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- 1181: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... the age of 18. These works of art and many other museum pictures would not be available. The bill says these sites show indecent pictures. The next part of the CDA has everybody in a big legal fit. We, concerned Internet users, took the writers of this bill to court, and we won. This part of the bill states: "Whoever....makes, creates, or solicits...........any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or ... Also, everybody was asked to e-mail the president in protest. President Clinton got over 10,000 e-mail messages on that day. I think it opened a lot of eyes. Black Thursday was another big issue. Over 82% of the Internet's websites had a "blackout." "Yahoo!" the famous search engine also blackened all of their pages in protest. It was beautiful how many heads were turned. Major businesses such ...
- 1182: What Sort Of Man Reads Playboy
- ... sort..." ad contained a picture of a man and a woman gazing down from on top of a rock with rock climbing gear on. The October 1996 issue contained photographs of "The Girls of the Big 12" and articles on sex in college and college sports. Coincidentally the "What sort..." ad pictured a college student wearing a lettermen jacket, sitting on some steps (which appeared to be at a university) typing ... the rock climbing ad while the laptop ad talked about higher education and male college readers. After having been around awhile, Playboy has learned to play the ropes. The interest related topics (Girls of the Big 12) get the interest related audience (college men) who view the interest related ads (college student ad). By now you should be able to see the relationship going on between Playboys self advertisement and what ...
- 1183: Sphere
- ... with jerry for a while he seemed to be childish, like he wanted to play with us. Contact with jerry died all of a sudden and we heard a rumbling. On sonar there was a big dot. What is it I asked. I don't know barns said its big whatever it is. Then a huge shake. Through the window I saw a huge squid. Everyone hold one the shaking got worse and leaks started to spurt. Harry was knocked out my the shaking and ...
- 1184: What Is Literature 2
- ... of the main areas which literature will effect are the religious, social and personal view of the reader. It is often people who have strong and high views in these areas that will have a big say in what is classified as literature. Weevilly Porridge by Eva Johnson looks at the topic of aboriginal treatment by white people in the late 1800's - 1950's. The topic is a pressing issue ... the different reader and writer contexts. For example a non-religious person may not find the Bible entertaining, as it doesn t fit their context. Different value systems of different cultural groups also play a big part in what is considered literature. In war stricken countries a poem such as Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen which is an anti war poem would be cherished but in a country like ...
- 1185: Al Capone
- ... and brothels. When Torrio was shot by rival gang members and consequently decided to leave Chicago, Capone inherited the "outfit" and became boss. The outfit's men liked, trusted, and obeyed Capone, calling him "The Big Fellow." He quickly proved that he was even better at organization than syndicating and expanding the city's vice industry between 1925 and 1930. Capone controlled speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, income of $100,000,000 a year. He even acquired a sizable interest in the largest cleaning and dyeing plant chain in Chicago. Although he had been doing business with Capone, the corrupt Chicago mayor William "Big Bill" Hale Thompson, Jr. decided that Capone was bad for his political image. Thompson hired a new police chief to run Capone out of Chicago. When Capone looked for a new place to live, he ...
- 1186: "Three Strikes and You're Out"
- ... re thinking stupid kid, stealing a soda and candy bar he deserves what he gets, but then our little buddy goes out and snatches a purse from some poor old lady. Well that's the big 3! Under this new law, this crime would be tried as a misdemeanor but would have s felonious sentence. Our buddy gets sent to 7 years at the state penitentiary. While lodging at one of ... their own breed of justice. Subjecting a small time crook to that style of survival is not only unfair it's unjust. There was no reason to subject our petty thief to a slew of big time offenders.
- 1187: Gun Control
- ... but simply to daunt potential attackers. And it works. Criminals generally do not single out police officers for opportunistic attack. Though officers can expect to draw their guns from time to time, few even in big-city departments will actually fire a shot (except in target practice) in the course of a year. This observation points to an important truth: people who are armed make comparatively unattractive victims. A criminal might ... that it would cause would far exceed what problems it may or may not solve. Strong gun control is a bad idea, and those who say otherwise are fooling themselves by not looking at the big picture.
- 1188: Hunting The White-Tail Deer
- ... waiting patiently, still, and quietly, you finally see your kill, the white-tail deer. Without a doubt, the white-tail deer should be hunted. First, the population of the white-tail deer is entirely too big. In fact, there is a total of twenty-five million white-tail deer in the United States alone.1 Because of this enormous number of deer, they are constantly on the move. This means that ... the over-populated area of deer. Unfortunately, this causes a hassle in major cities when people try to catch the deer without harming it. Debra Fluitt, a citizen of Tulsa, Oklahoma, said, Last year a big white-tail deer came into my very own house as I was unloading groceries. When the police tried to get it out, it destroyed over $800 worth of my belongings and finally jumped through the ...
- 1189: Effects of Television Violence
- ... the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. Much research has gone into showing why children are so mesmerized by this big glowing box and the action that takes place within it. Research shows that it is definitely a major source of violent behavior in children. The research proves time and time again that aggression and television ... of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Young children cannot seem to get enough of these fictional characters and will portray them often. Another reason why television violence causes violence in children is apparent in the big cities. "Aggressive behavior was more acceptable in the city, where a child's popularity rating with classmates was not hampered by his or her aggression" (Huesmann 166). In the bigger cities, crime and violence is ...
- 1190: 80s
- ... Garbage Pail Kids and Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Ponies and Hot Wheels and He-Man action figures and thought She-Ra looked just a bit like I would when I was a woman. Big Wheels and bicycles with streamers were the way to go, and sidewalk chalk was all you needed to build a city. Imagination was the key. It made the Ewok treehouse big enough for you to be Luke and the kitchen table and an old sheet dark enough to be a tent in the forest. Your world was the backyard and it was all you needed. With ...
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