Question:
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Information technology (IT) is the application of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology (ICT). In 2012, Zuppo proposed an ICT hierarchy where each hierarchy level "contain[s] some degree of commonality in that they are related to technologies that facilitate the transfer of information and various types of electronically mediated communications."

The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones. Several industries are associated with information technology, including computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, internet, telecom equipment, and e-commerce. Humans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating, and communicating information since the Sumerians in Mesopotamia developed writing in about 3000BC, but the term "information technology" in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the "Harvard Business Review"; authors Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology (IT)." Their definition consists of three categories: techniques for processing, the application of statistical and mathematical methods to decision-making, and the simulation of higher-order thinking through computer programs.
1. What does IT stand for?
2. What is it a subset of?
3. What company had a new hierarchy idea?
4. What year?
5. Did this involve info transfer?
6. What was the title of this hierarchy?
7. When did the term information technology first show up?
8. Where did it appear?
9. In what publication?
10. Did it have more than one author?
11. Who was one?
12. Who was the other?
13. Did IT had and establish name at the time?
14. How many categories was their definition have?
15. What was one?
16. Did one involve math?
17. Which one was that?
18. What was the third one?
19. Since what ancient time have we communicating information?
20. What was that era called?

Numbered answers:
1. nformation technology
2. ICT
3. Zuppo
4. 2012
5. yes
6. ICT
7. 1958
8. in an article?
9. Harvard Business Review
10. yes
11. Harold J. Leavitt
12. Thomas L. Whisler
13. no
14. Three
15. techniques for processing
16. yes
17. the application of statistical and mathematical methods to decision-making
18. the simulation of higher-order thinking through computer programs.
19. 3000BC
20. Mesopotamia

Question:
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CHAPTER XII.

THE WEDDING.

When Ussher first came into the parlour at Ballycloran, he asked after Thady, and it will be necessary to explain why he did so; the terms on which the two men stood towards each other not being such as to render it probable that either should be very anxious for the presence of the other.

It had come to the knowledge of Denis McGovery that Brady had asked to the wedding a lot of men from Drumleesh, and some also from Mohill--characters with whom Denis was not apt to consort himself, and whom he looked on as paupers and rapparees. He had also made out, it is presumed with the aid of his affianced, that some other motive was probably ensuring their attendance than merely that of doing honour to his, Denis's, nuptials. Pat Brady was not likely to have made a confidant of his sister or of Denis on the occasion; but nevertheless, the bridegroom had discovered that the meeting was, to some extent, to be a political one, and moreover, that Thady Macdermot was expected to be there.

Now McGovery, although it must be presumed that, in common with all Irishmen of the lower order, he conceived that he was to a certain degree injured and oppressed by the operation of the existing laws, nevertheless had always thought it the wiser course to be with the laws, bad as they might be, than against them. When, therefore, he learnt that the brothers of the men whom Ussher had put into prison were to be of the party, and that many of their more immediate neighbours would be there, and remembered also that Captain Ussher himself had promised to come to the "divarsion," mighty fears suggested themselves to him, and he began to dread that the occasion would be taken for offering some personal injury to the latter! In which case, might not all be implicated?--and among the number that dear person for whom Denis felt the tenderest regard--viz., himself?
1. Who went into the Parlour?
2. why?
3. where is the parlour?
4. Who was invited to the wedding?
5. from where?
6. what kind of people from Mohill?
7. what kind?
8. How did Dennis feel about them?
9. Did Denis feel as if they were unimportant and lower status?
10. Who invited all the men?
11. why?

Numbered answers:
1. Ussher.
2. He asked after Thady
3. Ballycloran
4. A lot of men
5. Drumleesh and Mohill
6. Characters
7. The sort Denis was not apt to consort with himself.
8. unknown
9. Yes.
10. Brady
11. Politics

Question:
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"Angie, I know you like to sing," her father, a worker, told Angela Brown, "but you must have something to fall back on ."

Brown took her father's advice. She got a degree in secretarial science before entering Oakwood College, in Huntsville, Alabama. However, her aim was to become a singer at religious meetings. So after graduation she headed for Indiana University to study with the famous soprano Virginia Zeani.

Once, when Brown was troubled by self-doubt, Zeani said to her, "If you want to be the next Aretha Franklin, you need no more lessons," Brown remembers her saying. "But if you want to be the best Verdian soprano this world has ever seen, you must work."

Work she did. Three times she competed in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions . Three times she failed to make the final round in New York. Then, in 1997 at age 33, the age limit for sopranos to audition, she gave it one more try. She signed up at the last minute and didn't even practice, thinking, "All they could do was to tell me no, and that didn't hurt my feelings anymore." She had the strength she needed to fall back on if she failed.

She won. But making it in New York was just the beginning. It took her three more years to become an understudy at the Met. But waiting in the wings was fine with her. Finally, her time came. When the featured singer fell ill, Brown earned the chance to sing the lead role in Aida. And The New York Times described her performance as a great success. Angela Brown, who had prepared for 20 years, was an "overnight" successful singer at age 40.
1. Who got a degree?
2. Had someone suggested she do so?
3. Who?
4. What had she liked to do?
5. What school did she attend?
6. Did she go to work after graduating?
7. Where did she go?
8. Who did she study with while there?
9. What was she known for?
10. Did Brown also want to be a soprano?
11. What kind?
12. How many times did she audition?
13. How many times was she rejected?
14. Did she try again?
15. Could she keep trying every year for as long as she wished to?
16. Why not?
17. And how old was she?
18. So this would be her last chance?
Numbered answers:
1. Angela Brown
2. yes
3. her father
4. sing
5. Oakwood College
6. no
7. Indiana University
8. Virginia Zeani.
9. she was a famous soprano
10. yes
11. Verdian
12. three
13. three
14. yes
15. no
16. the age limit for sopranos was 33
17. 33
18. yes