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- 1101: VIOLENCE IN TELEVISION, MOVIES, AND VIDEO GAMES:The Wrong Ex
- ... near the actual causes for acts of violence and other crimes. Studies on the issue are, at best, inconclusive on the issue. Many people believe that television, movies, and video games are the cause of crime because they don’t know the facts on the issue. They single out those three because they have violence images and suggestive themes and therefore believe that these will create violence in real life. This ... assumptions about violence in television, movies, and video games. As well, it will properly inform people on the facts about violent crimes that are supposedly related to television, movies, and video games. When a violent crime is committed by a youth, the crime is often blamed on the television that the youth watched or the movies the youth saw or the video game the youth just played. Many people will start thinking that this is true, based ...
- 1102: Gun Control: Overview
- ... buy back program. This program however was very costly but, not as costly as 38,000 American lives each year. Maybe a different approach to the gun control question is that of Canada. Canada's crime rate and gun violence are impressively lower than the U.S. Lets take a look at how they do things. Aside from just guns, bow and arrows, crossbows, and just about any harmful projectile is ... and we made an agreement. We let the bill pass. I was picketed, and they called me a traitor and everything else... because that happened."(5) On November 19, 1993 Bob Dole voted for the crime bill. This bill contained the Feinstein gun ban, proposed by a California Senator, on more than 180 firearms. Two weeks earlier Dole broke an agreement a prevented a filibuster on the Feinstein amendment from ever happening. Dole urged Clinton while on national TV to support this senate crime bill. On February 94' Bob Dole introduced the S 1815 a bill that made the government pay people for turning in guns. Another of Bob Doles ideas is mandatory sentencing for criminals who use ...
- 1103: NATIONAL MORALITY IN HAWTHORNE
- ... effective method to show his great distrust and hauteur of the theocratic Puritan state. He creates a major character, Arthur Dimmesdale, who is a highly respected member of the Puritan community who commits adultery, a crime against everything the Puritans believe in (Leavitt, 90). Arthur Dimmesdale is the leader of the Salem community as minister of the local congregation. He is an ordained minister and highly educated at the best universities ... is not perfect despite what many of his parishioners may believe. Dimmesdale has numerous flaws which are illustrated to the audience by his adulterous affair with Hester Prynne. However, fornication is not Dimmesdale’s chief crime in The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne shows that it is Dimmesdale’s concealment of the affair that is the true sin. The shielding of the affair from the town becomes a great burden on Dimmesdale’s ... the Puritan example of moral virtuosity. Hawthorne also utilizes the character of Dimmesdale to manifest his views and beliefs on where the heart of moral control should rest. While society was oblivious to Dimmesdale’s crime of adultery, he certainly understands the underlying implications of his trespass. The burden of the offense takes a toll on him. He becomes weakened spiritually and even physically as he appears more frail as ...
- 1104: Does Violence In Movies Contribute To Violent Teens
- ... United States would not have occurred if not for the influence of television," but how can they report something like that when they more than likely didn’t talk to the one who committed the crime, and I know for a fact they didn’t talk to the person who was killed. Grossman says that "the reason why the media has to pump even more violence into us is because we ... to look at the background and the evidence that needs to be found. True, Grossman may be an expert on the subject, but I don’t see how people can sue several entertainment companies, violent computer games, Internet pornography, and a violent movie that is said to have contributed to a 14-year-old’s 1997 school shooting in Paducah, Ky. I’m not sure how anyone can sue a entertainment ... has had about 600 homicides since that time(Vincent Schiraldi ). Overall, between 1994 and 1996, there was a 30 percent drop in juvenile homicides in America. Ninety kids were arrested in rural communities for the crime of homicide in 1996, compared to 1,800 in cities (Vincent Schiraldi ). The overall influence of television on teenagers is hard to assess because of personal and industry bias. It is estimated that during ...
- 1105: Introduction to Human Services
- ... Maybe if the people who threw the garbage on the ground had to pick it up, they would care. Taking classes, GED or college, is popular in prison also. I have a friend who learned computer skills in prison and is now working toward a degree in computer engineering. He is grateful he had the opportunity to take college classes in prison, otherwise he may have never found out how much he enjoys programming computers. It seems to help his self esteem, because ... often ask for his help and advice concerning computers. I suppose that providing housing for convicted criminals would not cost more than incarceration. It does not seem that imprisonment is much of a deterrent to crime. A Settlement House may seem idealistic, but is more feasible than some may think. Sex offenders are often released into the community. A new program has been implemented in which parole officers and police ...
