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- 1311: Isdn For Small Business
- ... small business user. ISDN is a digital connection of phone lines from the customer to the telephone exchange. Digital communication is able to transmit all types of communication required today. These are voice, data or computer and imaging or fax. Data communications are in high demand today and it is difficult to understand. This article will help to inform a residential or business user of the aspects of a higher speed ... communications is in high demand today and is difficult to understand. This article will help to inform a residential or business user of the aspects of higher speed data connection. ISDN Development Rapid advances in computer and communication technologies have resulted in the increasing merger of these two fields. The same digital techniques are being used for data and voice. Merging and evolving technologies in the data and voice transmission field ... devices simultaneously using a single line. (Ameritech) ISDN is ideal for telecommuting and high speed internet connection. Types of ISDN Interfaces There are several types of ISDN service, but the most appropriate type for individual computer users is the ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI). Another variety of ISDN is Primary Rate Interface (PRI). PRI is a high -volume service used by business with large communication needs. Usage of PRI PRI ...
- 1312: Prison System
- ... rehabilitate the criminals of America. One can predict that a prisoner held for two, four, eight or ten years, then released , still with no education or vocational skills will likely return to a life of crime. Often their life in crime will resume in weeks after their release. Although the best prisons and programs in the world will not cure the problem totally, improvements still must be made (Szumski 20). Prison inmates, are some of the ... the loss of thousands of jobs (Szumski 24-26). Henry Abernathy and inmate in Texas said “just think what a catastrophe it would cause if all cons across the country decided never to commit another crime.” Richard Cepulonis, an inmate in Massachusetts said just the title “Department of Corrections” is a “misnomer” he said “they don’t correct anything.” In conclusion, things need to be done to improve rehabilitation in ...
- 1313: Antigone: Following Her Beliefs
- ... or obeying a kings rules, she believes in only obeying god's rules. She says " I intend to give my brother burial. I'll be glad to die in the attempt, If it's a crime, then it's a crime that God commands." Antigone is not willing to obey Creon's rule , she thinks it is nonsense and that only God can make the rules, that is why she says " If it's a crime, then it's a crime that God commands." Basically, God is the only one she believes in making the rules for her and others. Secondly, Antigone knows that she is going to die due ...
- 1314: Muhammad's 23 Years Of Prophetic Ministry
- ... day, Muhammad ordered the murder of 10 people living in Mecca. Muhammad said "God forbid killing in Mecca, except for this one day." Sarh was one of the people Muhammad ordered to be murdered. His crime? He had left Islam, and he constituted a threat to the credibility of the Qur'an and the prophethood of Muhammad. No wonder then that Muhammad wanted him dead. "'To me it has been revealed ... have it carried out because he doesn't want to make a signal with his hand, or wink with his eye??? Why didn't Muhammad kill him himself? If this man had committed such a crime as to cost him his life, why didn't Muhammad see that his death sentence be carried out? What kind of law is that? "You committed a major crime, punishable by death, but I'm going to let you live because I am too proud to signal with my hand."??? Note here that the Qur'an itself, revealed in regard to Sarh in ...
- 1315: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... will be executed for the brutal murder of his wife. As he awaits his own death, he finds it necessary to record the events which seduced him into murder and informed the police of his crime. From infancy, the narrator had been noted for his "docility and humanity of... disposition." His tenderness of heart made him "...the jest of [his] companions. [He] was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by ... fastening its long and sharp claws in [his clothing], clamber, in this manner, to [his] breast." The man longed to destroy the cat, but refrained from doing so "partly by a memory of [his] former crime, but chiefly...by an absolute dread of the beast. This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil--and yet [the man] was at a loss how otherwise to define it...." More than once ... time, this indefinite splotch of white began to take the shape of an object that terrified the narrator. This ghastly shape was that "of the GALLOWS!--oh, mournful and terrible engine of Horror and of Crime--of Agony and of Death!" "...[N]either by day nor by night ...[could the narrator find] the blessing of rest any more." During the day, the cat would never leave the man's side, ...
