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- 1381: Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life
- Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life Dutch Schultz is one of the best known New York mobsters of the prohibition era. After dropping out of school in the fourth grade and turning to a life of crime, Schultz started with pick-pocketing and petty theft, moved up to bootlegging and smuggling, and eventually left his mark in bloody gang wars. Schultz was considered, even among gangsters, “totally evil.” Dutch Schultz ran speakeasies ... Flegenheimer while serving his first prison sentence. At the age of eighteen, Arthur Flegenheimer opened a saloon. By his early twenties, Schultz had already established his Bronx based bootlegging rackets and was close with many crime bosses. He also had close ties with Italian crime bosses. Schultz even sat on the “National Crime Syndicate,” a governing board that was ethnically diverse. The Syndicate was the co-founder of the all-Italian “La Cosa Nostra” governing board known as the “ ...
- 1382: The Need For Gun Control
- ... have to take legislative measures in order to limit the possibility of handguns falling into the hands or youths. Peter Annin and Tom Morganthau state that according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Report, murders committed by persons under the age of eighteen who were arrested jumped from 1,193 in 1985 to 2982 in 1994. [1] This report shows a substantial increase in the number of killings ... arguments. Sixty-eight percent of the nation believe that laws would reduce the number of accidental deaths and suicides attributed to guns. Fifty-eight percent of the nation agrees that more laws would reduce violent crime. However, in both cases of owners and non owners, the difference of agreement is over twenty percentage points in favor of non gun owners. [2] I certainly agree that stricter legislation would definitely reduce the number of gun related deaths and that if handguns were restricted from the hands of minors and criminals, the rate and recidivism rate, the rate of repeat offenders, of violent crime would be reduced. I believe that we need more strict laws to curb some of the violent crime that is being committed by America's youth. I also believe that the National Rifle Association ...
- 1383: Unemployement - The Unavoidable Consequence Of New Technolog
- ... the world to catastrophic global unemployment......Traditional white and blue collar jobs are being lost to technology at a frightening rate. However, technology is only creating limited jobs for a small, elite core of scientists, computer programmers, consultants and entrepreneurs – this elite group being the ‘knowledge sector’. In confronting Rifkin’s prediction of a “society absent of mass formal employment”, this is possible for while technology is rapidly changing and restructuring ... transitions with which society is confronted? For all that, perhaps the major turnaround in the nature of work, society, communication and personal experience has been the impact of computerised technology (Jones 1996, p.96). A computer may be defined as a “tool which converts data (raw material) into information (product) by following sets of programs (instructions)” (Jones 1996, p.98). Since the late 1970s, computing has become a transforming technology central ... of living, increased public and private sector productivity, the creation of new industries and improved public services, have been fostered by a culture in favour of such forms of technology (McKern 1996, p.60). Incidentally, computer technology has generated major increases in employment downstream and reveals the most important characteristic whether it is applied to the office environment, the factory or various industrial sectors – that of labour saving and capital ...
- 1384: Noise Reduction In Hearing Aids
- ... uses an electronic approach. Each MicroZoom contains two omnidirectional microphones. According to the flyer, “One picks up sound in front of you while a second picks up sound from the sides and rear. A tiny computer chip inside the aid analyzes both sounds. It then enhances the sound from the front, and reduces background sounds from the sides and rear.” (Phonak 1997) In reality, the “tiny computer” is analyzing the time it takes for a sound to reach each microphone and mathematically decreasing ALL sounds from the sides and rear, speech included. Directional microphone technology is fallible in one regard: it assumes ... tested on animals with favorable results, human testing will be necessary. The human subject, with a control module, can adjust the aid to reduce undesired sounds and produce maximum benefit. With the advent of miniature computer chips, the magnetic aid allows for an adjustable frequency / intensity analyzer to be implanted in the skull. The noise reduction possibilities for this type of aid are substantial, even if combined with other digital ...
- 1385: Napster Vs Riaa
- ... blood? Of course not, if the shop owner followed all of the laws that govern him. Should the car dealership be charged with vehicular felonies every time one of their vehicles is involved in a crime? Certainly not. So why should software’s originator be responsible for what their software is used for? They shouldn’t, but the only reason the RIAA is jumping all over the Napster community is that ... can’t just go out and arrest everybody who decides to trade Mp3s online. The real people that the RIAA should crack down on are the people who use the rippers. A ripper is a computer program used to convert (rip) a musical track off of a CD and into a Mp3. They can be found on public shareware sites fairly simply with a search engine. The problem here is that ...
