Wednesday, July 16, 2008

How is Dos used?

Every time when we type anything at the Dos prompt, and press enter, we are telling Dos to run a program. Also, it will first look to see if there is an internal command program which has that name, and if it does not find one, then it will look to see if there is a file on disk with that name. When we finds an external file with the extension. COM ( command), or EXE (executable), then the program is loaded and run. In this case Dos looses control of the computer until the program has ended.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

how we write dos files named?

When we write dos files named we have to have 1 to 8 letter name, period, 3 letter extension eg:

How does Dos organise disks?

When dos work within a file, directory and disk drive structure. Also, this all program and data files are named, and grouped together in named diectories on disks.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

What is Dos?

DOS is a "Disk Operating System". That means it is simply: "a System for Operating the Disks". We use Dos to organise data files, load and execute (run) program files, and control the input and output devices attached to the computer. There are other brands of DOS besides the most well known "MS-DOS", ie: PC-DOS, DR-DOS/OPENDOS. Generally speaking, they will all function in the same way, especially at the most simple level.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Marxism & White Teeth

Marxism & White Teeth basically talk about same theme, such as culture, society and Religion. When I was reading Marxism I found some connection between white Teeth. In the Novel we can see “Samad” is a character who came from Bangladesh and his religion is Muslim. He came from a very strong Muslim family. No matter what he can never change his religion. So, we can see Bressler also talk about the same issue in article it says “reality itself can be defined and understood” (P 191). In this line Bressler try to explain religion is a very important part of our life.

On the other hand according to Marxism, “Engels and Marx call this negative sense of ideology false consciousness, which describes the way that the dominant social class shapes and controls each person’s self-definition and class consciousness” (P 194). In this line Bressler try to explain we divide people by race, color and gender. But also, in our society we can divides people as a class, such as high class, middle class and low class. In the novel we find two characters one is a middle class and one is a high class.

As an example we can say Samad is a middle class person. He was a scientist in his home country but now he is a waiter in England. Also, he always tries his best to keep his culture and to teach his son same culture value. We can count Chalfen’s as a high class person. Because both parent s have college degree.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Samad Manifesto

Bressler’s segment “Marxism” really conveyed an interesting depiction of what a Marxist critique of a work truly encompasses. Interestingly enough, the critique itself includes a smorgasbord (I’m very happy I could use this word effectively) of styles and ideas that appear to have evolved over time since Marx’s The German Ideology, and Marx’s and Engel’s more popularly recognized The Communist Manifesto. Most importantly in Bressler’s article is his basic summation of the underlying link between all of the schools of though from origin to present date. As he states, “Common to all these theoretical positions is the assumption that Marx, no matter how he is interpreted, believed that change for the good in society is possible if we simply stop and examine our culture through the eyes of its methods of economic production” (Bressler 201). Even further Bressler goes on to add “Marxism is not primarily a literary theory that can be used to interpret texts…it is a cultural theory that embodies a set of social, economic, and political ideas that its followers believe will enable them to interpret, and more importantly, change their world” (Bressler 201-202). In these few sentences, when related directly to Smith’s White Teeth, one could almost see Samad’s name written in parenthesis next to Bressler’s statements. Samad, a working class citizen, fully believes in the separation of his son’s on the grounds that by sending at the very least one of his children back to his native land he could invariably instill Eastern culture into their lives and establish a morally just individual and create that “change”. Though Samad obviously is not seeking to push a communist agenda, to what extent does anyone agree or disagree that such a demand for “change in their world” as Bressler defines it, applies to the character Smith created in Samad?

Where you belong in society and White Teeth

Marxism points out that the literary works of the author is not different from the issues taking place in society because “Marxism expands the traditional, historical approach to literary analysis by dealing with sociological issues that concern both the characters in a work of fiction as well as the authors and the readers (Bressler, 195).” people are divided by race and gender yes but what truly divides them is class. An area of a life that determines where you stand in society based on your possession/standing. Take Samad for example a scientist (middle class) in his past country but a waiter in is new country. He is a husband looking for outside fulfillment and father disappointed in his son for wanting change and getting change. This change shown by Magid represents what Bressler points out as “false consciousness, the way that the dominant social class shapes and controls each person’s self-definition and class consciousness (Bressler, 194).” Magid and Millat’s refused to be repressed, they wanted out of the ideology that once you’re in a certain class you’re stuck there and you’re to follow in his father’s footsteps. Magid represents the striving class wanting more than what is in front of them.