The Adding Machine; Elmer L. Rice SUMMARY: The protagonist of this play is named Mr. Zero‚ and other characters are numbered too‚ which gives an idea of the sort of story this is. Elmer Rice was criticizing the modern society and the way its institutions (mindless workplaces‚ loveless marriages…) turn people into faceless automatons. The play is developed into eight scenes‚ which I am going to summarize straightaway. In the first scene‚ we meet Mr. Zero and his wife Mrs. Zero. The whole scene consists
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Political Machines Political Machines are an organized group that controls a political party in a city. They would offer services to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support. Political Machines arose when Europeans‚ farmers‚ and African Americans from the south moved to cities. Urbanization led to new challenges for city government‚ there were demands in city services such as a fire department‚ police‚ sewage‚ transportation and water. Political Machines had a negative
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Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction‚ philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris‚ which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976‚ Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology‚ the nature of intelligence‚ the impossibility
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Simple machines are extremely important to everyday life. They make stuff that is normally difficult a piece of cake. There are several types of simple machines. The first simple machine is a lever. A lever consists of a fulcrum‚ load‚ and effort force. A fulcrum is the support. The placing of the fulcrum changes the amount of force and distance it will take in order to move an object. The load is the applied force. The effort force is the force applied on the opposite side of the load
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Title: Trurl’s Machine Author: Stanislaw Lem As a boy Stanislaw Lem showed an early interest in science as well as in the imaginary worlds of fantasy and science fiction. The young Lem’s interest in tinkering mechanical devices of all sorts was put to use by secretly damaging the German vehicles during the Nazi occupation. Later on‚ he became a full time writer establishing himself as leading science fiction writer in Eastern Europe. This writer from Lvov Poland (now Ukraine) worked on serious
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After the Civil War the domination of the "political machine" over the affairs of government in the urban cities of the north became an undisputed fact of local politics. Their power flowed from creating a form of government that sought to perpetuate the position of its leaders by engaging in a bartering process with voters. The political machine existed during a time of mass migration to our urban centers from both immigrants and those in search of work. It played upon the ethnic composition of
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Stanislaw Lem’s “Trurl’s Machine” is the story an inventor who makes an eight-story thinking machine with a major flaw. The story is an attempt to portray the censorship of the people by a communist regime. Lem does this through the use of character‚ plot and C. The characters in “Trurl’s Machine” have very different personalities. First‚ we meet Trurl‚ the constructor. He is a scientist and an inventor‚ but he has an artistic side. This he shows by giving the machine face. He has a quick temper
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In The Machine Stops‚ E.M. Forster projects life years from now where people live underground with extreme technological advances. Also‚ people live separated in little rooms where they find a variety of buttons they can press in order to perform any task they desire. They do not communicate with people face to face as often as we do now. Without a doubt‚ their society is very different from ours. All of the inhabitants are used to living along with the Machine and it is hard for them to imagine
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was a no show. It is said that the patrons became restless and from this karaoke was born. In the same decade Daisuke Inoue invented the first coin operated karaoke machine. He made a business out of it and started renting his karaoke machines out to restaurants and bars. It is from this very first machine that the modern karaoke machine was developed (Wu). Today karaoke can be found as a way to entertain people everywhere from a local bar down the street‚ to weddings‚ birthday parties‚ and even
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ELECTRICAL MACHINE ON MOTOR | Abstract Electrical machine that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy‚ converts electrical energy to mechanical energy‚ or changes alternating current from one voltage level to a different voltage.There are several non traditional machines such as stepper motors‚ switched reluctance motors‚ permanent magnet dc machines‚ resolvers‚ linear induction machines etc. These machines are finding
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