...Information Systems Year 11 IPT 2014 James Tang Database Server Recommendation Beyond Blue wishes to include an online questionnaire for persons identifying with depression or anxiety-related illness on their current website. The online questionnaire is designed to store the information of the user in an online database so that the web administrator can see alerts generated for at-risk users and further assistance can be given. Beyond Blue expected the questionnaire is to be completed by over 200 users per day. First, the client, Beyond Blue is required to use a computer with a high-performance RAM to store the data. A high-performance computer is a computer builds with a highly efficient system that is generally used to support scientific,...
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...The Beauties By Anton Chekhov I I REMEMBER, when I was a high school boy in the fifth or sixth class, I was driving with my grandfather from the village of Bolshoe Kryepkoe in the Don region to Rostov-on-the-Don. It was a sultry, languidly dreary day of August. Our eyes were glued together, and our mouths were parched from the heat and the dry burning wind which drove clouds of dust to meet us; one did not want to look or speak or think, and when our drowsy driver, a Little Russian called Karpo, swung his whip at the horses and lashed me on my cap, I did not protest or utter a sound, but only, rousing myself from half-slumber, gazed mildly and dejectedly into the distance to see whether there was a village visible through the dust. We stopped to feed the horses in a big Armenian village at a rich Armenian's whom my grandfather knew. Never in my life have I seen a greater caricature than that Armenian. Imagine a little shaven head with thick overhanging eyebrows, a beak of a nose, long gray mustaches, and a wide mouth with a long cherry-wood chibouk sticking out of it. This little head was clumsily attached to a lean hunch-back carcass attired in a fantastic garb, a short red jacket, and full bright blue trousers. This figure walked straddling its legs and shuffling with its slippers, spoke without taking the chibouk out of its mouth, and behaved with truly Armenian dignity, not smiling, but staring with wide-open eyes and trying to take as little notice as possible of its...
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...Running Head: Boy at the Window Boy at the Window ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Sarah MacDonald April, 15 2012 Running Head: Boy at the Window Boy at the Window In “Boy at the Window”, Richard Wilbur uses examples of contrast, personification and allegory in order to convey a message about the fate of childhood innocence. Wilbur tries to tell the reader that the innocence felt by children is doomed from the start to succumb to the forces of experience. Contrast is the strongest literary device utilized in “Boy at the Window”, with the numerous examples serving to drive home the loss of innocence and set a tone for the whole poem. Wilbur juxtaposes the bitter cold outside with the warmth inside the home where the child resides; while the child looks at the snowman’s predicament from his own perspective, the more experienced snowman knows that he would be doomed were he to enter the warm house. This leads into a contrast between the worldly snowman, who understands the necessary division between his position and the boy’s, and the young child who feels only sympathy. Ice and water form another example of contrast; “Though frozen water is his [the snowman’s] element”, the snowman cries single tears of melted water out of sympathy for the young’s boy’s sorrow. What the boy desires, for the snowman to be inside the warmth rather than out in the cold, cannot be. A second group of contrasting images is the difference between loneliness and company. Much...
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...immersed is parallel to none. His style of directing has made movies recognizable beyond that of even a modern day film. His movies have been able to transcend that of many scary movies of the time because of the footprints that he embedded into each movie. These trademarks or seen throughout all of his movies, and they all share a common ground. In two of his greatest films Psycho and Rear Window you can see that these footprints attribute to the overall mise en scène of the movie. Some of the footprints that Hitchcock leaves in these two movies are extraordinary situations occurring to ordinary people, voyeurism, sound leading to climax, dark lighting, and close up shots. In Psycho one of the main characters Marion Crane an ordinary realtor's office secretary is thrusts into a situation where she is on the run from the law as well as her won guilt from stealing 40,000 thousand dollars. The fact that she works a nine to five just like every other American of the time creates common ground. When she was eventually murdered in a motel, it made the viewer feel as if it can happen to anyone who stays at a motel. In Rear Window the main character L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies was a photographer, a job which seems pretty ordinary but when he his bed ridden due to a broken leg he is thrust into an extraordinary situation where he is watching a murder investigation unfold right in front of him. Psycho and rear window are both prime example of this footprint. Connecting with the viewer is the first...
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...like stupid crazy to me. He's telling me how he does this. How he scopes the car out, how he checks for kids in the back seat, checks for the carseats, looking for who else is in the car and looking to see if there is a ring on the finger. Yea he got this shit down to science, no ifs ands or buts about it. He told me he got the idea from sitting in traffic and trying to cut in front of people to get to this one female. Like who does that, like im not in my damn car in traffic thinking damn maybe i can get some booty on the freeway we stopped anyway. Pull up to the window like Burger king asking your vehicle or mine.What the fuck hell nah. But at this point i'm like you whatever you cant be serious with this. He's like "im as serious as beating some one elses bad ass kids in the movies" . So yea um i was like well then i have to see this for my self. He goes on to tell me he get some girls numbers others flip him off all times of things. He get flashed and all this other shit that is like beyond belief on a damn freeway. Ok so now i got to see this for my self i want to get flash too, (dont judge me *sniffle sniffle* i want to see something tooooo lol). Now its the day of and im thinking to my damn self what do i wear do i just put on a shirt and hat cause that all the going to see. Looking on good and sexy on top and then looking like who done it and when on the bottom. So i figure it out and all right i just put on something casual. Ok getting on the freeway and this dude look...
