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When
most of us hear the word chocolate, we picture a bar, a box of bonbons, or a
bunny. The verb that comes to mind is probably “eat,” not “drink,” and the most
apt adjective would seem to be “sweet.” But for about 90 percent of chocolate’s
long history, it was strictly a beverage, and sugar didn’t have anything to do
with it. […] Sweetened chocolate didn’t appear until Europeans discovered the
Americas and sampled the native cuisine. […] Chocolate didn’t suit the
‘foreigners’ tastebuds at first – one described it in his writings as “a bitter
drink for pigs”– but once mixed with honey or cane sugar, it quickly became
popular throughout Spain. […] The creation of the first modern chocolate bar is
credited to Joseph Fry, who in 1847 discovered that he could make a moldable
chocolate paste by adding melted cacao butter back into Dutch cocoa. By 1868, a
little company called Cadbury was marketing boxes of chocolate candies in
England. Milk chocolate hit the market a few years later, pioneered by another
name that may ring a bell – Nestle.
2
Pranav Mistry, 28 year old, of Indian origin, is the
mastermind behind the sixth sense technology. He invented ‘Sixth Sense / WUW (
Wear UR World)’ which is a wearable gestural, user friendly interface which
links the physical world around us with digital information and uses hand
gestures to interact with them. He is a PhD student at MIT and he won the
‘Invention of the Year 2009’ – by Popular Science. The device sees what we see
but it lets out information that we want to know while viewing the object. It
can project information on any surface, be it a wall, table or any other object
and uses hand / arm movements to help us interact with the projected
information. The device brings us closer to reality and assists us in making
right decisions by providing the relevant information, thereby, making the
entire world a computer.
3
The World Wide Web has become a more popular source
of information for student papers, and many questions have arisen about how to
avoid plagiarizing these sources. In most cases, the same rules apply as to a
printed source: when a writer must refer to ideas or quote from a WWW site, she
must cite that source. […] These rules also apply to other uses of textual or
visual information from WWW sites; for example, if a student is constructing a
web page as a class project, and copies graphics or visual information from
other sites, she must also provide information about the source of this
information. In this case, it might be a good idea to obtain permission from the
WWW site’s owner before using the graphics.
This will help you a lot. I have not uploaded all texts, naturally. It´s just a way of saving your time during the P1. Remember to bring your dictionaries because without them it´s almost impossible to do it.
Yours Isaac.
