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Giving Voice to the Oppressed of Society, 2008.
An analysis of the impact of poor social justice within a society, both to the individual and to the society as a whole.
1,616 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper reviews five reasons why dispossessed and oppressed individuals should have a voice in society. Specifically, the paper looks at the social costs that attend failing to pay attention to the needs of these individuals and at the poor public policy that flows from ignoring the dispossessed. Finally, the paper explores the ethical and moral issues that come with overlooking the less-fortunate and considers the impact upon the reputation of a society if it fails to offer social justice in its own land while hectoring others abroad about their human rights record.
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"At the level of the individual, the costs associated with not heeding the voices of the down-trodden can be very grim, indeed. For one thing, people who struggle with their sense of self and who lack a strong sense of self-empowerment are people who are much more susceptible to thoughts of suicide (Martin, 2006). At the same time, people who feel as though they cannot change their lives for the better - in no small measure because no one seems to care what they think - are people who are very much likely to fall prey to mental illness - such as depression (Laitinen et al, 2006). Thus, there are compelling reasons why, at the level of the individual, people need to be given a sense that they are not viewed as ciphers by others and that their needs will be accepted as genuine."
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The Works of Smith and Paine:Giving Voice to the Dead., 2002.
A look at the works of Joseph Smith and Thomas Paine.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines how the author Joseph Smith "gives voice" to the dead through his writings, and the limitations that are inherent within such writings. The author Thomas Paine is also used to expand upon this topic.
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Never Give Up, Never Give In, 2006.
A descriptive essay about perseverance in life.
3,574 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper discusses how perseverance is what motivates a person to keep trying after being defeated over and over again. It covers the stories of Winston Churchill, Barack Obama, and Dan Millman in demonstrating how perseverance enabled them to achieve their goals. The writer also includes his own personal experience with persevering and discusses what it means to him.
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"People who have lived through events requiring perseverance can always voice their opinions or feelings on what it is and why it is important. Some of the most important historical figures in the 19th and 20th centuries have things to say which will be remembered for eternity. The historically famous American general Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied commander of the Pacific during World War II, said "Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul" (qtd. In ThinkExist.com). While the passing of time makes the human body weaker and frailer after a while, quitting something can destroy someone's soul and the will to go on. MacArthur most likely realized giving up was not an option in his battles against the Japanese. Winston Churchill, one of the most magnanimous and praised world leaders in history also felt what MacArthur experienced. "
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Voice over WiFi, 2004.
This paper discusses 'Voice over WiFi', which gives the Internet voice facilities.
795 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper explains that VoIP is being replaced by 'Voice over WiFi', a technology that allows users to log on to the Net wirelessly, which is extremely useful for laptop users. The author points out that companies, such as Motorola, Japanese giant NEC, and Nokia have already begun or are planning to commercialize models that use WiFi technology both for data access and cellular voice. The paper relates that VoWiFi services are expected to consume much larger amounts of energy than their cellular counterparts, a problem that needs to be solved because customers will not be willing to use this service only for a few hours.
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"Voice over IP has its origins in 1995, when Vocaltec, Inc. released its Internet Phone Software that operated on the normal home PC of those times, with a 486 processor. Even so, VoIP had been discussed as a project for several years before that. The initial software designed encompassed the general idea used in the VoIP technology: the voice analogue signal were transformed into digital signals and where split in packages and sent as such over the Internet. The problem was that, for the technology to work, both the caller and the receiver needed the same type of equipment and the same software."
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Voice Recognition Technology, 2006.
An examination of voice recognition technology and its uses.
3,000 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper attempts to explain voice recognition technology by describing the components of a voice recognition system and by explaining what the functions of a computer with speech capabilities are supposed to be. The paper explains that the goal of voice recognition technology is to have effective speech communication that is hands free, allowing the user to use a computer without a keyboard. Furthermore, the paper also looks at the disadvantages of voice recognition technology, the future of the technology in business and voice recognition technology developments in the future.
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"Computer science is continually changing and growing, with new technologies being added to it on a regular basis. There are also some technologies that have been on board for many years, but have not been a high priority on the development front. Voice recognition is one technology that has been in use for many years, but on a limited basis. As the end of the 20th century approaches, voice recognition is now a technology that is seen as a promising and exciting useful tool for computer science. Voice technology is a valuable tool for individuals as a time saver, a necessary tool for the disabled, and has several practical uses in business."
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VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol), 2005.
This paper discusses the principles behind VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol), its applications and the potential of this emerging technology.
7,235 words (approx. 28.9 pages), 24 sources, MLA, $ 161.95
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This paper explains that VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), also referred to as internet telephony, IP telephony or Voice over the Internet (VOI), is a category of hardware and software that enables people to use the internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls by sending voice data in packets using IP rather than by traditional circuit transmissions of the PSTN. This paper points out that the number of VoIP providers, such as Vonage, is growing steadily; major carriers like AT&T are already setting up VoIP calling plans in several markets in the United States and the FCC is looking seriously at the potential ramifications of VoIP service. The paper relates that there are three different types of VoIP service in common use today: (1) ATA , the simplest and most common way, which is to connect a standard phone to a computer or internet connection for use with VoIP; (2) IP phones, specialized phones, which look like normal phones with a handset, cradle and buttons but, instead of having the standard RJ-11 phone connectors, have an RJ-45 Ethernet connector and (3) computer-to-computer, which is the easiest way to use VoIP and does not even require paying for long-distance calls. Illustrations.
