...This archive file of POS 420 Week 5 Discussion Questions shows the solutions to the following problems: DQ 1: Compare and contrast the X Window system and Microsoft Windows. DQ 2: What is the most interesting, useful, unexpected or unusual thing you have learned about Linux/UNIX during this course? Computer Science - General Computer Science POS 420 Week 1 UNIX® and Linux® Comparison Matrix Resources: University of Phoenix Material: UNIX® and Linux® Comparison Matrix Complete the UNIX® and Linux® Comparison Matrix located on your student website. See the Assignment 1 post in the Main forum or Course Materials forum for detailed instructions. POS 420 Week 2 Individual File Processing Commands Worksheet Resource: University of Phoenix Material: File Processing Commands Worksheet Resource: University of Phoenix Materials: Linux® Directory Log Complete the Linux® Directory Log located on your student website. Complete the University of Phoenix Material: File Processing Commands Worksheet located on your student website. See the Assignment 2 post in Main forum or Course Materials POS 420 Week 3 Individual Linux® Script Worksheet Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Linux® Script Worksheet Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Linux® Script Worksheet located on your student website. See the Assignment 3 post in Main forum or Course Materials forum for detailed...
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...Running Head: COMPARISON- CONTRAST ESSAY Apple vs Banana Elizabeth Anderson June 8 2012 ENG 101 What’s your favorite fruit? Do you think that your favorite fruit gives you more advantage? Two of the most common favorite fruits are apple and banana. Apple. Apple originated in Central Asia but has wild relatives in the New World. The apple is one of the most popular and widely grown fruits. It is easy to ship, resistant to disease, and popular for its flavor which can be sweet or tart, depending on the varietal. Roughly 60 million tons of apples are produced each year. They are predominately a fruit of northern or temperate climates. According to mahalo.com, apple is the most accessible fruit in the United States. Apple trees were initially from Asia, but there are over 7,500 types of apple trees in existence today. China is the leading producer of apples, with the United States coming in second. Eastern Turkey is the origin of the apple tree and is perhaps the first type of tree ever to be cultivated. Apples are fruit produced by apple trees and are the most commonly grown tree fruits. Symbols of sin in the Christian religion, apples have also been a part of Norse and Greek mythology as well as German paganism. Apples are roundish in shape and come in a wide variety of colors and textures, from red and soft to green and firm. Apples are eaten as snacks, and can be made into pies, breads, muffins and more. Apple juice and wine is made...
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...Earl Johnson Ms. Rose Kulich English 111.0020 15 October 2014 “The Way of Two Countries” The Czech Republic and Brazil are very different in many ways. Not only are their geographical locations different, but also the language and way of life. Both countries have many beauties, but have a long hard history to get that way. These countries are very different and unique in their own ways. Both countries are very unique and different in ways such as their wildlife, history, and attractions. Czech Republic is thought of to be full of buildings and human activity, but wildlife is present in this country. Of course there are mammals such as rodents and birds such as woodpeckers. There are animals located here that one cannot find in Brazil, for example the European Jackal. The European Jackal is also known as the Caucasian wolf and the reed wolf. The jackal is one of the rarest and least known native canids of Europe. The average size of both sexes is around 47-49 inches tall. The beautiful fur is usually coarse and brightly colored. Another animal of the Czech Republic is the European otter, there colors are usually brown on its upper body and cream on the bottom. Otters have a hard life of living due to pollution and the growth of pesticides used. Brazil’s wildlife shows more vibrant colors of those located in the cold Czech Republic. The Toco Toucan is a bird from the jungles of Brazil. Though the Toucan is listed on the threatened species list, they can still be found in...
