...Adventures in Cheating A guide to buying term papers online. Students, your semester is almost over. This fall, did you find yourself pulling many bong hits but few all-nighters? Absorbing much Schlitz but little Nietzsche? Attending Arizona State University? If the answer is yes to any or (especially) all these questions, you will no doubt be plagiarizing your term papers. Good for you—we're all short on time these days. Yes, it's ethically blah blah blah to cheat on a term paper blah. The question is: How do you do it right? For example, the chump move is to find some library book and copy big hunks out of it. No good: You still have to walk to the library, find a decent book, and link the hunks together with your own awful prose. Instead, why not just click on a term paper Web site and buy the whole damn paper already written by some smart dude? Que bella! Ah, but which site? I shopped at several online term paper stores to determine where best to spend your cheating dollar. After selecting papers on topics in history, psychology, and biology, I had each paper graded by one of my judges. These were: Slate writer David Greenberg, who teaches history at Columbia; my dad, who teaches psychology at the University of Rhode Island (sometimes smeared as the ASU of the East); and my girlfriend, who was a teaching assistant in biology at Duke (where she says cheating was quite common). So, which site wins for the best combination of price and paper quality? I compared free...
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...Algorithm High Card prompt for the name of player 1 and player 2 initialize two card objects and call the .deal() method print to the players to show what card by calling .get_face_value() on the card objects display the result (if card 1 > card 2 display player1 won else if card 2 > card1 display player 2 won, else display tie) Face_value if card is 1 display ace if card is 2 display two if card is 3 display three if card is 4 display four if card is 5 display five if card is 6 display six if card is 7 display seven if card is 8 display eight if card is 9 display nine if card is 10 display ten if card is 11 display jack if card is 12 display queen if card is 13 display king make change prompts user for the cost of the item prompts user for the amount tendered determines how much change if any is returned to the customer by subtracting amount tendered by the cost of the item prints 'customer still owes money' if the amount tendered is not greater than or equal to the amount owed prints the change in the amount of dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies owed back to the customer deal hand creates 5 card objects and gives them values with the .deal() method puts the 5 Card objects in a list calls the method display_hand() to display the face value of each card in the list calls the method hand_stats() to give the stats of the hand such as: the highest/lowest card and the total/average value of the cards menu prints the menu and prompts...
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...Oral Roberts University SUPERIORITY AND BLURRED LINES: An observation of the themes communicated in major DC Comics storylines Joshua Gallego Philosophy of Science HONR 102 Dr. Ken Weed/Dr. Samuel Thorpe March 13, 2014 Introduction Superheroes are part of an American upbringing. Stories of persons with capabilities that far exceed that of the human race are popular and appealing to our youth and even to many adults. Entertainment in general pervades the American culture, and this specific type of entertainment dealing with superheroes is of considerable size and has been a constant for several decades. Images of Superman, Captain America and many others are immediately recognized when seen. The entertainment value of these fictitious tales has caused the companies that own them to expand into creating computer games and producing movies, which has made them even more visible. It is considered weird if a person does not even know the basic story of these costumed figures. The adventures, stories, and even lives of these fictions have become a part of the American Psyche. Throughout the course of this semester, discussion in the Philosophy of Science class has led to topics such as the paradigms and presuppositions that we approach our world from and the metaphors that we use to communicate ideas and concepts. Such discussion has led to the asking of questions concerning things that we encounter in everyday circumstances. Questions like “What are the presuppositions...
