...In Aldous Huxley’s “Time and the Machine” the author is unenthusiastic with the use of the present generation’s use of time management as opposed to previous generations. In the past, people were more involved with nature, they enjoyed taking walks and kids ran and played outside more. Nowadays more children would prefer to remain in doors and play video games or surf the internet instead of a game of “jump rope.” Nature is relevant in this work due to the author’s frustration with time being spent elsewhere instead of with nature. Place is referred to how time is different between generations of the past and generations of the future. “Eco-Defense” by Edward Abbey was a very interesting periodical. Abbey stated that it is essential for people to care for and defend their wilderness as if it were their child because it is their home. He made reference to the government valuing more for their pockets/own personal gain and big business rather than the value of land and the people. His work was very interesting to me because God created Man from the dusts of the ground, so the wilderness is our “home.” Nature is represented by the wilderness and place is given presence by the difference of what we consider to be home. James, M. & Merickel, A. (2010). Reading Literature and Writing Argument (4th ed.). Prentice Hall. Mallory I really enjoyed reading Eco-Defense. Abbey’s call for people to defend their American wilderness was insightful and interesting, as he claims that...
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...The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was born an English writer in Bromley, Kent, England in 1866. After he attended school his early years he was educated at Midhurst Grammar School and soon after he attended the School of Science in London. Once there he studied biology, which could be one reason why he started to write science fiction novels such as, “The Time Machine.” Around the time he wrote this work, there was a huge shift of technological breakthroughs that would have influenced his writing also. At that time, from his schooling at the School of Science in London, he would have been exposed to the works of Jules Verne, (20,000 Leagues under the sea), T. H. Huxley’s, (Theory of Biogenesis), and Charles Darwin’s, (The Descendant of Man) [Novel Guide]. These works would account for the large amount of description that the time traveler uses throughout the book. With H. G. Wells’ novella, “The Time Machine,” this book has been a huge influence over the science fiction society of the recent century. This book was a large stepping-stone for thousands of stories and films. The mood of this book is a serious one, but it is not all dark and gloomy, the Time Traveler often makes many jokes in order to lighten the setting of his situation and for his readers enjoyment. He offers realistic details of what is happening to entice the readers to get more into the story. In the novel the main character is nameless, and often powerless, which leads me to believe that...
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...Brave new world & The Time Machine Comparative Essay Society is defined as “the aggregate of people living together in an ordered community” (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/society). Every nation on this planet is comprised of many societies which all differ in their own ways. As time passes, society itself changes. The morals or beliefs that a society once stood by overtime, radically change to form a newer, revolutionized set of ideas. Fields like science and technology reach their most advanced states. Members of a society can also change. In most cases, members develop according to the new rules or ideals that are of the norm. Some changes are for the betterment of society while others prove to have more negative impacts. These are all changes one can expect when time travelling. Although, one cannot prepare themselves for the societies I have recently seen. Throughout my time travelling I have never come across two societies so strange. Both societies were of terrifying living conditions. One can easily draw about similarities to categorize them as dystopias however; the individual societies differ from each other in many ways. The two dystopian societies differ greatly in aspects of individualism, gender relations, and social hierarchy. The two societies hold opposing views on individualism. The first society was known as The World State. This society was one that gave technology a high, almost religious-like importance. The ruling class had all of...
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...Single-Machine Scheduling with Deteriorating Processing Times and Release Dates ∗ In this paper, we consider a single-machine scheduling problem where jobs have release dates and deteriorating processing times. Formally, a set of n jobs N = {1, 2, . . . , n} is to be processed on a single machine without preemption. Let N = {1 , 2 , . . . , n } be the job set obtained from N by defining job i using the i−th largest elements in {b1 , b2 , . . . , bn } and the i−th smallest element in {r1 , r2 , . . . , rn }. Lemma 1 The optimal total completion time of the derived set N is no greater than that of job set N . Proof: Let S ∗ be an optimal schedule for 1/pi = a + bi (si − ri )/ Ci . Our proof consists of two phases. In phase one, we derive from S ∗ a schedule in which the jobs are sequenced in non-increasing order of penalty rates. Based upon this derived schedule, phase two deduces another schedule where the jobs are arranged in non-decreasing order of release dates. The derived schedule has a total completion time no greater than schedule S ∗ . Consider two consecutive jobs i and j such that i is the immediate predecessor job j and bi < bj . Denote the starting time of job i by t0 . Then, we have Ci = t0 + (a + bi (t0 − ri )), and Cj = t0 + (a + bi (t0 − ri )) + (a + bj (t0 + a + bi (t0 − ri )) − rj ). After the interchange of bi and bj without altering any other parameters, we have the following two completion times: Ci = t0 + (a + bj (t0 − ri )) , and Cj = t0 + (a + bj (t0 −...
