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purchase, due to budget constraints. Kenneth Goldsmith, in his essay “If it Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist,” bemoans the lack of quality material available to those who need it. He tells the story of how one of the readers of Ubuweb, his open-access website, was surprised at the difference between the amount and quality of the content in her library (which is in a small Texas town) compared to the materials on Ubuweb. This shortage in resources in libraries, he believes, is due…

to have a positive outlook not only on life, but on myself. This essay gives me a chance to explore the parts of myself that I am proud of and examine the people and events that have shaped me. Three words I would use to describe myself are logical, open-minded, and responsible. Everyone is logical to some degree, but I consider it to be part of my identity because I find that I make most decisions using my mind rather than my emotions. I most likely developed this way of thinking from my dad.…

culture, and all are able to reach a wide audience. Springboarding from increased communications between people across the world, open source projects are able to use crowd-sourced labor to produce software, including entire operating systems. In the first video, they lampoon outsourced technical support for items people have become dependent upon. In the world of open source, end users are more often than not encouraged to both seek out answers from the community and tinker with the software…

“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…

Comparative Essay Imagine a strange man, different from any other, happens to show up on your town, brought by the sea. How would you and the other people meet to his sudden appearance? In both “ A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, two villages receive a strange visitor from the sea. However, each village is quite different in the ways they treat the men. In “ A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, a man with decrepit wings crashed into a small…

The internet, while initially being created by the United States military has changed into a consumer based system creating the most competitive market the world has ever seen (Barbook, 2005). This competitive marketplace introduced has radically changed modern day capitalism with the growth of new and alternative economic models. These models largely being introduced in Web 2.0 and advancing into the current Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 (Aghaei, 2012). The internet has allowed consumers to have more…

The last scene of the film titled We’re Safe Kee, Theo, and the baby are on a boat in the middle of the ocean. There is a grey fog, light light, the only light is made to seem like it is coming from a buoy out in the middle of the ocean that they are rowing towards. The characters clothing are very dark and natural and blinds with the scenery. There pants,tops, and coats in dark grey, blues, blacks, and browns. The only bold color in the scene is the fake blood covering the bottom of the boat…

Adoption v. Abortion Each year there are 2,596,993 deaths in the United States, exactly how many of those are from abortions? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, there were 664,435 legal abortions reported. This fact may shock you, but there is a way you can change that with one simple solution; Adoption. Through this topic, you will get to know why adoption is a big choice you should think about and why it’s a better choice than abortion. Also, I recently…

Success can be seen so differently based on perspective. Can it be fair to give a mission a percent of success? When multiple people come together with a shared goal the exact parameters may differ from person to person. Within Stephen Crane's, The Open Boat, each man may have only had the goal of themselves getting to shore alive, which would make Billie the only failure. That's a 75% success rate. If the general goal of the men in Mark Twain's, “The Private History of a Campaign that Failed”…

2009, she had released a new autobiography called “Queen of the Court” and by then had won her place back at the top by winning both the 2009 Australian Open singles for the fourth time and the 2009 Wimbledon singles for the third time. That year not everything was going good for Serena. In September she made headlines when she lost the US Open for supposedly threatening abusive words at a line judge for making a bad call. She eventually talked about it but down played the situation saying that…