new wonder drug‚ morphine‚ (also an opium derivative)‚ was eliminating severe pain associated with medical operations or traumatic injuries. It left the user in a completely numb euphoric dream state‚ and was named after the Greek god of dreams‚ Morpheus‚ by F.W.A. Serturner‚ a German pharmacist. By the mid 1850’s morphine was available in the U.S.‚ and was pretty popular with the medical profession. The benefits of using the drug to treat severe pain were considered almost miraculous by the doctors
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Fight Club‚ Saw 2‚ Half Baked‚ and Snatch. The Matrix is a movie about a computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life. But to his intelligence he thinks is in the year 1999‚ that is until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality‚ it is 200 years later‚ and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of
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Materialistic Delusion: How artificial social norms confine people to live past their means to achieve the illusion of social status. MORPHEUS: “It’s that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling that something was wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is but it’s there‚ like a splinter in your mind‚ driving you mad‚ driving you to me. But what is it? [Consumerism] is everywhere‚ it’s all around us‚ here even in this room. You can see it out your window‚ or on your television.
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The Rise and fall of Napster It started as an accident. Shawn Fanning was just experimenting and thinking of an easier to go through a search engine for music. What was a simple idea turned out to be a phenomenon in the Internet world. The creation of Napster led to many problems and brought about new issues that involved the entertainment industry and piracy laws. Napster is a software where a compilation of all of its user’s files are held in a central unit and each user is able to use its
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In 1949‚ audiences met Willy Loman in a play entitled Death of a Salesman. In 1984. readers met Case and Molly in a novel entitled Neuromancer. Finally‚ in 1999‚ viewers met Neo in a film entitled The Matrix. In a span of 5 decades‚ these three works drew the attention of millions and were admired for their unique approaches on bringing groundbreaking ideas of reality into view. By thorough examination of these three works‚ a common theme is discovered despite obvious differences of setting and medium
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Case Study 1B ¡V The questions The online downloading of music from the Internet has ripped apart the old business model of record companies controlling the production of albums which are purchased through record shops. The last few turbulent years have seen many high profile law suits; some of which went in favour of the music industry and some of which went against. 1. Apply the value chain and competitive forces models to the music recording industry. 2. What role did the Internet play in changing
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The Active Molecule in Opium • Opium contains 24 different alkaloids (生物碱). Morphine (吗啡) is the most abundant one‚ up to 10% of the crude opium extract. • Pure morphine was first isolated from the poppy latex in 1803‚ and was named after Morpheus‚ the Roman god of dreams (梦神?). The darker lines of the wedge‐shaped bonds point out of the plane of the paper. • Morphine is a narcotic (麻醉药/镇静剂)‚ a molecule that numbs the senses (thus removing pain) and induces sleep. Addiction of Morphine
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Okrama begins to pour out the respect he holds for the country and its “great” leader‚ Grump. Knowing Okrama means well‚ we were let free into the Gold House. It was Billono and I who were now depended on to find where the monster was in the arms of Morpheus. Over to the room keeper we went‚ scavengering for information. “ I am Billono‚ the god of intelligence. Only one question you can ask‚ I will provide an answer and recieve the key to Grumps room. Fair?” Billono firmly spoke to the keeper‚ in hopes
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Prie</center> <br> <br>Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere‚ but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow‚ 1996) <br> <br>You ’ve been living in a dream world Neo. This‚ is the world‚ as it exists today: Welcome to the desert of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) <br> <br>From Plato ’s "Charmides" to the Wachowski brothers ’ "The Matrix" (1999)‚ there is a tradition of writing in Western literature‚ which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia‚ or both. I
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Khelil Beidoun 11 February 2013 Cochin Sec. 15922 English 101 THE DEPARTURE The Hero With A Thousand Faces‚ written by Joseph Campbell describes the process or outline of “The Heroes Journey.” In other words‚ the sequence of events a hero/heroine must experience before completion of their adventure. The call to adventure‚ refusal of the call‚ supernatural aid‚ crossing of the first threshold‚ and the belly of the wale; describe the beginning of a hero’s adventure known as “The Departure
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