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- 2271: Technology and Progress
- ... my own process of growth, I too was held liable for my decisions. Often these decisions ended in painful lessons. Most of these unfortunate decisions stemmed from my own ignorance of the consequences. As a child I was largely ignorant to the nature of the world around me. I did not understand the nature of pain and suffering and as a result I did not understand such concepts as cruelty. During ... a self inflicted orgy of destruction a real feasibility.1 Never before in the history of humankind has the human race had the potential to destroy itself. Yet like the bite I received as a child the scars left from this apocalyptic warfare are not easily forgotten. That is to say although the danger of nuclear destruction is serious threat to the continued existence of mankind, the consequence is such that ... was by no means a good thing, if it had not have been for this invention we most certainly would have experienced full scale slaughter by some other means. Much like the myself as a child we dont have a concept of pain unless we are bitten in the face and we wont remember without the scars that remain. Bibliography 1. Buchanan, R. A., The Power and the ...
- 2272: Ban Smoking In Public Places
- ... the 1990,s and the non-smokers voice can now be heard loud and clear. The government has an ongoing campaign to make mothers aware of the damage-smoking can do to the defenceless unborn child. If a woman smokes during pregnancy the she delivers nicotine and carbon monoxide into her babies blood stream. The baby is more likely to be born small and be more prone to illness in the first months of it s life than the child of non-smokers. Doctors have also said that it has been linked to cot deaths. Statistics show that the risk of a stillborn baby or one, who dies in the first week of birth, increases ... is an offence to drink alcohol in the street this should be the same for tobacco. Young children are easily influenced and the sight of a teenager smoking could be the trigger to turn that child into a smoker. Much as we feel sorry for these addicts it is them who made the initial choice. They should not be permitted to force on us. Word Count: 581
- 2273: Kids, Like Adults, Are Facing
- ... on schoolwork according the study found, has decreased from 40 percent of After collecting minute-by-minute time diaries that looks at hbw wefl today's chddren are tiri a national study released today. a child's dav in 1981 to 25 percent last year. from the families of 3,600 children, researchers Researchers found, for e,ample, that cv Among the most striking changes is the 'Children are affected by the same time crunch were able to describe in detail how a typical child's hour spent reading each week translates int rease in time spent at school, up by an average that their parents are affected by," said Sandra week plays out, from the average 74 hours half ... iget, but because more children are in preschool much more time in structured environments." front of televisions on weekdays, down from two on tests in which the mean scote was IOEL dIeters- and after-school child-care programs, The researchers do not conclude that this hours in 1981. But television still occupies far The study suggests that the amount of ti, searchers said,transformation in fiamily routines is necessarilv more ...
- 2274: Bontsha And Gimpel
- ... a little brother being her son in reality. He had been fooled again. The foolishness of the fool did not end here though. Only four years after their marriage, his wife gives birth to a child supposedly premature. Gimpel did not want to be fooled and asked his wife: Isn t he a little too premature? Anyone who would have been in the same situation as Gimpel would have divorced the women immediately. On the contrary, Gimpel had faith in his wife and loved the child with madness. The greatness of his faith is rendered further when witnesses his wife cheating on him and giving birth to another child that could not possibly be his. Moreover, after his wife s death Gimpel did not cease loving her and dreamt of her at night. Gimpel the Fool helped Singer illustrate the greatness of someone ...
- 2275: Computer Crime Is Increasing
- ... provisions could provide for excuse or deferral of obligation in the event of disruption of service by a virus. Legislation The first federal computer crime law, entitled the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984, was passed in October of 1984. The Act made it a felony to knowingly access a computer without authorisation, or in excess of authorisation, in order to obtain classified United States defence ... a computer system, (as well as to prevent authorised use of any computer used for government business) was also made illegal. The 1984 Act had several shortcomings, and was revised in The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Three new crimes were added to the 1986 Act. These were a computer fraud offence, modelled after federal mail and wire fraud statutes, an offence for the alteration, damage or destruction of ... Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals (1993). Norman, Adrian R. D., Computer Insecurity (1983). Parker, Donn B., Fighting Computer Crime (1983). Dodd S. Griffith, The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986: A Measured Response to a Growing Problem, 43 Vand. L. Rev. 453, 455 (1990).