- 1106: George Orwell
- ... the Party channels sexual frustration to its own purposes. He looks down and finds to his horror that he has been writing, over and over: DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER. Winston has committed the unforgivable Thought crime. He knows his action will lead to capture and punishment. Thought Police will drag him away in the middle of the night (just the way Nazis in World War II took people to concentration camps ... Winston is at work in the Records section of the Ministry of Truth, engaged in the kind of revision that keeps the Party going. In his cubicle is a "speakwrite" (today it would be a computer terminal); a tube for written messages and one for newspapers; and a "memory hole," in which he destroys obsolete documents. Today Winston would probably complete his entire operation on his handy word processor. As messages ... a sweat when he discovers he's being watched. Winston records his last sexual encounter in his diary. Being caught with a prostitute might get Winston five years in a labor camp, but the real crime is "promiscuity" between Party members, which at the moment Winston finds unthinkable because of his Party conditioning. The aim of the Party, Winston believes, is to remove all pleasure from sexual acts. Winston's ...
- 1107: The Need for Capital Punishment
- ... inside this room reading, thinking and worrying. You aren't in any ordinary room, you're in a cell on death row. A cell reserved for people who were sentenced to death for committing a crime. Death could be by firing squad, lethel injection, the gas chamber or electric chair. Chances are you've been in this room for many years and will be for many more. Your lawyers have began ... house the found a human head in the fridge, 3 heads in the freezer, a human heart in the refridgerator freezer compartment, a blue barrel jammed with body parts and bones, 2 skulls in a computer packaging box, 3 skulls and some bones in a filing cobinet, 2 skulls in a kettle and a penis and some hands in another kettle. These criminals and many others are sitting in a jail ... luxery of cable T.V. They are permitted 15 magazines, 25 books, 4 newspapers, 15 personal letters and a bible. They are allowed to participate in weightlifting, leather work and learning to use an IBM computer. They can also study to get a University degree, all using public tax money. They are allowed to smoke. God help us that a Sadomistic, Necro philliac should have to go through nicotine withdrwel. ...
- 1108: Click Vs Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Onlin
- ... all copyrighted. This is hypocritical and removes credibility to the Napster supporters’ claim that information should be free. Another point raised by Lars Ulrich is that; theft of intellectual property is viewed as a lesser crime that physical theft (as divulged above). To argue this point, he uses an analogy; professing that downloading free music is like “winning one of those contests where you get turned loose in a store for ... on older stereo systems. BMG plan to remedy these initial problems and continue with this anti-piracy strategy. Sony and Universal, conversely, plan to make legal downloading of their music easier and less expensive for computer users. “Consumers now will be able to purchase digital singles under the Universal label for less than one dollar and albums for about US$10 through several online retailers, including Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and ... the law, copying is not fair use. Whereas this does not automatically make it unethical, it must be respected that it is theft. In an attempt to justify this, many say it is a victimless crime, or that the major record labels are corrupt, unscrupulous, and make too much money anyway. As the prior text demonstrates, however, piracy damages an industry upon which many people rely including: musicians, technicians, producers, ...
- 1109: Software Piracy
- ... person offered to break into a software store, turn off all the alarms, and hold the doors open, and allow you to take whatever you wanted from the store. This situation is faced by most computer owners everyday, not necessarily in this form, but in the form of software piracy. Software piracy is the unauthorised duplication and or distribution of copyrighted programs. There would only be select group who would not be tempted by the prospect of basically free software, most of those who are offered these kind of goods either accept them, or are unaware that they are not legitimate. No matter how this crime is being conducted, it has been estimated that this sort of crime is costing the world approximately 13 billion dollars annually. Beginnings Software piracy became popular through the use of Bulletin Boards, which allowed people to dial into other an “underground” archive of pirated software. Around ...
- 1110: Racism
- ... that they can’t succeed in anything. I have friends that act this way. There isn’t but one 4 true pure science that blacks have furthered in. Phillip Emeagwali programmed the world’s fastest computer in 1992, due to his exceptional mathematics. Superiority is a big part of racism. Blacks think that they are superior to whites, and whites think they are superior to blacks. That’s one of the ... but the reality is, that it doesn’t matter who you are or what color you are, its unsafe to be who you are. Hate in America is getting worse and worse everyday. Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. No less than one month ago, two teenage boys committed the worst school shooting this country has seen, killing 13 helpless teenagers and 1 courageous ... then drove to a clearing and beat Bryd severely. Then he was chained to the truck and dragged, to his death. The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). The Texas born Dennis Rodman paid for the funeral for his stand against racism. The future, when you hear that word you start to think about advancing our technology and furthering science. ...
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