- 1386: Is The Internet Bring A New Era Of American Cultural Imperia
- ... and multi-media support. Now the French government focuses funding French language sites instead of Minitel. Yet, these efforts might be inefficient considered that facts in 1998, only a fifth of French households had a computer, compared with two-fifths in America; and only 2% of French households were connected to the Internet. The French government is persecuting web sites who are based in France but are not in French. Considering ... a large debate about selling of cookies, a technology developed by two American companies, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, to commercial companies (Swisher, C01). Cookies are packets of information both sent and received by one’s computer that can include such personal information as what sites you have been to and how long were you there, your name, your address, and other personal information. Bill Gates says that this technology will allow ... Microsoft, Oracle, IBM). Hedley protested that even though software is in binary code, software development originates in words which is he considers as “the effective currency of culture”. From my own experience using the basic computer languages of the Internet (J++ and HTML), I would confirm that they rely on commands that are extremely similar to English diction and grammatical structure (Hedley, 79). American domination of Internet software is only ...
- 1387: Internet
- ... I viewed pg13, he was helping me use different search engines and being my troubleshooter until I could surf the web by myself. Lots of the children now days are just tuned loose with a computer and not checked on until suppertime or bedtime. With that much freedom come temptation, this leads to the children looking up porn, explosives, or something else that their parents would not want them to look ... to the person in the chat room for about a week, she gave the person her telephone number. Later in the week, the little girl found out the person on the other end of the computer was an older man. This child molester was caught having sexual activity with his eight-year-old neighbor in the state of Alabama. On another chat room, the mother of the ten-year-old went ... the inside of a young child’s mind, than the chainsaw could possibly do. This paper was written to awaken those who would let our rights be infringed on because of their own negligence. The computer skill level by some of the children of today far exceeds the level of their parents. This also causes parents to be shocked at what their children may be looking at when they are ...
- 1388: Information Technology And Quality Customer Service
- ... sit at home. To create this quality service information technology needed to be implemented. This where the BAS or (Business Applications and Support) division enters the picture. The mission of BAS is to provide quality computer software support through a customer service oriented methodology. A while back, before ITSD, there were ASU (Automated Systems Unit) analysts who lead and coordinated automation projects. They would gather up the requests from the different ... ISD, and often worked with the ISD programmers. The two units, ASU and ACU, found themselves still unable to keep up with the many automation requests, particularly since ASU had years before branched out into computer hardware requisition and maintenance. Then came Information Technology and Support Division (ITSD). ASU and ACU merged into one entity, a small (but growing) and mighty automation division. ASU became Systems Operations and Support (SOS) and ACU became BAS – Business Applications and Support. The BAS Analysts do in-depth analyses of computer software requests, working with the users and their management, write detailed functionality and design specs and work with the programmers to make sure that the final product is what the user requested and will ...
- 1389: Future Of Television
- ... three to five years. Now, you are probably asking yourself what is HDTV? HDTV is an all-digital TV broadcast signal that delivers high-resolution, wide-screen picture, and six channels of digital sound. Though computer experts and scientists are working on a more advanced 3D and polygraphic television, it is too far away to tell when it will be done, and how much it can do. As of now, twenty ... have now. They tend to lose resolution and luminance at their corners and edges. Flat panels are generally better-looking, more efficient, and uses less power(Mitchell 48). As of now, we are in the computer age. Computers are involved in almost every aspect of our lives. Just face it, they are everywhere we go. By the year 2002, computers and TV will be integrated. You can surf the web, talk ... HDTV. If you are tired of watching the NBA, you can find a website and watch a televised basketball game as far away as Egypt (Zwirn Interview). Just imagine playing one of those action thriller computer games on your giant big screen HDTV. Now, as we time travel even further into the future to the year 2006, the number of HDTVs will be outrageous. Every single TV out there will ...
- 1390: Computers In Our Society
- ... improving the way we learn.(paragraph)Also, the use of computers has expanded our choices for entertainment. As an example, the all-American game of Monopoly can be played by a single person and a computer and the need for several people has been obsoleted is one way our choices for entertainment have been expanded. Another example of our expanding choices is that you can not only watch movies on DVD ... Digital Video Disc) but re-edit them with your own sound tracks and special effects, listen to music on CD-rom s, even manufacture your own cartoons or even your own movies all on a computer. Moreover, the ability of the computer to link a person with others from far away places where conversations without inferences are sparked and ideas are exchanged internationally is a popular selection for millions everyday as a choice for entertainment.(paragraph) ...
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