- 2276: Billy Sunday
- ... father s death and a series of other deaths would come to have a tremendous impact on Sunday s life. For the first three years of Billy Sunday s life he was a very sickly child. His mother, Mary Jane, would carry him around on a tote pillow while helping her parents plant corn, milk cows, chop wood, and wrangle horses. Then a traveling doctor prepared a syrup that Mary Jane fed to Billy every day for three weeks. Miraculously, Billy gained strength and became a normal active child. Luck changed for Billy s family, but only for a short time. His mother remarried and had two more children. Sadly, the second child, a girl, died in a fire when she was three. Not long after, Mary Jane s second husband died also. These untimely deaths left a mark on young Billy that stayed with him for ...
- 2277: Censorship of the Internet and the Tyranny of Our Government
- ... legitimate applications of the Internet. Banning of material that may be offensive to one, but may be quite valuable to another, deprives people of their civil right to information. Pro-censorship advocates argue that some child might unsuspectingly stumble upon unsuitable information. This is not true. Online users are not bombarded with grotesque pictures and hate groups' paraphernalia. One has to deliberately go into such a site, and there exists software ... in the mail and logging onto a pornography site can be quite time consuming. Also, parents can take an active part in the censoring of their own children's online activities. They should manage their child's Internet usage as they would determine the kinds of movies available to be watched. (Censorship and the Internet 1) This can be done with software, not government intervention. As stated in "Censorship and the ... Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity it should end there" (Censorship and the U.S. Government 1), technology makes this possible. Internet providers, such as, America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe offer child functions to restrict sites determined by keywords, subject matter, or specific sites. Such software as "SurfWatch", "NET NANNY", and "CYBERsitter" offer a variety of options including blocking of specific sites, preventing children from revealing ...
- 2278: King Lear - Parrellelism In King Lear
- ... emphasis and suspense. The parallel between Lear and Gloucester displayed in the play cannot possibly be accidental. The subplot of Gloucester corresponds the major plot of Lear. The two fathers have their own loyal legitimate child, and their own evil and disloyal kin. Gloucester and Lear are both honorable men, who have children that return to them in their time of need, and are sightless to the truth. Like Lear, Gloucester is tormented, and his favored child recovers his life; he is tended and healed by the child whom he has wronged. Their sufferings are traceable to their extreme folly and injustice, and to a selfish pursuit of their pleasure. In the early beginning of King Lear, Cordelia says that her love ...
- 2279: Julius Caesar - Citizen Of Rome
- ... bakery. I am married to a charming lady named Antonia. We have been married for only a couple of months, and we do not have any children. We are not yet prepared to have a child, because we cannot financially support one. Once the bakery starts going well, we will have a child. I work during the days, and Antonia, being a lady, does not work so she could take care of the child. I begin to laugh, when I imagine a woman working somewhere other than in the kitchen. It would be quite an odd sight. I hear people shouting. It seems to be coming from the ...
- 2280: Hacking to Peaces
- ... mischief to computer systems, like computer viruses and cybercrimes. "There is no single widely-used definition of computer-related crime, [so] computer network users and law enforcement officials must distinguish between illegal or deliberate network abuse versus behavior that is merely annoying. Legal systems everywhere are busily studying ways of dealing with crimes and criminals on the Internet" (Voss, 1996, p. 2). There are ultimately three different views on the hacker ... comes to the control of cyberspace. However, the government has a tremendous amount of trouble with handling the laws dealing with hacking. What most of the law enforcement agencies follow is the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986." "Violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act include intrusions into government, financial, most medical, and Federal interest computers. Federal interest computers are defined by law as two or more computers involved in the criminal offense, which are located in different ...
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