What is the difference between WAV and MP3? WAV is sound digitally sampled at a fixed rate and word size‚ e.g. 44 kHz 16-bit. The higher the sampling rate‚ the better high notes like cymbals will be reproduced. The highest frequency that can be encoded is half the sampling frequency. MP3 is a lossy compression format that can get up to 20x compression compared to WAV. The bitrate can be variable or fixed. Unless a low quality compression is selected‚ most people cannot tell the difference
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The New Yorker Page 1 of 15 ANNALS OF MEDICINE LETTING GO What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? by Atul Gawande AUGUST 2‚ 2010 Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions-—-and bad at knowing when to focus‚ instead‚ on improving the days that terminal patients have left. • Ql ara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It O started with a cough and a pain in her back. Then
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persecuted. Here is a short exert from a fourteen year old girl: “October 27‚ 1937: The other girls and I were moved for the sixth time today. This time they moved us to a factory closer to Auschwitz. I’m beginning to fear that I’m at the end and I might die soon. At some points I wish they would go ahead and kill me so I wouldn’t have to endure this pain. Through all of this I still don’t understand why the Nazis hate us. We never did anything to them. I often wish someone would speak up on our behalf
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There is quite a few differences between the book and movie The Outsiders. The book is written by S.E. Hinton. We have been reading the outsiders and we were wondering which was better the movie or the book. The book and movie are both easy to relate to because Ponyboy is our age and most of the characters are young. I think the three characters are Sodapop‚Ponyboy‚and Two bit. In the book I pictured them as these tough looking kids but when I saw the movie they actually don’t look as tough as
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Phil McGraw once said “There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.” In both stories ‘Araby’ by James Joyce and‚ ‘A&P’ by John Updike‚ two very diverse young men feel they are in love with a girl whom they know very little about‚ and who do not notice them in a romantic way‚ then later in the stories they grasp insight that they do not love these girls. On thus journey of coming to realization that it is not love but infatuation‚ both young men face a series of struggles
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In the modern day world‚ trading between countries has now become a norm. Such some countries are more similar to each other and some a little more different than others. Such is the case with Brazil and Denmark. In terms of power structure‚ there is a massive gap between the two countries with difference being over 50 points. Denmark’s citizens also have a stronger sense of individualism than the people of Brazil. The Danes are also considered to be more feminine than the Brazilians. In the final
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are described by their mother’s point of view. While reading in the story you’ll notice the difference between the sister’s. When Dee and her mother visit their old home and Maggie in the country‚ a conflict starts up about two antique quilts that Dee would love to have. Mama tells Dee that the quilts were already going to go to Maggie because she promised her. The reaction that Dee has reveals differences in attitudes‚ thoughts‚ and values towards the heritage of the two sisters. Dee is different
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succeeded in abolishing the tyrannical rule of the kings and became a republic‚ yet she was more of an aristocratic republic. Her power rested more in a particular class than in the whole people (Morey‚ 1901). This difference in political power between the classes subtly boiled over into what would become a plebeian revolt. At first the conflict was based more on the fact that the Patricians were a wealthier class‚ and the Plebeians seeked an equal distribution of wealth (Morey‚ 1901). Due to the fact
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Mayor Prentiss‚ overthrows the colony government to create his own version of Eden involving religious persecution of women‚ native aliens‚ and anyone who disagreed with his preachings. He brainwashed the colony into "burning any kind of knowledge"‚"killing all women"‚ and "using the Noise as control over others"‚ because the "Mayor knows enough to use craziness to achieve his ends". Like this quote says‚ "if he could make every single boy in Prentisstown a man by his own meaning‚ then he’s God‚ aint
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of speech. This opens a world of new ideas and concepts that drives Athens into a much more intellectual and strong polis. 1. Since all citizens were granted free speech‚ citizens who weren’t in the Assembly were able to suggest to the Assembly what they should change. In other forms of government‚ it was impossible to even suggest anything to the government if you weren’t associated with any other the political leaders. This citizens who weren’t in office‚ to still make a big impact in their
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