than resolving to the burning of books since it is also a very drastic action that will make people instead of shunning away from the reading of the book, it will attract their attention and make them further more curious and anxious to know what the contents of the books are all about. If people in the society lack knowledge about things that are going on in the society, many dealings and deeds can take place without people having any clue of what has taken place. Same is with the books, if they are not read they are generally useless and are have no meaning since the information that they are expected to deliver to the masses is not been read by anyone. But the drastic decisions to loot or even destroy a specific book for that matter will actually raise the...
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...wrinkles in her life. After judging the venture capitalist’s vault-size closet, Tan realized that she could judge her own personality through the picture of her messy closet. For Tan, She could not discard clothes if they were gifts, and the clutter within her closet is found friendship, memories, hard-learned mistakes, future use, and many more excuses. Also she found that as a writer the chaos and confusion could serve her the best. However, Tan’s new housekeeper transformed her closet, and let her see the foibles exposed in her life. She found that she had many useless old clothes and meaningless buys. In reducing the chaos, the writer also found out that there is some valuable stuff in her life that had been misplaced and buried, and these meaningful memories could truly become her good stories in writing. Most Importantly, through practicing such objective orderliness, and going through the organizing process of her old stuff, the writer had a better sense of who she is and clear memories of what helped to build up...
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...history could help with is architecture u can see what types off buildings have worked best in deferent situations in the past and u can see were designs have worked in the past. Another job u could use history in is medicine u can go back in history and see how diseases have been miss diagnosed in the past and how to avoid making the same mistake. History is a great topic of conversation u could talk and talk about history for hours granted u know enough about it and that’s were your history class comes in handy. Lets say your hanging with your friends and there is an awkward silence you could start a debate a bout history it probably will never happen but hey you never know. Or you could wow people with your useless knowledge of how Europeans learned they could blow stuff up with gunpowder the Chinese invented. The most important reason to study history is that we are required to take it by the government or whoever makes up the rules on what you have to study. Without history you wouldn’t be able to graduate to the next grade or be able to go to college and all that other...
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...COLEGIO DE LA PURISIMA CONCEPCION The School of the Archdiocese of Capiz Roxas City SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES An Output for the Subject B.A. 201 – Business Policy Submitted by: ARABELLE PONTILAR-ALOQUINA MBA 2 Submitted to: DEONY CABAOBAO, DPA Professor Second Semester, AY 2015-2016 National Book Store’s Socorro Cancio Ramos It has been the philosophy of Socorro Ramos to sell books. This Philosophy is the very reason for the establishment of National Book Store. At an early age, she worked as a salesgirl in Goodwill Bookstore in Escolta. It was owned by her brother and his wife. Because of her marketing skills, she was given the task of managing the store. Then in 1942, she and her husband established their very own bookstore, National Book Store. Despite the obstacles that came their way, amidst fire, storms and other difficulties, the have made National Book Store into a multimillion enterprise. It now operates more than a bookstore. It is also selling other types of merchandise. Socorro also successfully obtained the licenses to reprint international brands such as Hallmark Greeting cards, Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill, and Addison-Wesley books. In 1996, Powerbooks, an affiliate of National Book Store for more specialized lineup of book titles was born. QUESTION ANALYSIS: 1. What virtues did Nanay Coring show as an entrepreneur? Courage is the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or...
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...been caused in large part by oceanic conditions and the environmental mess that is the San Joaquin” by the Sacramento Delta . Salmon need very specific living conditions to succeed in migration and that’s not an accurate picture of the river since the early 40’s. If we can’t provide these needs to become successful in the project, then it’s a useless amount of money and time to even try. McEwen stated that “No one knows if salmon can even survive in the lower San Joaquin, which is the temperatures more suitable for bass and bluegill”. While bass and bluegill are low maintenance breeds , adulterating the river with salmon would just be a useless purpose and a mistake on our part. Which supports that inserting the fish in improper areas can in fact do more harm than...
