...being un-supervised. Other people in the community speed over the limit posted and children play there and may be hit or injured. Even though the children play in the street it cause a safety risk to drivers that don’t speed or drive wreck less do to the children running in and out of the streets without looking for cars. The children are our future and they need to be protected. When a person is looking to buy a future home they want to see a nice neighborhood that looks respectable and not as if it’s a bad neighborhood. The appearance of a home in my belief can say a lot about the people who live there. Someone who takes care of their home for example pressure washing, not trash in yard, paint nicely applied. Also there are some resident that don’t have the money but the residents should do as much as they can. To give an example of this a resident in my neighborhood has fixed the garage door which is tilted half way closed and it’s not very appealing. The appearance of a residents lawn as well as home its self make a community. A yard or lawn care should at the minimum have the grass mowed. The plants should be not over grown or deceased. Living in Florida the grass isn’t always...
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...The poor people usually depends of this places for basic things like food or sleep,without that help some of them don`t survive winter. Most of these institutions exist thanks to donations made it by average people and not government assistance. Every day there is more people living on the streets and the help is simply not enough, even when these kind of institutions exist. The people which suffer of poverty even when we see them like a kind of dog in the street, they are human and they want a decent life like normal people. Is normal to say that those poor people are living on the streets by their own choice, but like I said before, that is ignorance. That people suffer a lot of things, even things that we never going to feel, for example the hungry . The sad of these situations is that most of these people is...
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...explored. Culture is the main root in informing a person how to see the world around them. In the essay “Where Worlds Collide”, written by Pico Iyer, Iyer describes his time first moving to a new place. Coming from out of the country he anticipates that every step he takes is going to be a glance at paradise. “The blue skies and palm trees they saw on TV are scarcely visible from here: just an undifferentiated smoggy haze, billboards advertising Nissan and Cannon, and beyond those an endlessly receding mess of gray streets.” (page 51, Springboard). Here he describes how his picture of L.A was so...
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...Growing up or living for a long time in a country other than home usually shrinks the feeling of belonging to the home country. It also increases the chances that make a person feel that he or she doesn’t have a specific home. For that Pico Iyer, who was born in England to Indian Parents and grew up away from his home country, said about himself and anyone whose idea about home is not tied to a specific home “We are the Transit Loungers, forever heading to the Departure Gate, forever orbiting the world. […] Nothing is strange to us, and nowhere is foreign. We are visitors even in our own countries.” When it comes to memories, there is no one who doesn’t have memories, regardless of their types. Memories that are stuck in minds often force their owners to remember. In general, everyone has his or her own memories about home, regardless of the home type. Also, these kinds of memories are usually unforgettable. Adaptation is an issue that should be taken into anyone consideration, mainly for a person who is forced to travel to another country, a new home, due to any reason, for example, studying, working, or even living. That person, at the new home, will be exposed to new habits and ways of life that are completely different to his or her ones. Therefore, he or she might need to adapt him or herself to the new life which he or she may don’t...
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...The article “Why We Travel” by Pico Iyer talks about his views and opinions on why people travel to foreign places and what they expect to gain from their trips. He also mentioned a few of his past experiences and his feelings based on his travelling days. Based on this article, we conclude that travelling is not only moving elsewhere other than our homes and coming back the same person. It changes a person’s perception of life in either positive or negative ways. Through his personal travels, he has highlighted travelling makes him sees in a different point of view in most of the countries like in Paris, Mickey Rourke was still known as the greatest actor since Jerry Lewis. I’m in a full agreement in his statement of his definition of the joy travelling as people have to be open minded to enjoy ourselves. An example which would be meeting and understanding the local trends like I did when I was in Japan. Their trending faster than Malaysia when I was there. Besides that, he brought up that travelling is a way to reverse time to a small extent, and make a day last a year. I also strongly support this as families tend to cram a bunch of activities all in a day because no one in this world wants to “waste time” but wanting to make use of the little time they have away from home. I have also experienced travelling and wanting to accomplish all the plans in a day as I was in Italy for 2 months of vacation but unfortunately did not manage to visit all the...
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...thought Edwidge Danticat wrote one of the better pieces in understanding what the average immigrants struggle is like when they come to America. In his piece, “New York Was Our City on the Hill”, he begins with the news that his parents had to leave him and his family at an early age because they were trying to make their lives better. Immediately this drew me in to the story because I have a soft spot for anything other than good things happening to children. He then even after he and his siblings were able to join his parents in America, both parents worked excruciatingly long hours, and were extremely underpaid. In my opinion, this gave the reader a clear insight as to what an immigrant must face on a daily basis, and the struggles then endure just to live in our country; this poor mother wasn’t even able to admit herself to the hospital even when the doctor highly recommended it, due to lack of health insurance. What saddens me is that in the recent years citizens of this country have been saying terrible things about immigrants and their rights, or lack there of, to be here. I never understood, and possibly never will understand why people were so angry with immigrants, because it wasn’t like they were lazy people who were sight-seeing over here. These people came to our country, of which we claim has open arms, in search of a better life for themselves and their families, and quite frankly I don’t see anything wrong with that. I think this short essay has the ability...
