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    Lyceum of the Philippines University Batangas City College of International Tourism and Hospitality Management Narrative Report on Travel Agency Hemispheres Travel Corporation Ground Floor Unit 11 Paseo 3 Paseo de Sta Rosa‚ 4026 Santa Rosa‚ Laguna November 4‚ 2013 – December 18‚ 2014 In Partial fulfillment of the requirement for the course Tour10a For the degree in Bachelor of Science in International Hospitality Management Submitted By: Corina C. Maliksi Submitted To:

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    pool hall may be considered the first computer. It is known as the Abacus and is still in use today. Merchants used the Abacus to record their barter transactions. Its popularity began to fall when the use of paper and pencil spread particularly throughout Europe‚ its importance diminished. The next significant advance of computing started with a man named Blaise Pascal‚ nearly twelve centuries ensuing the invention of the Abacus. <br> <br>Pascal was an eighteen year-old son of a French tax collector

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    Leonardo da Pisa Leonardo da Pisa‚ whose original name was Leonardo Fibonacci‚ was an Italian mathematician during the medieval era. He was born in 1170 and died around 1240‚ Leonardo da Pisa also wrote Liber abaci in 1202 (also known as the “Book of Abacus”) which was the first Indian and Arabian mathematics book in Europe ("Leonardo Pisano‚" par. 1-2). There is not much that is known about Leonardo da Pisa’s life except that he was the son of a merchant. Leonardo traveled to several countries‚ but

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    represented on this abacus is 6‚302‚715‚408) Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years‚ mostly using one-to-one correspondence with fingers. The earliest counting device was probably a form of tally stick. Later record keeping aids throughout the Fertile Crescent included calculi (clay spheres‚ cones‚ etc.) which represented counts of items‚ probably livestock or grains‚ sealed in hollow unbaked clay containers.[1][2] The use of counting rods is one example. The abacus was early used

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    1967. _____‚ ‘Usefulness — The Vanishing Premise in Accounting Standard Setting’‚ Abacus‚ Vol. 15‚ No. 2‚ 1979. _____‚ ‘Accounting Education for the Twenty-first Century’‚ Abacus‚ Vol. 23‚ No. 2‚ 1987. _____‚ ‘Ends‚ Ways‚ Means and Conceptual Frameworks’‚ Abacus‚ Vol. 32‚ No. 2‚ 1996. _____‚ ‘The Poverty of Accounting Discourse’‚ Abacus‚ Vol. 35‚ No. 3‚ 1999. _____‚ R.J.‚ ‘Common Sense‚ Technology and Science’‚ Abacus‚ Vol. 36‚ No. 3‚ 2000. http://archive.org/details/newessentialsbo00chilgoog‚ 1895

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    The Development of Personal Computers The history of the computer goes back hundreds of years. From the abacus through the modern era the evolution of computers has involved many innovative individuals. It was out of this desire to innovate many fascinating tabulating machines developed. The modern computer‚ therefore‚ evolved from an amalgamation of the genius of many individuals over a long period of history. Many people shaped the world by making the efforts to develop technology.

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    changes in certain psychological and repeated basis. Examples that are quoted were the Tibetan Monks Mediation practice‚ driving a taxicab and repeated use of cultural tools such as “abacus”. This requires them to reach out to deeper portions of their brain storing more information‚ the repeated use and training in abacus will only strengthen the ability. These examples show the different patterns of brain activity. Plasticity is the term neuroscientists have coined to describe the brain’s biological

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    Contrast Essay How has education changed since the 1900s? It depends on how you look at this question. If you consider education meaning children having the opportunity to learn and plan for their future as education‚ then no‚ it has not changed much‚ but if you consider the changes in the styles of teaching for a child’s education‚ then yes‚ it has changed. For example‚ attending school was not mandatory. Now‚ all students must attend school. The two main contrasts between the early 1900s classroom

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    history makes it‚ "… one of the most interesting and important machines ever invented" (Anonymous). Computers are simply complex counting devices.   The abacus was an ancient computer which used beads to solve Is this essay helpful? Join OPPapers to read more and access more than 470‚000 just like it! get better grades math problems.   The abacus was strictly manual and the desire for an automated machine grew.   One of the earliest automated machines was invented in the nineteenth century when French

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    use of a point‚ or decimal. This greatly aided calculations dealing with partial numbers. This practice became largely accepted in Great Britain. Aside the invention of logarithms and the decimal point‚ Napier had also created a certain style of abacus‚ known as "Napier’s Bones"‚ which was used for calculation of products and

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