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...To compare and to contrast is to identify the similarities and differences that have been found to produce the greatest measurable impact upon student achievement of the nine learning skills. Short stories are always very enjoyable to read. They are very concise but mostly have such a deep message resonating throughout the text that the reader is left pondering over an extension of the story to imagine the possible ending if they were novels instead. The works under consideration are meant to be compared because of their unique theme which reflects how two authors can write similar yet distinctive stories in different times. In anything you write or read there are some similarities and differences with another piece of literature. I would like to share the difference and similarity on the theme GenderRoles/Marriage. The corresponding works that I have selected are “The Story of an Hour (Chopin)” and “The Necklace (de Mauppassant).” I chose to analyze these particular because this subject hits home. I love to read love and romance novels, short stories, and poems. The story of an Hour was my favorite piece of literature from the listed. I think everyone that reads this will have a private perspective. When Mrs. Louise hears from her sister Josephine and friend Richard, of her husband’s death, she reacts with obvious grief, and although, her reaction is perhaps more violent than other women, it is still appropriate. Louis begins to realize that she is now an independent...
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...To compare and to contrast is to identify the similarities and differences that have been found to produce the greatest measurable impact upon student achievement of the nine learning skills. Short stories are always very enjoyable to read. They are very concise but mostly have such a deep message resonating throughout the text that the reader is left pondering over an extension of the story to imagine the possible ending if they were novels instead. The works under consideration are meant to be compared because of their unique theme which reflects how two authors can write similar yet distinctive stories in different times. In anything you write or read there are some similarities and differences with another piece of literature. I would like to share the difference and similarity on the theme GenderRoles/Marriage. The corresponding works that I have selected are “The Story of an Hour (Chopin)” and “The Necklace (de Mauppassant).” I chose to analyze these particular because this subject hits home. I love to read love and romance novels, short stories, and poems. The story of an Hour was my favorite piece of literature from the listed. I think everyone that reads this will have a private perspective. When Mrs. Louise hears from her sister Josephine and friend Richard, of her husband’s death, she reacts with obvious grief, and although, her reaction is perhaps more violent than other women, it is still appropriate. Louis begins to realize that she is now an independent...
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...Good Parenting Good parenting is the upbringing of a child or children with care, love and guidance given by the parents. The way the child is brought up determines whether or not the child is integrated into society or has problems accepting society. Parenting plays an important part since it acts as a bridge between a child’s understanding of them and the world. Good parenting consists of morals and values, effective communication and trust. Morals and values are essential aspects of proper upbringing in a child’s life for good parenting. Teaching a child good morals and values enables a child to make wise decisions in life and also help them to be critical thinkers. These morals and values enhanced the child intellects when taught at an early age. A child with good morals and values will have respect for their elders, leaders, country and most importantly themselves and would be accepted into society. Another strategy for good parenting is effective communication. In society presently, the communication between parent and child is crucial from an early age because of the vast pressure a child encounter as a pre- teen or teenager. When communication is implemented early a child can be assisted by the parent with their various problems such as peer pressure, bullying or even personal problems. Since the child accepts this communication with the parent, the child confides in their parent about anything and everything and this can prevent major consequences such as suicide,...
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...Comparison and contrast essay Apr 24th 2012 11:39 Basketball and Soccer In modern life, most people enjoy amazing sports. Two of most exciting and common sports to participate andappreciate are basketball and soccer. People can not only watch both of them on television, but they can also playthem for recreation and health. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the differences and similaritiesbetween these two sports. There are three aspects of these two sports: athletes, popularity, and equipment. The most noticeable difference between these two kinds of sports is their requirement of players. Both these twosports require different physical qualities of athletes or players. Basketball is one kind of sport that uses the upperbody; in contrast, soccer uses legs to control the ball and to win scores. Basketball players should be taller thannormal people, because basketball players need to get the rebounds and block(McDowell, Fryar, Ogden & Flegal, 2008). The average height of the NBA sportsmen is 7'15.93" ("2006-07 player survey:," 2007). On the other hand,soccer players do not have to be very tall. Soccer have great players of all heights, such as Maradona 1.65 m, PeterCrouch 2.01 m. Albeit physical differences, both of these sportsmen are strong and powerful because both kinds ofsportsmen occur numerous physical confrontation during games. The second difference is popularity from different areas. While basketball and soccer are both popular, they differ inthe...
