...Welcome to Intergalactic News, where we review only the best books, movies, and more from all over the galaxy. Today we will be taking to a special guest and author of the book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Eroin Colfer. It all starts out when Arthur Dent, realizes that his house will be destroyed to build a bypass the next day. He protests the advancement of the bulldozers to prevent the destruction of his house, little did he know more than his house would be abolished that day. It turns out a group of extraterrestrials named the Vogons plan to destroy earth. Luckily Arthur's best friend Ford Prefect turns out to be an alien form the planet… They manage to escape in the Volgons ship where they endure many torturous...
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...QUEST AND JOURNEY: Arthur goes on a journey, quite unwillingly, in the Heart of Gold to explore the universe and to get the big picture of things out in the galaxy. Along the way, he is challenged by all sorts of obstacles, ranging from depression (resulting from Earth being blown up) to imminent death due to either the Vogons, the missiles, the cops, or the mice. These challenges eventually helped him build himself up again, deem his viewpoint on Earth as something very limited, and finally accept the reality of the universe-- the realization that Earth was an artificial planet, a mere computer to find the question that had the Answer ‘42’. Along the way, he is guided by two alien friends (Zaphod and Ford), the brilliantly constructed book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, depressed robot Marvin, chirpy computer Eddie, Slartibartfast the Magrathean who created Norway, and...
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...I think if we had assigned groups we would have gotten more reading done. #3 Earnest I actually liked watching the movie. It was nice to come to school and not actually do that much other than just paying attention. The reading however, I didn’t do. Once again I slacked off and avoided my work. The pacing was fine In my opinion. The only suggestion I have is to keep watching the movie as I liked it very much. #4 Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy I didn’t finish this book, to no one’s surprise, and only read a little less than half. The parts I did read however, I quite enjoyed. The book was random and it’s humor, humored me. The pacing was great, I have no say as I didn’t do the work though. If there was a way to make us realize that this...
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...Satire is a form of comedy, that's a fact. It can be used just for the laughs or it can be used as a way to shed light on a serious topic. In Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, satire is used for comedic effect and laughter. The Vogons with their extensive amount of paperwork and extremely bureaucratic nonsense, Zaphod Beeblebrox shedding light on the stupidity of politicians, and human reliance on machines. All of these ideas are meant to make fun of our society. On the other hand, Jonathan Swift's piece "A Modest Proposal" uses satire to correct a situation. He proposes that the children of poorer families be used as a food source during the potato famine. Both writings use satire in one form or another, but Adams uses satire as a form of entertainment, while Swift uses it to correct a societal ill. One of the main uses of satire in A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the inefficiency of bureaucracy. He displays this idea in the form of the...
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...and sadistic mistreatment of the Jews imprisoned in the camp. Among endless other tales of heroism, one man, who is not even named in the book, shows courage in a simple way that makes a huge impact on Wiesel. When they first arrive at the camp, this unnamed man secretly advises Wiesel and his father to lie about their ages. The fellow inmate asks Wiesel his age, and when Wiesel replies that he is only fifteen, the man replies, “No, kid. You’re eighteen...Do you hear? Eighteen and forty.” This causes Wiesel and his father to lie, thus saving them from being sent to the crematorium. This small heroic act inevitably saved their lives. Although a much lighter story filled with intergalactic silliness, there are characters in A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that show the attributes of a hero as well. Tricia McMillian, also known as “Trillian,” is an intelligent female with a degree in math and astrophysics. She goes against the stereotype that women are not suited for math and science, and in the book, she stands out as one of the most level-headed and logical of all the characters. She is frustrated with her options on Earth, so she jumps at the chance to travel through space with Zaphod Beeblebrox. When she states, "with a degree in math and another in astrophysics what else was there to do? It was either that or the dole queue again on Monday", she shows that she sees space as a viable fit for her intelligence. Trillian shows no fear, and serves as a sort of role model for female...