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...Brave New World and The Time Machine Critically explore the extent to which the personal themes in Well’s THE TIME MACHINE (1895) and Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932) responded to the prevailing ideologies of social class that were present in England at their time of writing Keep in mind Wells wrote/rewrote The Time Machine, on and off, for around 12 years before it saw publication. Brave New World was apparently written in 1931 (and so the sharp change in ideas caused by the Great Depression could have shaped the novel.) Society is defined as “the aggregate of people living together in an ordered community” (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/society). Every nation on this planet is comprised of many societies which all differ in their own ways. As time passes, society itself changes. The morals or beliefs that a society once stood by overtime, radically change to form a newer, revolutionized set of ideas. Fields like science and technology reach their most advanced states. Members of a society can also change. In most cases, members develop according to the new rules or ideals that are of the norm. Some changes are for the betterment of society while others prove to have more negative impacts. These are all changes one can expect when time travelling. Although, one cannot prepare themselves for the societies I have recently seen. Throughout my time travelling I have never come across two societies so strange. Both societies were of terrifying living conditions. One can...
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...fiction”. His first book, and one of the most famous, was The Time Machine, published in 1895. H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine became a classic taking his readers on a futuristic journey that inspired science fiction novelists and books for years to come. In The Time Machine, H.G. Wells uses social commentary to describe how life could evolve. Social commentary is a spoken or written act of rebellion toward an individual or group; commentary on social issues or society. The Time Machine uses allegory as a mechanism for...
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...“The Time Machine” is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. This novel has revolutionized the concept of using a vehicle to time travel. It was written in a time where industrialization was booming, new technological advances were being discovered, people constantly debated about capitalism and communism, and the theory of “Social Darwinism” was being viciously applied. To summarize the novel, a Victorian scientist is determined to prove his theory that there is a fourth dimension, which is time. And like the other three dimensions (space), you can move forward and backward. To demonstrate this, he builds a time machine and travels to the future, where he encounters the Eloi, and describes them as pale and weak physically...
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...up in a bush. It was the tenth time it had happened. Feeling overwhelmingly frustrated, Doggie attacked a butterknife, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Without warning, he realized that his beloved diary was missing! Immediately he called his best friend, Catman. Doggie had known Catman for (plus or minus) 200,000 years, the majority of which were sassy ones. Catman was unique. He was ingenious though sometimes a little... dimwitted. Doggie called him anyway, for the situation was urgent. Catman picked up to a very glad Doggie. Catman calmly assured him that most beavers cringe before mating, yet otters usually indiscriminately yawn *after* mating. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Doggie. Why was Catman trying to distract Doggie? Because he had snuck out from Doggie's with the diary only nine days prior. It was a exotic little diary... how could he resist? It didn't take long before Doggie got back to the subject at hand: his diary. Catman sighed. Relunctantly, Catman invited him over, assuring him they'd find the diary. Doggie grabbed his grandfather clock and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, Catman realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the diary and he had to do it aimlessly. He figured that if Doggie took the truck, he had take at least eight minutes before Doggie would get there. But if he took the time machine? Then Catman would be ridiculously...
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...The focus in Tuck Everlasting for wheel is the wheel of life, mentioned on page 61 and 62. “Life. Moving, growing, changing, never the same two minutes together.” Tuck states on page 61. He is explaining to Winnie how he and the rest of his family are stuck in time because of their immortality. Since they don’t age they cannot follow the cycle of life, they are trapped. The analogy life is to changing as wheel is to turning supports this motif...
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...majority of the states of America were governed by racists who did not believe that black and white people were anywhere near equal. Some states even held demonstrations to prevent the integration of the two races. For instance In Virginia, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. organized the Massive Resistance movement that included the closing of schools rather than desegregating them. And in 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block black students' entry to Little Rock Central High School. The fact was that, although technically it was now law of the U.S. to integrate the schools, the majority of the states simply refused. Another reason why the movement for black civil rights suffered was because at the time there was the...