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...Mallard had a pretty good relationship with her husband and she was not forced into it or anything. After, “…the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.” And at this point in the story we see Mrs. Mallard roller coasting through series of emotions and changes. At first, she felt hollowed out from inside, “…quite motionless… as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.” At this same time, she is sitting front of an open window. This open window symbolizes the new things that are opening to her like new potentials and new possibilities. She is looking out the open window at the patches of blue sky and looking at a very lively scenery and feeling positive about it...
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...it. All around me lay the most beautiful trees and plants I have ever seen. It is peaceful but you can hear the sounds of birds chirping and small creatures playing in the underbrush. I now see my house for the first time up close. Nothing could have prepared me for the moment I was about to experience. Before me stood a three story tall house, with walls that are made of stucco painted in a cream and white color and it has an old fashion shingles that are a gray color. As I approach the front of the house I am surrounded by four columns leading to the most elegant doors I have ever seen. They are made of mahogany and have a stained glass window in the center. The handles and the frame are made of brass. As I continue around the house I come across three windows overlooking the entrance to the house. There are white shutters on each window. As I walk through a giant black gate entering into the back yard I am surrounded by the best things a man could ever want. I walk toward the path and I first come across a basketball court. I find my older brothers playing a game of one-on-one. To the left of the basketball court is a tennis court. There is a bar with a beautiful red oak trim around it, in between the two...
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...Windows 7 What is “windows 7”? Most Recent version of Microsoft Windows Operating system. Windows 7 was released to Manufacturing on July 22,2009, and reached general retail availability on October 22, 2009. Benefits of Windows 7 Performance : Windows 7 starts, shuts down, and resumes from Standby faster than earlier versions of Windows. Reliability : Reliability improvements in Windows 7 include a Fault Tolerant Heap that resolves common memory management issues. Application Compatibility : A key engineering goal for Microsoft is that software that runs on Windows Vista will run as well or better on Windows 7. Device Compatibility : As with software, Microsoft set an engineering goal that devices that work with Windows Vista will also work with Windows 7—and has greatly expanded the list of devices and peripherals that are being tested for compatibility Security: Windows 7 delivers new capabilities to better protect security and privacy, and makes existing security features such as User Account Control and Windows Defender easier to use. Improved Battery Life : Improvements to power management in Windows 7 will help extend the battery life of your mobile PC. More benefits of Windows 7 1. Get quicker access to all of your stuff 2. Manage open windows more easily 3. Quickly find what you’re looking for 4. Share files and printers among multiple PCs 5. Stay entertained effortlessly 6. Easily create and share movies 7. Connect to networks...
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...A) Analyse and interpret Colm Tóibín’s short story “A Journey” When reaching a blind alley it takes two steps in order to move on. Firstly, one will have to recognize the impermeable obstacle. Secondly one is forced to turn around and light up the path that was previously travelled. In so doing one becomes aware of the mistakes which were made; more importantly, one can navigate around the dead-end and discover a new road. Correspondingly to the above, Colm Tóibín introduces a mom who recalls her past with the intention to mend the broken bonds within her family. The short story starts in medias res and is told by a 1st person narrator, in form of a mother. The reader is thrown directly into a conversation and it is hard to determine time and place. However, we quickly learn that we are in a car with the mother. It is a dark night in March and she is driving home having just summoned her son, David, after his long hospitalization due to his depression. As the title suggests the mother is on a journey. Nonetheless it is not an ordinary journey. The mother travels physically when driving on the road, but the road evokes thoughts about her past, which makes her travel on a metaphysical level as well. She is clearly in a miserable situation – her husband is sick and her son is depressed. The mother avoids referring to her son as a patient suffering from a depression; instead she refers to his illness as suffering from silence, which surfaces in the lines 32-33. This indicates...
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...Dickinson was both a lawyer and the Treasurer of Amherst College. Emily"s mother was Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily had one older brother, William Austin and a little sister, Lavinia. She was educated at the Amerherst Academy, the institute that her grandfather helped found. She also spent a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but had left because she did not like the religious environment. For a woman of this time, this much education was very rare. Emily Dickinson was a very mysterious person as she got older she became more and more reclusive too the point that by her thirties, she would not leave her house and would withdraw from visitors. Emily was known to give fruit and treats to children by lowering them out her window in a basket with a rope to avoid actually seeing them face to face. She developed a reputation as a myth, because she was almost never seen and when people did catch a glimpse of her she was always wearing white. Emily Dickinson never got married but is thought to have had a relationship with Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she met in the spring of 1854 in Philadelphia. He was a famous preacher and was married. Many scholars believe that he was the subject of her love poems. Emily probably only saw Wadsworth an additional three times after their first encounter which was only done by him going to Amherst, where she lived. In 1861 Wadsworth moved to San Francisco. It was after this time that Emily really started to produce hundreds of...
