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- 4481: Legalization of Drugs (for)
- ... for) Drugs are a major influential force in our country today. The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control it or even solve it. Ending the drug war seems to be a bit impossible. The war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is not true. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't gotten a chance but should be given one. Although ...
- 4482: The Hobbit ]
- ... the dwarves cannot enjoy the gold alone, since it lures humans and elves, some of whom have a just claim to a portion of it. Thorin's unwillingness to share the treasure almost leads to war between the dwarves and the elves and humans, but instead war is forced upon all of them by the goblins and wargs (wild wolves). All the good races(dwarfs, men, elves, eagles, and Dain's soldiers) are thus forced to unite against their common enemies. They ...
- 4483: History Of Computer
- ... card punch and electric typewriter. It was slow, requiring 3 to 5 seconds for a multiplication, but it was fully automatic and could complete long computations without human intervention (Chposky, 103).The outbreak of World ! War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their ... in price of older processors. In other words, the price of a new computer will stay about the same from year to year, but technology will steadily increase (Zachary, 42) Since the end of World War II, the computer industry has grown from a standing start into one of the biggest and most profitable industries in the United States. It now comprises thousands of companies, making everything from multi-million dollar ...
- 4484: Software Licensing and Piracy
- ... an organization, and giving an unauthorized copy to someone else - is prohibited. Under this law if anyone is caught with the pirated software, an individual or the individual's company can be tried under both civil and criminal law. A Civil action may be established for injunction, actual damages (which includes the infringer=s profits) or statutory damages up to $100,000 per infringement. The criminal penalties for copyright infringement can result in fines up to ...
- 4485: If Marijuana Were To Be Legal
- ... Legal Drugs are a major influential force in our country today. The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control it or even solve it. Ending the drug war seems to be a bit impossible. The war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is not true. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't gotten a chance but should be given one. Although ...
- 4486: Legalization of Drugs
- ... 70 billion dollars that the government can tax. Those tax dollars can be used to improve education, highways, public parks, etc. Also, there are many government agencies and groups dedicated exclusively to fighting the drug war. Courts, police, prisons are all part of this fight against drugs in the United States. The cost of running all these agencies is 10 billion dollars a year. If you really think about it, each ... that the legalization of drugs in the United States would not only improve society, but the economy as well. It's really sad to see the government use our tax money to fight a losing war on drugs. What's also sad are the number of people devoting their time and energy into selling and trafficking illegal drugs. Proposition 215 would be a good start in the legalization of drugs. However ...
- 4487: Antigone - A Contrast Of Two T
- ... translation of part of this speech is "For the arrogant boast of an impious man Zeus hateth exceedingly" (Kitto, 11). Townsend writes this as "God hates presumption" (Townsend, 5). Later on in the same speech, War is a god in Kitto's version, and a horse in Townsend's. When the chorus later speaks of celebrating the victory, Kitto's line is "Come! Let all thank the gods, Dancing before temple and shrine all through the night, following thee, Theban Dionysus" (Kitto, 12). Townsend ignores all mention of gods and recites the line as "Let us forget the war, and dance at every temple all night long" (Townsend, 6). The gods were not only a huge part of the Greek culture, but they also play a significant role in the play. When the blind ...
- 4488: Japanese Capital Structure And
- ... Kangyo, and Sanwa (the latter three are centered around Japan s largest commercial banks. Together, these six corporate groups account for a quarter of total Japanese business assets. History/Background Prior to the Second World War, several large monopolistic companies dominated Japanese industry. They were known as zaibatsu the dominant four were Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo and Yasuda. During the post-war Occupation the holding companies of the zaibatsu that controlled member firms were dissolved. Many firms subsequently regrouped to create the keiretsu we see today. Types of keiretsu: Vertical and Horizontal Vertical keiretsu are arranged hierarchically ...
- 4489: Gun Control
- ... no sporting purpose"). How did the citizens of Concord and Lexington respond to this reasonable, moderate gun control proposal? With their guns! With a battle that killed hundreds of people and began years of vicious war! Why were our ancestors so "unreasonable"? Because they knew that once their guns were taken, the rest of their rights would soon follow. History has proved them right time and again; the citizens of Hitler ... guns that law-abiding citizens are banned from possessing. What would happen in a nation with guns in every house? There is such a nation; Switzerland. The Swiss have not had to fight a foreign war for hundreds of years (the last fighting in Switzerland was a one-month insurrection in 1847). and their crime rate is among the lowest in the world. The U.S. can only envy their record ...
- 4490: Henry James And Daisy Miller,
- ... was never actually a wealthy man. He lived off of his earnings as a writer and loathed to accept charity from anyone. At the end of his life at the onset of the First World War he actively participated in the war relief effort until he suffered from severe health problems in 1916 (Tanner 95). When he dies his books were not very popular and it would take twenty years for his works to be rediscovered (Dupee ...
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