Transistors John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, were all scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. They were researching the behavior of germanium crystals as semi-conductors in an attempt to replace vacuum tubes as mechanical relays in telecommunications. The vacuum tube, used to amplify music and voice, made long-distance calling practical, but the tubes consumed power, created heat and burned out rapidly, requiring high maintenance. This smaller
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Because of this, C is very commonly used to program operating systems such as Unix, Windows, the MacOS, and Linux.” - http://cs.brown.edu/~adf/programming_languages.html In the 1980s the popular programming language was C++. C++ was developed at Bell Laboratories. “C++ is a general purpose multi-paradigm spanning compiled language that has both high-level and low-level languages’ features. It was started as an enhancement to the C programming language, Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979.” - http://www.freerepublic
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Virginia Woolf was an English writer in the twentieth century who was born in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Woolf’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen, was born in India then later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. Her mother was also a nurse and had written a book about the profession. At the age of 13, her mother died. Woolf had her first nervous breakdown soon after her mother died. She called it “the greatest disaster that could ever happen.” Her mother’s death nearly killed
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Sylvia Plath had a life full of ups and downs. Her lifelong battle with multiple different illnesses is what made her career but also ended it at the same time. Using her research along with the research of other Dr. Jamison was able to make a “literary, biographical, and scientific argument for a compelling association, not to say actual overlap, between two temperaments--the artistic and the manic-depressive—and their relationship to the rhythms and cycles, or temperament, of the natural world
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Black feminism is a school of feminism that was founded on the belief that factors such as racism, sexism, and class discrimination are all interwoven factors that lead to oppression, as these factors cannot be separated, but must be tackled together as a unit. Black feminists strive to liberate black women from oppression as they believe this will lead to freedom for all, as factors such as racism, sexism and class oppression will then be eliminated, freeing all people from the boundaries and constraints
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telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the breakup of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), also known as the "Baby Bells." The ILEC is the former Bell System or Independent Telephone Company responsible for providing local telephone exchange services in a specified geographic area. GTE was the second largest ILEC after the Bells, but it has since been absorbed into Verizon, a RBOC. ILECs compete with competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC)
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BIBLE HIGHLIGHTING LEGEND BLUE | Promise to God | RED | Bad things (Punishment, complaint, etc.) | GREEN | Facts | PURPLE | Something is special to me | ORANGE | Command; something we should do | PINK | A word of praise to God | YELLOW | Something I REALLY like; want it to stand out | *I don't necessarily mark everything, but here is a passage to give you an example: ------------------------------------------------- 2 Peter 3:8-18 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends:
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turned on because it could possible injure someone) • A piece of liver • Red bell pepper • Red paint • A meat tenderizer(to represent an axe) • Black North Face jackets (all the devils needed to wear black) • Black boots • Ipod(to record the production) • Private property sign • An orange tube that makes a howling or wind like sound(forgot the name) Most of these items I already had, but some of them like the bell pepper, paint, and liver I did not have so I bought it from a store. Some of
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TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.6 billion of annual revenue and 12 million customer connections including 6.7 million wireless subscribers, 3.8 million wire line network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers and 228,000 TELUS TV customers. According to the SWOT analysis of TELUS, TELUS started to diversify product and service. Therefore, customers who use mobile phone and home phone are primary target market. TV and Internet clients are secondary
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MODULE 6: YAK COMMUNICATIONS The telecommunications market is highly competitive and dominated in Canada by the major telecommunications players, Bell, Rogers, and Telus. In 1998 the telecommunications industry in Canada was deregulated by the CRTC, opening the door for smaller players to enter the market. In 2008 the Canadian government allowed new competitors to bid on new wireless licences which resulted in a flood of new competitors such as WIND Mobile, Mobilicity, Public Mobile, and Vidéotron
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