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...BC Top 100 migliori romanzi (Repost) Nell'aprile del 2003 la BBC's Big Read iniziò la ricerca delle migliori della nazione-romanzo amato, e vi abbiamo chiesto di nominare i vostri libri preferiti. 1. Il Signore degli Anelli, JRR Tolkien 2. Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Jane Austen 3. Queste oscure materie, di Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide ai Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter e il Calice di Fuoco, JK Rowling 6. Buio oltre la siepe, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George bene 9. Il Leone, la Strega e l'Armadio, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontand # 235; 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Cime tempestose, Emily Brontand # 235; 13. Canto degli uccelli, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. Il giovane Holden, JD Salinger 16. Il vento nei salici, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Piccole donne, Louisa May Alcott 19. Mandolino del capitano Corelli, Louis de Bernieres 20. Guerra e pace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Via col vento di Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter e La Camera dei Segreti, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter E Il Prigioniero Di Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. Lo Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess dei D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, Eliot George 28. Preghiera per un amico Owen, John Irving 29. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carroll 31. La storia di Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. Cent'anni...
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...remain relevant today. Deemed some of the most significant philosophers of the time include Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. Plato took his knowledge from Socrates and wrote many books one of the most well known called The Republic, discussing the essence of justice. Aristotle, Plato’s student, went on to establish a school called the Lyceum. Aristotle’s school contained one of the globe’s first libraries and natural history museums. His students lived on the premises of the school very close to how college functions presently. Thinkers like Aristotle questioned the way of life and humany’s purpose in it all. These ideas he first analyzed are still speculating about today in our own literature. For example, the novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , written by Douglas Adams, explored the reasons behind living through two characters Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect try to understand why. Had Greek philosophers not questioned them themselves, our thought process would be much less advanced as well as our cognitive thinking. The Aztec empire produced their fair share of literature as well, though largely differing from ancient Greek writings. Foremost, the Aztecs writing system, corresponding closely to the ancient Mayans system, consisted of drawings and images called pictographic writing. Pictures would represent a whole concept or simply just a syllable of a word. As you can imagine, this form of writing limited the amount of expression and detail that could be put...
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...D. Introduction to Programming with RAPTOR By Lt Col Tom Schorsch The RAPTOR Programming Language RAPTOR is a visual programming language based on flowcharts. Flowcharts were developed as a design aid for developing programs; however, with RAPTOR they are a programming language in their own right as the flowcharts you develop can be executed by the RAPTOR development environment. We use RAPTOR in CS110 for several reasons. First, the RAPTOR language has minimal syntax (grammar) when compared with other programming languages. This makes Raptor programs easy to write as there are fewer language elements that you have to learn to be productive. Second the RAPTOR language is visual; RAPTOR programs are diagrams (directed graphs). One of the hardest aspects of programming to understand and get right is the flow of control of the statements in your program. The visual nature of the flow of control in RAPTOR programs makes them easier to understand and program. Third, we developed the programming language and development environment. We sought to make the development environment easy to use and the error messages that RAPTOR displays to you easy to understand. We are constantly trying to improve RAPTOR, so if you have suggestions please tell us. Fourth, our purpose is not to teach you how to program in particular language. We want to teach you how to design and execute algorithms to solve problems, and to implement algorithms using computer-based problem solving...
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...User Activity Study Volunteer Instructions Step 1: Create a temporary Google account Create the new temporary Google account you will use for the study. Please do not use your name or any identifying information in the name of the account. You must use this account for nothing but the study. To create your new account, navigate as follows: Home Screen Accounts → → App Tray Add Account → → Settings Select “Google” and follow prompts 1 To confirm success, tap “Google” → Verify your account is in the list Step 2: Download the User Activity app Tap on the link provided by SOTG to find and download the User Activity app in the Google Play Store. It will appear in your app tray like all other apps. Click the link in the SOTG app Sign-in to your new account → Read and tap to join then tap to download 2 Install from Google Play → Find User Activity in your app tray Step 3: Set up the app Have your participant code from SOTG on hand and open the app to set it up. You may also be prompted to update Google Play Services. Follow the instructions that it asks. Open the app and link your account → Enter your participant code Step 4: Complete the 16 tasks Complete the first three tasks to enroll yourself in the app. You are paid for these tasks, which are used to validate all of your others. is important that you complete these It tasks very carefully and read the instructions for each task. Failing to do so will mean you fail the tasks and do not receive payment...
