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- 1151: Free Music: Why Not?
- Imagine a world in which you are able to acquire any piece of knowledge or work of art without paying for it; a world where information is freely given, theatrical performances and music are the property of no one and everyone. This world is not much different than what the internet is like today, but all is confined, in a way, to its respective world—the internet world and the real world. A piece of writing printed ...
- 1152: Birth Control Or Legal Murder
- ... 41 have taken place before a person is born (Factbot). Fertilization is just the beginning of a long process of growing and maturing. "Life in a continuum. From the moment the egg is fertilized a new life has begun. All of the genetic information is present to construct a unique individual. Gender, physical features, eye color have already been determined. The baby's heart begins beating regularly at 24 days. Babies ... one of a kind,'" said Dr. Landrum Shettles father of in vitro fertilization (Factbot). Abortion is wrong because it ends the life of a human being. The day of conception marks the beginning of a new human life. "'The zygote is the first cell of a new human being,'" said Keith L. Moore. There is no way that the fetus is just a "blob of (Factbot) tissue." Scientific and medical facts prove that the fetus is living. They prove that the ...
- 1153: 3 Billion Dollar Screams
- 3 Billion Dollar Screams Universal Studios Escape, unifies the “old” Universal Studios Florida, the all new Universal Studios Islands of Adventure theme park, a City Walk of restaurants and night clubs, and a new luxury hotel all under one name. ‘Islands of Adventure’ and City Walk will officially open this May, while the hotel is scheduled to open in the fall. Universal’s parent company, Seagram, invested billions in hopes of attracting larger crowds, drawing larger profits, and providing an all around, one-stop, high quality vacation experience that can compete with neighboring Disney World. Universal Studios Islands of Adventure theme park represents a $2.7 billion investment that marketing execs hope will draw larger crowds away from their number one competitor whose name says it all: Walt Disney ...
- 1154: Flappers Such As Clara Bow And Zelda Sayre Represented The Popular And Devilish Women Of The 1920's
- ... these stylish women were a major part of the fashion industry in the mid-1920's. Flappers mainly portray the typical teenage girl who loved to party and have fun. The term flapper puts a new meaning into the alleged young lady. They no longer are expected to be as perfect as they are made to be. Flapperhood was an amazing thing, but although it seemed that this would've been a ceaseless trend, it somehow ended, or at least decreased. How exactly did this happen? That is one question left to be answered. Bibliography Bliven, Bruce. Flapper Jane. [World Wide Web] Available http://www.pandorasbox.com/jane.html, September 9, 1925. Brooks, Louise. Flapper Culture and Style. [World Wide Web] Available http://www.pandorasbox.com/flapper.html, March 3, 1999. "The Flaming Youth," World Book Encyclopedia, vol. XX, pp. 175-76, USA, World Book, Inc., 1992. Herald, Jacqueline, Fashion of a Decade ...
- 1155: How England Instigated The Ame
- Soon after England established the colonies in the New World, it began a period of salutary neglect. The English rarely intervened with colonial business. It was during this time that the colonies began gradually to think and act independently of England. This scared England, and initiated a period in which they became more involved in the colony's growth. Parliament tried o establish power in the New World by issuing a series of laws. The passage of these laws undermined the Colonist's loyalty to Britain and stirred the Americans to fight for their freedom. Before 1763, the only British laws ...
- 1156: Telecommunications
- ... the full realization of the integrated services digital network (ISDN), which is projected to be capable of transmitting through a variety of media and at very high speeds both voice and nonvoice data around the world in digital form. Other developments in the industry are aimed at increasing the speed at which data can be transmitted. Improvements are being made continually in modems and in the communications networks. Some public data ... 56,000 bits per second (bps), and modems for home use (see Microcomputer) are capable of as much as 28,800 bps. Introduction When a handful of American scientists installed the first node of a new computer network in the late 60's, they could not know by any chance what phenomenon they had launched. They were set a challenging task to develop and realise a completely new communication system that would be either fully damage-resistant or at least functional even if an essential part of it was in ruins, in case the Third World War started. The scientists did what ...
- 1157: 3rd World Essay
- Freedom for people, especially women in a third world country such as Egypt, can be very costly. In the novel Woman at Point Zero, the main character Firdaus could only attain freedom through her death. In Egypt, women face abuse in some way or ... or appearing on television ("El-Saadawi, Nawal" 734). When Saadawi was put in prison, there was a rise in publicity for the event and women in The United States, Europe, Asia and throughout the Arab world rallied to her support. This rallying helped secure her release on November 25, 1981 when President Sadat died, and President Mubarak ("El-Saadawi, Nawal" 734) became the new ruler (Speace 3). She has since devoted her time to being a writer, journalist and a worldwide speaker on women's issues. Since 1983, when her book Woman at Point Zero first was published ...
- 1158: Marcus Garvey
- We declare to the world that Africa must be free, that the Negro race must be emancipated (p. 137 Altman, Susan. Extraordinary Black Americans.) are the famous words delivered by Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Born a West Indian, he later became ... Negroes could never achieve equality unless they became independent-founding their own nations and governments, businesses and industrial enterprises, and their own military establishments which are the same institutions by which other peoples of the world have risen to power. Marcus Gravey was the eleventh child of Marcus and Sarah Gravey. He was born in 1887 in St. Ann s Bay, a rural town on the north coast of Jamaica in ... He founded the organization to which he was to devote his life, the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA), with the intention of making Africa the defender of Negroes the world over. (p.110 Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century ) Intending to open a school in Jamaica similar to the one organized by Booker T. Washington in the United States, he accepted an invitation to ...
- 1159: African Americans
- ... of race, as it applies to the black minority in the United States, is as much a social and political concept as a biological one. Blacks Under Slavery: 1600-1865 The first Africans in the New World arrived with Spanish and Portuguese explorers and settlers. By 1600 an estimated 275,000 Africans, both free and slave, were in Central and South America and the Caribbean area. Africans first arrived in the area ... in increasing numbers to fill the desire for labour in a country where land was plentiful and labour scarce. By the end of the 17th century, approximately 1,300,000 Africans had landed in the New World. From 1701 to 1810 the number reached 6,000,000, with another 1,800,000 arriving after 1810. Some Africans were brought directly to the English colonies in North America. Others landed as ...
- 1160: Personal Writing: You Need New Shingles On The Roof If You Want New Kitchen Cabinets
- Personal Writing: You Need New Shingles On The Roof If You Want New Kitchen Cabinets Bob Vila, the host of "Home Again," always makes his projects look so easy. Most people fail to realize why good ole' Bob is able to make things appear so easy on television. You see, Bob has a fifty man crew made up of world class carpenters hidden out of site behind the camera. These carpenters are the best and are armed to the teeth with Sears' best craftsman power tools. They stay out of site until a commercial ...
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