Table of Contents
VOIP- An Overview
History of VOIP
Making calls through VOIP
Main Features of VOIP
VOIP: Difference from Standard Phone System: (Circuit Switching)
The VOIP Phone System: Packet Switching
The Advantage of VOIP
VOIP Hurdles
Overcoming the hurdles - CODECS
VOIP - For the business world
VOIP -In the United States
Future of VOIP
Conclusion
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"In a conventional phone conversation, while one are talking; the other party is listening, which means that only half of the connection is in use at any given time. Based on that, we can surmise that we could cut the file in half, down to about 4.7 MB, for efficiency. Plus, a significant amount of the time in most conversations is dead air -- for seconds at a time, neither party is talking. If we could remove these silent intervals, the file would be even smaller. Then, instead of sending a continuous stream of bytes (both silent and noisy), an option was devised of sending just the packets of noisy bytes when one created them, that is formed the basis of a packet-switched phone network, the alternative to circuit switching."
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"The Voice", 2002.
A review of Thomas Harding's poem "The Voice" .
1,510 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 49.95
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This paper looks at how title of Thomas Hardy's poem "The Voice" reveals a lot about its mode of delivery. It examines how the audible whispers of the woman calling are conveyed to the reader through literary devices such as rhyme and rhythm. It evaluates how "The Voice" of the woman becomes a symbol of the narrator's memory, which is tainted by illusion and attachment to the past. It analyzes how although the poem might be about a long-lost love, a past or failed romance, a memory he struggles to retain, Hardy progresses from an initial feeling of hope in the first two stanzas to an acceptance of reality in the last two. "The Voice" is a whisper of the past and a memory of his lover's language.
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"In his natural surroundings, the narrator envisions and hears his lost lover. She is "much missed." This fundamental fact is made clear in the first stanza of "The Voice," underlining the importance of the relationship. The narrator is estranged from the woman whose voice he hears. She was "the one who was all to me," the narrator's soul mate. However, there is no indication of the nature of the breakup. She could be dead or with another man; she could simply be away traveling. Regardless of the actual situation, the narrator longs for times past, "when our day was fair." The present moment is not bleak, but the past offers rich memories. Before the remainder of the poem is read, it would seem as if the narrator is simply hanging on to a hopeless romance. Clearly, this is not the case. Although he becomes aware that he is "faltering forward" by the end of the poem, the narrator does not seem lost or emotionally distraught."
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Reciprocity And Gift Giving, 2002.
Discussion of the cultural aspects of giving gifts and reciprocating in American, Japanese, and Korean society.
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 124.95
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This paper discusses gift giving in different cultures. The tradition of giving gifts varies in different countries. Also, when you receive gifts there is the problem of finding the right way to reciprocate. It is important to know the various cultures in different countries when it comes to gift giving and reciprocity.
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The Silencing of the Female Voice in Adolescence, 2002.
Using Pipher's "Reviving Ophelia" as a reference, this paper examines the role that the mass media plays in silencing the voice of the female teenager in American culture.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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Carol Gilligan declares that "The silencing of the female voice in adolescence is enforced by the wish not to hurt others but also by the fear that in speaking her voice will not be heard." There are certain stereotypical portrayals of women in mass media that make the sexism of our society transparently clear. It also disallows women to have their own sense of self. This process inflicts extreme damage to the female voice in adolescence. In "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girl"s, Pipher sees America's culture as "girl-poisoning". She shows how a certain brand of femininity is imposed on adolescent girls. This process, in her perspective, obliterates the confidence and self-knowledge that these young girls have amassed since their own childhood. In a tragic sense, their own peers act as enforcers.
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Finding the Personal Voice in Literature, 2003.
A review of five pieces of literature where the main character has to overcome being denied his own personal voice and then gaining it again.
3,884 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses how people for all time have struggled to find their voice and their own individuality and how this is a theme prevalent in antebellum American literature. Through a review of different works, it shows how many times people cannot speak out because they are being denied the opportunity by superior powers, which is the case in "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass and "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs and "Rip van Winkle" by Washington Irving. Other times it is the person's own views of the world that prevent them from finding their own individual voice, as is the case in "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville. It analyzes how these works prove to show that once boundaries have been overcome and the struggle of perfecting the use of one's voice is complete, a person is much better off and a more whole human, if they speak out with their own opinions and accept the consequences, be they good or bad.
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"Much like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs wrote as the voice of the slaves in her work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, but she speaks mainly for the female slave's plight by directing her work at a Northern female reader, who is most likely to sympathize. She uses another female in her story, Linda Brent, as herself which says something even more about how her voice had been denied to her for very long. Men had traditionally been in power over women and as a result when speaking were more free to express themselves fully, but women were more protective of their own experiences after having long been denied the ability to speak their mind."