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...Essay Title: The communication of window display Subject: Massimo Dutti Word account: 1300 words Name: Yuwei Chen Student ID: CHE12369259 London College of Fashion Year 1(2013) Degree: BAFM Unit Tutor: Sally Bain Unit name: ISHE The communication of window display It is beyond doubt that the competition in the fashion retail industry is extremely stiff. Visual merchandisers are seeking a best way to attract customers by significantly improving display design to create competitive advantage. As Davis(2013) observe, there is a new trend in fashion marketing that companies are looking to the past to make an emotional connection to their customers and translate to sales. Venturing also on such approach is inditex brand Massimo Dutti. This retailer has been refurbishing its window displays with flapper-style mannequins and gorgeous props duly to recreate a 1920s vibe (Figure 1), which appeals to customers. In a consumer driven market, what does Massimo Dutti hope to achieve from nostalgic window displays? Does “nostalgic window dressing” make sense? This essay will focus on the relationship between shoppers and retail visual offerings. In particular, it explains the effect of styling, color and props used on the window display. Figure 1 Figure 1 In text ways of seeing, John Berger refers to a painting named The Key of dreams (Berger, 1972:8) (Figure 2). The concept behind the painting is that description of using words can create a mental image based upon...
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...illustrative examples. I shall be concentrating on two substantive areas of BI, namely On-Line Analytical Processing (‘OLAP’) and ad hoc Reporting. I have chosen to use OLAP in order to illustrate what happens when the data source is more complex than the simple tabular structures of relational databases. I have chosen ad hoc Reporting because it is hugely important in industry and commerce and is very costly and time-consuming for many enterprises. When OLAP is used in conjunction with ad hoc Reporting, the result is known as “Dimensional Reporting”. The BI reports that are made possible by this approach go beyond the simple tabular reports associated with traditional database systems. The course will emphasise the importance of design in BI. However, we shall not be looking at how to prettify the appearance of reports. Rather, we shall be looking at how to design generic facilities that will make it easier to produce specific reports in the future. Also, we shall look at what can be done to make it easier for non-specialists to produce reports. This is what I see as the key to raising productivity in this area. The topics that I intend to cover...
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...University of Phoenix Material End of the 20th Century Matrix Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1990s and beyond: |Earned Income Tax Credit |Economic prosperity under Clinton | |E-mail |Creating a budget surplus | |NAFTA |The Internet and the World Wide Web | |Telecommunications |The Brady Bill | |Somalia and Rwanda |Apple | |Internet marketing |Digital divide | |Kosovo |Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell | |Cell phones |Microsoft | |Event |Significance ...
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...yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” Louv visualizes explaining the nineteenth century to a younger generation and how they will not understand what they hear. Louv assumes, “’You did what?’ they’ll ask. ‘Yes,’ we’ll say, ‘it’s true. We actually looked out the car window.’” He is sarcastic because he is in disbelief at how oblivious adolescence is becoming. Louv finds it humorous that children are becoming so dependent on technology and are becoming so detached from nature. He mocks our future generation and their foolhardiness that is arising within them. Richard Louv reminisces his days in the back seat of a driving car, and vividly explains his experience through imagery. He remembers when he “started with a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with” him. He also personifies the “dancing rain” to portray his full image. Louv understands technology is going to expand and become more broad; however he can understand the intellectual details of nature that he remembers and realizes that technology is distracting people from visualizing “the variety or architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond the steamy edges- all that was and still available to the eye.” Due to the fact that Louv is not separated at all from nature, he portrays imagery because he notices the beauty in nature and enhances its beauty. Louv demonstrates a mocking and sarcastic tone, as well as imagery, to develop...
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...The beginning of the twentieth century was not as long ago as people think. When it comes to cultural differences; territories becoming stages, the Great War, civil rights movement, and more, the realization that it was in the last one hundred years comes easy. It is difficult to process for some, but for the majority of challenges in American culture, the country has overcame them and strengthened for the better. Child labor was still happening in the early 1900s, but was gaining negative backlash. Partnering together, one photographer and one committee, with hundreds of subjects, hoped to shed light on a crisis in America. A long aisle of emptiness, an impeding cotton machine, a large quantity of windows shining bright light, and a lone child. I was not educated on the photography of Lewis Hine when I began this analysis. Choosing a photo out of his massive collection in the Library of Congress archives became difficult. Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world Said she was 10 years old. Been working over a year. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina. Finally, I came to the decision of this sepia toned...
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