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...everything you eat in chicken grease. Complain about your lack of money; blame your lack of money on the fact that you were denied 40 acres and a mule. Scream nigga in the street; make a scene when someone says nigger. Don’t vote. Emphasize how useless voting is in conversations. Don’t ask questions. Don’t know who Medgar Evers is; don’t care to find out. Laugh at racist jokes. Disassociate yourself from Africa. Kill your neighbor. Slaughter your brother. Jump into iron cells. Become products of a system. Conform to stereotypes. Own slaves. Break windows. Erase words. Discredit yourself. Blame slavery. Blame slavery again. Talk about Dr. King; talk only about Dr....
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... ID 10000125667 3.6 A 32-bit processor can address 4G memory. How do you build a 32-bit computer with more than 4G memory? A 32-bit only CPU can address a maximum of 4GB (2^32 bits = 4294967296 bits = 4194304 KB = 4096 MB = 4GB). This is the limitation of 32-bit systems. Allocating a page file on top of your RAM if you already have 4GB of physical RAM will be useless. However, even if you have 4GB of physical RAM installed you won't be able to use all of it for your applications. A portion of the upper 3GB address is being occupied by your system devices like your graphics card, BIOS, PCI, etc. That's why on some systems, you will see only 3.27GB of available RAM. This usually varies depending on the hardware. Take a look at the crude illustration below. In normal mode, the 32-bit OS can address this much: +---------------+ 4GB | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---------------+ 0 Now if you put in your stuff and your RAM, say 2GB, in this address space: +---------------+ 4GB | BIOS, PCI | | GFX, ETC... | | | | | |---------------+ 3 GB | | | | | EMPTY | | | |---------------+ 2 GB | | | RAM | | | | | +---------------+ 0 If you put another 1GB RAM in there for a total of 3GB it will still be fine because you still have 1GB of EMPTY space. But if you put another gig (so you now have a total of 4), then...
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...Having a reliable storage for people to save their files, documents or projects at is important because if they do put it into storage they know they might or will need later. Losing important work stuff can cause a lot of trouble with the bosses or the managers because the company will be losing money while the employee has to redo the work that was done in the given time. This will also fall on my shoulders because I’m responsible for the quality of my work, which includes keeping the hard disk as reliable as possible and backing up the data if possible. One of the ways to achieve reliability on the hard disk is by doing occasional disk cleaning. Microsoft has a tool called Disk Cleanup which allows me to delete any unneeded files, temporary internet files, files in the Recycle Bin, Hibernation files, setup log files, temporary files, thumbnails and office Web pages. Although it may sound that this tools delete too many things at once, it actually has the capability of choosing what particular things the users wants to be deleted. It is great because it keeps the hard disk from being crowded with stuff that is completely useless and just takes up the space for the important stuff. Another way of making sure the disk is not being slowed down is by doing the defragmentation. If the hard drive is used extensively and large files are being stored the will be full of fragments very soon. Microsoft has also shown initiative with this issue and the Disk Defragmentation tool was...
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...DQs for wk 2 Week 2 - Discussion Question #1 · What does the statement mean: “Hardware is useless without software”? · What are differences between systems software and applications software? Give an example. · What are some of the legal issues involved in acquiring and using software in most business organizations? In my opinion, I think this statement means that hardware is useless without software to run on it because software gives instructions that tell computer hardware what to do. Hardware consist of physical equipments that are used for processing information in various ways, and software consists of the instructions or programs that determine tasks be performed by the hardware and the way these tasks are performed.The differences between systems software and applications software are systems software is a set of programs to control all components of computer and to manage overall operations of computer system. System software is used as a base to install and run all application and the systems software makes the computer work for example operating systems, such as Windows XP and Norton Antivirus. Applications software is the software that you install onto the operating system, for example processing programs, spread sheets, web browser and games. Some of the legal issues involved in acquiring and using software in most business and organizations include software licensing. That is, copying software is illegal and individuals must stop people from...