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...Ebooks An electronic book (variously: e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices.[1] Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book",[2] many e-books exist without any printed equivalent. Commercially produced and sold e-books are usually intended to be read on dedicated e-book readers, however, almost any sophisticated electronic device that features a controllable viewing screen, including computers, many mobile phones, and nearly all smartphones, can also be used to read e-books. History The inventor of the first e-book is not widely agreed upon. Some notable candidates include the following: The first e-book may be the Index Thomisticus, a heavily annotated electronic index to the works of Thomas Aquinas, prepared by Roberto Busa beginning in the late 1940s. However, this is sometimes omitted, perhaps because the digitized text was (at least initially) a means to developing an index and concordance, rather than as a published edition in its own right.[3] Some years earlier the idea of the e-reader came to Bob Brown after watching his first "talkie" (movies with sound). In 1930, he wrote an entire book on this invention and titled it "The Readies" playing off the idea of the "talkie".[4] In his book, Brown says that movies have out maneuvered the book by creating the "talkies" and as a result...
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...The Chernobyl Disaster Misty Schworn Post-1945 History FALB11 Sec B DeVry University The Chernobyl Disaster The Chernobyl Disaster happened on April 26th 1986. It was described as the most horrifying environmental disaster in the world. Chernobyl was an obscure town in the north central Ukraine. The plant was located fifteen kilometers northwest of Chernobyl. The world first learned of the accident from Sweden, where unusually high radiation levels were noticed at one of the At 1:23 am technicians at the Chernobyl Plant took some erroneous actions that will impact the course of Soviet events without exaggeration. Human error is what basically caused the disaster. These operators of the fourth unit slowly allowed power in the reactor to fall to low levels as part of a controlled experiment gone wrong. “The purpose of the test was to observe the dynamics of the RMBK reactor with limited power flow. Twelve hours after power reduction was initiated, power reached 50 percent. Only one turbine was needed to take in the decreased amount of steam, so no. 2 was turned off. Power was then reduced to 30 percent. One of the operators made a mistake. Instead of keeping power at 30 percent, he forgot to reset a controller, which caused the power to plummet to 1 percent. Now water was filling the core, and xenon built up in the reactor. The...
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...Sparrow Ostas Densmore October 31, 2013 2nd Block Section Summaries: Pages 14 – 32 Do A Number: This phrase relates to the sport of boxing. Coaches inform their boxer to hit the opponent x amount of times, which can be any number Three Sheets to the Wind: This phrase means “extremely drunk.” This phrase comes from ropes, which all have a different function. The math involved is “sheet” ropes, which control the horizontal movement of the sails. If three sails are loose, then the sailors are extremely drunk. The Third Degree: This phrase means that when people got interrogated for their past crimes, they got highly searched (third degree). This phrase includes the math were the members of an old ritual of Freemasonry, which were graded by degrees. The Fourth Estate: This phrase means the social ranks of the 1789 Estates-General. The first where the clergy, than the nobles, and finally the bourgeoisie (the wealthiest). But the Fourth Estate was the most influential on ordinary French people – newspapers and reporters. Fourth Wall: This phrase is a “wall” that separates a theatrical performance from the audience. But now this term is applies when a character “breaks” the fourth wall and addresses the audience directly. Five by Five: This phrase is a term for a NATO radio speak system. Signals are rated by one – five (five being the clearest and most understood signal). It is usually used to indicate that something is understood. Fifth Columnist: This phrase originally comes...
