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- 4761: Harrison Bergeron
- ... at equality that comes about, makes America a dictatorship rather than a democracy. It also lowers the quality of living in America along with the competition level that America has with the rest of the world. Besides, there is no possible way to make everyone equal in everyday life. Without individuality, there would not be any free thinkers and no dreams to accomplish anything special. Vonnegut uses satire to mock the ... In "Harrison Bergeron" the political system has taken the "Declaration of Independence" and attempted to intertwine it with the Constitution. This however is not possible, since the "Declaration of Independence" was written in ridding the new Americans of the hold that the English had on them. The Constitution was written to have laws and order in the country. The "Declaration of Independence" speaks of "All men are created equal...", this is ... level in sports now, a feat that no one would have ever thought would happen. To add to the point that times have changed, men are raising kids, cleaning house, and cooking in today’s world. In every country, rules are required in order to maintain order. With these handicaps to make everyone equal, it would be impossible for someone with a mental handicap to maintain order in the country. ...
- 4762: Changes To The Bill Of Rights
- ... boxes of paper and floppy disks. The target of the SS operation was to seize all copies of a game of fiction called GURPS Cyberpunk. The Cyberpunk game contains fictitious break-ins in a futuristic world, with no technical information of actual use with real computers, nor is it played on computers. The SS never filed any charges against SJG but still refused to return confiscated property. PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY: The right ... settlement. Two other men who tried to get their two thousand dollars back were denied by the Florida courts. RIGHT TO BE SECURE IN PERSONS, HOUSES, PAPERS AND EFFECTS AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES: A new law goes into effect in Oklahoma on January 1, 1991. All property, real and personal, is taxable, and citizens are required to list all their personal property for tax assessors, including household furniture, gold and ... is done not because the police know of any weapons and can particularly describe them, but because they allege people with drugs often have weapons. Both of the above apply to the warrant the Hudson, New Hampshire, police used when they broke down Bruce Lavoie's door at 5 a.m. with guns drawn and shot and killed him. The warrant claimed information from an anonymous informant, and it said, ...
- 4763: Faust And Frankenstein
- Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the übermensch in their world. In Faust, the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and mental wholeness in knowledge and disaster in lust. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein struggles for control over one aspect of nature and disastrously, through the monster, nature ... seeks spiritual wholeness in knowledge. Through years of hard study, Faust becomes knowledgeable in math, sciences and religion and yet he becomes inept and incapable of having any romantic or physical relationships with the outside world. As Faust strives to become the "over man" through knowledge, he realizes that books will not satisfy his curiosity and that maybe sensual pleasures will. Therefore, in the process of creating his new life, Faust, becomes distant and unconcerned with all reality and humanity around him. Do not fancy anything right, do not fancy that I could teach or assert what would better mankind or what might ...
- 4764: The Year 2000 Computer Problem
- ... affected, but they are paying millions upon millions of dollars in order for computers to recognize the difference between the years 2000 and 1900. The year 2000 computer bug is a huge problem that our world must face. In order to explain how to solve the "millennium bug", it is a good idea to be informed about exactly what the year 2000 problem is. The year 2000 industry expert, Peter de ... 2000 problem, an addition to the obstacle. Combined, they form what seems more like a hideous monster than an insignificant bug. The impact of Y2K on society is enormous, bringing the largest companies in the world to their knees, pleading for a fix at nearly any cost. "The modern world has come to depend on information as much as it has on electricity and running water. Fixing the problem is difficult because there are [less than] two years left to correct 40 years of ...
- 4765: Stakeholder Relations
- ... of about 100 stores, ideal for top-up shoppers, offering a range of groceries and provisions in a small store format located in convenient positions. The last of the businesses is Somerfield 24-7, a new, recent venture that allows people to shop for groceries without going into any of the supermarkets, by using the phone, Internet or interactive television and getting the goods delivered to their door. I am a ... be strengthened using the following strategy: the Somerfield business will focus on local and convenience shopping in small and medium sized stores all of the larger existing Somerfield stores that will not fit into the new strategy shall be sold Kwik Save stores that cannot be converted to the Somerfield fascia shall be sold Somerfield have recognised that large scale out-of-town food retailing will experience an increase in competition ... stores currently operating under Kwik Save an involvement with local communities and a range of foods that are genuinely local Somerfield are selling between 100 and 140 large stores that do not fit into the new strategy, generally over 10,000 square feet. Some of the larger stores that have a majority of top-up shoppers will stay with the company. The selling of the 350 stores in the Kwik ...
