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Poverty Must Vanish, Not the People

On Eudora Welty's symbolic story “A Worn Path,” the reader sets aside warm regard to an issue that will not go away and has been hidden. Poverty will never go away and the victims of poverty need help to amend their circumstances. The protagonist is an elderly black lady by the name of Mrs. Phoenix Jackson. She is on a worn path (138). Phoenix and the worn path symbolizes a group of people that are impoverish and forgotten. Addition symbols like a grandson with an illness are brought into the story to further persuade the reader to fight poverty and disregard. Therefore, resolutions need to be found that are ethical, holistic, and worthy to help these deserving people amend their condition and better their world.

Should someone make ethical changes in Phoenix's life? In story, the reader sees that Phoenix’s mind is forgetful (139). She forgets about her grandson which illustrates her feeble mind again (142). Phoenix needs assistance immediately. Furthermore, the readers perceive that Phoenix as very poor (138). For example, she bends over to pick up a nickel because she has no money (141). She walks to town with a broken umbrella because she has no transportation (138). So the proper and ethical thing to do is to help impoverished.

In story, who else can help Phoenix beside herself? At the end of the narrative, the reader learns a shocking truth about Phoenix and her grandson. They are alone. Phoenix had to leave him home by himself to make the trip into town. Phoenix has no one to help her watch him. Are not Phoenix and her grandson not a part of the whole community? Are not citizens of the “United States” considered a part of the whole? Welty uses these questions very effectively to stir emotions, bring out compassion and change the heart of the reader, as the indifferent attendant’s heart is change (142).

What can be done to improve the conditions of Phoenix, and people like her? A great improvement would be a road passing her home used for public transportation would be good a solution. A phone, foodstuff, and clothing donation would give them much needed help. Education and moving them to a better location in town would be commendable. Someone from town or the churches could go visit them to ensure their welfare. These are the kinds of solutions the impoverished need to revise their condition and make humanity better.

In this third-person narrative, the reader goes down a worn path to meet the down trodden in “A Worn Path.” The intent of this wonderful and figurative story is to influence the reader’s emotions through Phoenix and other contextual symbols like the worn path. The reader understands the persuasive hidden messages about Phoenix and the worn path. The impoverish need assistances right now. For that reason, the government should find resolutions that are ethical, holistic, and worthy to help these commendable people to make better their lives and our world. The victims of poverty do not need apathy; they need help and a remedy to make poverty go a way.


Work Cited
Welty, Eudora. “A Worn Path” Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Ed. Edger V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River. Prentice Hall, 2007. 138-43

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Court ruling supports claims that Microsoft’s first OS was stolen

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— John C Dvorak @ 9:50 am

So what?

EETimes.com - Court ruling supports claims that Microsoft’s first OS was stolen — I didn’t even know this lawsuit was going on. I discuss the folklore of this story on today’s Tech5 podcast here. Look for the episode titled: Who Wrote DOS

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Walmart to sell $300 PC with Vista and no Trialware + OpenOffice

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070718-298-wal-mart-pc-features-openoffice-org-no-crapware.html

Build a $250 Ubuntu PC

http://computershopper.com/feature/build-a-250-pc-that-doesnt-suck-200707

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The computer virus turns 25

The computer virus turns 25 years old this year. It's been a rocky quarter-century, but according to Richard Ford and Eugene Spafford, two computer scientists writing in this week's issue of the journal Science, viruses can look forward to a long, fruitful life. The researchers say that in today's hyper-connected world, when everything's got a chip in it and is running software, stopping malware is basically an impossible task. (Their article is not online.)

The computer virus conception story begins in 1981, when a tech-savvy 9th grader named Richard Skrenta got an Apple II for Christmas. Over the following few months he began cooking up ways to trick his friends using the machine. "I had been playing jokes on schoolmates by altering copies of pirated games to self-destruct after a number of plays," Skrenta once told the tech news site Security Focus. "I'd give out a new game, they'd get hooked, but then the game would stop working with a snickering comment from me on the screen."

When his friends realized his tricky ways, they banned Skrenta from their machines. And that's when he had an epiphany: He could put his code on the school's computer, and rig it to copy itself onto floppy disks that students used on the system. Thus was born Elk Cloner, the world's first computer virus to spread in the wild. The virus didn't do much damage; it infected the Apple II's OS and copied itself to other floppies, and every so often would display a tittering message on the screen:


Elk Cloner: The program with a personality

It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes it's Cloner!

It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!


Ford and Spafford note that in the years since, as viruses spread to other computer platforms and throughout the world, wreaking billions in damages, there has been little progress in fighting them. There is a scientific reason for this: "Building a computer program that can tell with absolute certainty whether any other program contains a virus is equivalent to a famous computer science conundrum called the 'halting problem,'" they write. The halting problem concerns the difficulty of spotting whether a program will terminate or continue to run forever. "It has no solution in the general case and has no approximate solution for our current computing environments without also generating too many false results," they write.

Ford and Spafford also take on the idea that Microsoft is to blame for our current virus ills. Certainly MS has neglected to secure Windows, but any platform that obtains ubiquity will become a target for attack, they note. Some say the solution is to have a diverse computing environment -- if the world ran all kinds of different platforms, rather than a Windows monoculture, viruses would spread much less slowly. But diversity, Ford and Spafford point out, creates its own problems -- if the Mac, Linux and Windows all had roughly equal share, you'd need anti-virus teams working to protect all three platforms, any one of which could serve as a weak point for wider network destruction. Platform diversity, that is, increases the "attack surface," they write.

Worse still is the potential for completely computer-free computer viruses. They point to a chain e-mail message that counseled people to delete a particular file from their computer to keep it secure. "The file they deleted was critical to the system," it turned out. The "virus" that caused its deletion was "executing" only in people's minds. And you can't get a virus checker for the brain.

So right: Happy birthday, computer virus. Many happy returns!

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/07/12/virus_birthday/index.html
2007.07.12 • 14:59 PDT

Confessions of a Linux Fan: 10 Things You Might Want To Know Before Switching Over To Linux

Need to check this out....

http://thinkthick.blogspot.com/2007/07/confessions-of-linux-fan-10-things-you.html