Orcas are highly intelligent; they often live in groups called pods. Each pod is made up of several females and their offspring the members of the pod communicate through underwater calls. A pod may work together to hunt. Despite their name‚ killer whales are actually dolphins; they are the largest kind of dolphin. They have not been known to attack people in the wild. Orcas are up to 30 feet long‚ they weigh up to 10 tons‚ they have shiny black backs‚ and they are white underneath. Orcas feed on
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nonstop have made all of us feel rushed. We have adopted the relentless pace of the very machines that were supposed to simplify our lives‚ with the result that‚ whether at work or play‚ people do not feel like their lives have changed for the better. —Adapted from Karen Finucan‚ “Life in the Fast Lane” Question: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better? My Thesis: Technology was supposed to make life easier; it was supposed to give us more leisure time for
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Eyes Opener in Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? On May 2012‚ The Atlantic distributed the article "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?" by Stephen Marche. In it‚ he investigates an intriguing level-headed discussion about online networking. His motivation in composing is to present an intriguing point about social networking‚ as he guarantees that Facebook‚ in particular‚ causing forlornness among clients. In reality‚ as we know it where online networking is vigorously common‚ Marche tries to convey to the
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Cyberspace” an explicit idea appears in my mind: will the internet make us have less friends in the real life? Currently‚ people are making friends more easily than before‚ they could use chatting software to meet new friends‚ and they also could find friends who have the same hobbies as themselves‚ such as playing some kinds of online games‚ but all these new relationship are established just based online. So many people believe that internet makes theirs life better and give them chances to make more
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Intelligent Embedded Systems Jasneet Singh Kandhari-CSE jkmbox-suscet@yahoo.co.in Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering & Technology Tangori‚ Mohali Abstract: Embedded Systems are a crucial technology for competitiveness. The vision of pervasive computing is that objects‚ buildings and environments may be endowed with software intelligence to improve human interactions both with the individual objects and with the system as a whole. Many intelligent embedded systems move rapidly within
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I can’t believe that my mom is seriously making us move. Ever since my dad passed she had been talking about moving to Connecticut. She said it would give us a fresh start and be able to get away from everything but I don’t want a fresh start I want to stay here in Raven Rock‚ California where I belong. One of the worst parts is my mom still needs our other car back in Connecticut‚ and I haven’t drove since it happened. The only way she could get her car here was for me to drive which she knew I
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Are modern inventions making us lazy? In more ways than not‚ I say yes to the above question. The motorcar was invented some while back. Since then we have enjoyed an ease of traveling unequalled in history. We have also become immeasurably lazier. We drive the car everywhere‚ to work‚ to play‚ for a hundred miles‚ for a hundred metres. My brother who has a pot-belly does not in walking at all. It is always the car even to the corner grocery shop a stone’s throw away. Many ‘modern’ people
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SMARTPHONES COULD BE MAKING US DUMBER Mobile phones nowadays have been taking over our society so much‚ that we can’t even live without it. Even children have a smart phone today‚ is it right at this age to have one? What will be the consequences on a kid that started so young using this gadget? There are lots of advantages and disadvantages of using mobile phones. Firstly‚ the main usage of phones is to call or to text someone‚ but with the upgrade of technology‚ phones have changed completely
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Jane Addams: An Emotionally Intelligent Leader Throughout history‚ there have been many great feminists and social activists. There are many women who have changed history and made their mark on the world. Few however‚ can be titled as “the greatest woman in the world” and still regarded today as a pioneer social woman in United States history (Times‚ n.d). Jane Addams‚ Born in 1860‚ knew at a young age that life was not all ice cream and trips to the toy store. As the daughter of a well-to-do
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The article “Is Facebook Making us Lonely?” is about how various authors in different fields have done research on social media to determine if it is Facebook that make us lonely or whether people that use it is lonely in general. Finsterbusch (2016‚ p. 14) say that being lonely may not mean what the actual definition of it suggests. One‚ people can be lonely by not having many friends to interact with to tell them personal things. Two‚ people can become lonely by just reading about other people
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