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- 1031: Having Fun While Learning
- ... creative teachers like Professor Thorne. Although this world is ever changing, many positives from this change have resulted, such as the advent of computers, another tool used in learning. Becoming more popular in schools, the computer is a useful tool in learning, allowing the student to interact with their studies in the classroom and at home, if a computer is accessible. The computer linked with the Internet can connect a person to staggering amounts of material. Interactive CDs offer unlimited possibilities for education. For example, The Treasures of the Smithsonian, gives the viewer the ability to capture ...
- 1032: Usage Of The Internet
- ... survey also revealed that only 11 of the top advertisers in traditional media placed among Web advertising's top 50 spenders. 67% of all online ad spending came from "Web-based companies, telecommunications companies or computer companies - [who] have nothing to lose and everything to gain by promoting a networked, computer-based medium." (Ibid) Still, other companies - financial services, travel, healthcare and entertainment, for instance - benefit from Internet ads. (Ibid) As for big-ticket items such as automobiles, Internet ads give consumers a chance to access ... survey also revealed that only 11 of the top advertisers in traditional media placed among Web advertising's top 50 spenders. 67% of all online ad spending came from "Web-based companies, telecommunications companies or computer companies - [who] have nothing to lose and everything to gain by promoting a networked, computer-based medium." (Ibid) Still, other companies - financial services, travel, healthcare and entertainment, for instance - benefit from Internet ads. (Ibid) ...
- 1033: Pro-Death Penalty
- ... a very beneficial component of our justice system. The death penalty saves lives. It saves lives because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again. It also deters potential murderers from ever committing the crime. Unfortunately, the death penalty is currently used so rarely that it isnt nearly as effective as it could be. In order for it to work, we must put it into practice more often. In recent years, crime in America has been on the rise, in particular, violent crime. This has led not only to an overcrowding of prisons in our country, but also to an increase in the number of death sentences handed down by the courts. Despite the fact that the ...
- 1034: How The Internet Got Started
- ... on the infant network, which was named arpanet, after its Pentagon sponsor. The four computers could even be programed remotely from the other nodes. thanks to ARPANET scientists and researchers could share one another's computer facilities by long -distance . This was a very handy service , for computer- time was precious in the early 70s. In 1971 ther were fifteen nodes in Arpanet; by 1972, thirty-seven nodes. And it was good. As early as 1977, TCP/IP was being used by other ... to the Internet cost the taxpayer little or nothing, since each node was independent, and had to handle its own financing and its own technical requirements. The more, the merrier. Like the phone network, the computer network became steadily more valuable as it embraced larger and larger territories of people and resources. A fax machine is only valuable if everybody eles a fax machine. Until they do, a fax is ...
- 1035: The Year 2000 Problem
- ... 2000 Problem, also known as the Y2k Problem or Millennium Bug, refers to the inability of computers to accurately process dates in the year 2000 and beyond. On New Year's day, 2000, millions of computer calendars will read the date as 01/01/00. The obvious problem with this is that the year 2000 will be interpreted as 1900. Millions of software applications will either stop working or produce erroneous ... Government agencies, businesses, and financial institutions use software applications that contain date computation functions. The following types of organizations would be affected: utilities, transportation, manufacturing, banking, finance, defense, education, healthcare, and government agencies. Should the computer systems of these organizations fail, have you ever stopped to think of the economic effects this may have on our modern economies? The lifeblood of our modern economies run on information and computers are essential ... a chief economist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, "The problem will be a disruption of the information flow. Even if only 10% of the world's computers are not synchronized to register the year 2000, many computer systems will automatically shut down if they cannot communicate with other systems. That would result in a range of problems, from airlines canceling flights to companies not being able to automatically send bills, a ...
- 1036: Morality Or Murder In In Cold
- ... by making you privy to the thoughts behind their actions. He brings the realization that they, too, are human and some circumstance(s) in their lives has reshaped them into these monsters capable of this crime. We begin to wonder why Dick and Perry choose the Clutters, we wonder why they murdered them, instead of simply robbing them. We feel for them because of their physical defects which Capote details both ... permitted him to kill. Dick's background was also a train track to immorality. He grew up in a poor family, experienced family trauma through his divorces and eventually turned to a life of petty crime. He became embittered toward life in general and Capote believed this was even evident externally with Dick's disfigured face. Capote felt that even Dick's faηade warned us of the bitter sediment that formed the basis for his nature. However, I do not think that Dick would have committed this crime on his own. Dick was viewed as a small-time crook compelled to act out this crime because Perry viewed him as macho. Dick needed Perry's violent nature to complete the bond that ...
- 1037: Murder, Rape, and DNA
- Murder, Rape, and DNA DNA is the information needed by a cell in order to reproduce an identical offspring. In some crimes detectives have no evidence or fingerprints to tell who had committed a crime. Now there is a way of finding who has committed the crime by a method called DNA Typing. DNA Typing is finding bacteria or blood on clothing or skin and amplifying the gene. This process was pioneered in the 1980's by a Scientist named Alec Jeffreys. If blood, sperm, or any other human cells are left at the scene of a crime, the DNA in the cells can be analyzed and compared with some DNA taken from the suspect's blood. If they match, this information and testimony of a scientist can be used to convict ...
- 1038: Coputers In Modern Society
- Coputers In Modern Society Looking around at daily life, I noticed a pattern of computer oriented devices that make life easier and allow us to be lazier. These devices are in most daily activities ranging from waking up to an alarm clock that is computerized to watching the news before ... bed on a computerized television. All of these computerized facets of our society help to increase our daily productivity and help us to do whatever it is we need to accomplish in the day. The computer age is upon us and it will continue to grow in influence until society revolves around it daily without need for improvement. In personal computers, the industry has began to create faster machines that can ... are more and more turning to computers instead of typewriters because the computers integrate many office tasks in one machine, most notably the use of word processors. With the use of word processors on a computer comes the use of spell check which is only offered on a few typewriters. The most growing part of the computer-oriented world is the Internet. It allows users to send electronic mail (E- ...
- 1039: Advocating The Death Penalty
- ... a very beneficial component of our justice system. The death penalty saves lives. It saves lives because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again. It also deters potential murderers from ever committing the crime. Unfortunately, the death penalty is currently used so rarely that it isnt nearly as effective as it could be. In order for it to work, we must put it into practice more often. In recent years, crime in America has been on the rise, in particular, violent crime. This has led not only to an overcrowding of prisons in our country, but also to an increase in the number of death sentences handed down by the courts. Despite the fact that the ...
- 1040: Capital Punishment
- ... txp6367@sru.edu Capital Punishment in America The murderer and rapist of an eight-year-old girl was sentenced to death and then released after an appeal case only to commit nearly the exact some crime again. Is this justice? Why was it so easy for this menace to society to go out and rape and kill again? This is but one of the many tragic stories that have occurred over ... and would be a highly effective form of punishment if the government would be more consistent in its use. Capital punishment is defined as the execution by the state of those who have committed a crime. Methods of execution include the electric chair, lethal injection, and the gas chamber. Each of these methods are designed so that no pain is felt. The convict is killed almost immediately and feels nothing. However ... feel the act of execution of a criminal is ok. If the execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder of an innocent life, the execution is justified. Murderers commit such violent acts of crime with almost complete disregard for what the consequences may be. If a person expected to be killed for killing another they would probably think twice about the crime. Recently, a poll of inmates was ...
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