... People go to college to expand their knowledge in certain areas which will soon be their careers. But, to the computer illiterate, everyday brings new challenges in the vast, unknown realm of the computer. They ask, “What is this thing called e-mail, and how does it work?� What are they to do when a teacher assigns the students to send in all assignments by e-mail? Eventually, they will have to learn the basics of e-mail which, in turn, reveals even more problems with being computer illiterate. For an essay, the teacher requires that they go to the library to do research. The computer illiterate happily ...

... yet scientists are aware of its reality and harm to humans. Many scientists believe global warming is caused by the increase of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, while other scientists believe that the health threat caused by global warming is due to an unusual interaction between cosmic rays and clouds as well as other natural occurring events. The National Weather Service announced that 1998 was the warmest year (on record on average, around the world). A recent tree-ring study indicated that this is the warmest decade in six hundred years (Allen & Herreid, 82). Undeniably, the weather is getting warme ...

... modem. To get online, we boot up our PC’s, and using our telephone line, dial in to our Internet Service Provider. Because telephone technology is much older than the Internet, there have been limitations to how fast data can travel over existing copper telephone lines. Using an analog modem, data is translated from its digital form to an analog signal, to travel over the telephone lines. Once it gets to its destination, the data is converted back into its digital form. Line noise is a result of data being transmitted as an analog signal. The FCC imposed limitations, decades ago, to minimize the amoun ...

... that carpet manufacturers weave into carpet so that they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friends filling, then travel down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit. AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT: If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about... unless you have carpeting. Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for granted. H ...

... Cryonics, because it tells them something they want to believe. Once you have been declared dead, doctors or morticians will work to keep you cool. They inject you with heparin to prevent blood clots, hook you up to a heart-lung machine to keep oxygen and blood moving through your system artificially, and get you to the cryonics center as quickly as possible. The optimum time from death to arrival at the center is less than an hour. Some patients have arrived as late as six hours after death. At the center, your body is put on a table in the perfusion room. A team of three or four technicians work to drain ...

... destroy others self-wort and integrity. affects virtually everyone, whether the individual is himself an ic, is the family member of one, or has been the victim of an related crime. In spite of the dangers presents,it is still in countless social cirles. penetraes all ages, educational, occupational, and socioeconomical boundaries. Each year it is estimated that ten percent of all deaths are related to abuse. Am astonishing fifty percent of all major automobile accidents, and murders are associated with . On and on the statistics point to the enormous dangers of , yet it is a legalized drug. As bleak as th ...

... stretched out behind for balance as it attacked its prey. The jaws of its relatively large head were equipped with large, jagged teeth. The three toes of the forelimbs were armed with long, curved claws, one of which earned the animal its name: the second toe bore a 5 in hook -shaped, retractable claw that must have been a formidable offensive weapon. Deinonychus is known from fossil remains found in south central Montana during the 1960’s. It was a carnivorous, bird-like creature with characteristics similar to that of a Velociraptor ( one of the stars from Jurassic Park ). This fearsome beast was quite a ravag ...

... of same elements are the same 3.) Atoms of different elements are different and 4.) Atoms unite in definite whole number ratios when they form compounds. Though his theory has some errors, these theories are the basis for our understanding of atoms and chemistry. One mistake of Dalton was his belief that atoms were round and hard. This became the primary ambition for scientists after Dalton, to find out the structure of an atom. In 1897, Joseph John Thomson discovered electrons. Using a tube, magnets and charged plates, he sent ray particles through various experiments changing the position of the charged pl ...

... different kinds of are found in these three divisions according to the ' altitude. First, we have the high that range in altitude from 16,500 to 45,000 feet. In this division we have the cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus . A cirrus cloud appears in delicate, feather-like bands that are not attached to each other, and is usually white with no shading. Cirrocumulus appear like very small round balls or flakes. The cirrocumulus sometimes form a pattern of a buttermilk sky. The cirrostratus sometimes form tangled webs or thin whitish sheets. A large ring or halo is sometimes seen around the sun or moon w ...

... tube led to the introduction of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) in 1925, and therefore the ability to make multiple connections on a single line. The public switched telephone networks (PSTNs) expanded, but with the circuit switched transfer mode remaining in use. This is because it provided an obvious way of keeping the constant connection necessary for voice traffic. The invention of the transistor and the concept of pulse code modulation (PCM) allowed digital communications to be developed in the late 1960's. The interconnection of computer systems over telecommunication networks soon became a requirement. ...