- 4766: Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical Instrumentation and Composition
- ... and music. Revolutionizing music, Pythagoras' findings generated theorems and standards for musical scales, relationships, instruments, and creative formation. Musical scales became defined, and taught. Instrument makers began a precision approach to device construction. Composers developed new attitudes of composition that encompassed a foundation of numeric value in addition to melody. All three approaches were based on Pythagorean philosophy. Thus, Pythagoras' relationship between numbers and music had a profound influence on future ... instrumentation would never be the same again. Furthermore, many composers adapted a mathematical model for music. According to Rowell, Schillinger, a famous composer, and musical teacher of Gershwin, suggested an array of procedures for deriving new scales, rhythms, and structures by applying various mathematical transformations and permutations. His approach was enormously popular, and widely respected. "The influence comes from a Pythagoreanism. Wherever this system has been successfully used, it has been ... musical endeavours. Mathematical music would not have been produced without these theories. Without audibility, consequently, music has no value, unless the relationship between written and performed music is so clearly defined, that it achieves a new sense of mental audibility to the Pythagorean skilled listener.. As clearly stated above, Pythagoras' correlation between music and numbers influenced musical members in every aspect of musical creation. His conceptualization and experimentation molded modern ...
- 4767: Everything That Rises Must Coverge
- ... Rises Must Converge", by Flannery O’Connor tells the story of Julian, the main character and his thoughts and feelings toward his mother. Julian is a college graduate who has a fair understating of the world he lives in, and because of this finds difficulty dealing with his mother and her views of the world. The story begins with Julian and his mother taking their regular trip downtown to the YMCA. Julian is often embarrassed by his mother’s feelings toward Blacks; she refers to them as the lower class ... does not want to show up for weight loss class without her hat and gloves. These actions were reserved exclusively for ladies when she was younger and she continues with them, however in today’s world it is not customary. No matter what Julian or any one else says, she will not relinquish those practices. She glorifies the fact that her grandfather was a plantation owner with one hundred slaves ...
- 4768: Fractal Geometry
- Fractal Geometry "Fractal Geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same old world differently". - Benoit Mandelbrot The world of mathematics usually tends to be thought of as abstract. Complex and imaginary numbers, real numbers, logarithms, functions, some tangible and others imperceivable. But these abstract numbers, simply symbols that conjure an image, a quantity, in our mind, and complex equations, take on a new meaning with fractals - a concrete one. Fractals go from being very simple equations on a piece of paper to colorful, extraordinary images, and most of all, offer an explanation to things. The importance of ...
- 4769: Paul Dunbar Research Paper
- ... going nowhere in the Dayton Hotel elevator he drove since he was little.”(Stern 584). He soon became a force to be reckoned with, and a competitor that was hard to top in the literary world. However, all of this hard work did take its toll on Dunbar’s health. He worked at his poetry and writing constantly and was somewhat of a perfectionist. This is proven in the statement, “His ... out. Dunbar wrote from the heart, but no matter how hard he wrote, the critics became harder and harder in critiquing his work. The fact that he was successful as a black poet in a world ruled by white poets constantly tormented him. However, he kept on fighting back, publishing abolitionist poetry and literature, in his quest to gain respect as a black writer. He kept his roots, and this was ... that had characterized earlier American poetry”(Mullane 348). Dunbar broke free of all the standards that had been set in place, and went down a path that was characteristically “black”. Part of Dunbar becoming something new and original that grabbed everybody’s attention was his ability to harness Dialect poetry. Dialect poetry became unique to Dunbar. He used proper English, paired with the improper English of black slaves. It became ...
- 4770: Software Licensing and Piracy
- ... program is textual, like a book, yet also mechanical, like the piano roll in White-Smith, the Copyright Office granted copyright protection under the rule of doubt. In 1974, Congress created the Natural Commission on New Technological Uses (CONTU) to investigate whether the evolving computer technology field outpaced the existing copyright laws and also to determine the extent of copyright protection for computer programs. CONTU concluded that while copyright protection should ... piracy. All software developers spend a lot of time and money in developing software for public use. A portion of every dollar spent in purchasing original software is funneled back into research and development of new software. Software piracy can be found in three forms: software counterfeiting, which is the illegal duplication and sale of copyrighted software in a form that is designed to make it appear to be a legitimate ... the hardware from that particular dealer; and downloading of copyrighted software to users connected by modem to electronic bulletin boards and/or the Internet. When software is pirated the consumer pays for that cost by new software and/or upgrade version being very expensive. Federal appellate courts in the U.S. have determined that operating systems, object code and software cotained in ROMs are protected by copyright, and some lower ...
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