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...never fail to make the audience roll their eyes. In the vast sea of mediocre commencement speeches, only a few stray from the typical commencement speech formula and are considered exceptional. One of these notable commencement speeches is “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace. In his 2005 commencement speech to Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace’s makes a complete one-eighty from the typical commencement speech; discussing complex topics that were all too vital to the baby-faced, liberal arts graduates. He tackled the issues of human selfishness, default behavior, worship, truth of freedom, and awareness of our surroundings. Wallace’s background as a writer is crucial to understanding these themes. After the success of his novel Infinite Jest, Wallace became known as one of the most influential writers of modern times. Postmodernism, the genre of writing which he is known for, is defined by its criticism, skepticism, irony, and distrust of typical narratives and honest ideals of the work that preceded it. Likewise, This is Water shares this same theme of self-awareness which is so prevalent in the postmodernism. To start with, Wallace tells a story about a two fish swimming along who pass an older fish. When the older fish ask the two fish “How’s the water”, one of them responds with “What the hell is water?” The story itself reminds the audience that we are often unaware of our surroundings. The story also succeeds in introducing the main theme of his speech —Self awareness...
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...My Prediction for Season 2 flash story line includes Futures end influences and a Wally West Flash! Here is how I have come to that conclusion and then some. In Tuesday night's episode of The Flash during the body snatcher scene Eobard says to Harrison; "In the year twenty twenty (five years from now) you and your wife Tes Morgan successfully launch a particle accelerator that changes the course of history". Eobard accelerated that timeline, to the year 2015 (technically 2014, and they should have had the line read 2019). Five years from now, the DC Comic Universe plot line for Futures End is as follows: "Reeling from a war with Another Earth, leaving the world unprepared for an approaching evil that threatens to destroy the future can a time traveling Batman (beyond)." Now simply begin to replace batman with "Can a time-traveling Barry Allen, help a massive cast of the DCU’s finest avert the impending apocalypse caused by the changes to the timeline Eobard Thawn the Reverse Flash set in motion after the eventual survival of Barry's mother? That means season two should be getting heavy doses of influence from the Futures End storyline. For the new as-yet-unnamed show, they are casting characters like HawkGirl, so this gives some credibility to a "massive cast" I digress, now since Harrison wells and Tess Morgan will be the cause of the S.T.A.R. labs explosion in 2020, we should see some new superheroes from older cast members, like Cisco becoming Vibe and Mrs. Katlin snow becoming...
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...IIR Filter structures ELG6163 Miodrag Bolic 1 Copyright © 2005, S. K. Mitra Objective • Stuctures – Direct form – Transposed direct form – Lattice-ladder form – Parallel realization – Cascade realization – Bi-quad coupled realization – State space realization • 2 Implementation Copyright © 2005, S. K. Mitra Basic IIR Digital Filter Structures • The causal IIR digital filters we are concerned with in this course are characterized by a real rational transfer function of z −1 or, equivalently by a constant coefficient difference equation • From the difference equation representation, it can be seen that the realization of the causal IIR digital filters requires some form of feedback 3 Copyright © 2005, S. K. Mitra Basic IIR Digital Filter Structures • An N-th order IIR digital transfer function is characterized by 2N+1 unique coefficients, and in general, requires 2N+1 multipliers and 2N two-input adders for implementation • Direct form IIR filters: Filter structures in which the multiplier coefficients are precisely the coefficients of the transfer function 4 Copyright © 2005, S. K. Mitra Direct Form IIR Digital Filter Structures • Consider for simplicity a 3rd-order IIR filter with a transfer function −1 −2 −3 P( z ) p0 + p1z + p2 z + p3 z = H ( z) = D( z ) 1 + d1z −1 + d 2 z − 2 + d3 z −3 • We can implement H(z) as a cascade of two filter sections as shown on the next slide 5 Copyright © 2005, S. K. Mitra Direct Form IIR Digital...
