A Summary of “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn The family time that experts once believed the television would facilitate has backfired. It has been replaced with an everyday military regiment. Wake up‚ go to school‚ watch television‚ and go to bed. Parents have allowed the television to become the primary source for their children’s home life experience. Although this medium allows for peace within the home‚ the family dynamic suffers. Winn references the conflicts that family’s had
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Quiz. Evaluate the following problems. Show your solution and encircle your final answer. 1. In a 25-kVA‚ 2000/200 V‚ single phase transformer‚ the iron and full load copper losses are 350 W and 400 W respectively. Calculate the efficiency at unity power factor on a) full load‚ b) half full-load. 2. If P1 and P2 be the iron and copper losses of the transformer on full load‚ find the ratio of p1 and P2 such tat maximum efficiency occurs at 75% full load. 3. A 5-kVA‚ 2300/230 V‚ 50 Hz transformer
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A common theme that often appears during plays and novels‚ especially in older times‚ is a tragedy. Tragedies can be characterized into different types. Critic A.C. Bradley has his own definition of a tragedy: a Shakespearean tragedy. He describes it as essentially a tale of suffering and calamity‚ conducting the hero to his death. Other than the death of King Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s madness is the main conflict in the play‚ and it’s this distress that leads to the downfall of Hamlet himself. Hamlet meets
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"... without the shadow of a doubt‚ a Genuine Mexican Plug!" (Twain 392). Anybody who knows what a plug is knows that the horse is dilapidated and useless. However‚ Mark Twain from his own journal "The Genuine Mexican Plug" is fooled by the speaker’s energy. The story is about Twain being tricked into buying an old horse from an auctioneer and the troubles he had to endure with the horse. The reader can assume that Twain is gullible and determined to succeed. Because he bought the horse from the
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In the essay "Television: The Plug-In Drug" by Marie Winn‚ the author explains how television separates people from each other. Television‚ she claims‚ replaces the human contact by keeping the television viewers interested in the television programming instead of having a human companion. In the essay "Dearly Disconnected" by Ian Frazier‚ the author describes the cell phone as an object that will take out the payphones‚ increase human contact and decrease privacy. For example‚ televisions and
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Assignment 1 Due on 4pm on 10-Sep You should read the chapter Three! 1. Compare and contrast a company’s microenvironment with a company’s macroenvironment. 2. What are the differences among Baby Boomers‚ Generation X and Millennials? 3. Discuss current trends in the economic environment of which marketers must be aware and provide examples of companies’ responses to each trend. 4. Under the Hood: Marketing Technology If you thought that getting 50 miles
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AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock and are considered pioneers of heavy metal‚ they have always classified their music as "rock and roll" AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album‚ High Voltage‚ in 1975. Membership remained stable until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977. In 1979‚ the band recorded their highly
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songs by AC/DC and Led Zeppelin‚ we can predict that Stairway to heaven is literary better‚ simply because of that specific band called Led Zeppelin. That outstanding band had and still has several iconic performers such as Robert Plant‚ Jimmy Page and John Bonham. AC/DC is one of the classical and the best bands in that genre of music‚ we simply can’t argue about that because of at least Angus Young’s divine charismatic nature and professionalism. Despite the fact of the significance of AC/DC‚ it
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ACS 1803 – ASSIGNMENT 2 Due: February 11‚ 2013 To be done individually. 1) a) 8 A hospital ward wants to computerize its data about patients and medications / dosages prescribed for the patients. {In your mind‚ compare this situation with the in-class example about students‚ courses and grades: student is like patient‚ course is like medication and grade is dosage}. Then‚ use the following fields of hospital data that are put into one file (table): patient No.‚ patient name‚ patient address
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The first essay was written to focus on negative criticism on television‚ “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn‚ was about the influence of television on family life and parent-child relationships. Author of children’s books‚ Marie Winn sees only a negative outcome with television and family. I did not like her article because I think that it’s good to watch TV. You are informed about your surroundings‚ you learn a lot of things and it doesn’t change family relationships. Winn says that
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