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- 5441: Improving Cyberspace
- ... IV. Online pornography is easily and illegally accessible to minors. A. In Michigan, anyone can access anything in cyberspace for free. 1. Mich-Net offers most of Michigan access with a local call. 2. The new Communications Decency Act could terminate Mich-net. B. BBS's offer callers access to adult material illegally. 1. Most BBS operators don't require proof of age. 2. Calls to BBS's are undetectable to ... censorship. Like the Internet, some spots contain hard core pornography, yet some have good content. Operators usually orient their BBS's for the local community, but some operators open their system to users across the world. The government can shut down a BBS if it transfers illegal material across a state border according to federal law. As a postal worker in Tennessee showed, shutting down a BBS with illegal pornography is ... help establish moral standards. According to a local survey, 83% of adults online have downloaded pornographic material from a BBS. 47% of minors online have downloaded pornographic material from a local BBS (Crandall). In another world wide survey, only 22% of 571 responders thought the Internet needed regulation to prevent minors from obtaining adult material (C|Net). Obviously, something is wrong with America's morals. A child cannot walk into ...
- 5442: Poussin And Roman Influences I
- ... was founded in 1648, were based upon Poussin's ideological values for art. His philosophy about the great importance of drawing as the crucial intellectual core of painting was a precept at the Academy. The new official stance on artistic value reflected Poussin's own artistic values and his belief in the superiority of history painting. Though in actuality many artist of the early eighteenth century followed his values more in ... Italy. Poussin struggled as a starving artist until Barbarini's return in 1626. Unfortunately Poussin soon fell ill. He was nursed back to health by a French family and eventually married their daughter. With the new stability of a family life and a steady patron, Poussin was finally able to dedicate himself to his original goal in Rome, and thus began his education by viewing the works of the great masters ... to learn and expand on his/her abilities. It provided a multitude of stylistic choices and examples from the grandeur of antiquity, the glory of the High Renaissance, and the budding appearance of a vibrant new style, Baroque. As a student of Rome, Poussin was able to research artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio and Bernini. He was then able to take what he could from them and synthesize ...
- 5443: Treating People Fairly Is A Right That Has Been Changed By Affirmative Action
- ... banning discrimination in employment, voting, public accommodations, public education, and all federally assisted programs. Affirmative action was once a bold synonym for equality of opportunity. In more recent years, though, affirmation action entered the political world as a sinister euphemism for reverse discrimination. (Carlton 19-23) In 1971, there were seven female city managers, and in 1986 there were well over one hundred. After 1994 there were five hundred and twelve ... is because he has worked hard, gotten the education the same way a white American has and has paid the price. He should not be turned away because of his skin color. Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men and women and children entered the United States. In 1905, 06, 07, 10, 13, and 1914, a million more arrived each year. Many arrivals had left their homeland to escape mobs who attacked them because of their ethnicity, religion, or politics. More immigrants arrive illegally and legally today than ever before. They come in ways that are ordinary or desperate, jetting into New York aboard commercial airliners, scrambling off boats on the Florida shore and trudging into New Mexico across the desert border. What are they looking for? The answer is easy, freedom and a better way ...
- 5444: Transcendentalism
- ... and greatest influential transcendentalist writer of the time period. Inspired by the exploration and writing about spiritual relationships between humanity and nature, and the ideas of his good friend Ralph Emerson, he experimented with this new found idea. On July fourth he left on an experience to Walden Pond. He spent two years watching, writing, and feeling the power of nature. The only way Thoreau could encounter a relationship with nature ... believed in women's rights, freedom of speech and religion, and the abolition of slavery, which gave him a voice in important subjects that needed change. In addition to their impact on views of the world these authors prompted a different outlook on nature for many other writers. Bryant influenced the establishment of Romanticism in American Literature and shaped the next generation of poets to be. Emerson gave the "free birds" of our society a new method of thinking, which partially inspired the "hippie" movement. Thoreau gave writers, social and political readers, and environmentalists a new way to conceive thoughts or ideas that may come to them. Thoreau made the ...
- 5445: Beowulf 3
- ... the two main characters are Beowulf, a young man; and Grendal, a furious dragon. In the society in which the poem Beowulf takes place, war and kingship are normal factors in daily life. Beowulf's world is a very violent society with wars as a dominant part of daily life. Dragons and monsters are a constant threat to the Danes and the Geats. Warriors are a necessity to this war-like ... no fear of the dragon, because he has fought many enemies that were much more ferocious. For example one of Beowulf's great battles is the fight with Grendel. No one other than Beowulf is brave enough or strong enough volunteer to fight Grendel. I am now entering a new age of Beowulf's life. With all his great achievements, he finally becomes king of his homeland: Geatland. Even in his old age, his code of honor still obligates him to fight against an ...