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...Lockett, Roblee Page 1 of 48 6/3/2003 GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MULTIPLIERLESS TWODIMENSIONAL IMAGE FILTERS by Douglas J. Lockett and Christopher D. Roblee ********* Senior Capstone Design Project Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Union College Steinmetz Hall Schenectady, New York 12308 U.S.A. Submitted May 30, 2003 Final Project Report Senior Capstone Design Project, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Union College, 2003. © 2003 Douglas Lockett, Christopher Roblee Lockett, Roblee Page 2 of 48 6/3/2003 Table of Contents: Abstract……………………………………………………………………………….3 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..4 2. Theory of Multiplierless Arithmetic………………………………………………...5 3. Image Filters 3.1. Motivations for IIR vs. FIR……………………………………………………....7 3.2. Edge Detection …………………………………………………………………..8 3.3. Canny Edge Detection……………………………………………………………9 4. Genetic Algorithms 4.1. Motivations……………………………………………………………………...10 4.2. Basic Theory…………………………………………………………………….10 4.3. Description of the Designed Genetic Algorithm………………………………..13 4.3.1. Fitness Function Definition and Crossover Selection…………………...17 4.3.2. Magnitude Response and Relative Error………………………………...19 4.3.3. GA Parameters…………………………………………………………...19 5. Results 5.1. Magnitude Frequency Analysis ……………………………………………...…21 5.2. Spatial Analysis…………………………………………………………………24...
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...On April 20, 2010, a gas release and subsequent explosion occurred on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion involved a loss of hydrostatic control of the well and failure of the blowout preventer equipment that allowed the release and ignition of hydrocarbon. The explosion claimed 11 lives and 205 million gallons of oil spilled into the surrounding ecosystems which made it the largest accidental oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. In response to the crisis, BP created its “Gulf of Mexico Restoration” website as a form of crisis management to protect and repair its reputation. BP’s “Gulf of Mexico Restoration” website uses these three strategies to try to repair its reputation: highlighting current financial data and reports to show the accurate compensation contributions BP has given to the Gulf; displaying videos with images that de-emphasize the damage by focusing on restored areas and statistics showing how the Gulf has restored business continuity; and uses powerful headers and sub-headers titled to portray optimistic restoration objectives. To restore its reputation, BP's "Gulf of Mexico Restoration" website provides current financial data and reports that show the donations BP has given to the Gulf to prove its strong commitment to helping the affected areas. Effectively communicating its use of compensation as a reputation repair strategy, BP provides public data reports updated as of September 30, 2013 under the sub-heading...
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...warm light of God's love and compassion on us all. This is what the Church affirms in raising her to the rank of blessed — that it was his light we beheld in her. "You are the light of the world," Jesus told his disciples, in words that echo down to this day. "Come, be my light," Jesus similarly urged Mother Teresa at the outset of her mission. "Bring me into the dark holes of the poor. Come, carry me, I cannot go alone." Throughout her life on earth, and now even more fully in the Kingdom, she stands as a beacon of light reflecting the heart of God to those who seek him, who seek signs of his nearness and care in the darkness of human suffering and sin. Through her message, proclaimed not as much with words as deeds, rich and poor alike have felt inexplicably drawn into the mercy and solace of God's tender embrace. Her life has truly become "something beautiful for God" — and what is more, something beautiful from God. She is indeed a "sign for this generation" — an incontrovertible sign that "God still loves the world today." Her work, though touching every social ill, was not only or even primarily social work. In Mother Teresa's vision, feeding the hungry and caring for the dying are not ends in themselves, but a share in Jesus' own redemptive "work of love" for the least and the lost. In the face of the overwhelming needs of the poor, abandoned in Calcutta's streets and slums, where all would seem to mock the existence of God and his love, Jesus himself led...
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...attempt to understand Kierkegaard’s three movements to faith. The first movement to faith is a commitment or appropriation to a singular wish. In this stage, a person loves someone to the point where they always want to be around that one person no matter what the circumstances are. The person wishes and prays in every case that no matter what happens, they can still be physically and finitely connected to that person in each other’s lifetime. In the case of the movie, the audience is shown the main character named Bess, whose singular wish to God is to fall mutually in love with a man. After she marries this man, she wants nothing else but to always be in direct contact with her husband, Jan. The audience is shown this with a scene in the movie that depicts Bess screaming and running up to Jan just before he is about to board the helicopter to return back to work. She never wanted to let him go and she explains this to God in multiple conversations. She complains over and over again that she loves Jan and she wants to be with him all of the time. She stubbornly ignores the suggestions from her sister and God to endure Jan at times when he is away. This is in direct correlation to Kierkegaard’s philosophy on the first stage. The love that Bess presents in the film goes above and beyond any other type of love. The audience sees later...