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...Using Third Person Omniscient POV by Brian Davis Introduction Writing in Third Person Omniscient point of view lets you do many things with your story that you wouldn't normally be able to do were you to use a Limited or even a Multiple point of view. Third Person Omniscient lets you move freely through time and space, gives more information in a smaller amount of time, and yes, even shows what multiple people are thinking within a scene. There are a lot of advantages to Third Person Omniscient, but if you look at fiction novels written in the 20th century, most are written in Third Person Limited. Why is that? Part of the reason is that Third Person Omniscient is considered one of the hardest POVs to master because there are a lot of places where you can go wrong. First, many new writers confuse Omniscient with "Head-Hopping". This often happens because a writer wants to show what many or all of the characters within a scene are thinking, and then simply writes it down as if it were Third Person Multiple instead of Omniscient POV. This'll come out as a jumbled and confusing pile of perspectives mixed together. Second, many don't quite grasp the differences between an Objective perspective and a Subjective perspective, and how to use them to their advantage. Third, Third Person Limited (or Multiple) can be indistinguishable at times from Third Person Omniscient, which can make things very confusing. Then come the big drawbacks of using Third Person Omniscient:...
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...Interestingly, there is a group of living plants - the whisk ferns - which resembles Rhynia. Psilotum nudum which grows in moist, shady habitats in the Caribbean is such a plant. At one time, Psilotum was thought to be a surviving relative of Rhynia. It is, however, more generally thought to be a Fern Ally, related to the Ferns, with loss of features such as leaves and roots. Event 13 “IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORDATE” FINDING THE ANCESTOR OF VERTEBRATES (AND OURSELVES) 530 million years ago The Cambrian explosion created all the major phyla of animals that we have today. This includes the phyla Chordata (chordates). Primitive forms are creatures with evidence of a notochord, a structural rod of cartilage and neural tissue running down the long axis of the body. This notochord was the early precursor to the spine in vertebrates (animals with a true backbone, like fish), and modern examples of simple chordates include sea squirts and lancelets. Two Cambrian fossil localities are of key importance here: Chengjiang in Yunnan Province, southern China, and the Burgess Shales in the British Columbia Rockies of Canada. Both of these localities have produced fossils classified as chordates. The Chinese forms include the forms Myllokunmingia and Haikouichthys (it has even been suggested these could be primitive vertebrate jawless fish). The Canadian form (somewhat later in the Cambrian period) is Pikaia, which especially resembles the modern lancelet. Event 15 “GET OUT OF THE...
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...PC game "Personal computer game" redirects here. For video games in general, see video game. For other uses, "Computer Games" redirects here. For the album by George Clinton, see Computer Games (album). PC games, also known as computer games, are video games played on a general-purpose personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine. Their defining characteristics include a lack of any centralized controlling authority and greater capacity in input, processing, and output. PC games reached widespread popularity following the video game crash of 1983, particularly in Europe, leading to the era of the "bedroom coder". From the mid-90s onward they lost mass-market traction to console games before enjoying a resurgence in the mid-2000s through digital distribution. The uncoordinated nature of the PC game market and its lack of physical media make precisely assessing its size difficult. Contents 1 History 1.1 Early growth 1.2 Industry crash 1.3 New genres 1.4 Contemporary gaming 2 Platform characteristics 2.1 Fidelity 2.2 Openness 2.2.1 Mods 2.3 Dominant Software 2.3.1 Digital Distribution Services 3 PC gaming technology 3.1 Hardware 3.2 Software 3.3 Multiplayer 3.3.1 Local area network gaming 3.3.2 Online games 3.4 Emulation 4 Controversy 5 Computer games museums History Early growth Spacewar!, developed for the PDP-1 in 1961, is often credited as being the second ever computer game. The game consisted of two player-controlled...
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