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...The Comparison-Contrast Essay Daouda Soumahoro September 13, 2011 American Intercontinental University Abstract James Baldwin and Kurt Vonnegut Jr were two eminent writers that marked American fiction literature after world war two. James Baldwin is the author of Sonny’s Blues published in early 1950 in New City. The story is narrated by unknown man who pertain his attempted to come to the damage with his long disaffected Brother Sonny, Jazz musician. In this work Baldwin absorbed many of his own experiences to search the issuances of racial conflict, individuality and the complexity of human needs. Similar to Sonny, Harrison Bergeron, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr is a fourteen year boy who rebels against his tyrannical government. Vonnegut used a satirical humoristic commentary of society and its leaders as James used the lightness and darkness symbols to describe his suffering characters. The question is how the author literacy styles differ or similar to one another in term of themes? The Comparison-Contrast Essay Sonny’s Blues written by James is a story that addresses with very expression of the society and is done so through symbolism and imagery. Baldwin’s story is carefully written using lightness and darkness as typifies through out the entire story, he focuses of “Sonny’s Blues” on the character of sonny who eventually and endlessly fighting to find what makes him happy. Finally Sonny finds two breaks loose, one of them disastrous drug abuse and musician ...
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...Aaron Hailey 2.9.15 Comparison-Contrast Essay Block 2 Cowardice can be shown in many ways. Torturing others and putting fear into the hearts of innocent people is one of them. In Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s “A Precocious Autobiography” and Burton Raffel’s translation of Beowulf, Red, a Russian bully who rules the streets of his neighborhood, and Grendel, a terrifying monster who can never be loved by God, are two bullies who, though they are worlds apart, share many of the same characteristics. Like red, Grendel enjoys petrifying his victims with his intimidating presence. Red has an advantage over the other boys because he is much bigger than them. “Red could stop any boy and say impressively the one word “money”(490). He appears to be unbreakable with his strong build, but the reader should know that just like any other bully, red is a coward deep down. Grendel’s appearance would send chills through pretty much anyone’s spine since he is the Devil’s child. Grendel is described as a “powerful monster, living down in the darkness” (ii 1-2). Even though he is a demon, he’s still capable of being a coward. He insists on feeding on the lives of innocent people who stand no chance against him. If that isn’t pure cowardice, I don’t know what is. However, Grendel works alone while Red works with his “lieutenants.” Red needs the assistance of other boys so that he may look much tougher than he actually is. “Two or three lieutenants, in peaked caps back to front like Red’s, trotted...
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...true FISP and 3d FLASH sequences was 15 ml/lt. Ten patients underwent conventional enteroclysis with 1.5 lt of 20% barium sulfate enema and 22.5 ml of gadolinium. MR Enteroclysis was performed afterwards using true FISP, fat suppressed 3d FLASH and fat suppressed HASTE sequences. In all patients the proposed contrast medium acted as positive in 3d FLASH (T1w), true FISP (T2/T1 w) and as a negative in HASTE (T2w). In conclusion, a 20% barium sulfate enema with 15 ml/lt gadolinium is appropriate for conventional and MR Enteroclysis studies. Keywords: MRI, contrast medium, gadolinium, Crohn's disease, Enteroclysis Text Introduction Fast and ultrafast sequences, high performance gradient coils and dedicated abdominal phased array coils resulted in significant improvement in MR Imaging of the small bowel (SB). Resent reports indicated that MRI may be clinically useful for anatomic demonstration, identification and characterization of SB abnormalities, providing information from the bowel lumen - wall and the mesenteries (1-8). However, there is no consensus on the optimum sequences that should be used for SB imaging or on the appropriate contrast media for lumen opacification. In the present study different gadolinium concentrations within a 20%...
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...COLUMN CHART Compare and Contrast Essay Outline Template Introduction Hook In a neighborhood near the silos in Kabul, Afghanistan, children leave their homes early in the morning, but contrary to what one might think they are not going to school, instead they carry water containers heading towards the water tap which only works a few hours every 2 days when the tap does not work they go door to door asking for water long after school ends Information - about the author, text titles, summaries of both mediums Thesis statement both the text and the video have similarities, but they also have differences, this essay will try to explain them Body paragraph #1 - Video - Details from JUST THE VIDEO Detail #1 from the Video talked about...
