Passage Four
Native Americans from the southeastern part of what is now the United States believed that the universe in which they lived was made up of three separate, but related, worlds: the Upper World, the Lower World, and This World. In the last there lived humans, most animals, and all plants.
This World, a round island resting on the surface of waters, was suspended from the sky by four cords attached to the island at the four cardinal points of the compass. Lines drawn to connect the opposite points of the compass, from north to south and from east to west, intersected This World to divide it into four wedge-shaped segments. Thus a symbolic representation of the human world was a cross within a circle, the cross representing the intersecting lines and the circle the shape of This World.
Each segment of This World was identified by its own color. According to Cherokee doctrine, east was associated with the color red because it was the directi
A. waters
B. the sky
C. an animal
D. an island
Let it be known that Mr. Li Ming, native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, male, born on April 15, 1981, having specialized in Hardware Technology in the Computer Department of this College, from September, 1999 to July, 2003 and having completed the three-year program with qualified standing, is hereby awarded this Certificate of Graduation.
Modem computers based onare()millions to billions of times more capable than the early computers, which occupy a fraction of the space. Simple computers are small enough to fit into mobile devices, and mobile computers can be powered by small batteries. Personal computers in their various forms are icons of the Information Age and are what most people think of as ‘computers’.
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