...The Computer Mouse The computer mouse first came about in the early 1980's. The idea being that the movement from the users hand could be turned into signals that the computer could read moving the cursor around and also allowing the buttons to function when pressed. Today there are a few different types of computer mice on the market. These being the mice that use the traditional tracking ball, the optical mouse and the mouse that has no physical connection to the computer. The most common mouse found near a computer today is the traditional mouse that uses the tracking ball. This is the same method as was used when the mouse was first released in the 1980's. The track ball inside the mouse touches the desk when it is moved. When the ball moves the motion is detected by two perpendicular axis, one which detects x axis directional motion and the other y-axis direction motion. Tracking Ball Perpendicular axis motion detectors Hole in which track ball would sit The diagrams above show the tracking ball and the hole in which the tracking ball sits. You can see the x and y axis motion detectors of which the y-axis detector lies 90° from the x-axis detector. These motion detectors are also known as rollers. When the mouse is in use the tracking ball moves moving one or both of the rollers. Each roller is connected to a shaft, which spins a disc. The disc has holes in it and next to the disc is an infrared LED and an infrared...
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...26th, 2015 Jumping Mouse Summary “Jumping Mouse” is a story within a story in Hyemeyohsts Storms “Seven Arrows.” It starts with a curious mouse that is determined to find what has been causing the roaring in his ears. Little Mouse will never be content until he finds his answer. On his way, Little Mouse meets a Racoon who shows him the way to a river where little mouse meets a frog who gives him a new name: Jumping Mouse. From here Jumping Mouse discovers the Sacred Mountains, and wishes to tell his mice friends about what he had seen. To Jumping Mouse’s disappointment, nobody believed what had happened to him. Not being able to forget the vision of the Sacred Mountains Jumping Mouse gathers all of his courage to find this place. On his journey to the far-off land Jumping mouse meets an Old mouse who tells him that the Sacred Mountains are a myth and that Jumping Mouse should forget about his vision. Not doubting himself, Jumping Mouse continues with his journey and shortly after he meets a sickly Buffalo who says that he is to die unless one mouse is to give up an eye. In order to save the life of an amazing animal Jumping Mouse gave up a way of seeing by giving the buffalo one of his eyes. In return for Jumping Mouse’s selfless action the buffalo escorts Jumping Mouse to safety. From here Jumping Mouse continues his journey into the Sacred Mountains where he meets a Wolf who has no memory. In order to save such a great being, Jumping Mouse gives his last eye to...
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...The History of the Computer Mouse The computer mouse is considered an input device. With a click of a button, the mouse sends information to the computer. The computer mouse is an interesting device that offers an alternative way to interact with the computer beside a keyboard. A typical mouse has two buttons. At the top of the device you will find a left and right button which allows for “clicks”. There is a scrolling wheel between the two buttons. Douglas Engelbart's device was not the first pointing device. In fact, it seems that the first product was a trackball. It was invented a lot earlier, in 1953, by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor for the Royal Canadian Navy. As part of the secret military project DATAR. The name “trackball” comes from the fact that the respective device actually used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball. Just imagine how “easy” using such a product really was. (Vochin, 2009) Engelbart created the first prototypes of the now-familiar device in 1963 at Stanford Research Institute, but he first displayed his creation to the public in Dec 6, 1968. ( Edwards, 2008) The mouse was much larger than today's mouse, square, and had a small button in the top right corner. It used two wheels to roll back and forth. It was the also the first mouse that could fit into a user's hand. In 1972, Jack Hawley and Bill English, inspired by Engelbart’s work, designed a digital mouse for Xerox PARC. This new mouse didn’t require an analog-to-digital...
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...diction, imagery, and characterization in the text “The Mouse” conveys the theme that when one is put in a hostile environment that they are not used to, it causes disturbing variations in the way they function. The protagonist, Theodoric develops this theme throughout the text. He is born into a family who keeps him away from the imperfections in life , much like Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha). Consequently enough both have the same outcome when they are finally exposed to the real world. Saki uses diction to convey the disturbing variations in Theodoric. As it states in the text, “...vagrant mice already his imagination had at least doubled...
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...ckey Mouse Many years ago who would have believed a small little rodent creature would be the icon of not just a multi-billion dollar company, but a symbol of innocence, youth, and happiness. The icon of course is no other than Mickey Mouse, a character that has hundreds of different meanings to many different people. Mickey today is not the same mouse that first appeared in 1928. Mickey was once a mischievous, adventurer, and over the years has transformed into a cheerful, calm, educational tool. Mickey Mouse originally created to be only an animation appeared on the big screen on November 18, 1928. Mickey Mouse’s first appearance was in “Plane Crazy” (1928). This short film was about Mickey becoming a pilot as an attempt to impress his future girlfriend Minnie Mouse. His goal throughout the cartoon was to get Minnie to kiss him while flying the plane. He tries so hard to get the kiss that he leaves Minnie to no other choice, but to parachute out of the plane to escape. Shortly after this cartoon was made another one titled “ Gallopin’ Gaucho” (1928), but it was not until “Steamboat Willie” (1928) that Mickey became very popular. During Walt Disney’s time other cartoonists were trying out innuendo and sexuality, or trying to steal ideas from one another, the Walt Disney creations became original, enjoyable and something for the entire family, regardless of age to enjoy together. Mickey Mouse has a very unique personality that represents his founder Walt Disney...
