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- 1461: Television 2 -
- ... In only one hundred years the television has very rapidly grown into the main source of media for almost the entire globe. The technology used to create the television also made it possible for the computer to be invented. Even though the computer is superceding the television because it is interactive, it would have never bin invented if the television wasn't. If the television has led the way for the computer and was the first invention to have visual movement with sound was almost like being at the event. All media is held up to be compared to the television. The television certainly has held ...
- 1462: Sex In Society
- ... models in suggestive poses are sending out sinister messages to pedophiles," according to one of Australia's leading forensic psychiatrists, William Glaser. He argues that some advertising messages are giving pedophiles subconscious approval to commit crime. "It's a very subtle thing, but a young girl posing suggestively in a revealing bikini can send out the wrong message," Glaser says. He adds "I don't blame the advertising industry, but feels it fuels the fire when it comes to pedophilia." (Johnson) Also, the attractiveness of sexual aggression as crime news, and therefore as prime news, has been recognized by many newspapers lately. "While comfortably hidden under the cloak of objective crime reporting, sexual violence can be endlessly exploited for its titillating value, its crypto - pornographic quality and its sexist slant." (Johnson, 1997, p.324) As rape and sexual assault became a more serious social problem ...
- 1463: Rape- How Can We Change
- Rape How Can We Change? Although the country has seen crime rates plummet in recent years, rape continues to be a major concern in America. According to Annette Fuentes article, "Crime Rates Are Down... But What About Rape?" in Ms. magazine, "an estimated fifteen percent of women are raped or molested at some point in their lives" (22). While big cities such as Boston, Dallas, Detroit ... a psychological disease and our society needs to find a way to help those with this disease. Nobody not even your worst enemy should be subjected to the experience of a rape. There is no crime more emotionally painful to the victim than rape because the man who rapes a women takes away all of her pride, self respect, and dignity and throws her into a life of living hell.
- 1464: Persuasive Essay On Becoming A
- ... Little Nicholas, who was sleeping on the back seat, was struck in the head with a bullet. He died in the hospital two days later. As a nation, all of Italy was horrified by the crime then deeply moved by the Greens unexpected response. Rather than reacting with justifiable bitterness, Reginal and Maggie Green donated their son s organs to seven Italians. If this were your child what would you do ... donor. The organ transplant system is fair. The distribution of donated organs allows equal access for all patients awaiting a transplant in the United States. The national Transplant Act mandated the establishment of a national computer system for organ sharing that is based on the need availability. Major religions support organ and tissue donation. Many faiths openly encourage it, seeing this as a final act of giving. The act of giving ...
- 1465: Nothing Is Certain
- ... we have no other choice. When I sat down to write this essay I decided to look for the easy way out. In Microsoft Word 97 there is a feature where you can ask the computer a question and it will answer it to the best of its knowledge. If computers are as powerful as man created them, then my state of the art machine with its state of the art ... problem answering the question, Why is nothing ever certain? When I hit enter to ask the machine the question I was bombarded with a multitude of answers but none of which fit the question. The computer could show me how to print multiple copies of this essay, and how to get this essay on to the Internet where mathematicians and artists alike could see it. Yet it could not tell me why nothing is certain. And then I realized the computer could not answer the question because it was not certain why nothing was known for certain. In the movie The Ascent of Man the narrator points out that the goal of physical science is ...
- 1466: Netiquette
- As we enter the age of computer technology, more and more people are relying on the computer for communication. The main medium of computer communication is e-mail. When using e-mail there are some basic unwritten rules that one should follow. E-mail protocol, better known as netiquette, is the list of rules that are generally followed. ...
- 1467: Latin Drug Trade
- ... it is much harder to eliminate, Though we can take pride in our collective accomplishments, we are still a long way from permanently crippling the drug trade. As one of the pillars of international organized crime, it remains a formidable enemy. Well before transnational crime had become recognized as one of the principal threats to international stability, the drug syndicates already had in place an impressive network of supply centers, distribution networks, foreign bases and reliable entree into the governments ... Asia, Africa, and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Colombian cocaine syndicates have established distribution centers on every continent, as international drug trafficking becomes more sophisticated every year. Now Italian, Turkish, Russian, and Nigerian crime syndicates, to name but a few, vie for a share of the business. The relatively straightforward flow-charts of trafficking routes of a decade ago have been replaced by a complex web of nodes ...
- 1468: Death Penalty
- ... against killing is okay, but putting a life to rest in order to save more lives makes more sense. Criminals live an easy life in prison, and they probably dont think twice about their crime. First of all, people pay taxes for prisoners to live a healthy lifestyle. Criminals eat, sleep, and are even given an education. All these excessive luxuries will be taken from most of the prisoners who ... or a couple can bring to many should send a message to the public that this should stop. Many people will agree that the death penalty is just. In addition the death penalty can lower crime. The way a criminal should be put to death should be taken into consideration. It should be determined by what they did to deserve the death penalty. The retaliation of the government on a criminal ... greed. The law should be laid down to keep people in line and from destructing everything that is good. The death penalty is not an evil punishment; its the person who committed such a crime who deserves the death penalty.
- 1469: Persuasive Essay On Becoming A
- ... Little Nicholas, who was sleeping on the back seat, was struck in the head with a bullet. He died in the hospital two days later. As a nation, all of Italy was horrified by the crime then deeply moved by the Greens unexpected response. Rather than reacting with justifiable bitterness, Reginal and Maggie Green donated their sons organs to seven Italians. If this were your child what would you do ... donor. The organ transplant system is fair. The distribution of donated organs allows equal access for all patients awaiting a transplant in the United States. The national Transplant Act mandated the establishment of a national computer system for organ sharing that is based on the need availability. Major religions support organ and tissue donation. Many faiths openly encourage it, seeing this as a final act of giving. The act of giving ...
- 1470: Psychological Stress
- ... but something happened on October 12 that will change my life forever. A couple of policeman came to my door with a complaint. Apparently, a friend of mine and I had been accused of a crime that we did not commit. The threat that we could possibly get expelled from school or even worse get put in jail for a very long time comes with a very high level of stress ... since they first came to our door. They have decided to postpone the investigation over the winter break which has caused a great deal of anxiety and ambiguity for me. If I had committed this crime than I would have no problem facing the consequences. The fact is, that I did not commit the crime and this has left me very angry and upset. This situation has caused a lot of pain and money for my parents that I caused. Having to tell them and seeing how upset they ...
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