- 5446: B.F. Skinner and His Influence in Psychology
- ... direct supervision of Skinner’s English composition teacher and all of the blame was on him when Mr. Chaplin did not show up. Skinner graduated soon after that, and it was the start of a new life. Psychological Beginning After graduating Skinner started writing, but that did not work out. Skinner started classes at Harvard University studying for his Masters Degree in Psychology. Skinner always had been interested in animal behavior ... most well known psychologists of all time. He was a very intellectual man and will be remembered far into the future. References Behaviorism. (1997). The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved April 07,1998 from the World Wide Web: http://www.utm.edu./research/iep/b/behavior.htm Boring, E.G. (1967). A History of Psychology in Autobiography. New York: Irvington Publishers. Retrieved April 07,1998 from the World Wide Web: http://lafayette.edu/allanr/early.html Skinner, B.F. (1974). About Behaviorism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Press.
- 5447: Walt Whitman and His Poetry
- Walt Whitman and His Poetry Walt Whitman, a famous American poet, was born on May 31, 1819 in the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother's name was Loisia Van Velsor, of Dutch descent., and amazingly could not read very well, if at all. His dad was an English carpenter who probably could not read his son ... whenever he could and was self taught. When he was seventeen, he became a teacher in a small school. Five years later he took a job as a journalist and was the editor of many New York papers. He studied the French language, and many of his poems contain French words. When he traveled to the New Orleans, he witnessed slavery which in turn “helped him write his poems” according to Walt Whitman. Between 1848 and 1855 he developed the style of poetry he is known for. In 1891 he finished ...
- 5448: Definition Paper American
- ... American can also be from any other country located in the western hemisphere, like Argentina, Panama or perhaps Canada? The word "American" came from the word "America," which is a continent first known as the new "fourth part" of the world. It was discovered on October 12, 1492, when Christopher Columbus saw an island in the Bahamas which the Indians called Guanahani and Columbus rechristened San Salvador. Following this, Columbus made three other voyages to America ... and 1502. During those trips, he touched the coasts of South and Central America. In that time, the continent was known by the earliest explorers and historians as the Indies, the West Indies, or the New World. In 1499, Alonso de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa visited South America, and with them went Amerigo Vespucci who wrote such popular accounts of his own deeds that the German geographer Martin ...
- 5449: Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
- ... journal entries. He wrote two novels, Summer Evenings and The Tower of Babel, both of which remained unpublished. At the age of fifteen, he foreshadowed his life, stating, "I'll be a genius, and the world will admire me." This comment referred more to ambition than to conceit, which was a popular comment among Dalí's critics. His artistic purpose was furthermore empowered when Dalí was accepted as a student at ... Bread was a meticulously and accurately painted still life. Above all, Dalí was known as a Surrealist. In simple terms, Surrealism was created by unshackling thought, bringing into focus both the phenomena of the real world and the fantasies of the individual psyche. Most Surrealists, such as Salvador Dalí, were greatly influenced by the works of Sigmund Freud and his radical views of life. In 1929, Dalí met his future wife ... Gala in 1934, Dalí visited America for the first time. He held two solo art exhibitions and as a result was featured in the Hall of Fame section of the American magazine Vanity Fair. As World War II broke out, Dalí and other artist refugees were forced to move to Paris. Most of Dalí's recent work was destroyed by fascists. At about this time, a dark, gothic side of ...
- 5450: Thomas Jefferson
- ... a small stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River (internet). There, Americans could build their own seaport. Impatient at the lack of news, Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris to offer $10 million for New Orleans and West Florida. In the letter to Mr. Monroe conveying the notice of his appointment, the President said: “All eyes, all hopes, are now fixed on you; and were you to decline, the chagrin ... 30, 1803, the United States negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million (internet). By signing this document, America doubled in size, making it one of the largest nations in the world. However, Thomas Jefferson was publicly criticized for buying what some called “worthless land (internet).” Jefferson believed that the annexation and government of so vast a territory was unconstitutional. He wanted an amendment to the Constitution ... true leader and a man that stood up for what he believed in. In his eyes, the purchase of the Louisiana Territory was not just a waste of time and money, but an expansion of new horizons for a better America (internet). Jefferson is recognized for his many accomplishments such as being the third President of the United States, one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence, and ...
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