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...Reveille, the beloved mascot of Texas A&M University, was ran over by a cyclist on campus. The cyclist immediately abandoned the crime scene afterwards. There are two suspects; Bikerman and Maroon Flash. Each suspect has a different story. DNA, fingerprint, blood, and hair were all recovered from the crime scene to be further tested in the forensics lab. The purpose of this lab was to apply forensic investigative tests to figure out who hit Reveille. Gel electrophoresis, fingerprints, hair samples, and blood samples were all used during the investigation. The hypothesis for this experiment is that Maroon Flash is the culprit. The null hypothesis is the Bikerman is the culprit. The first test conducted in the forensics lab was the gel electrophoresis....
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...Current Mission or vision Statement We are here for all of your Taco needs! Whether you are craving mouth-watering brisket tacos or looking for a breakfast taco to start your day, we have it all! Come visit one of our locations in: (Very product focused) Examples of Restaurant mission statements (We should ask the manager of the Denton location for her opinion) * We are committed to using the finest ingredients in our recipes. No food leaves our kitchen that we ourselves would not eat. Tomasso's Pizza & Subs * To provide an exceptional dining experience that satisfies our guests' grown-up tastes by being "" Cut-Above"" in everything we do. Aryb’s * To ensure that each guest receives prompt, professional, friendly and courteous service. To maintain a clean, comfortable and well maintained premises for our guests and staff. To provide at a fair price - nutritional, well-prepared meals - using only quality ingredients. To ensure that all guests and staff are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve. To thank each guest for the opportunity to serve them. By maintaining these objectives we shall be assured of a fair profit that will allow us to contribute to the community we serve. * Our restaurants feature generous portions of freshly prepared Mexican food at an exceptional value. Infused with a festive Mexican theme, the interior and patio dining areas are a great place to relax with friends and family. Each day, Taco Cabana kitchensprepare by hand...
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...theologians, authors and philosophers. During the Renaissance though, the people who had the means and desire to study classical art and literature were from a broad spectrum of royalty to merchants. The students were not studying for professional reasons but more so for pleasure. The interest in art broadened from works Classical Greece to what, at the time of the Renaissance, were referred to as contemporary works and existed as objects of learning or ideal beauty Literature had its foundation deep in classical roots and there are many similarities and contrasting points of view in their themes. One of the most significant documents of literature, during this period, was the theses (“intellectual propositions”) written by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola which was entitled Oration of the Dignity of Man. The theme of this work “…is that humanity stands at the apex of creation in a way such as to create the link between the world of God and that of the creation” (Cunningham & Reich, 2006). Stating simply that man is the peak of the two forces, one being God and the other being all that is around him. One of the scholars that Mirandola...
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...Search Quiz ICS171 Name___________ ID____________ No text, no notes, no questions. Do the best that you can on each question. No questions will be answered about the quiz questions. If you think a question is ambiguous, write your interpretation and answer your modified question. Be reasonable. The following abbreviations are used: BF = branching factor, DFS = depth first search, BFS = breadth first search, IDS = iterative deepening search, A* = A* search, LI = local improvement search, HC = hill-climbing search. [pic] 1. For the 8-tile puzzle, what is the average branching factor, assuming the blank is equally likely to occur in any position. Show your work. (4*2 + 4*3 +1*4)/9 = 24/9 = 2 & 2/3. 2. Suppose that you are solving the 8-tile puzzle where it has solution. Which of the methods (DFS, BFS, IDS) is guaranteed to find a solution, assuming no computational limits are reached. List all that are correct. DFS, BFS, IDS 3. For the same puzzle, which of the methods (DFS,BFS,IDS) is guaranteed to find the shortest solution? List all that are correct. BFS, IDS 4. For the same puzzle, which methods are guaranteed to use no more than O(BF * length of solution) amount of memory. DFS, IDS 5. Suppose you apply the A* algorithm to the same problem. You decide to let f = current cost of the path. Would it be appropriate to let h = 0 for all states? Yes or no and why. ...
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...Data Structures & Algorithms Coursework Assignment 1 Q1. (a) Algorithm swap(x, y): Node n head While (n.getNext () != x ) do n n.getNext() Node v y.getNext () n.setNext(y) y.setNext(x) x.setNext(v) (b) Algorithm swap Doubly(x, y): DNode n x.getPrev() DNode v y.getPrev() n.setNext(y) y.setPrev(n) y.setNext(x) x.setPrev(y) x.setNext(v) v.setPrev(x) (c) The run time complexity for the singled linked algorithm is O (n) and for the doubly linked algorithm is O (1). Doubly linked list has the best time complexity. Time complexity in singly linked list take more time because we have to move from head to the node before x Q2. (b) RedBlueStack implements Stack{ protected Object A[]; Int capacity; int top = -1; RedBlueStack(int cap) { A = new Object [capacity]; capacity = cap; } int size() { return (top + 1); } void push(Object obj) throws FullStackException { if (size() == capacity) throws new FullStackException("Stack is full."); A[++top] = obj; } Object top() throws EmptyStackException { if (isEmpty()) throws new EmptyStackException("Stack is empty."); return A[top]; } Boolean isEmpty() { return (top < 0); } Object top() throws EmptyStackException { if (isEmpty()) throws new EmptyStackException("Stack is empty."); return A[top]; } Object pop() throws EmptyStackException { Object elem; if (isEmpty()) throws new EmptyStackException("Stack...
