Essay: Andrew Marvell’s ‘Carpe Diem’

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The poems are also written in a very bold, confident and persuasive tone. Both the poets are sure about what they are saying and they are passionate about it. This surety and passion are what sustain and develop the theme of ‘Carpe Diem that runs through the poems. The poets want the listener to forget about their inhibitions and to live life so that there are no regrets.

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Essay: Analysis of ‘Said Bey’

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P.Dumont providing a background to the journal that he is analyzing explains that even though we know very little about the bigger more important events in Said Bey’s life the journals provided by his family gave detailed day-day to accounts of events in his life. These accounts gave us an insight into the job description of a bureaucrat , the entertainment activities that were available in Istanbul, the kind of food’s consumed and even the prices of every-day household items consumed by the writer of the journal.

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Essay: Analysis of Article on Economics

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The author’s key argument in this essay is that other sectors of the economy are as viable options for government spending as military spending in terms of job generation and compensation size. The author has compared analyzed the job generation from spending $1 billion on the military, to spending the same on tax cuts to increase personal consumption, on the education sector, health cares sector, mass transit sector and the weatherization and infrastructure repair sector. One of the most significant conclusions the author draws by this analysis (using the input-output model) is the fact that the same expenditure in each of these sectors other then the personal consumption increase results in more jobs being created.

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Essay: A journal on Said Bey

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The author discusses whether it is appropriate to draw a bigger picture of life in Said Bey’s social strata using just his journal but the conclusions drawn by a study of the journal have been supported by the characters drawn by novelists of the time.

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Essay: User-Level Thread Management

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According to Bershad, Presto is a user-level thread management system originally implemented on top of Sequent’s DYNIX operating system, but later ported to DEC workstations. DYNIX provides a Presto program with a fixed number of UNIX processes that share memory. The Presto run-time system treats these processes as virtual processors and schedules the user’s threads among them. Presto’s thread interface is nearly identical to Windows NT’s. Presto is distinguished from most other thread systems in that it is structured for flexibility. Presto is easy to adapt to application-specific needs because it presents a uniform object-oriented interface to threads, synchronization, and scheduling. The object-oriented design of Presto encourages multiple implementations of the thread management functions and so offers the flexibility to efficiently accommodate differing parallel programming needs. Presto has been tuned to perform well on a multiprocessor. Presto does not provide true two-level scheduling. The base operating system, schedules the underlying virtual processors (qtd. inAnderson16).

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Essay: What education means to me

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I feel that a truly educated person is also a cultured person, by cultured I mean that he or she may not be a great artist but has the sensitivity and the ability to appreciate great art. He may not be able to write well but can appreciate Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ as the great classic that it is.

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Essay: Threats of Global Warming

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Green house gases known as ‘sinks’ accumulated in oceans and the earth’s crust are slowly and gradually releasing their gases leading to an accelerated rate of global warming. The oceans have been absorbing more carbon dioxide than they have been releasing and this has paved way to oceans warming up as well. Houghton (20) describes the present situation as an ‘interglacial period’. Likewise, this could be attributable to the fact that Siberia’s ice is witnessing a thawing down of it’s ice which as a result has been emitting the greenhouse gas, methane.  The overall after math is inevitable for the entire human race and can now be seen into various forms such as wind cyclones, floods and hurricanes among which Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina have had a very devastating effect on many lives.

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Essay: Thread and Its Forms

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Disciplined concurrent programming can improve the structure and performance of computer programs on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems. As a result, support for threads, lightweight processes, has become a common element of new operating systems and programming languages. A thread is a sequential stream of instruction execution (Anderson1).    Thread is a basic unit of CPU utilization. It consists of a thread ID, a program counter, a register set, and a stack. Threads of the same process share its code section, data section and other operating system resources (Silberschatz 127).

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