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    After reviewing the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government’s planning guidelines for Landscape Character Assessments (LCA) it is clear the intentions of these documents. These guidelines give a template for the production of cohesive reports that include the input of professionals and non-professionals alike. These reports are focused around the landscape and encourage communal guidance for landowners, county councils and even ordinary interested parties. LCA’s give a comprehensive

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    Community Health & Population-Focused Nursing Brown County is located in Northeast Wisconsin and is the state’s fourth largest county. The county consists of thirteen townships, nine villages, and two cities including Green Bay, the largest city and home of the Green Bay Packers. Brown County covers 530 square miles of land and 86 square miles of water (Brown County, n.d.). Green Bay is well-known, nation-wide on behalf of four large paper mills, three large pulp mills and four paper converting

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    From the very beginning of the short story, the emphasis of the star’s presences establishes the purpose of man’s presence in the nebula. “…turned upon the scene of this vast explosion, only a double star remained—and the nebula” (Leinster 262). In the same way, Leinster presents the construction of the nebula to that of creating the first contact between man and alien in his short story. Likewise, as chaos created the nebula, the initial first contact between man and alien results the surfacing possibilities

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    First Contact

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    to the iconic science fiction magazine Astounding Science-Fiction, Murray Leinster provided his own commentary on the changing world through his most iconic work, where first contact can mean the difference between friendly communication and the annihilation of the entire human race. Murray Leinster, the pseudonym for William Fitzgerald Jenkins, was quite the prolific writer. Having lived through both world wars, Leinster wrote and published several science fiction short stories in the key science

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    Isolated in deep space, the crew of the Llanvabon continued to gather their scans, and collect maps of the Crab Nebula as Leinster begins to dress the scene with both imagery and repetition in order to draw on the tension of isolation. On page 253 in “First Contact”, Leinster stated, “The Llanvabon bored on through space. Slowly, slowly, slowly, the incredible luminosity crept across the vision plates[similar to windows]. It blotted out half the universe from view. Before was glowing mist, and behind

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    “There was one of the aliens to whom communication became as normal a function as Tommy’s own code-handlings. The two of them developed a quite insane friendship, conversing by coder, decoder and short waive trains”(Leinster 268). From the very beginning of the narrative, Leinster stresses that perception and truth were two separate concepts. At the beginning of the short story, both man and alien saw no other choice than to destroy the other, and yet they don’t. They watch each other, observing

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    Ethical Calculus Summary

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    person doesn't do something wrong, there is no problem to record their life. However, Leinster suggests that maybe dampen the disagreement and the press. Secondly, the writer tells us that there are many mathematicians working for relevant agencies and gives us am example of the NSA. Finally, the phenomenon that mathematicians are hardly confronted with some moral issues emerges. Based on all above, Tom Leinster reflects upon whether mathematicians should collaborate with the intelligence services

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    Weinbaum's Analysis

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    This limited appreciation for alien forms of life continues through Jarvis’s recollection of his encounter with the pushcart creatures. Jarvis is initially struck by how different the creatures are from himself. He says, “Man, talk about fantastic beings! It looked rather like a barrel trotting along on four legs with four other arms or tentacles. It had no head, just body and members and a row of eyes completely around it. The top end of the barrel-body was a diaphragm stretched as tight as a drum

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    into the computer). This resembles the team of six women employed to program ENIAC. It is clear that Heinlein drew upon the computers of his time as a model for the ship's computer. Where Heinlein merely transposes existing technologies, Murray Leinster uses it as a starting point for extrapolation. The future technology of the "logic" in "A Logic Named Joe" is a very accurate depiction of modern personal computers. Leinster's logic was likely influenced by recent developments in telecommunications

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    far to find some good examples either, as their are plenty of free sci-fi ebooks that feature some very dangerous settings. Here are just a few of the most dangerous worlds that authors have come up with over the years. 1. Mad Planet by Murray Leinster (http://manybooks.net/titles/leinstermother07mad_planet.html)

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