Essays Tagged: "sophistication"

Answering Americas Call. The role of America today

eets over a lone silver dollar. Instead America is in the race for new technology and the minds and sophistication that go with it. So long M-16, hello IBM, satellites, and laser technology. Ea ...

(3 pages) 99 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Quality Issues in Systems Development

nt in computer hardware technology which took an industry still in it's infancy, to a level of much sophistication and which ultimately revelutionised the information storage and processing needs of e ...

(6 pages) 448 0 4.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Jay Gatsby as a Pathetic Character in "The great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald

er marriage and her willingness to exchange it for a life of love. But Daisy's discontent, like her sophistication, is a pose.'(Aldridge 36) The fact is, Daisy has almost all of the things that a woma ...

(5 pages) 230 2 4.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This essay is a short topic Hieroglyphic Symbols and their beginning and my personal experiences with them.

. Although they had sophisticated methods for building and irrigation, one area that they lagged in sophistication was the basic form they used for writing their language. The ancient Egyptians used h ...

(2 pages) 50 1 3.3 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand on our advanced but confused state of knowledge

invention and Gibson's work as the divination of the consequences of technological development and sophistication. In both cases the essence of human nature has barely changed. It is what lies behind ...

(20 pages) 247 0 3.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

"The Metamorphosis", by Franz Kafka.

nlike most other authors, Kafka uses simple, declarative sentences which, though somehow lacking in sophistication, make up for this in he novel's use of symbolism.Gregor Samsa is a hardworking, under ...

(2 pages) 65 1 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Ancient means of maintaining societial order, confucian beliefs in china vs. hinduism in the indus valley.

os to social order had started from the very earliest grouping of man, but did not reach a level of sophistication until around 500 BCE in the Indus valley and china. Through the ancient literature, C ...

(5 pages) 71 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Great Gatsby character analysis

ading in stolen securities. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication--he dropped out of St. Olaf's College after only two weeks because he could not bear ... ghout the book by Nick's romantic affair with Jordan Baker. He is attracted to her vivacity and her sophistication just as he is repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for other peop ...

(7 pages) 99 0 2.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Performing sensitivity analysis using toprank product

The increase in recent years in the sophistication, power, and user-friendliness of spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel has meant that ...

(7 pages) 167 1 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

What consequences of typography did people fear the most? To what extent, in the 15th and 16th Centuries, were these fears justified?

were confined to a well-educated, powerful minority (papacy/clergy) who used "the written word with sophistication to organize and control their world" (O'Donnell 38). They used these (often forged) t ...

(7 pages) 68 0 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

From Biography to Archives

Due to the escalating sophistication of technology during the information age, privacy has become a romantic myth, an urba ...

(4 pages) 46 0 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Shakespeare

nt. Of course, individuals can evolve, moving from a relatively undeveloped state to one of greater sophistication or complexity. The all-important question is, whether or not the process is self-will ...

(2 pages) 19 1 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

How have new media enabled a renewal of the public sphere and extension of democratic processes?

me we have moved from what now seems the most basic form of radio communication.... to the apparent sophistication of digital broadcasting' (Street, 2001:163). We have yet to experience the entire con ...

(9 pages) 103 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Cause of Crime

ntion is a major topic for politicians and citizens. The recent increase in the risk, intensity and sophistication of crime around the world threatens the safety of citizens everywhere and hinders cou ...

(2 pages) 108 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

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tion drove created millions of new, higher-paying jobs that required more education, creativity and sophistication to fill. Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Lotus, Borland, and Oracle turned thousands of middl ...

(2 pages) 98 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Symbolism in Madame Bovary. By: Gustave Flaubert

strate her impending downfall. At a young age, she harbors idealistic romantic illusions, longs for sophistication, sensuality, and passion, and descends into fits of extreme boredom and depression wh ...

(2 pages) 23 0 0.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Video Games and Their Affects

sole in only a few years. The never generation of interactive games have changed radically in their sophistication, graphics, realism, interactivity and level of violence with amplification of gore an ...

(3 pages) 132 2 3.4 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy, 1991

y is revered by many to be one of our nation's finest presidents: a man of upstanding character and sophistication who epitomized the moral and political principles Americans valued during his preside ...

(4 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

The Philosophy of Visual Disability

y which misconstruction merely a scratch of the surface to whose bottom can be at the bottom of its sophistication; upon which sophistication its decipherment is bound to bring man to labour under a m ...

(22 pages) 46 0 4.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Maglevs - Magnetic Levitation

lack of need to use a public road. Since they first were used trains have evolved in technology and sophistication.Wagonways (Figure 1) were in use in Germany from as early as 1550. These primitive ra ...

(8 pages) 30 0 3.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics