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    Dell Inc Dell ’s name rings from the desktop to the data center. The world ’s #3 supplier of PCs (behind #1 HP and China-based #2 Lenovo)‚ the company provides a broad range of technology products for the consumer‚ education‚ enterprise‚ and government sectors. In addition to its line of desktop and notebook PCs‚ Dell offers network servers‚ data storage systems‚ printers‚ Ethernet switches‚ and peripherals‚ such as displays and projectors. It also markets third-party software and hardware. The

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    Take Home Test Chapter 30 1. Describe the dispute between the United States and Russia at the end of World War II. How and why did it escalade into a cold war? Roosevelt had always tried for the most peaceful agreements with Stalin and the Soviet Union. When he died and Truman succeeded him‚ Truman immediately demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe. Stalin refused. “A freely elected government in any of these Eastern European countries would be anti-Soviet‚” he said‚ “and that we

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    Main Components of Culture Menuka Munasinghe World Religion Mr. T. Perera 1.1.1 ­Introduction Anthropologists and other social scientists offer many different definitions of "culture." Most people understand that culture has something to do with the customs and beliefs of a group of people. It is common to explain a holiday tradition‚ a spiritual belief or a child-rearing practice as part of someone ’s cultural background. An individual ’s culture strongly

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    Terrorism 1 Running Head: TERRORISM: DOMESTIC‚ INTERNATIONAL‚ AND CYBER Terrorism: Domestic‚ International‚ and Cyber Terrorism 2 Abstract Terrorism is one of the most remembered and feared occurrences in the world. Terrorism changes the lives and hearts of everyone that it affects. This paper explores the different types of terrorism‚ who commits the acts‚ how it affects the surrounding world‚ and what can be done to prevent it. This review of the different types of terrorism focuses primarily

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    Literature in the 1960’s Literature. Works of amazing writing with lasting caliber and quality. Throughout history‚ literature of all kinds has had a big impact on what happened in history.Novels‚ influence the way we think about the world. Newspapers‚ inform us on what’s going on all around us. Ads‚ essays‚ articles‚ and more are a big part of our lives‚ without us ever even noticing them. They show up in places we look for entertainment‚ or become the entertainment itself. They notify us on what

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    Hippies and the Revolution of a Culture "Tune In‚ Turn On‚ and Drop Out" was the motto of the hippie movement‚ a significant countercultural phenomenon in the 1960s and early 1970s that grew partially out of young America’s growing disillusionment with U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Hippies were mainly white teenagers and young adults who shared a hatred and distrust towards traditional middle-class values and authority. They rejected political and social orthodoxies but embraced aspects of

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    2. The historical and cultural background The following chapter provides theoretical background concerning the Post War Britain. It gives us some information about the political and cultural state of the country at that time. I started with a brief explanation of its international relations and economic situation. Then I described the effects of Americanisation and consumerism on British culture. Afterwards‚ I focused on the sixties‚ with education‚ sexual revolution and young generation being

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    upon time frame‚[2] the term generally includes people born from the early 1960s through the early 1980s‚ usually no later than 1981 or 1982.[3][4][5][6][7] The term had also been used in different times and places for various subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.[8] Generation X: the letter "X" originally suggested the ambiguous‚ misunderstood‚ disheartened generation. The ambiguity has since been clearly defined‚ so its alternative name Thirteenth Generation (we are the thirteenth generation

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    Unit 2 Individual Project One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest‚ by Ken Kesey‚ was published in 1962. The story is set in a mental hospital and is narrated by the character Chief Bromden. Chief Bromden tells the story of a fellow inmate‚ Randle McMurphy‚ who is in the hospital to avoid serving the rest of his prison sentence on the claim of insanity. Randle McMurphy is rebellious and stands up to the cruel Nurse Ratchet all throughout the novel. The novel discusses the various treatments given to patients

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    popular culture. The strip mainly follows the life and times of a group of lesbian friends in an unspecified location in the USA. But as time passes‚ some straight and male characters are also introduced. The strip focuses on a wonderful group of counterculture friends‚ most of whom are lesbians. And this book gathers a rich collection of the strips spanning from 1987 through 2008. This book also contains an introduction‚ also in comic form‚ about how Alison Bechdel came to spend her career writing this

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