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...Betjeman is Diary of a Church Mouse. The speaker is of course the diarist, a lean and hungry mouse who writes in couplets mostly of iambic tetrameter The mouse gets by alone most days in a “dark forgotten room” that is a storage place for discarded cassocks and old hassocks. He subsists on eating the pages of discarded prayer books; “sawdust mixed with straw” is as near as he can come to bread, and floor polish is his jelly. He comments that “Christmas and Easter may be feasts/ For congregations and for priests.”, also Whitsun or Pentecost, which comes seven weeks after Easter. He adds that “For me the only feast at all/ Is Autumn’s Harvest Festival.” In America that is the last Thursday of November, Thanksgiving. In England, Harvest Festival is both a church affair and a secular revel, when the end of harvest is celebrated with people bringing baskets of fruit and vegetables to decorate their local church and then to be distributed to the poor. At this time the diarist can dine on “ears of corn around the [baptismal] font” and “burrow through a loaf of bread.” However, during Harvest Festival: . . . how annoying when one finds That other mice with pagan minds Come into church my food to share Who have no proper business there. The mouse mentions two field mice, an unfriendly rat who steals off with a sheaf of wheat, “prosperous mice from fields away” who come to hear the organ music and Ate through the altar’s sheaf of oats. A Low Church mouse, who thinks that I Am too...
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...Despereaux, the last mouse that Antoinette will give birth to, is a strange mouse born with his eyes wide open, as they are not supposed to be as he is not portrayed as “normal.” At the beginning, we see that Despereaux is destined for an early death as he did not conform to the mouse rules in the community. He visited the princess who he was in love with. Humans and a mouse can never love each other. The author moves beyond realistic when Despereaux meets the princess and talks to her. No mouse can ever talk like a human even though they might understand us (Essentials). Despereaux is a Renaissance mouse because of the music that he appreciates so much, the honey he can hear flowing, and the books he could read in the castle library. This...
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...Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney was created cartoon like Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Huey Dewey and Louise Duck. Animation history to grow until 1914 that Winsor McCay create animated named Gertie the Dinosaur in the next year Otto Mesmer made a silent animation with the famous story plot is Felix the Cat....
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...Mickey Mouse Monopoly The Mickey Mouse Monopoly documentary reveals the obscure social messages behind the animated films created by the Disney Company. Although we are conditioned to believe that these movies are pure forms of entertainment, further examination has proved that there are hidden messages concerning gender, race and class that Disney is instilling in the minds of children. The speakers in the documentary argue that Disney is extremely political and hides its ideas behind innocence, magic and fun. When masked by features that are appealing to a younger audience, it is difficult to realize these ideas without taking a closer look. One of the main controversies discussed in this video is the way that Disney portrays women in its productions. The way that females are shown is similar across all Disney films, even animal characters. They are shown having a seductive or entrancing way about them, large eyelashes, attractive bodies and large breasts. Doctor Carolyn Newberger, a psychology professor at Harvard University, pointed out the scene from Aladdin when Jasmine seduces Jafar to distract him while Aladdin tries to rescue her. This scene suggests to viewers that women can use their bodies to manipulate men in order to get what they want. Other ways women are portrayed in these films are vulnerable, weak, and always needing to be rescued by a male. Aside from gender, race is another issue that is often misrepresented in these productions. One example in the...
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...Mickey Mouse Many years ago who would have believed a small little rodent creature would be the icon of not just a multi-billion dollar company, but a symbol of innocence, youth, and happiness. The icon of course is no other than Mickey Mouse, a character that has hundreds of different meanings to many different people. Mickey today is not the same mouse that first appeared in 1928. Mickey was once a mischievous, adventurer, and over the years has transformed into a cheerful, calm, educational tool. Mickey Mouse originally created to be only an animation appeared on the big screen on November 18, 1928. Mickey Mouse’s first appearance was in “Plane Crazy” (1928). This short film was about Mickey becoming a pilot as an attempt to impress his future girlfriend Minnie Mouse. His goal throughout the cartoon was to get Minnie to kiss him while flying the plane. He tries so hard to get the kiss that he leaves Minnie to no other choice, but to parachute out of the plane to escape. Shortly after this cartoon was made another one titled “ Gallopin’ Gaucho” (1928), but it was not until “Steamboat Willie” (1928) that Mickey became very popular. During Walt Disney’s time other cartoonists were trying out innuendo and sexuality, or trying to steal ideas from one another, the Walt Disney creations became original, enjoyable and something for the entire family, regardless of age to enjoy together. Mickey Mouse has a very unique personality that represents his founder Walt Disney...