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...On the Night You Were Born II Kings 17:6-14 and Luke 15:17-24 Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque August 29, 2010 Beloved of God, do you know, have you ever wondered what happened on the night you were born. My family story holds that somewhere around the end of August in 1956 Dr. E.L.C. Broomes told my Mother not to get her hopes too high. After all, this was her fifth pregnancy, and though she had finally moved beyond the 30 week mark, she still had many weeks to go and she should not get her hopes too high. There was no guarantee this baby would make it. But then, on the evening of October 30th, sometime after dinner, something within my mother moved, something within her said, it is time and all the world stood still for my parents, all of the world held its breath. I do not know what thoughts ran through my mother’s mind or my father’s heart in those hours before I was born; but I know once I had arrived, once they held me in their arms, they began to rejoice. Nancy Tillman, in her book On the Night You Were Born, gives voice to the rhythm of words that might have been spoken on night you and I were born:1 On the night you were born the moon smiled with wonder. The stars peeked in to see you, all safe and tucked under And the night wind whispered and called you by name And said with a sigh, life will never be the same So enchanted with you were the wind and the rain They too whispered the sound of your wonderful name. Your name sailed past houses, high on the breeze Over oceans and mountains...
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...lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships; and in the golden hour of friendship, we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief. We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine inhabitation. In strictness, the soul does not respect men as it respects itself. In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs finer organs for its apprehension Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now acting, enduring, and daring, which can love us, and which we can love. We may congratulate ourselves that the period of nonage, of follies, of blunders, and of...
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... The poem “To my Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet is about love, precisely as it relates to the title – the speaker’s affection and deep true love for her husband. Throughout the poem, the speaker uses strong imagery and figurative language to describe the strength and power of her love which is unusual given the nature of the speaker who identifies herself as a devout Puritan. The speaker was living in her own world of love and nothing matters much more than her husband. The poem does not reflect at all the speaker’s Puritan values, which entails the implication that the speaker might not practice her Puritanism faithfully. Puritans were allowed to love one another provided that their love advocated purity and Christianity. The poem illustrates the first person point of view: that of the lyric “I”, who is closely involved in the feelings developed in the poem. The speaker adopted the tone of a young lover expressing her affection and devotion for her husband, the principal subject. The speaker also tries to make the reader feel her own feelings. The tone remained focused on the loving, caring attitude and throughout the poem; the description of the love felt intensifies, becoming boastful at times: “If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can”. (Bradstreet 150) According to the lyric “I”, she is the only woman who...
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...of missing you.” (anonymous) Love is strong for people missing each other because they wish they could just be together. This is the way Juliet felt when Romeo was banished. There is a lot of love between Romeo and Juliet in the play by William Shakespeare. Two young people fall in love but they have families that have been feuding for years. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the theme of love is stronger than hate because Romeo risks his life for Juliet and he agrees to marry Juliet even know there families hate each other. Love is stronger in Romeo and Juliet because they get married even though there families are enemies. Juliet says this to her love Romeo “My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” (2-2-146) This shows Juliet’s love is deep for Romeo because she says that her love is never ending. Even though her family would never approve of her being with Romeo she confesses her love for him. Some believe that hate is stronger in the play Romeo and Juliet; because of the fued. However...
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...“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed a sea nourish'd with loving tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. (“Romeo and Juliet”)”This quote is from Romeo speaking about what being in love feels like. Provided that Romeo is in love, he is able to explain what it is in such significant words. Romeo is in love, and teenagers of this time period can also plunge into the emotions of love. Teenagers are capable of being in love because of examples from iconic duos, historic examples, and statistics. The main reason that teenagers can be in love are the examples of iconic duos. Romeo and Juliet is the ageless example of true love between adolescents. In this quote, Juliet explains that they can not be too rash. “Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be...
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