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#include /*input and output */ #include /* printf, NULL */ #include /* srand, rand */ #include /* time */ #include /* file operations */ #include /* symbolic constants */ using namespace std; int Gen(int length) { cout << "******************Attempting to write key to file*******************\n"<< endl; int randomData = open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY); // open file to get random values char myRandomData[length]; //determine the length of the key size_t randomDataLen = 0;// initialize counter while (randomDataLen < sizeof myRandomData) //read from file while key length is not larger than size of plain text { ssize_t result = read(randomData, myRandomData + randomDataLen, (sizeof myRandomData) - randomDataLen); // read random values if (result < 0) // if operation was unsuccessful, exit { cout << "******************Unable to generate the key. The program will now exit*******************\n"<< endl; exit(0); } randomDataLen += result; } close(randomData); //close the file /*Attempting to write the key to file*/ ofstream myfile ("keyfile"); if (myfile.is_open()) { string temp=myRandomData; myfile << temp; myfile.close(); cout << "The key was successfully written to the file\n"<< endl; } else { cout << "The system was unable to create the key file and…

As a student at Episcopal High School, I do my best to exhibit moral character, leadership, and service. In the classroom, I always maintain a mutual respect with my classmates and teachers. Since my freshman year I have served in the Student Senate and learned about the responsibility and leadership one must uphold in the organization. More recently, I was admitted into the Spanish National Honors Society and as an acolyte. Being an acolyte has taught me the accountability of serving as an…

Little is known about the Gnostic rituals and practices, since most of its writings were destroyed during various anti-Gnostic movements. However, some did survived, and from those which has come down to present, scholars are able to learn about their customary observance. Five religious officers are called during a Gnostic Mass: a priest and a priestess, who are assisted by a deacon and two acolytes called “children”. Throughout the ceremony, participants are required to make several unusual…

about different types of leadership styles were in the nascent stage, the focus of the studies was on the individual as a leader. In the later period the focus shifted from the individual and leadership is no longer defined and described as an individual trait but is elucidated in different models as being shared, dyadic, global, strategic, and relational (Tafvelin, (2013)). Therefore, proposing one single definition of leadership that could be identified and recognized by all the researchers is…

existential order of the world and are in sympathy with a rebellion against the providential scheme of things. Also important in this novel is Ishmael, a naive young American sailor who has gone to sea to rid himself of a recurrent melancholia that tends toward suicide or violence toward others” (Tuttleton 3). The doom and destruction in the story just show Melville’s gothic romanticized style of writing. Along with other gothic romantic writers, Melville finds a way to incorporate…

6. He helped popularize the famous tale about Sir Isaac Newton and the apple. Though the two never met in person, Voltaire was an enthusiastic acolyte of the English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton. Upon receiving a copy of Newton’s “Principia Mathematica,” he claimed he knelt down before it in reverence, “as was only right.” Voltaire played a key role in popularizing Newton’s ideas, and he offered one of the first accounts of how the famed scientist developed his theories on…

slowly irritating her further. In doing this, it causes Aoiphe to lash out at the Sith. Sensing he had won over her mind, Lord Chroft would engage in a duel with her, where he kicked her saber out of his hand, force pushed her back then knocked Aoiphe out with the butt of his saber. Lord Chroft would notify Darth Drastus if the events that occurred and explained the mission had to be placed on hold. The Darth understood and instructed the Sith to place Aoiphe in a cell until she could be…

Jason Bock doesn't know what he believes anymore, spiritually speaking. A self-described agnostic-going-on-atheist, he does know that he doesn't buy into his parents' Catholicism. When the local bully lays him out with a punch, Jason gets a literal new perspective on the town's water tower—the tallest structure in the area, it has a presence. Not to mention a belly full of the stuff-of-life: water. He figures that worshiping the town water tower is as arbitrary as any other god or religion, so…

Asasiyun) is the name used to refer to the medieval Nizari Ismailis. Often characterized as a secret order led by a mysterious "Old Man of the Mountain", the Nizari Ismailis were an Islamic sect that formed in the late 11th century from a split within Ismailism, itself a branch of Shia Islam. In time, the Nizaris began to pose a military threat to Sunni Seljuq authority within their territories by capturing and inhabiting many unconnected mountain fortresses throughout Persia (and later also…

characteristics, along with my community involvement and academic achievements, make me well suited for this scholarship. When it comes to academics, I am very outgoing. I always do my finest job and I persist even if something is difficult. I do extra work to strengthen my knowledge of what I am learning and to challenge my knowledge of that subject. My whole high school career, I have been on the “A” honor roll. As a result, I have attained academic letters and Spotlight on Scholarship awards.…