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- 1051: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... the streets that enjoys beating the helpless, raping the defenseless, and robbing the penniless. About half-way through the novel, Alex is caught by the authorities. They attempt to reform him from his life of crime by using a controversial new technique that forces Alex to become physically ill at even the thought of violence. In the last chapter of the book, Alex is able to break free of the mental chains that the reform had captured his soul in, and reinstate his existence as a creature capable of moral choice by reentering his life of crime (Burgess A Clockwork Orange). Throughout the rough biographical sketch given, certain points in may be selected in which events in Burgess's life can be shown to have heavy influence on A Clockwork Orange. Burgess published A Clockwork Orange in 1962, a time in England that was marked with a great amount of crime and very violent youths. Burgess himself had once cited this setting as the source of, or at least the inspiration of the stories of horror and violence told in this novel (Baldwin A8). The ...
- 1052: The Constitution: Discord And Tension In 1850
- ... Citizens who attempted to hide a runaway or obstruct enforcement of the law were subject to heavy penalties. In document D, it was said that the F.S.L. is a statue which enacts the crime of kidnapping, a crime on one footing with arson and murder. A man’s right to liberty is an inalienable as his right to life... its a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.’ In the flyer created by an abolitionist, it pointed out that man was able to capture ...
- 1053: Invasion Of Privacy
- ... say, "Hello!" The voice on the other end says, "Hi. This is Robert from the Stony Brook Intranet Monitoring Board and we have noticed that there has been illegal usage of university bandwidth from your computer." You are startled and you ask, "What are you talking about? I have no idea, what you are talking about?" The voice responds, "We have been monitoring the university network and we have noticed that so-and-so from Hand College in room 417A has been receiving or downloading mp3s and other files from your computer." Surprised, you answer, "Really? I didn't even know." The voice on the other end responds, "Please take off any and all illegal information or data that you may have up on the network or else we will have to take action." Unsure about what he means, you say, "Ok. I'll do it right away." You quickly hang up and turn off your computer. You think to yourself, have they been monitoring everything I've been doing on my computer? This is a true story that occurs on the campuses of many colleges and universities around the country. ...
- 1054: The Market Structure of Microsoft
- ... decisions, mistakes by competitors, and at times some shady tactics that a company might employ to become a market leader and monopoly of today. Microsoft had its beginning during the 1970s when IBM was the computer hardware giant of the industry. In 1975 Microsoft was the producer of programming languages for MIPS Altair 7500 (Conigliaro1996). In 1981, Microsoft purchased an operating system for an Intel based 8086 chip from a small company named Seattle Computer Products and redesigned its product to sell it to license it to IBM for its new personal computer (PC) (Conigliaro1996). The redesigned product was released under the name MS DOS 1.0. IBM being a monopoly at that time in the hardware department, by allowing Microsoft to provide the operating system to ...
- 1055: La Cosa Nostra
- ... this tradition and brutality that characterizes the Mafia, a secret Sicilian society that lives and functions just as much today on American soil as it did and does still in Italy. To understand this organized crime, one must begin to understand how it came to be organized in the first place. During the medieval times in Sicily, Arabs invaded the land and native Sicilians fled and took refuge in the hills ... is known as the Father of American Mafia.” (La Cosa Nostra) Many Italian immigrants came to the United States through Ellis Island in New York, which is today the most important center of organized Mafia crime in the United States. The new American Mafia came to power during the Prohibition by organizing the sale of outlawed alcohol, but after Prohibition was revoked, the Mafia needed a new “racket.” During the war ... days the Mafia is involved in running prostitution, unions, construction, and gambling. New York, also called the “City that never sleeps,” houses the Five Families of New York. These Families are highly influential and powerful crime families and each holds claim to certain “rackets.” The Five Families are: Gambino, Bonano, Lucchese, Colombo, and Genovese. While all people in the Mafia are required to maintain certain silence about the workings of ...
