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- 2101: The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society
- The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society Mr. Ingram Ever since the Industrial revolution, technology has been changing at a fast pace. People are always wanting a better lifestyle therefore there is always something new arising so humans can cope with their physical environment. One of the most important ... land. The need for transportation brought vehicles into the market. The need for employees brought mechanical robots into society. Battles over land brought on the need for sophisticated weapons. The agricultural system brought on a revolution. The invention of the television can bring media and other forms of entertainment into your house with video and audio combined. Before 1950, newspapers and radio were the only ways to bring media or entertainment ... resistance movement begins by pointing out that we are cobbling together virtual communities while our real cities crumble, at least partly because our sense of common purpose has frayed. Today, only about 5 percent of American households are on-line, but what happens, the critics wonder, when half the country is wired? Will we escape the unpleasant complications of the world outside our locked doors by opting for communities in ' ...
- 2102: The Necessity Of Computer Security
- The Necessity Of Computer Security When the first electronic computers emerged from university and military laboratories in the late 1940s and early 1950s, visionaries proclaimed them the harbingers of a second industrial revolution that would transform business, government and industry. But few laymen, even if they were aware of the machines, could see the connection. Experts too, were sceptical. Not only were computers huge, expensive, one-of-a ... on society as well. As John McCarthy, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, speculated in 1966: "The computer gives signs of becoming the contemporary counterpart of the steam engine that brought on the industrial revolution - one that is still gathering momentum and whose true nature had yet to be seen." Today's applications of computers are vast. They are used to run ordinary household appliances such as televisions and microwaves ... be made public without compromising security. The single key system, named the Data Encryption Standard - DES for short - was designed in 1977 as the official method for protecting unclassified computer data in agencies of the American Federal government. Its evolution began in 1973 when the US National Bureau of Standards, responding to public concern about the confidentiality of computerized information outside military and diplomatic channels, invited the submission of data- ...
- 2103: Timeline History of Russia 1533-1991
- ... which do not leave an impact on the country's well-being. In December of 1825, an uprising from the populace occures when they demand changes to the economic system. With the development of the American, French and Spanish constitutions, the serfs now demanded the abolishment of the monarchy dictatorship, communal ownership of land and many other civil and social reforms. Unfortunately, their rebellion was quickly dismantled by the Czar's ... the leader of the KGB and the Union. At age 54, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev emerged to inherit the economically devastated Union and began establishing political reforms that the world had not encountered since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. With radical ideologies such as Glasnost (Openess) and Perestroika (long-range capitalistic restructing), along with improved foreign trade and diplomatic association with the United States (elimination of most ballistic nuclear missiles), the reformist ... face of his dominion. Gorbachev's economical strategies had transformed the Soviet Union from a desolate oppressed wasteland to a socially liberated jungle. Such radical policies and reforms not only encouraged the development of a revolution, but the global transformation of Europe as we know it. As the hard-line coup was formed in early 1991, Gorbachev managed to hold on to power thanks in part to his liberal nemesis, ...
- 2104: Fossil Fuels And Alternative Energy Sources
- ... atmosphere (EPA 1). Carbon dioxide along with many other gases are building up in the Earth s atmosphere which, traps heat and is causing the Earth s temperature to increase (EPA 1). Since the industrial revolution the snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere and floating ice in the Arctic Ocean have decreased due to global warming. This melt-off has also caused the world s sea level to rise over four ... amount of the fossil fuels used today. At the current rate that the world is consuming energy the problems that are occurring are only going to grow and cause further destruction (Cole 98). WORKS CITED American Wind Energy Association. 1999 IS BEST YEAR EVER FOR GLOBAL WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY. Http://www.awea.org/news/news991223glo.html Burning Fossil Fuels. http://starfire.ne.vivc.ede/ne201/course/topics/enviromental_effects/ Cole, Nancy ... Renewables are Ready: People Creating Renewable Energy Sournces. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Co. 1995. Environmental Protection Agency. Global Warming. Http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/climate/index.html Information Plus. The Enviroment: A Revolution in Attitudes. Wylie, TX. 1994. Oil Supplies Are We Really Running Out? Http://www.ap.org.edu/oilsup.htm
- 2105: Group Polarization And Competi
- ... harmless. But consider these two examples. It has been speculated that President Lyndon B. Johnson was unwilling to get out of the Vietnam war because he didn't want to be remembered as the first American President to lose a war. If this is true, it means that thousands of people, both American and Vietnamese, died in order to protect one man's status. In Oklahoma City, a federal building was bombed in 1994, killing hundreds of men, women, and children. The alleged perpetrators were a group of extreme, right wing, "constitutionalists" who were apparently trying to turn frustration with the federal government into open revolution. I do not think these examples are aberrations or flukes, but are, instead, indicative of structural defects in our political system. If we are not aware of the dangers of extremism and competition, we ...
