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- 171: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... marketed an electrically driven peep-hole viewing machine (the Kinetoscope) that displayed the marvels recorded to one viewer at a time.^Edison thought so little of the Kinetoscope that he failed to extend his patent rights to England and Europe, an oversight that allowed two Frenchmen, Louis and Auguste LUMIERE, to manufacture a more portable camera and a functional projector, the Cinematographe, based on Edison's machine. The movie era might ... shoot-out. When other companies (Vitagraph, the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Lubin, and Kalem among them) began producing films that rivaled those of the Edison Company, Edison sued them for infringement of his patent rights. This so-called patents war lasted 10 years (1898-1908), ending only when nine leading film companies merged to form the Motion Picture Patents Company.^One reason for the settlement was the enormous profits to be derived from what had begun merely as a cheap novelty. Before 1905 motion pictures were usually shown in vaudeville houses as one act on the bill. After 1905 a growing number of small, storefront theaters called nickelodeons, accommodating less than 200 patrons, began to show motion pictures exclusively. By 1908 an estimated 10 million Americans were paying their nickels and ...
- 172: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... be supported by the patient. Derek Humphry’s book FINAL EXIT , and the Hemlock society, which is a United states based organization that assist terminally ill persons in the act of self-deliverance favors the rights of individuals to active, rational, and voluntary euthanasia when the dying process offers nothing but pain and a life devoid of dignity or meaning. They support Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act that allows lets ... first enacted on December 8, 1994, but was deferred through appeals, until it was confirmed by a second referendum on November 22, 1997. On May 25, 1995, the Northern Territory Parliament in Australia passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. It became law on July 1, 1996, making it the first place on the planet to have legalized euthanasia. It was appealed to the Supreme Court in Australia, and was ruled valid, but on September 9, 1996 the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia the Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996, designed to repeal the assisted suicide laws of the regional territories of Australia. The bill passed and took effect on March 25, 1997 giving the Federal Parliament the power to over rule the ...
- 173: Capital Punishment: Is It Required
- ... gas chamber for the gallows. Neither recommendation was followed. Between 1957-1963, the Conservative government under John Diefenbaker commuted 52 of the 66 death sentences. In 1961, MP Davie Fulton (Minister of Justice) piloted a bill through the House which distinguished between capital and non-capital murder. In 1962, there were three cases of capital murder in which the juries recommended mercy. The government commuted all three of these deaths. In ... declare their deaths. There have been no executions in Canada since 1962. Between 1963-1967, the Liberal government under Lester Pearson commuted all death sentences. In 1967, MP Larry Pennell (Solicitor General) Introduced a government bill providing mandatory life sentences for capital murder convictions, except for the murder of police officers and prison guards. It became law on December 29, 1967. The three sentences of death given during the next five ... punishment in law was argued in the House of Commons under the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau in 1976. After an impassioned debate lasting 98 hours, the abolitionists won the vote by 130 to 124 (Bill C-84). At the time, there were 11 men on death row across Canada. If the bill to abolish capital punishment had been defeated, some of these men who had killed policemen and guards ...
- 174: Nicolet Minerals Company and Wisconsin
- ... formerly Crandon Mining Company) is planning to open a copper mine in the center of the headwaters of the Wolf River. This is causing anger, lawsuits, and raising questions of the local Menominee Indians’ treaty rights. The proposed mine would certainly effect the environment of northern Wisconsin. Nicolet Minerals Company plans to extract fifty-five million tons of rock to retrieve two million tons of zinc-copper ore over the next ... of the agreement was illegal (Fantle). There is also action being taken at the state level. On April 22, 1998, Earth Day, Governor Tommy Thompson signed Wisconsin Act 171, better known as the Mining Moratorium bill. State Representatives Spencer Black and Bill Lorge proposed the original bill in December of 1995 (Fowler-Bowman). The bill was amended by the State Assembly and passed on to the State Senate who repealed amendment four and passed it on ...
- 175: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.” He did just that with his economic programs creating the longest period of US expansion since World War II. He crusaded for peoples rights trying to regain America's reputation for the country that fight the hardest for its citizens' rights. Bringing American idealism together with the Alliance for Peace and the Peace Corps he brought the idea to developing nations but the communist regime still held fast in Europe. Along with his crusades for peace ... the 1960 campaign as Kennedy's running mate. On November 22, when JFK was assinated, Johnson was sworn in a President of the Unites States. He continued Kennedy's policies such as a new civil rights bill and a tax cut. He tried to keep his memory alive because after all “This is still his presidency. I'm just filling in.” His next goal was to “build a great society, ...
- 176: Is Animal Testing Right?
- ... do not hear of any human testing because that is morally wrong. So why are we doing it to animals? Animal testing is probably the most unjust form of treatment for any animal. Humans have rights, which are protected by the bill of rights. Animals also have rights, but only animal activists protect them. Anyone knows that if groups of humans were being tortured or even killed then it would make many headlines on the evening news, and ...
- 177: Martin Luther King Jr. 3
- Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King s challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination in 1968, King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. Education and Early Life Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the ... Pennsylvania in 1951, he went to Boston University where he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology in 1955. King s public-speaking abilities which would become renowned as his stature grew in the civil rights movement developed slowly during his collegiate years. He won a second-place prize in a speech contest while an undergraduate at Morehouse, but received Cs in two public-speaking courses in his first year ...
- 178: How Does A Bill Become A Law?
- How Does A Bill Become A Law? Legislating laws is something that takes a considerable amount of time to do. Once a bill or proposed legislation is put forward by a constituent (person who has representation), a lengthy process immediately follows. It is a slow paced step-by-step procedure that will be further illustrated below. A bill is passed through a Committee System after being introduced by a representative and being sent to the proper committee, which can be determined by the type of bill they receive-foreign relations, argriculture, banking ...
- 179: What Are The History, Laws, Profitability, and Responsibilities To The Consumer Of Advertising Hard Liquor on TV In The United States?
- ... the First Amendment. This fact is being upheld in a recent commercial free speech decision by the Supreme Court. The case of 44 Liquormart, Inc. vs. Rhode Island upholds the industry's commercial free speech rights by insuring that beverage alcohol is allowed the same protection under the First Amendment as other legal products and services. In addition, the Courts also ruled that truthful and non-misleading advertising is an essential ... enough. United States Representative Joe Kennedy, Democrat from Massachusetts, is a major player in introducing legislation to further restrict or stop distilled spirits advertising. Mr. Kennedy introduced several bills to the 104th Congress. The first bill he introduced is known as the "Children's Protection from Alcohol Advertising Act of 1996". The purpose of this bill is to establish advertising requirements for alcoholic beverages. Restrictions proposed by this bill are that no alcoholic beverage can be advertised on any audio tape, audio disc, videotape, video arcade game, computer game or ...
- 180: Court Case Number 15: Bowers v. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)
- ... him in imminent danger of arrest and that the statute for several reasons violates the Federal Constitution. I oppose the Court of Appeals decision that Michael Hardwick's complaint was dismissed by evidence seen through rights readily identifiable in the Constitution's text involved much more that the imposition of the Justices' own choice of values on the States and the Federal Government, the Court sought to identify the nature of rights for heightened judicial protection. Such landmark court decisions as Palko v. Connecticut stated this category includes those fundamental liberties that are “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,” such that “neither liberty nor justice would ... to homosexuals to engage in acts of consensual sodomy have ancient roots. Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original thirteen States when they ratified the Bill of Rights. In 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, all but five of the thirty-seven States in the Union had criminal sodomy laws. In fact, until 1961, all fifty States and the ...
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