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"Pedagogy of the Oppressed", 2002.
Discusses Paulo Freire's educational theory "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" in relation to American education.
3,668 words (approx. 14.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 101.95
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This paper is a discussion of one of the more radical and influential theories of education, Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" and its relationship and applicability to the proposed reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the guidelines used by public schools throughout America to determine the effectiveness and purposes of elementary and secondary school education. Freire, a Brazilian educator and theorist, was driven from his native Brazil by a military coup, an act that allowed him to bring his revolutionary approach to pedagogy directly to other educational systems. Although conceived as a response to adult illiteracy within oppressive Third World regimes, Freire's unique way of looking at education in general has strongly influenced educational philosophy in many other settings. This paper considers whether his radical approach, which argues that truly effective education can only be achieved as a participatory process, without which it perpetuates the destructive roles of oppressor and oppressed, can have any relevance within the traditional American academic process. Looking at ESEA guidelines from a Freirean perspective allows the educational scholar to reconsider the effectiveness of this traditional approach and contemplate the philosophical underpinnings that inform it.
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"The act goes through each of the four themes, making detailed recommendations about how each can be achieved. It is singularly lacking, however, in two critical areas. First, it does not provide for a comprehensive plan for funding these recommendations, because it does not spell out the steps necessary to reach these ambitious goals. For example, one recommendation for raising classroom standards is to support educational options, such as establishing more magnet schools, but the act gives no indication of how much these measures might cost or how those costs might be met."
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Voice in "Futility", 2005.
This paper examines the concept of voice in the war poem "Futility" by Wilfred Owen.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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In this essay, the voice of the narrator in Wilfred Owen's World War I poem "Futility" is explicated. Three of the aspects of the poet/narrator's voice that are examined are his gentleness, his tiredness, and his anger. Each of these qualities is used to show the fuller picture of the poem and of what Owen is trying to say and describe about death, war, and the world in which he lived.
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"In the chapter of 'Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory' on the topic of voice, Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle make the claim that literature is "the space in which, more than anywhere else, the power, beauty and strangeness of the voice is both evoked and bodied forth". The point that is being made is that in literature, the voice being used to give the information, to tell the tale, to speak to the reader is much more important than the voice used on a cereal box or in a car owner's manual. The person or persons who are the voice are just as much a part of the reading experience as the letters on the page are. As Bennett and Royle add, "reading literary texts involves hearing extraordinary voices"."
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Name-Giving, 2002.
A discussion of the tradition of name-giving in American culture and the origins and meanings of names.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will look into the name-giving characteristics, with particular focus on the American culture. An attempt will be made to look at the origins of various first names and surnames, as well as their denotative and connotative meanings. The patterns and sources of name-giving will be considered in the paper, and attention will be briefly given to the question as to whether nicknames also follow the same origin pattern.
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Quality of Service of Voice over Internet Protocol, 2008.
An in-depth essay on the service and quality provided by Internet voice over programs.
3,748 words (approx. 15.0 pages), 24 sources, APA, $ 103.95
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The paper precludes that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is considered to be one of the most important elements in modern telecommunications today. It continues to state that before VoIP is able to attain the degree of acceptance that traditional telephony has, it has to be able to raise its quality of services (QoS) particularly in voice quality, security, interface and its compliance to various standards. The application of the services in information sensitive industries like trade, customer service and education indicates that VoIP has achieved a degree of success in terms of its major issues. The paper concludes that the establishment of minimum standards of performance to ensure the productivity of VoIP services in the industry is essential to advance the VoIP position. Unless the quality of VoIP reaches a quality level suitable as an enterprise product, the demand for VOIP will not be fully realized.
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"In 2004, the telecommunications industry saw the launch of mass-market VoIP services that followed the traditional interface models of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) and by 2005, free services began their entry to the market (Dean, 2003). Among the first one to offer services for free ware Skype which remains to be a significant market leader today. Following the success of Skype other online services began to include VoIP as part of their interface and retooled products as seen in the launch of Microsoft's Window Messenger Live, Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger with Voice and Google's Google Talk among others."
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Voice and Data Technology, 2004.
This paper discusses the effect of the use and application of voice and data technology on the business sector.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper discusses that businesses today rely on voice and data technology to aid them in their day-to-day operations, which makes businesses run more efficiently than they did in the past. The author points out that switched voice services have made the most dramatic impact on how businesses operate today. The paper stresses that these technologies allow businesses to communicate quickly and easily with anyone anywhere in the world without ever meeting their customers or associates face to face.
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"In addition to the variety of telecommunications options that are available to businesses nowadays, there are also wide varieties of data transmission services that are available. All of the switched voice and dedicated voice technologies that businesses use today have switched and dedicated data counterparts. In today's business world, it is just as important to be able to connect to the internet and use it to gather and transmit data as it is to be able to communicate with people in a variety of ways. In order to be competitive, businesses today need to be able to have a presence on the internet. They also need to be able to conduct business over the internet, as well as search for and gather information from the internet."
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