- 2106: Bacons Rebellion
- ... an arrest of Nathaniel Bacon. This enraged Bacon even more so he led his men on an attack against the Governor. The colony of Virginia was now in a civil war. During this war or revolution the capital city of Virginia, Jamestown, was burned to the ground. A period of burning and looting began by both sides of the ordeal, which did not end until 1676 when Nathaniel Bacon died of ... and that spark being the ordeal with the Native Americans, they revolted against their English rulers. Nathaniel Bacon and his rebels became and influence and model to revolutionaries over one hundred years later during the American Revolution.
- 2107: The Rise and Down Fall of Major Beliefs
- ... in his pamphlets of “Common Sense”. During the Enlightenment period Thomas Paine wrote 16 pamphlets and these pamphlets discussed how it was time to change the government, religion and economics. This time was during the revolution and Thomas Paine wanted to help and instigate revolutions in any country. Thomas Jefferson was an important part to the American Revolution. He was the one that wrote the Declaration of Independence. Both of these beliefs have many differences and they also have some similarities. Both of the beliefs have different ideas on god and religion. ...
- 2108: The History of the Soviet Union
- ... which do not leave an impact on the country's well-being. In December of 1825, an uprising from the populace occures when they demand changes to the economic system. With the development of the American, French and Spanish constitutions, the serfs now demanded the abolishment of the monarchy dictatorship, communal ownership of land and many other civil and social reforms. Unfortunately, their rebellion was quickly dismantled by the Czar's ... the leader of the KGB and the Union. At age 54, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev emerged to inherit the economically devastated Union and began establishing political reforms that the world had not encountered since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. With radical ideologies such as Glasnost (Openess) and Perestroika (long-range capitalistic restructing), along with improved foreign trade and diplomatic association with the United States (elimination of most ballistic nuclear missiles), the reformist ... face of his dominion. Gorbachev's economical strategies had transformed the Soviet Union from a desolate oppressed wasteland to a socially liberated jungle. Such radical policies and reforms not only encouraged the development of a revolution, but the global transformation of Europe as we know it. As the hard-line coup was formed in early 1991, Gorbachev managed to hold on to power thanks in part to his liberal nemesis, ...
- 2109: What Went Wrong: An Examination of Separation of Church and State
- ... First Congress, which passed this Amendment in 1789, intended to prohibit the establishment of a national religion. In fact, they didn't mind the establishment of “official” religions by states. At the start of the American Revolution, nine of the thirteen colonies had established religions, so obviously no one was opposed to the coupling of church and state. Unfortunately, this separation talk has been so furiously pounded into our heads, that a ... was first organized on the foundation of Jesus' mission on Earth, and that the Declaration “laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. Adams stressed that the major impact of the Revolution was that Christian principles and civil government were connected in an “indissoluble” bond. (Barton, America's p.17) Why is the Supreme Court blind to such evidence as this? John Quincy Adams was an ...
- 2110: The Computer Underground.
- The Computer Underground. The beginning of the electronic communication revolution that started with the public use of telephones to the emergence of home computers has been accompanied by corresponding social problems involving the activities of so-called "computer hackers," or better referred to as the ... tends to be a younger age group who are relatively unskilled in comparison. An example of this is a teenage viri writer called "Little Loc" who "wanted to be the most dangerous virus writer in American," and attempted to prove it by writing a virus that became wide spread and know as the Satan Bug. On the other hand there are writers like "Screaming Radish," who is Windows- application developer from ... and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing. Hollinger, Richard C. and Lonn Lanza-Kaduce. 1988. "The Process of Criminalization: The Case of Computer Crime Laws." Criminology 26:101-126. Levy, Steven. 1984. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York: Dell Publishing. Message Logs from a variety of computer underground bulletin board systems, 1988-1989. NBC-TV. 1988. Hour Magazine. November 2, 1988. Bill Landreth, 1985, Outside the Inner Circle. Microsoft publishing ...
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