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...don’t worry about the formatting. JUST WRITE. Besides, this MLA template for Word has the formatting down for you. Just replace everything in [brackets] with your information (remember the heading in the top right!) and you’re good to go. And, of course, replace this stuff with your content. But read this first! There’s some really important info here. Do yourself a favor and save this template to your computer in a place where you’ll remember it. There are bunch of little nuances in MLA that are really easy to miss – the heading, the spacing, the date format, and those random rules that seem to exist only to annoy you… stop re-writing it each time you go to write a paper, and just whip out this handy template! Wasn’t that easy? By the way, here’s a look at some of the stuff people get wrong a lot. First, the heading at the top right corner of each page. Remove the entire thing if your paper is just one page long; some teachers, though, tell you to just remove the page number. Next come inline citations. You want to “write them in this format, with the period way at the end, assuming you got this from the 5th page of someone’s book/essay/whatever” (Someone 5). Also, if a quote includes something completely useless, you can cut out the junk using ellipses (a group of 3 periods): “I’ve got logorrhea, meaning I tend to ramble on incoherently a lot . . . Now back to the main topic.” Notice that there are spaces in between each ellipsis (yes, that’s the singular form), before the...
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...In modern world of severe rivalry every company should make great efforts in order to survive. It can create some new ways of advertising or suggest new and unique kinds of services. However, all these efforts can be useless without good and fastened work of company`s personnel. Usually, creation of a good collective which will be able to work fast and effectively, is a very complicated process. However, in modern age it is impossible to ignore this issue. That is why science of human resource management started to grow very fast and became widespread. Its main purpose is to guarantee stable development of a company, helping it to use its workforce most effectively. Human resource management "suggests to the management team how to strategically manage people as business resources" (Bianca n.d., para. 1). That is why human resource management should influence all aspects of working process of a company. The diagram below schematically illustrates main components of effective human resource management. Fig.1. Human resource management (n.d.) [Screenshot] at viewed 23 December 2014 As it can be seen, the main purpose of this science is to improve work of all departments of a company. Human resource management has its own recommendations and tools for everything connected with effective work of a firm. For example, effective management of shifts within a company can provide aligned mechanism of work of this company. HRM contributes greatly to a...
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...Earth’s productive area. 3. One chip in a computer is all that needs changed- I looked up changes for a mac between years and there are more than just a chip change, but the difference is so slight that it doesn’t really change performance. http://www.imore.com/macbook-pro-retina-display-13-inch-vs-15-inch-which-powerful-mac-laptop-right-you We see over 3,000 ads a day?- this is correct anywhere from 2,000 to 20,00 http://www.fluiddrivemedia.com/advertising/marketing-messages/ We need over 4 earths at the rate we are going- this is correct http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/ Planned obsolesce- designed for the dump- make stuff to be useless as quickly as possible so we toss and buy more. Perceived obsolesce –Companies convince us to throw away stuff that still works, do this to get us to buy more by changing the looks. It was very informative and gave a lot of good points. It makes me think twice before I buy something in style because in a couple months it will be out and I will have lost money. I think that it could be expanded on but 21 minutes was long enough. The video on the West Virginia coal mining and destruction of the land made me sad. I have heard people say that coal is bad, but I thought most of that was due to the toxins it caused to go in the atmosphere. This video showed me that the new technique to coal mines is destroying the land, and that the old technique of going under the mountains is...
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...I miss sitting in a couch and stare. Just stare. I am really stressed at the moment. I have a lot of things to do and not a lot of time to get them done. It has been like this for a while now. Actually it started in my vacation. Funny, huh? I had a two months period with NO school, NO to-do’s and NONE of the normal activities, which take my time. But somehow I still managed to stuff so many plans into my two months of break, that I was completely exhausted, when I finally went back to school. Of some reason I could not overcome the challenge of spending time on doing nothing, doing nothing at all. I failed. Badly. What is wrong with me? The funny thing is that when I came back to “civilization” after being away for such a long time, most of my friends had had the same problem. Apparently we, humans of the Western Europe, are exceptionally great at larding our time off with everything else than sitting in a couch and just stare. Why is that? Are we afraid of being inactive and nonsocial? What is it in us that simply demand us to have plans, being on the road and not prioritize some “Home-Alone-Time”? Well, I know that there are different personalities, different people and different needs. I, myself, am very extrovert, so I love having plans. I am feeling the best, when I am around people. But the amounts of plans I and many others have in their breaks are frightening. Why can we just not let our normal, stressed ordinary days take a rest, and do the same with ourselves? Of...
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