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...“The sole object of his existence“ Leonce Pontellier could be described in two words, egotistical and materialistic. By the standards of his day he’s seen as the perfect husband who loves and adores his wife, “The sole object of his existence”. Not only does he buy her jewelry, gives her money and sends care packages to her and children, boxes filled with “friandises” such as pates and bonbons but he is also a prominent businessman, well known and liked in high society. From the outside looking in you would think Pontellier are a well and happy family but that isn’t the case. Leonce Pontellier treats and loves his wife the way he treats and loves a rare and expensive lace curtain. He acts as if Edna is his property, a possession bought and placed among his household gods. He cares more about his image than the unhappiness he’s causing his wife. Edna wants true love and passion, a passion that Leonce is oblivious to. Leonce Pontellier says that his wife is “the sole object of his existence” and yet he is dissatisfied with her inattention to their children and himself, as stated “He thought it very discouraging that his wife…evinced so little interest in things which concerned him and valued so little of his conversation”. Does he not know that it takes two for a marriage to succeed? Apparently not! He wants Edna to take an interest and yet he takes no interest in his wife. Except when he’s nagging, when she abandons her reception day, he isn’t the list bit concerned about her...
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...Task 1 LO 1.1 All high-level programming languages support the concept of data types. A data type defines a set of values that a variable can store along with a set of operations. Data types are used to store various types of data which is managed by program. Data type attaches with variable to determine the number of bytes to be allocate to variable and valid operations which can be performed on that variable. Although C has several built-in data types, it is not a strongly typed language, as are Pascal and Ada. C supports various data types and here some common data type as character, integer and floating-point types. C defines five foundational data types as defined below: ▪ character ▪ integer ▪ floating-point ▪ double floating-point ▪ valueless These are declared as by char, int, float, double, and void, respectively. These types form the basis for some other types also. The extent and choice of these and data types may contrast amongst processor natures and compilers. However, in all belongings an object of type char is 1 byte. C stores character type inside as an integer. Each character has 8 bits so, we can have 256 different characters values (0-255). Character set is used to map between an integer value and a character. The size of an int is ordinarily the same as the word length of the implementation setting of the program. C has 3 classes of integer storage namely short int, int and long int. All of these data types...
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...Write the following queries in SQL: Display a list of all instructors, showing their ID, name, and the number of sections that they have taught. Make sure to show the number of sections as 0 for instructors who have not taught any section. Your query should use an outer join, and should not use scalar subqueries. By using the university schema provided by db-book.com the following queries were done on the university database. The first query uses an outer join which works similar to the join operation but it keeps the rows that don’t match between the two tables that would be lost in a join operation. There are three forms of outer join: a) Left outer join displays the results from the left table even if the condition does not find any matching record in the right table. b) Right outer join will displays the results from the right table regardless if there is matching data in the left table. c) Full outer join will retain all rows from both tables, regardless if the data matches or not. The group by clause when used in a select statement collects data from multiple records and groups the results into one or more columns. The below is the query using left outer join operation: select ID, name, count(sec_id) as Number_of_sections from instructor natural left outer join teaches group by ID, name; The next query was written by using a scalar subquery without using an outer join operation. A scalar subquery is where the output of a subquery returns only...
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...i SASTRA UNIVERSITY Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy Thirumalaisamudram Thanjavur – 613 402 BCSCCS705 PARALLEL COMPUTING AND ALGORITHMS LAB B.TECH (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) 7TH SEMESTER ii List of Exercises: 1. Basic arithmetic operations in parallel 2. Find out factorial of a number 3. Generation of Fibonacci series, finding prime numbers in an interval. 4. Evaluate the integral of a function 5. Merging of two sorted lists 6. Parallel tree traversals 7. Matrix multiplication 8. Enumeration sort 9. Odd-Even transposition sort 10. Bitonic merge 11. Quick sort 12. Single source shortest path iii Exercise 1 Aim: Basic Arithmetic Operations in parallel To perform a set of arithmetic operations in parallel using a cluster of computers Procedure: Step 1: Identify a set of numbers over which arithmetic operations are to be done Step 2: Identify the rank in the cluster Step 3: Split the set of numbers into domains and assign each domain to their corresponding processor Step 4: Get the result from each computer in the cluster and assimilate them at the master Step 5: Verify the time taken for the completion of each task. Algorithm:function sum(+,identity,a) = if #a == 1 then [identity] else let e = even_elts(a); o = odd_elts(a); s = scan_op(op,identity,{op(e,o): e in e; o in o}) in interleave(s,{op(s,e): s in s; e in e}); iv Input:- An array of integers Output: - The sum 3,2,7,6 P1 18 0,5,4,8 P2 17 62 2,0,1,5 P3 8...
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