... database and find appropriate questions. As the database grew in size and magnitude it had the capacity to contain around 15,000 questions and their answers. This sharply brought down the accuracy of the keyword search system and the cycle time between receiving a query and answering them (which is ... units. Desired Solution The objective of the new expert system developed by Kalki was to cut down the time it took to locate questions and answers in the database once a query was received by the Qsupport support team. The problem with a simple keyword search was that too many matches .....

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... someone that can do those things. It gives people hope that maybe someday they will be able to do all of those cool things." The only answers that they all knew were the ones that they could guess on and that they were interested in. The two friends I work with that are ... currently enrolled in college knew a few more answers then the high school students, but not really. One knew the myth of Oedipus, Both knew who Narcissus was and neither knew "What myth explains the ... natural phenomenon we call an echo?" question. They both had answers for the question "Can you name any books, fil...

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... . We are continuously bouncing around ideas and asking questions in our workplace, at school and even at home. Simply put, we are always seeking answers. We have to know that the right question to obtain the right answer. There are three major points to be addressed when trying to ask ... is the status? These questions are asked essentially in a one-on-one meeting with my coworker. If answers do not meet our satisfaction, we will relentlessly keep trying to find the answers and acting decisively to complete our job. It is better for us to constantly put our best questions forward ... w...

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... in 1954. The war dividing North and South Vietnam was over political conflict and clash of cultures. This poems format is six questions followed by six answers. Speaker One asks the questions, while Speaker Two answers them. The relationship between Speaker One and Speaker Two is at first difficult to understand. They create a conflict by discussing a subject Speaker One, the journalist, is ... . He was there. The journalist seems to be the same age or maybe younger than Speaker Two. However, Speaker Two, seems reverent by the casual asking of the questions. He answers the questions with...

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... universe exist, why is there something rather than nothing, and is there some plan for the universe? Concerns relevant to these questions are religion and God. Answers to cosmological questions that a philosopher would find satisfying have to do with a supreme being or a concept of God. A dismissive response could be offered here ... that deal with the individual. God and personal preference are relevant concerns here. A person's faith in God and his own happiness will be satisfying answers to the types of questions. Tolstoy's essay, "My Confession," deals with his search for the meaning...

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... the attendant about the geometry of which attendant had no prior knowledge, even in his soul. It was through Socrates" lesson that he came to the appropriate reasoning. He gave answers such as: "yes" (85b), "of course" (87c), and "that is so" (88e). While he does not lecture Meno in a classical sense, from a podium, his questions have a similar effect. Hidden under ... were short and in response to the imposing questions of Socrates. Meno would often respond with "Definitely" (76c), "it does" (76e), and "certainly" (97b). This is the same sort of answers the attendant employs to answer ...

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... of Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem" (later titled "Dream Deferred") one sees only its obvious simplicity. It asks, and provides a series of disturbing answers to, the question, "What happens to a dream deferred?" (line 1). A closer reading reveals the essential disunity of the poem. It is a ... its structure: that "sequence of IMAGES and ideas which unite to convey the meaning of the poem" (Thrall 473). Five of the six answers to the opening question are interrogative rather than declarative sentences. However, due to its tentative "Maybe," the sole declarative sentence is far less pote...

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... time you actuate a lever, one asks you to announce the intensity of the shock aloud. As in an experiment of this kind, all is thoroughly controlled and standardized, the answers of the pupil were as follows (summary of the procedure): - starting from 75V it pushes light gémissement - to 120 V he says that the shocks become painful - ... with 135V it howls - 150 V it asks to leave - with 180V he shouts more to be able to support it - with 300V it refuses to give new answers and beseeches to leave (the researcher called to the subject that a failure to reply is regarded as an error), - st...

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... the world?" This is Oliver's attempt at trying to grasp an understanding of creation. Oliver makes it apparent that she has no religious ties, because she has no prescribed answers to these questions. Her questions about the natural world narrow to a grasshopper, and how it lives and functions. The poem then continues on to Oliver's confusion of her part in ... particularly what one should do with the life one is given. In lines 1 through 3, Oliver employs anaphora, repeating the words, "Who made?" in a prosaic style, as a search for answers. This repetition not only helps create rhythm...

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... nightmares, the responses varied quite a bit. Half of the responses stated they didn't know how or they didn't deal with them, the other half had all sorts of answers. Some of those answers were taking melatonin to have deeper sleep, to praying before they go to sleep and having positive thoughts as they get ready to sleep, to seeing a therapist about their ... from the day for themselves. And for the movies or books the simple answer is to not watch scary movies or read books that give them chills. Along with these answers to what they think causes their nightmares, there were many mor...

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... turning to his family, the bible, and the local reverend. After being frustrated with what he believes to be a conspiracy of lies around him, David decides he must find the answers himself. One day he is asked by his mother to go out to the barn and exterminate the pigeons. With his fear of death, David questions whether or not he ... everything is significant in the eyes of God. This makes him feel comfortable in believing that there will be life after death, and he says "maybe we don't die." The answers to his questions lied with himself. Many events take place in the story that affec...

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... make sense of the past by asking questions like who?, what?, when?, where?, why?, and how?But how will they find out about things? Answers or facts can be found in books and collections called archives. Facts and answers can also be found from a primary source. Some examples of primary sources include diaries and letters. Just like a historian, an archaeologist also studies ... us knowledge about how things got invented such as the compass, paper, and electricity. When we wonder about how Christmas or any other holiday came to be, history has the answers. Without history we are cutting ...

