... information society is to examine how many information services we now take for granted. For example stockbrokers now take for granted rapid electronic access to market quotations, and their clients depend on these market quotations. This is an area of human endeavour that was untouched by the computer just a decade ago. The most significant feature of the information society is ... and telecommunications society. As this information will make possible a wide range of economic and social activity, assurances of security and reliability and protection of privacy will become even more impo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... that the revolutionary generation encountered as a result of governing under the new concept of democracy. Ellis descends deeper into the subject by enlightening the readers to true insight of the important participants of the generation. Ellis' work tries to capture the moral beliefs of the revolutionary leaders along with their conflicting political viewpoints. Joseph Ellis presents the personalities of John Adams ... the other. Ellis' sources derive from a variety of both critical literature and primary documents. His uses of adequate and proper quotations from each other the foundin...

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... is the play from which the phrase originates. This quotation is used many times in the text with new connotations each time; hope, disgust, and command color John's proclamation. The quotations of Shakespeare throughout the duration of the book also emphasize the emotionless society of the World State. Huxley juxtaposes sonnets and hypnopaedic rhymes to demonstrate their infantile pleasures and trite ... want to share his knowledge with others. What he does not understand fully is that the people of the World State have been conditioned from birth to hate all things important in Shakesp...

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... raw material of tropes and symbols." That very sentence from Emerson's notebook, in fact, is a direct quotation from Thoreau's journal from 1853, copied amongst several pages that include other quotations from his reading of Thoreau and that reiterate a familiar theme in Emerson's writing: the relation between matter and mind. (16) Such evidence of mutual relation complicates the conventional wisdom ... at various natural history lectures in London in 1848, including lectures by Faraday on electricity and magnetism, Richard Owen on comparative anatomy, and Charles Lyell on geology, inaugu...

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... , always make a distinction between the "voice" of the narrator and that of a character. The Biblical narrative is authoritative and represents God's view. This is not always the case of quotations within the narrative. It is obvious when we read the quotation attributed to the serpent in Genesis 3:4 "You will not surely die" that it contradicts what God said in Genesis ... only when necessary to avoid incorrect English grammar. Additional words are added only to make the English sentence grammatically correct (usually appearing in italics). Word order (which may be important in the origi...

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... (Lipson 51). Expanding on, or creating a statement of opinion towards an idea is completely acceptable, when honest credibility is given. A direct quote must always have the correct statement inside the quotations otherwise, it is known as furnishing false statements that may qualify as academic dishonesty. Paraphrasing direct text into your own representation of the subject is where most inadvertent forms of ... author and book or article as enough information, as another may wish to see the publisher, the date the text was published, the pages referenced, etc. Therefore, it is always ...

• Word Count: 928
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... Agnes Martin deliberately moved from New York City to a small town in New Mexico more than twenty years ago, she has retained her almost legendary status as one of the important post-painterly abstract expressionists. "I don't believe in the promotion of art," she once declared. "I believe in its discovery." Half a continent away from the reputation-making center of the American art ... them extending out to the edges of the canvas or sheet of drawing paper, became the dominant motif. The critic Lawrence Alloway included several of Agnes Martin's compositions in the important exhibition...

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... . I believe that this strategy goes hand in hand with the fact that the narrator is trying to stress authenticity of the tale which could be further proved by the following quotations: "Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic." "The preceding Tale is given, almost ... (this feature is mainly emphasised in Irving's story). The people of this community are very religious and given to superstition and gossip. As the characteristics of the community are very important in relation to the life of the hero, Little Cypr...

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... . It should be stated that the language and terminology Cynthia Bourgeault uses to describe the subsequent topic is so abstruse that paraphrasing becomes a nigh impossibility, necessitating the usage of direct quotations. The previously noted concept of "becoming fully human" is a derivation of a line from Mary's Gnostic Gospel which says, "He has prepared us so that we might become ... diseases."31 "The Twelve" that are referenced to here are the universally-known twelve male disciples, from whom the women are distinctly separated. Bourgeault observes a slight but important difference b...

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... Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in order to share a challenging vision of humanity. Sonnet 14, from Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, highlights Browning's use of quotations in order to call attention to qualities in women that were strongly admired by men during the Victorian era. For example, '"I love her for her smile.. her look..her way ... the concept of purity both writers used colours such as white and silver, symbolic of purity, in order to convey their ideas. Both texts provide insight into issues that were important to these write...

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... able to be observed as they testified by the judge, jury, and defendant; and (4) a state's interest in the physical and psychological well-being of child abuse victims may be sufficiently important to outweigh, at least in some cases, a defendant's right to face his or her accusers in court." Justice Scalia was very much opposed with the opinion, referring to Coy vs ... . 8) Family Records, statement of facts concerning personal or family history. 9) Records of Documents Affecting an Interest in Property, a record that proves interest in a property. 10) Market Reports, Commercial Publica...

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... . Danielewski shows us how the postmodernist preoccupation with the idea of knowledge is not only a valid, but also a vital one. Finally, on a slightly more comic level, this excessive use of quotations, footnotes, appendices, etc. is known as pastiche. Although in "Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism- Frederic Jameson calls pastiche a "blank parody- that does not have the same intentions ... . Even so, I think this novel serves as a perfect illustration of what postmodernist literature aims to be. Not only is it non-traditional and non-modernist, but it also touches ...

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... are also unlikely to choose the military as a career; thus, a draft would do little to address problems with retention. Paul argues, "With today's high tech military, retention is the most important personel issue and it seems counterproductive to adopt any policy that will not address this impotant issue." (Paul 1) Paul also brings up a leigtiment point about the miliytary draft violating the ... , which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful attitude, to trample down and destroy the dearest rights of personal liberty? Sir, I almost disdain to go to quotations...

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... slaves on the exterior; on the inside however, they should be resentful of this fazade that they must uphold so that they do not betray themselves. These instructions play an important role in giving the narrator a foundation upon which he can generate his own set of beliefs and morals. The narrator does agree with his grandfather in that he must be ... 's beliefs. More specifically, he criticizes the optimistic social program of the black educator and writer Booker T. Washington. Although the narrator doesn't directly name Washington in the speech, his speech contained quotations from W...

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... culture acts the way they do. Yet viewing each of these two cultures within their own contexts, (Cultural Relativism), provides an explanation and a broader understanding of why a purse is so important to Meg's world, and why it would be irrelevant within the Ju/"hoansi's. Crack, Deadbeat's and Skank's: The "World" is Flipped Upside Down and Manipulated for a Bag. Meg: "Being a single ... , but the real challenge is having a baby addicted to crack, right Stewie?" Stewie: "What's that? Oh yes, yes I LOVE CRACK, I"m absolutely COO-COO for Crack." - Meg and Stewie The above quotations encap...

• Word Count: 1848
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... . The number of participants selected offered an adequate amount of data which to compare and contrast to process in order to develop a conclusion. Child protection workers advised that the most important factor to consider was the type of intervention used in non-mediation cases for mediation. Ethnicity, socio-economic status, or family size is for the most part irrelevant in the ... of experiences with child mediation, in either views, opinions, or self-experience. After such, a quote, or at times several quotes would follow in order to illustrate the findings. The direct quotations of...

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