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...Dytayja Cohen English 101 In Class Essay: Comparison Contract Essay Professor Brown Rich Neighborhoods vs. Poor Neighborhoods In America, there are Many types of neighborhoods, but two specific types of neighborhoods are rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods. Rich neighborhoods are usually inhabited by people who make upwards of $100,000 per year. Poor neighborhoods May be inhabited by people who Mame much less than that. These two types of neighborhoods are usually drastically different. In rich neighborhoods people tend to live in huge houses. In some Cases, it may seem as if all of the houses look the same, maybe not on the outside, but all of the houses may have the same building structure. The outside of these houses may be nicer than many othwe houses in different neighborhoods, because these people either have the time to mow the lawns cut their grass, plant gardens, and trim the hedges or they may have the money to pay other people for these services. Rich neighborhoods may be seen as snobbish, or that people just buy these houses as a status symbol, because there usually aren't that many people living in one big house. For example, one person may live in a five bedroom house. Some people may think that one person simply does not need to live in a house that spacious. Living in a rich neighborhood is also more beneficial for the kids because there are better resources. For example, there may be more options to different types of schooling...
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...How to Write a Compare/Contrast Essay Compare and contrast essays are the other big essay types in academic writing. These essays will follow a specific question and are fairly easy to complete. There are several ways to write this type of essay. The most important thing to remember is structure. Many wonderful essays fall victim to the woes of bad structure, making any ingenuity to fall by the wayside. Go over the rules on how to write a general essay, and then structure your compare/contrast essay in one of the following two formats: 1. Introduction Your introduction — like the five-paragraph-essay, should open generally (with a quotation, anecdote, generalization), and lead into the thesis statement. 2. Topic 1 This next portion of your essay (which may consist of one paragraph or several) should cover only the first topic of the comparison and contrast. Compare/Contrast essays take two topics and illustrate how they are similar and dissimilar. Do not mention topic 2 in this first portion. 3. Topic 2 This next portion of your essay (which may also consist of one or more paragraphs) should cover the second of the two topics. Do not discuss Topic 1 in this section. Since you have already gone into great detail about it, you may allude to Topic 1 briefly; however, do not analyze Topic 1 in this section. This portion of the paper is to discuss Topic 2 in great detail. 4. Topics 1 and 2 Together Now that you have analyzed both Topic 1 and Topic 2 independently, now it...
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...termpaperwarehouse.comHow to Write a Comparative Analysis Throughout your academic career, you'll be asked to write papers in which you compare and contrast two things: two texts, two theories, two historical figures, two scientific processes, and so on. "Classic" compare-and-contrast papers, in which you weight A and B equally, may be about two similar things that have crucial differences (two pesticides with different effects on the environment) or two similar things that have crucial differences, yet turn out to have surprising commonalities (two politicians with vastly different world views who voice unexpectedly similar perspectives on sexual harassment). In the "lens" (or "keyhole") comparison, in which you weight A less heavily than B, you use A as a lens through which to view B. Just as looking through a pair of glasses changes the way you see an object, using A as a framework for understanding B changes the way you see B. Lens comparisons are useful for illuminating, critiquing, or challenging the stability of a thing that, before the analysis, seemed perfectly understood. Often, lens comparisons take time into account: earlier texts, events, or historical figures may illuminate later ones, and vice versa. Faced with a daunting list of seemingly unrelated similarities and differences, you may feel confused about how to construct a paper that isn't just a mechanical exercise in which you first state all the features that A and B have in common, and then state all...
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...Effects on the Self. The article written by Dirk Smeesters and Naomi Mandel is a summary of research towards images of models to woman and how it effects there self esteem. The research has shown that images of thin woman have been known to cause self enhancement and some negative self image. The first part of the research that was studied was how certain woman reacted to extreme body images as well as moderate body images. They would be shown an extremely thin/heavy model or an averagely thin/moderately heavy woman. The article uses the word assimilation to describe how some woman view the images to them. The article explains the natural tendency of people to evaluate themselves by comparing with others. There are two different types of comparisons they are upward and downward. Upward meaning that people perceive the image positively and...
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