- 1316: The Bible
- ... their unjust upbringing. They scream to the jury that it really wasn't their fault, but the fault of their parents because if they had a perfect childhood then they wouldn't have committed the crime. It is true that the values that children develop in their early years are important in influencing future decisions but how does this explain the many adults that climb above their horrible childhood and become ... own destiny. Sin is never forced upon anyone but merely delivered by just one person's choice. In the trial of the Oklahoma bomber, the jury will not persecute his family because it was his crime, his sin. His family didn't make him do it and they didn't help him accomplish it. When the men who committed the heinous crimes against humanity during World War II under Adolph Hitler ... of the sharp barbed wire surrounding the death camps housing the innocent. Generations should feel horror to the point where they wouldn't let history repeat itself. They should not take the responsibility of the crime. As the bible says, one must take responsibility for his own actions - not one's father's or previous generations'. After the war ended the prisoners from the concentration camps were allowed back to ...
- 1317: Christian Love And Community
- ... maintaining the community whose foundation has been violated. We can debate whether some non-lethal alternative is a fitting substitute for the death penalty. But the standard of judgment is whether the punishment fits the crime and sufficiently honors the nature of moral community. LOVE AND AN IDEAL SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY Agape, Christian love, is unconditional. It does not depend on the worthiness or merit of those to whom it is directed ... and killing enemies in a just war when non-lethal alternatives are unavailable. They are necessary and tragic emergency means here and now to stop present and ongoing violence. Capital punishment is opposed since the crime has already been committed, and isolation can protect society against future violence. Love in the ecstatic dimension becomes superethical. In ecstasy one is delirious with impetuous joy in the presence of the other and totally ... to death who is innocent. 2. Unfair administration. Capital punishment is inflicted disproportionately on the poor and minorities. 3. Weakness of the argument from deterrence. The claim that the threat of capital punishment reduces violent crime is inconclusive, certainly not proven, extremely difficult to disprove, and morally suspect if any case. 4. The length of stay on death row. If there were ever any validity to the deterrence argument, it ...
- 1318: Computers and The Disabled
- Computers and The Disabled The computer age has changed many things for many people, but for the disabled the computer has ultimately changed their entire life. Not only has it made life exceedingly easier for all disabled age groups, it has also made them able to be more employable in the work force. Previously unemployable ... Considering the limitations that they have overcome in their everyday lives the disabled should be commended for the strength and will, that has let them overcome, at least somewhat, the difficulties the world provides. The computer age has brought them many changes and they have adapted and excelled in them. With Windows 95 and programs like it, the computer world has been brought to almost everyone, even people born with ...
- 1319: The Human Brain
- ... is achieved by planting sixty-four small electrodes in front of the visual cortex of the brain. The electrodes are connected to a small camera that is some where on the person's ear. A computer is attached to the camera. The computer sends the images from the camera directly to the implanted electrodes. They flash as the picture from the camera, thus enabling the person to somewhat see. Artificial hearing is much more complicated then artificial seeing. First a electrodes must be planted in the brain. Then through a microphone a computer produces electrical pulses that are then sent to the electrodes in the brain. But as of yet these procedures are not practical first because of the size of the computer, it cannot be taken ...
- 1320: American Drug Laws- Do They He
- ... was prohibited without success. Also, I believe that a civil body of government rather than a criminal one should regulate drug use. It is a social problem, not a criminal one. As a largely victimless crime they should not have their civil rights taken away just because they like to take drugs which we have arbitrarily made illegal. Drugs are very expensive because they are illegal. Their procurement and use fuel crime and violence, which could be largely eliminated if organized crime did not have a monopoly and the free enterprise system could control the market. Potency regulated by licensed drug companies would prevent unusually pure substances from causing accidental overdose. There is an epidemic of ...
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