Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tiding,
Of the golden future time.”**
These lines are from the song "Beasts of England" in George Orwell’s allegorical novella Animal Farm. The song is introduced by Old Major, a visionary boar, who shares his dream of an animal utopia where all creatures are free from human oppression.:
Old Major begins the song by addressing all animals regardless of their region (“land and clime”). He
"The Parrot in the Cage" is a short story by Mulk Raj Anand, one of India’s most prominent writers in English. Known for his humanistic themes, Anand often explores injustice, suffering, and social realities in his works. This story is a symbolic and emotional monologue of a parrot, trapped in a cage and voicing its sorrow and longing for freedom. The story is a strong allegory for human suffering, particularly
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a brilliant allegorical novella that uses animals on a farm to represent political figures and ideologies. It is rich with symbolism, serving as a powerful critique of totalitarianism, particularly Stalinist Russia. Orwell uses characters, events, and objects symbolically to mirror the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath.
The entire book is
1. Fertilization
Frogs reproduce through external fertilization, where the female lays eggs in water, and the male releases sperm over them. Fertilization occurs in the animal hemisphere of the egg. This process forms a diploid zygote. The point of sperm entry determines the gray crescent, which helps in the later development of the body axis.
2. Cleavage (Early Cell Division)
The zygote undergoes holoblastic, unequal, and radial cleavage. The first two cleavages
Explain how an OS can facilitate installation of a new device without any need for recompiling the OS. Modern operating systems use loadable kernel modules (LKMs), which allow device drivers to be loaded at runtime without recompiling the kernel. Additionally, they use Plug-and-Play (PnP) systems and hardware abstraction layers (HAL) to detect and configure new devices automatically.
This makes it easy to add printers, USB drives, and other hardware dynamically. Why is printer output typically spooled
MEMORY MODELS Model A (MSDOS): Large user space at top, small RAM at bottom | Fast execution, long boot | No protection Model B: Small ROM at top, small user space at bottom | Protected OS but slow (entire OS must be read) | Not flexible Model C (Win11): Select drivers at top, large user space in middle, RAM at bottom | Fast + secure (key drivers in ROM) MEMORY PROTECTION & MANAGEMENT Relocation Problem: Without abstraction, loading multiple programs ca1.5uses incorrect memory addresses Base
Block Devices: Stores information in fixed-size blocks, transfers are in units of whole blocks(ex: hard drives, SSDs, USB drives). Character Devices: delives/acccepts streams of charcters, w/o regard to block struc, not addressable, no seek op(ex: keyboard,mice,serial ports). Port-Mapped (Isolated I/O): I/O devices have a separate address space, special instructions IN & OUT used to access devices. Memory-Mapped I/O: Device registers are mapped into system memory, use regular load and store
File System: Manages how data is stored and retrieved on disk. Disk = sequence of fixed-size blocks -> only 2 ops: read(k), write(k). Must: 1.) Store large amounts of data. 2.) Keep data after process ends. 3.) Allow multiple processes to access same data. File Types & Structure: File Types: Executable, Text, Archive. File Structures: Byte Sequence (eg: .txt), Record Sequence (eg: DB), Tree (eg: XML). File Operations: Create, Delete, Open, Close, Read, Write, Append, Seek, Get/Set Attributes,...
Goals of healthcare: prevent morbidity, disability, mortality
WHO Health definition: "complete physical, mental, and social well-being"
Top causes of death: Hearth disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory, accidents, stroke
Quality of life: q is quality, g is time discount
Triaging: 1: immediate risk of death, 2: serious immediate medical need, 3,4, 5 dependent in number of resources needed (more resources -> lower number)
Types of healthcare data: Medical history, Medications, Vitals/Physical