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... task at hand. While practicing the individual learning starts the next step of the process by asking questions about anything in which is not understood. These questions are followed by answers that the teacher gives. If someone is teaching somebody how to carry out a math problem, for example, sometimes it helps to give examples along with the answer to the question ... in order to answer the question more affectively. After the teacher has demonstrated, let the student practice, asked questions and given answers comes the last step in the process, which is a test. A test allows the te...

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... result of the previous conversation. Thrasymachus asks, "If you truly want to know what the just is, don't only ask and gratify your love of honor by refuting whatever someone answers-you know that it is easier to ask than to answer-but answer yourself and say what you assert the just to be." (336 C) Socrates, astounded by this comment, flatters ... Thrasymachus with the title of "best of men" and then answers that he cannot begin to answer a question that he has no answers for. He then persuades Thrasymachus, who believes he has a good answer, to give his opinions on the meaning of jus...

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... different or become different as we enter adulthood or become adults. When we are young, our truths are created by the answers we get when we ask questions. We accept the answers and create our own belief systems according to those answers. Our experiences, from childhood to adulthood, may change through time and therefore our truths may change. Ruggiero establishes the idea that ... ...

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... goes against society . He wants to understand what is so meaningful and important in books that someone decided to take away their life because of books. Montang is looking for answers which is why he starts reading books which is against society and especially against his job because he is in charge of burning them not reading them. This is when ... was sort of like Clarisse he challenged Montag's mind. He made Montang question the world around him . Faber taught Montang about books because Montang was so curious about it and answers many of Montangs questions about why books are impor...

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... parents and teachers, but it is also an essential part of human development. If someone wants to grow intellectually, morally, socially, and spiritually, one needs to ask questions and seek answers. Everyone needs intellectual curiosity to learn. The curious ones are the ones who end up achieving more because the world values ingenuity and a desire to learn. It is impossible for ... give an answer of some other important question. The Intelligence gives birth to curiosity and curiosity is the mother of questioning. Uncertainty is the key of the exploration and investigation answers many...

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... do you know, Yazmin? Y: ˜Cause it's BIGGER silly. (she puts emphasis on bigger) A: What makes you think that, this one has more. Y: This one is bigger that's why. Yazmin answers my first set question about the same glasses. She answered my question, her answer wasn't entirely focused. She answered that "they just were ". Her answer wasn't entirely at relevant which ... Yazmin to put them in order. She does all except for the last two and one in the middle. Y: I can't do it A: Why not? Y: They look funny. Yazmin still randomly answers when I ask questions about why she can't do somethin...

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... him and follow him around. They then imitate him by asking men who think they have more knowledge than they do questions. The men they question do not have the answers feel embarrassed and angry. They are not angry at themselves but with Socrates. They then say that Socrates corrupts the young, but if they were to prove how he does ... they would have no answers and become silent. Since they are silent they don't want to seem as unintelligent so they make accusations that could hurt any philosopher. These men say that Socrates doesn't believe ... ...

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In comparing Edward Taylor's "Preface" with Job 38-41 there are several similarities in structure, language and imagery, and answers to the questions being asked in each passage. In Taylor's poem, man is questioning who is responsible for the creation; who God is. In Job 38-41, Job is questioning ... no answer- twice, but I will say no more."" Job becomes humble and realizes that he was wrong to question God. God made him see his ultimate power and authority. Both answers place God above and in control of all creation. In conclusion, both of these passages use their structure, language, imag...

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... point, short lines. Each one asks a different question, and is broken down into five different questions. The first is "What happens to a dream deferred?" This question has a variety of different answers depending on the person. Since it is written for everyone to enjoy or not, the answer must be whatever you think. In other words there is no wrong answer or ... you could just play it safe and say that it is rhetorical. The second question is more descriptive because it partly answers the first question. Hughes asks and I quote, "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" The use of adje...

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... and McCann's seemingly coherent questions into a baffling diatribe against Stanley. They accuse him of wasting everyone's time and treating those around him with disdain. Stanley can only give short, perplexed answers. The line of questioning quickly becomes ludicrous; on the subject of headache fruit salts Goldberg demands "Did they fizz? Did they fizz or didn't they fizz?- These questions are designed ... possible or necessary is when Stanley begins to break down. The question is impossible for Stanley to answer and he desperately replies "Neither- and then "Both-. Goldberg then gives...

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... , seems to be an intractable moral problem. Talk-show hosts, educators, politicians, even religious thinkers reflect and nod solemnly, "Oh, yes, abortion. It's a very complex issue. There are no easy answers." Answering the foundational question "What is it?" removes the complexity. When one clears away the irrelevant thoughts on both sides--the name calling, the misrepresentations, the circular reasoning, the medical ... many other questions we could take into account though. But I'm merely pointing out that there's just one issue to resolve, not many. Answering the one question "What i...

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If you died, what would you choose to do with your self? This is a question for which many people have different answers. These answers can range from donating their organs when the die, commodification (the use of selling human organs), or choosing not to for personal or religious reasons. In today's medical world, there ... ...

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... try to answer them. Their role is constructive building up a framework of ideals, that in turn the questioners try to tear down. So it's always much more difficult to provide answers to fundamental questions. It takes strong, cohesive rationale to stand up to scrutiny. Unfortunately, most of the answerers have been religious, their ... ...

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