Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the nation fashions itself as the a priori ground of identity, and those processes through which nationalism engenders an ostensibly unique national identity corresponding to one and only one nation-state, the place where we always have been, and can only ever be, 'at home.
Push Scratch programming to the limits as you explore primes, Fibonacci numbers, Pascal’s triangle, and other mathematical curiosities through hands-on coding projects. If you’re a student looking for project ideas to practice your math and coding skills, or a Scratch enthusiast just looking for something different, this is the book for you! Discover the exciting intersection of mathematics and programming with Math Hacks for Scratch®. This book is perfect for kids, educators, and programming enthusiasts eager to learn or teach math through fun, hands-on projects using Scratch, the popular visual programming language. You’ll see how a little bit of planning, combined with the right mathematical or coding tricks, can make complex calculations doable. These are the “hacks” mentioned in the title. You’ll write programs to speed up factoring big numbers, sort out a pizza party with Pascal’s triangle, explore Fibonacci’s famous sequence for counting rabbits, use cryptography to create unbreakable secret codes, and so much more. Inside, you’ll find: Step-by-Step Projects: Learn how to create interactive games, animations, and simulations that bring math concepts to life. Convert between binary and decimal to see how computers keep track of numbers. Make sense of patterns in lists, sequences, and arrays. Encode cryptograms, unscramble secret messages, and crack the Caesar cipher. Real-World Applications: See how math is used every day to calculate probabilities in games and create dynamic graphics. Expert Guidance: Benefit from the insights of author Michael Mays, a seasoned math educator with a PhD in mathematics and a 40-year teaching career. Accessible Learning: Ideal for both beginners and experienced programmers, this book offers clear explanations and practical examples that make learning fun and easy. Whether you’re a beginning coder wanting to enhance your Scratch skills, a teacher looking to inspire students, or a parent supporting your child’s education, Math Hacks for Scratch provides the tools to turn coding projects into math adventures.
This book looks at network security in a new and refreshing way. It guides readers step-by-step through the "stack" -- the seven layers of a network. Each chapter focuses on one layer of the stack along with the attacks, vulnerabilities, and exploits that can be found at that layer. The book even includes a chapter on the mythical eighth layer: The people layer. This book is designed to offer readers a deeper understanding of many common vulnerabilities and the ways in which attacker’s exploit, manipulate, misuse, and abuse protocols and applications. The authors guide the readers through this process by using tools such as Ethereal (sniffer) and Snort (IDS). The sniffer is used to help readers understand how the protocols should work and what the various attacks are doing to break them. IDS is used to demonstrate the format of specific signatures and provide the reader with the skills needed to recognize and detect attacks when they occur. What makes this book unique is that it presents the material in a layer by layer approach which offers the readers a way to learn about exploits in a manner similar to which they most likely originally learned networking. This methodology makes this book a useful tool to not only security professionals but also for networking professionals, application programmers, and others. All of the primary protocols such as IP, ICMP, TCP are discussed but each from a security perspective. The authors convey the mindset of the attacker by examining how seemingly small flaws are often the catalyst of potential threats. The book considers the general kinds of things that may be monitored that would have alerted users of an attack. * Remember being a child and wanting to take something apart, like a phone, to see how it worked? This book is for you then as it details how specific hacker tools and techniques accomplish the things they do. * This book will not only give you knowledge of security tools but will provide you the ability to design more robust security solutions * Anyone can tell you what a tool does but this book shows you how the tool works
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Allgemein, Note: gut, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) (Institut für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Karl May wurde als Sohn blutarmer Webersleute in Hohenstein - Ernstthal geboren. Das Leben am Rande des Existenzminimums bedeutete eine enorme physische, als auch psychische Belastung für den Jungen, prägte jedoch im Endeffekt sein inneres Wesen entscheidend. Tief in seinem Innersten hegte er die Sehnsucht nach der Erlösung seiner Qualen (= Edelmenschentum!). Seit dieser Zeit befand sich der Schriftsteller stets auf der Suche nach der Verwirklichung seines Ideals - den barmherzigen und selbstlos, d.h. ohne materiellen Zweck oder egoistische Motive agierenden Edelmenschen. Die Eltern legten dem kleinen Karl ihre gegensätzlichen Charaktereigenschaften praktisch "in die Wiege", so daß er im Endeffekt, vermutlich genetisch bedingt, als "seelisch labil" be-zeichnet werden kann. Karl May erblindete kurz nach seiner Geburt. Diesem Umstand verdankte er die Befähigung, den Menschen und seine Umgebung "seelisch", also von innen heraus zu beurteilen. Mays ausgeprägte Sensibilität für prekäre Situationen im Alltagsleben wurde durch seine musikalische Ausbildung Mays noch gesteigert. Die Großmutter hatte in diesem Zeitraum den intensivsten Einfluß auf Karls inneres Wesen, da sie ihm während seines unfreiwilligen Lebens in der Dunkelheit praktisch das Au-genlicht ersetzte. Sie übermittelte dem Jungen ihre positiven Charaktereigenschaften, die aus ihrer Lebenserfahrung resultierten. Außerdem war die alte Dame eine ausgezeichnete Märchenerzählerin. Auf diese Weise erfuhr Karl May sinnbildlich die eigentliche Bedeutung der "menschlichen Vollkommenheit", ohne den Sachverhalt zu diesem Zeitpunkt wirklich zu begreifen. Diesbezüglich sei noch einmal ausdrücklich festgestellt, daß der Verzicht auf jegliche irdische Versuchung eine unerläßliche Voraussetzung, für die Loslösung der menschlichen Psyche von
, Michael Schumacher reconstructs the terrible accident, perilous search, and chilling aftermath for the small Michigan town so intimately affected by the tragedy.
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