- 1056: Nathaniel Abraham, Analysis An
- ... of Pontiac, Michigan, grew up with out a father, or a strong family unit. He, in turn, never learned the responsibility of his actions; he was not privy to an upbringing that reinforced positive ideals. Crime & Criminology describes, in depth, the relation between family and criminal activity in youths. Page 126 (chapter four) sited two relevant facts; 1) Blacks have much higher rates of illegitimacy and female headed house holds. 2) Blacks have a much higher rate of crime than their white counterparts. In Nathaniel’s case, it can be said that his lack of a positive role model, or father figure lead to his involvement in criminal activities. His mother, Gloria, was struggling ... before Greene’s murder on the charge of robbery. All this by the age of eleven. In families where there is no male role model a child is far more likely to become involved in crime. The data that exists suggests a direct correlation between youths raised without a father and criminal activity. In conclusion, Nathaniel is a byproduct of the decaying system of family values in the black community. ...
- 1057: Grace Hopper Biography
- ... in 1930, and her Ph.D. in 1934, along with two Sterling Scholarships and an election to Sigma Xi. While finishing her college education she married the New York University English teacher Vincent Hopper. Her computer technology life would soon begin following her graduation. Upon graduating, Grace was accepted to the Bureau of Ordinance at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]"… not a problem for Grace. She would ... was a beautiful code." Grace was then forced to teach herself octal arithmetic, since that is what the code was performed in. A sort time after that, many people started to believe a user-friendlier computer was needed. Grace got to work on it. Grace was credited with the first compiler in 1952, the A-0. The compiler was "a set of instructions that translated mathematical code into machine language." ...
- 1058: A Discussion on Animal Rights
- ... drink" after tasting a watermelon. The description "candy drink" is essentially the same word form as the English "water melon" (Sagan 615). Another method of bridging the communication gap between humans and animals is by computer. At the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, researchers teach chimpanzees like Lana a specific computer language called "Yerkish" (Sagan 616). "Yerkish" allows the chimpanzees to talk with the computer by keyboarding in messages. The computer in turn responds appropriately. While Lana types, she monitors her sentences on a computer display and erases those sentences with grammatical errors. At one point while Lana typed ...
- 1059: Religion and Capital Punishment
- ... unless the person you are killing has killed someone else. In this context, one must realize what capital punishment, the direct termination of a person’s life by artificial means as a penalty for a crime committed, namely murder, is a violation of the fifth commandment. It is clear to see that the Bible itself, and consequently God, condemns the imposition of the death penalty. Dr. Ernest Van Den Haag, in ... punishment, suggests the following eight arguments against the death penalty. (1) capital punishment does not accomplish much; (2) that murderers are deranged; (3) that they should be rehabilitated, not executed; (4) that however bad their crime, execution is far worse; (5) that legal execution violates a person’s right to life; (6) that execution violates the religious sanctity of life; (7) that execution violates human dignity and cheapens a persons life ... immoral." (Evangelium Vitae, para. 57). This quote brings up an important question. Why would capital punishment ever be considered a moral act? The Catholic Catechism teaches that an adequate punishment must be administered for any crime, in order for the offender to eventually regain his freedom (Catechism, para. 2266). It also states in the same paragraph that a penalty of death may be warranted only if no other means are ...
- 1060: School Violence
- ... of Education’s Goals 2000 program. They propose Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-free Schools by the year 2000. (Perlstein B. 02) Despite heightened public attention following a surge in multiple homicides in schools, overall school crime rates are declining, according to the new 1999 Annual Report on School Safety. (Journal of American Medical Association 34) “Although America can be glad that school crime is decreasing,” said President Clinton; “we must take firm steps to ensure the safety of all our young people in their communities and in their schools. Congress should finish its work on the juvenile justice ... perceived or real problem of bias and unfair treatment of students because of ethnicity, gender, race, social class, religion, disability, nationality, sexual orientation or physical appearance is what a report noted. An update on hate crime legislation and related statistics is included, but the report also notes that hate crimes are often underreported and data collection is further complicated because state definitions of hate crime vary. Recent data shows that ...
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