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...------------------------------------------------- Balabac Mouse Deer ------------------------------------------------- Submitted to: Mr. John Lemuel Noche Submitted by: Kim N. Fabia, BSBio3 August 13, 2015 Balabac Mouse Deer April 6, 2008 General Description The small, Balabac mouse deer or Chevrotain does not belong to Family Cervidae, the true deer family, but is a member of the Chevrotain family. Chevrotain is a French word meaning “little goat”. When meat is cooked with “ogsom”, a fruit used to remove the characteristic odor of the mouse deer, the natives found it delicious. Its consumption by the locals caused endangerment to the population. Physical Characteristics Balabac mouse deer are ruminants without horns with small canines oriented sideways. They have horizontally-oriented pupil adapted to night activity. The body is generally covered with brown fur, with blotches of dark-brown and white bands at the throat. The ears stand erect with white undersides. Habitat The above mouse deer was captured near the shore when dogs cornered it. It is however difficult to find during the day. It is known to occur in dense areas of primary as well as secondary forests. At night, they could be detected using a flashlight because their eyes shine brightly. They may also be encountered along roads bound by thick forests. A native recounted that the mouse deer lives in its burrows sometimes protected by pythons which co-inhabit with it. When disturbed, the mouse deer takes refuge in its burrow...
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...Apple Magic Mouse Ruben Santoyo University of Phoenix ENG/221 March 14, 2011 How can a new and more modern computer mouse can help people use their computer more effectively with out the hassle of having to connect it to your Mac computer every time you take out. Now days there are a lot more choices when it comes to newer technology but with this new approach to a wireless mouse this will help you to not only get started easier but without the time to spend in the case of connecting everything to your laptop. This is not new with technology but in the Mac world this will improve all the touch problems that have emerged with touch pad in the laptops. But with all the things that this will improve there is always a negative aspect like in any other products particularly in the instruction manuals. With all the new things and more efficient aspects of this product there is always something that they never take a closed look at and that is the manual. If they don’t take a look at that this will make the product less desirable from the consumer when they buy it. But in some things there are always good and bad things to critique and in this case this mouse is a pretty good mouse in all. This new apple mouse it has the advantage that when you are not using it this will automatically turn itself off this will make the battery last longer. When it comes to size it is really small and will fit anywhere you want without taking too much space...
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...Strapped down watching Mickey Mouse club house, with frosted animal cookies taunting me on top of 1990’s T.V in a lady's basement. I was strapped in a carseat being baby sat by our neighborhood babysitter, watching Mickey Mouse with my stuffed soccer ball with a goth bedroom looming in the darkness in the other side of the basement. I wasn’t alone either all the neighborhood kids are there. Then I’m starting to get bored so I chuck my soccer ball across the room vividly regretting what I just did, because the fact I was in a carseat I could not walk at all. So I sat there and thought and finally I was going to try and walk with the carseat on my back, so I was trying my hardest to get up then I did, now the hard part was walking. I walked...
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...Hanging of the Mouse “Hanging of the Mouse” is one of the most touching stories I have ever read. It talks about how in the old days, to teach moral lessons, they hung the prisoner(s). People would watch them publicly, and the people would enjoy them. The people saw it as a source of entertainment. They believed that by watching them, it would teach people that if you do something wrong you would be punished. Something more like a moral lesson. Bishop would not agree to this. I believe that she does not believe in public executions. Just seeing the fake mouse hanging over the chair made her feel unpleasant. Just imagining the little feet curling up when the mouse finally passed, just got to her. Actually witnessing an execution, I believe, would make her not feel like it was a moral lesson learned. It would only make her feel uncomfortable inside. “Who hangs one corrects a thousand.” I believe Bishop would not agree with this either. Again I think it makes her feel very uneasy. Also I think she believes in a fair fight. Whoever did wrong should be able to maybe get out on parole or good behavior. Sometimes when you make mistakes it may not be on purpose. Some people act on impulse. Another reason that she may not believe is because even though people have watched these executions, they still commit crimes. So this just proves that even though you are trying to show a “moral lesson” people do not take it that way. It is just like they used this source of punishment as...
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...country mouse and a city mouse. The country mouse lives in a simple house and eats simple food. By comparison, the city mouse lives in a beautiful house and eats well every day. The country mouse wants the life of the city mouse. However, after he goes with the city mouse to taste experience (CH) city life, he does not like it any more. The country mouse prefers to be poor and happy rather than be rich and afraid. (82) Commentary: In my opinion, the story is quite interesting and inspiring in general because it teaches us a life lesson. To me (=I think), the ending seems the most interesting part of the story. This is because in the end the country mouse suddenly realizes/learns that he does not want a rich and dangerous life, but a simple and happy one. I like this part because it also inspires us/leads us to think deeply about our own lives. We might think that a good life means a rich life. However, (=But) according to the story, a good life should be simple and happy. It gives us a different idea about life, which I also agree with itthis . Therefore, (=so) I think this story is interesting and inspiring. (122) Deconstruction: yes, this forms a very good base for your teaching script – well done! VPs: GREEN: Mental*8; > BLUE: Relational*6; > PINK: Material*3 Mental process and relational process are significant in this commentary. A few material verbs occur. Reason: Mental verbs construe both the change of mind of the country mouse 2 (which...
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