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- 321: Censorship And The Internet
- ... at the border".14 Another person attending that conference was Ann Breeson of the Ame rican Civil Liberties Union, an organization dedicated to preserving many things including free speech. She is quoted as saying, "Our big victory at Brussels was that we pressured them enough so that Al Gore in his keynote address made a big point of stre ssing the importance of free speech on the Internet."15 Many other organizations have fought against laws and have succeeded. A prime example of this is the fight that various groups put ... Byte Out of the First Amendment. How Free Is Speech in Cyberspace?" Human Rights, http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/human_rights_960420.article (Spring 1996). 5 Bryan Bradford and Mark Krumholz, "Telecommunications and Decency: Big Brother goes Digital," Business Today, Spring 1996 : 12-16. 6 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history. ...
- 322: Banned And Censored Music
- ... would be placed on the album cover. This sticker would indicate that the album should not be purchased by anyone under the age of eighteen due to explicit lyrics or violent behavior. This was a big step backwards for those who were against the censorship of music. This stickering system did not include the censorship of pornography. In 1987 a singer by the name of Jello Biafra was arrested for the ... record label wanted to sell a lot of copies of an album, they would have to start making sure they were acceptable for the general public. Since the Wal- Marts and K -Marts were so big it would be really hard to sale a large quantity of the albums at record stores. As you can see, censorship is a big part of the music industry these days. Obviously censorship has been around for a while, but is it all that it is cracked up to be? There are many groups or coalitions who believe ...
- 323: History of Telecommunications
- ... drum telegraphy. This roaring of drums is how messages were spread for far distances. In similar state, the old China used a sort of drum telegraph which was that of the "Tamtam". This was a big, free hanging, circular metal plate. The keystroking, as it is called, of this plate would create a far-reaching audible tone. This is the drum telegraph and the start of telecommunication. Fire Signaling Fire signaling ... with the invention of the telephone being such a break through, there is also the Internet that has been another one of telecommunications great findings. Of course, there are inventions in between those that are big, such as that of the computer. We wouldn't be able to access the Internet without it. The computer is a very big deal. It helps you with almost anything. I know in the future, computers will be voice activated. Then you can just talk to it and the computer will type the words you tell it ...
- 324: Dwight David Eisenhower
- ... fresh and sweet to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Just about a year ago, he sat in the drawing room of his Georgetown home and spoke breezily about the office he would assume. "Sure it's a big job," he said. "But I don't know anybody who can do it any better than I can. I'm going to be in it for four years. It isn't going to be so ... S. President has granted so many private interviews to journalists of many levels. It goes without saying that organized labor is friendly to Democrat Kennedy, but the President has also gone all-out to relieve big business of its suspicions about his Administration. He has sent his economic advisers all over the country to preach that big business is a respected Administration partner, slipped such business leaders as U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough into the White House for long, earnest chats. Kennedy's persuasive personality has also been turned on ...
- 325: Death Of A Salesman
- ... the major problems which Willy has is his relationship with his sons, and in particular Biff. Neither of Willy s children seem to measure up to his expectations. Willy expected his children to make it big in the city, and whilst Happy works in the city and is doing more to gain his father s approval than Biff , even he is not very successful, working as an assistant to the assistant ... never truly feels only sympathy for him, and this is without doubt due to the fact that in one way or another he has brought most of his problems on himself. The first of his big problems, becoming unemployed, is not really his fault (except in as much as he perhaps should have chosen a career more suited to his abilities, such as manual labour), but the financial worries which are ... stealing a football to practice with . Willy s seeming acceptance that it is okay for Biff to steal lead Biff to think the same, which is part of the reason why he never made it big in the city with Oliver s company. There is also the incident involving Biff travelling up to New England to see Willy after hearing about his maths mark. In this case Willy s hypocrisy ...
- 326: Assisted Suicide
- Assisted Suicide Over the past ten to twenty years a big issue has been made over a person1s right to commit suicide or not. The American courts have had to deal with everything from assisted suicides to planned suicides, and whether the constitution gives the American ... at what the constitution says and see if any of the states have allowed suicide. Finally, we'll study some of the cases that have been brought before the American courts. Suicide has become a big part of American society, year after year more people are taking their own lives for many different reasons. A lot of philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two different categories, rational ... but just because you are having a bad day doesn't actually mean you have a rational reason to go out and throw yourself off a building or tie a rope around your neck. Another big issue about suicide today is the one that deals with assisted suicide. When we think about this the first person who pops in our mind is Dr. Jack Kervorkian. Yet Kervorkian was not the ...
- 327: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... one that was greatly needed by Hopkins. His work was not very well liked by people because it was about things that were against the church (Bloom p.90). During his time this was a big mistake, but in the same sense this portrayed realism to its fullest. Although some of Hopkins poems seem disturbing, they are actually excellent pieces of work. He portrayed realism by only writing about things that ... about things that went against the church. For instance one of his pieces was about a group of nuns that were crossing a bridge while it was collapsing(Fairwhether p.84). This was a very big mistake for Hopkins because this caused there to be no audience for his work. Although this work was rejected by his time, it is greatly appreciated now because there is no one great religion anymore ... one that was greatly needed by Hopkins. His work was not very well liked by people because it was about things that were against the church (Bloom p.90). During his time this was a big mistake, but in the same sense this portrayed realism to its fullest. Although some of Hopkins poems seem disturbing, they are actually excellent pieces of work. He portrayed realism by only writing about things ...
- 328: Robinson Crusoe
- ... drowned everyone but Crusoe. He was lucky to be alive. When he got the strength to walk again he found himself a safe place to sleep for the night, which was between to limbs a big tree. When he awoke the next morning he went he decided to salvage some stuff from the boat. There were so many things on the ship he had to build a raft to carry them ... of a tall cliff. So he decided to build a canoe to travel to it. It took him almost a year to build a canoe. When he finally got through with it, it was too big to drag to the river. So he learned his lesson. He then turned his attention to clothing. The ones he had gotten four years ago began to rot and tear. He began to learn to make soft vests and pants out of goat skin. After that he made a big umbrella out of the skin to protect him from the sunrays. It took him many tries to make it work right. Since Crusoe had found out how to breed his goats he had a ...
- 329: Materialism in the 1920s
- ... plays a major role in Gatsbys life while he is trying to win Daisy back from her husband tom Buchanan. One of the things Gatsby impresses Daisy by his enormous mansion. He bought this big house because when he was dating her five years ago she lived in a big luxuries house. She is also living in a big house now so Gatsby figured she would go for bigger and better one. Next another way Gatsby is materialistic is by the expensive fantasy clothes he wears. Gatsby intently brags about how their imported ...
- 330: Assisted Suicide
- Assisted Suicide Over the past ten to twenty years a big issue has been made over a person1s right to commit suicide or not. The American courts have had to deal with everything from assisted suicides to planned suicides, and whether the constitution gives the American ... at what the constitution says and see if any of the states have allowed suicide. Finally, we'll study some of the cases that have been brought before the American courts. Suicide has become a big part of American society, year after year more people are taking their own lives for many different reasons. A lot of philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two different categories, rational ... but just because you are having a bad day doesn't actually mean you have a rational reason to go out and throw yourself off a building or tie a rope around your neck. Another big issue about suicide today is the one that deals with assisted suicide. When we think about this the first person who pops in our mind is Dr. Jack Kervorkian. Yet Kervorkian was not the ...
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