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Time Machine by H.G. Wells and the Use of Language

In five pages the ways in which language can foster illusion are considered within the context of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. ...

Science Fiction and Gender

In eight pages this paper examines how gender influences science fiction tastes in terms of male and female preferences with a dis...

Banking Sector and Technology's Impact

In eight pages the impact of technology on banking is examined in an overview of talking teller machines, biometrics, and issues i...

Machine Gun Technology and Warfare

speak in terms of military science. The systematic application of science to the development of weapons and to technology in gener...

Case Study on the Process of Making Decisions

In seven pages this student supplied case study discusses the decision making process a committee undergoes regarding choosing a s...

Special Order Machine Sales

Alternative 2: Convert to standard model. If Miami converts the completed machine to a standard model, it can sell the reworked m...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

The Causative Factors Relating to the Second World War

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

Technology and Price Waterhouse Coopers

this set-up is that the SAP system stays Online while employees make the copy of what they need, which is a major time-saver (Stor...

Evolution of Transportation from 1861 to 1939

In five pages this paper examines how transportation evolved during this time period from horse and wagons to gasoline powered mac...

Proving God's Existence with the Philosophies of Wittgenstein, Descartes, and Plato

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...

Late 19th Century and Impact of Political Machines

assessments, financiers, public banquets, delegate taxes, meeting fees and private contributions. One of the most questionable ta...

A History Of The Abacus

This paper addresses the historical significance and development of the abacus, an early counting machine and precursor to the cal...

Can Animals And Machines Be Persons

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies presented in the text by Justin Leiber regarding whether machines and animals c...

American Life As Influenced by the Immigration of Germans

In five pages this paper discusses how German immigration has had a profound impact on many parts of life in America including lag...

Business World, Computability, and Machine Languages

the work, or the game, or the information beyond the commands and the toolbars. He or she knows the limits of what the computer c...

Paperless Office and the Path Paved by Imaging

In ten pages eliminating paper in the workplace through imaging of scanned documents and fax machines is examined from a psycholog...

Overview of Machine Language and Modern Programming Language Generations

In twelve pages this paper examines how programming language has evolved from the 1st to 5th generation and the machine language i...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

Interaction Between Humans and Machines in Popular Films

longer inhabitable for the decent. The psychological perspective of Blade Runner addresses virtually every fear that humanity cou...

Psychology as a Science?

of the nature of the physical world and the laws that govern it. It concentrates on the universal aspects such as the structure of...

Measuring Man Through Machines and Michael Adas

and technological innovation" (Ross, 2006). Europe, after all, was the site of The Enlightenment, that extraordinary flowering of ...

Man and Technology: Three Views of Our Future

of sex and love. Harraway explores technology from a feminist perspective, from the perspective of how man and machine can blend ...

Turing's Theory

means "from the former" and means that we learn from the experiences we have had in the past. "In much of the modern Western tradi...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

Real Costs and Benefits Determination

over a five-year period. Table 2 demonstrates that the total annual savings at a discount factor of 10 percent is $1,137,210 rath...

Frigidaire and the Front-Loader Dilemma

little) influence on government decisions, its thinking here - waiting for the DOE to pass a law that would help its marketing eff...

Positioning the Frigidaire Front-Loader

the product space"; "Collecting information from a sample of customers about their perceptions of each product on the relevant att...

Frigidaire Case Study

their marketing efforts. In addition, two other attempts to introduce front loaders, one in the 1940s and the other in 1981, both ...