Otis Frank Boykin was born in 1920 in Dallas‚ Texas. His mother Sarah was a homemaker and his father Walter was a carpenter‚ who later became a minister. Otis Boykin attended Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas‚ where he was the valedictorian‚ graduating in 1938. He attended Fisk University on a scholarship and worked as a laboratory assistant at the university’s nearby aerospace laboratory. He then moved to Chicago‚ where he studied at Illinois Institute of Technology but dropped out after
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INTRODUCTION A network isn’t just a bunch of computers with wires running between them. Properly implemented‚ a network is a system that provides its users with unique capabilities‚ above and beyond what the individual machines and their software applications can provide. As technology rampantly growing‚ it has been a part of our daily lives and yet many are still left behind. Information technology must be applied to every systems of education to maintain a high standard competency thus it will
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Market Study – Elevator Industry Contents: Page No. 1. Introduction 3 2. Background – History of Elevators 4 3. Market Scenario 6 4. Elevator Industry as an Oligopoly 8 5. News from the Industry 10 1. Introduction Elevators have become an integral part of any building facility over the past few decades. In our everyday life‚ we depend on them for vertical transportation in offices‚ schools‚ public buildings‚ airports‚ sub-stations
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Response to Literature: “The Elevator” Par·a·noi·a- noun. A mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts. In the short story “The Elevator‚” William Sleator uses fear and paranoia to drive his main character to a compelling resolution. The main character’s (Martin’s) fear of elevators created an imaginary obese monstrous woman who intimidates him every time he rides the tiny exhausted elevator. In the beginning of “The Elevator‚” the setting is set
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A UML Documentation for an Elevator System Distributed Embedded Systems‚ Fall 2000 PhD Project Report Lu Luo December 2000 A UML documentation for an elevator system Lu Luo A UML documentation for an elevator system 1. Introduction This paper is a PhD project report for the course Distributed Embedded Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout this course‚ a distributed real-time system – an elevator control system– is specified‚ designed‚ built‚ and simulated. Object Oriented
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Dear Mr. Rodriguez‚ Five weeks ago‚ on February 14th‚ I placed an order for double glazed‚ made to order‚ oak French doors‚ for my client over the telephone. When they arrived five weeks later I was surprised to find out that the doors had been cut to small. Instead of measuring 11 feet 8 inches wide as I specified‚ the doors measured 11 feet 4 inches wide. My client wanted the doors installed immediately‚ so I had to pay my carpenter $376 to rebuild the opening. Seeing as I am a long standing
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Hey Gaby‚ I just started my class online with the University of Phoenix‚ let me tell you a little bit about it because I know you were interested in going back to school as well. Online courses are also known as distance learning‚ which means that you are earning your education via online. Instead of being in a traditional classroom setting and having that face to face contact with your teacher‚ distance learning is student centered instructional format that allows you to take courses without having
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The Elevator Believe it or not‚ many people have a phobia for elevators. In the short story “The Elevator” Martin has a huge fear of elevators especially the one they use in his apartment. In the story his phobia got worse and worse because of the mysterious obese woman who would come with him every time. She would mostly increase in fear by giving him a strange stare. Martin has a great big phobia for elevators. “He was always uncomfortable in elevators‚ afraid that they would fall”(31). this shows
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They did not alert their employees. Instead‚ the workers were trapped in the building with only the elevator to take women to safety. The elevator could only make 3 trips before being unusable. Some women tried escaping on the fire escape ladder- which soon buckled from the weight of the workers and heat from the fire. Women fell 9 stories to their deaths. Some women tried
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The day it all changed was the day when I met Otis Shemloh‚ the Otter of deduction. I bumped into him at a city block‚ and after the collision‚ he quickly said “Follow me. We are heading to a scene”‚ and without question‚ I followed. I have no logical reason as to why I followed Otis. He was a stranger to me. Maybe it was his enigmatic persona? We walked to his car. Once we settled in his car‚ I immediately started asking “Where are we going‚ and why did you tell me to come?” He curtly responded
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