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...upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time.” This quote from the short story A Sound of Thunder written by Ray Bradbury, shows how smalls thing can affect the world as we know it. The main character, Eckels, is so focused on his fear, he does not think about anything else, therefore starting a butterfly effect. He goes out hunting dinosaurs by time travel, while there, he is frightened of the dinosaur, and runs back to the time machine. In his journey back, he is careless and steps on a small butterfly, which creates a sequence of events that changes the world forever. Because Eckels is agitated, oblivious, and ignorant, he does change his life...
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...Slavery was devastating to the people because of the racial differences and people were treated like animals. In the article The Time Machine (1846): A slave auction in New Orleans and West African country struggles to come clean on its role in slavery the slaves are auctioned off, and sold off like animals. Slavery is a worldwide problem that affects individuals negatively regardless of how they become someone's property.There are numerous facts that can be compared and contrasted about slavery. Start here African Americans continue to be treated like animals, even through the many changes, it has become a desirable part of many countries and families history. In the “Time Machine,” the slaves had the look of cattle being sold” (NewsELA,...
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...Submission Date and Time 04-09-14, 6:00 PM Instructions 1. This is an individual assignment (not group). 2. You are required to develop VBA solutions to the following two problems and submit the solutions as a single xlsm file on Moodle. 3. Your solution must be as general as possible – clearly state all assumptions. The VBA code must be neat, and well documented (introducing appropriate comments) 4. Submit your assignment file on Moodle well on time to avoid system congestions or break-downs during the last minute Problem 1: Tourist spots in London As a tourist in London you want to visit 7 spots and minimize the time spent on visiting these 7 spots. The details of the 7 spots including their ID, time to see the attraction, and opening time are given to you (Range A3:D9 in given spreadsheet). Note that you want to visit each spot only once. Range B13:H19 in the given spreadsheet contains the travel time (in minutes) between any two spots, 9999 stands for infinity. For example: travel from 2 to 5 (Trafalgar Square to Tower Bridge) takes 22 minutes. You can assume that all other times (wait times for transport, queues for attractions etc, are already accounted for in the sightseeing time and travel time). The subroutine calc_schedule uses this information to calculate the route to be taken from the starting spot (given in G3) at the starting time given in G4. The subroutine...
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...1 INTRODUCTION People have been thinking about artificial intelligence since before the 1950's. It was in that time that Alan Turing proposed the “Turing Test”. Which measures how well a computer can think by having an interrogator ask it and a human questions. If the interrogator cannot determine which is human and which is machine then the machine has passed the Turing test.[1] Its been 15 Years since Deep Blue beat the world chess champion Gary Kasparov. And since then chess computers have continued to improve dominate. Most notably Deep Fritz the desktop chess program beating Vladimir Kramnik.[2] Just 2 years ago IBM developed “Watson” a computer that played Jeopardy and beat former winner Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.[3] With A.I. Improving the question of how intelligent machines should be used to interact with humans becomes more and more relevant. In what ways can A.I. be used to interact with people and what moral implications exist? 2 A.I. IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR Intelligent machines are already being used by many private companies. These are in the forms of autopilot, data mining, facial recognition, etc. Those are not form of A.I. that humans interact with. There some modern uses of A.I. Humans interact with such as automated systems and there will be more as technologies develop. Something else that will come along with the development of artificial intelligence is robots as domestic helpers. And both of these will bring with them many ethical questions to...
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...Introduction to FMS What is FMS? United States Government - A series of automatic machine tools or items of fabrication equipment linked together with an automatic material handling system, a common hierarchical digital preprogrammed computer control, and provision for random fabrication of parts or assemblies that fall within predetermined families. Kearney and Trecker - A FMS is a group of NC machine tools that can randomly process a group of parts, having automated material handling and central computer control to dynamically balance resource utilization so that the system can adapt automatically to changes in parts production, mixes, and levels of output. From System Point of View FMS is a randomly loaded automated system based on group technology manufacturing linking integrated computer control and a group of machines to automatically produce and handle parts for continuous serial processing. FMS combines microelectronics and mechanical engineering to bring the economics of scale to batch work. A central on-line computer controls the machine tools, other workstations, and the transfer of components and tooling. The computer also provides monitoring and information control. This combination of flexibility and overall control makes possible the production of a wide range of products in small numbers. From Process and Technology of View 1. A process under control to produce varieties of components or products within its stated capability and to a predetermined schedule. 2...
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