Computer Nerds: Wozniak‚ Jobs‚ Gates‚ and Allen A computer nerd is a person uses a computer in order to use one. Steve Wozniak fell in love with computers and how they worked. He built the first computer‚ the Apple one. The Apple one formed the basis for the future of Apple Computer‚ Inc. Steve Wozniak also designed the Apple II‚ the first ready made computer and one of the most popular ever made. It was a complete computer with keyboard and power supply. After he retired from Apple
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traditional two-parent household with an older sister and younger brother. Although I was born and raised in Southern California‚ we relocated to Corvallis when I was nine years old. Many years after moving‚ the influences of Southern California are still very present in my family through the slang we use‚ tastes we have‚ and overall perspective on the world. Although it can be beautiful‚ Southern California is a very materialistic and power hungry environment‚ which is something my family and I were looking
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respective family in a state of sorrow. 2009: California Jackson Michael comes from Indiana‚ in a small‚ middle class home. There‚ his father relives his glory days through his five young sons. Some days‚ he would slip off an old belt and put those boys over his knee‚ while the mother cried for mercy on behalf of her sons. Michael was a small boy when he was handed a microphone‚ a sheet of music and sat through hours listening and singing‚ while all the other children were outside chanting those
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Thomas Jacob Ainsworth Thomas was easily identifiable in our school. He was the only real cowboy. Some other boys wore the boots and hats of the Western heroes‚ but Thomas was the only one who had the heart to pull the look off. He never actually wore a cowboy hat to school‚ he said that was for work‚ but he could always be seen wearing his boots. They were well worn and could not be mistaken for the boots worn by other boys‚ which always appeared as if fresh out of the box. Thomas wore his boots
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Wilderness In the book‚ A Sand County Almanac: With essays on conservation from Round River‚ I had to read parts 3 and 4. The essays contained in part 4 were‚” The Land Ethic‚” “Wilderness‚” and “Conservation Esthetic.” I am going to be writing about the Wilderness Essay. In the Wilderness Essay‚ there are a lot of different topics brought up such as The Remnants‚ Wilderness for Recreation‚ Wilderness for Science‚ Wilderness for Wildlife‚ and the Defenders of Wilderness. I’m going to go over
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The American Cowboy The cowboys of the frontier have long captured the imagination of the American public. Americans‚ faced with the reality of an increasingly industrialized society‚ love the image of a man living out in the wilderness fending for himself against the dangers of the unknown. By the year 1900 there were few renegade Indians left in the country and the vast expanse of open land to the west of the Mississippi was rapidly filling with settlers. Cowboys represented a major part of the
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The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They are based in the Dallas suburb of Irving‚ Texas. The team currently plays their home games at Texas Stadium in Irving‚ but they are scheduled to move to a new stadium in nearby Arlington in 2009.[1] The Cowboys joined the NFL as a 1960 expansion team.[2] The team’s national following might best be represented by its NFL record of
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The "wilderness" is used as a metaphor for the period in a male’s life when he is no longer a boy‚ but not yet a man. This play tells the story of the coming-of-age of Richard‚ and the evolution he undergoes while becoming a man. The "wilderness" used in the title is a metaphor for the years between childhood and manhood. Life‚ for a man‚ is like the woods.... [tags: Ah Wilderness Essays] 1052 words (3 pages) $24.95 [preview] Civilize The Wilderness - Civilize the Wilderness Wilderness‚ why
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“Badly Burned” I fly out to Southern California every summer to visit my mom who currently lives there. I always get beyond ecstatic to travel on a plane and return to my large escape from a small town world. We always do more than enough fun and exciting things when I’m out there. We’ve traveled to Hollywood‚ Universal Studios‚ the San Diego Zoo‚ and many more exciting places full of adventure and experience. Although all of those tourist attractions are fun to visit‚ there is one destination that
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self-seriousness (Nugent 11). Wikipedia states that a “nerd‚ as a stereotypical or archetypal designation‚ refers to somebody who pursues intellectual interests at the expense of skills that are useful in a social setting such as communication‚ fashion‚ or physical fitness.” (Wikipedia) To many people who are not “nerds”‚ this definition sounds about right‚ but according to Benjamin Nugent‚ a man who calls himself a nerd‚ that is not only what nerds are. The graphic designer you recently met at a
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