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- 1501: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... had made the Bureau unique. Edgar’s dream was "Universal Fingerprinting," the notion that the prints of every citizen - the innocent as well as the guilty - should be recorded (Summers 49). Edgar developed a massive crime laboratory, room after room in which rows of experts peered over ballistics evidence and analyzed poisons, hairs, and fibers. The FBI Crime Laboratory quickly became the most advanced in the world - and the key to the expansion of Edgar’s empire. The fingerprint and laboratory operations alone changed the Bureau from a small agency with limited jurisdiction to a vital facility upon which all other law enforcement depended (Summers 50). Soon the Bureau had a virtual monopoly on the supply of crime information, not only to the police but to the country at large. Accurate or not its version became gospel (Summers 50). All of these different types of information made J. Edgar Hoover that much ...
- 1502: Puritanism
- ... men and women from towns surrounding Salem. They were put there because their names had been "cried out" by tormented young girls as the cause of their pain. Everyone waited for a trial of a crime punishable by death in 17th-century New England, the practice of witchcraft. Under the Massachusetts Bay Colony legal structure, those who were accused of consorting with the devil were considered felons. Today, a person must commit a serious crime, such as murder to be convicted of a felon. Because the Massachusetts Bay Colony was under British law, they had to follow the strict ways of the British. Therefore, a convicted "witch" had supposedly committed a crime against his or her government. This meant for a severe punishment, such as hanging. During the trials, many were executed. The following are the documented names: Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, Martha Corey, ...
- 1503: Puritanism
- ... men and women from towns surrounding Salem. They were put there because their names had been "cried out" by tormented young girls as the cause of their pain. Everyone waited for a trial of a crime punishable by death in 17th-century New England, the practice of witchcraft. Under the Massachusetts Bay Colony legal structure, those who were accused of consorting with the devil were considered felons. Today, a person must commit a serious crime, such as murder to be convicted of a felon. Because the Massachusetts Bay Colony was under British law, they had to follow the strict ways of the British. Therefore, a convicted "witch" had supposedly committed a crime against his or her government. This meant for a severe punishment, such as hanging. During the trials, many were executed. The following are the documented names: Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, Martha Corey, ...
- 1504: 8th Amendment
- ... s). Bail furthers the presumption of innocence until guilt is absolutely proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt. If it weren’t for bail, the accused suspect would virtually be serving a sentence for a crime he or she has not been convicted of committing. Excessive bail has the same effect. The idea behind bail is to make sure the accused is present during the trial. If one’s bail is , in fact, excessive, the amount is set higher than is reasonable. Logically, bail is usually not set for an amount greater than the maximum monetary sentence for the crime with which the defendant is being charged.(Draper 80) The most widely known aspect of the eighth amendment is the fact that it prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The stand for “cruel and unusual” fluctuates ... This decision became the first time the Court stated that "punishment of death does not invariably violate the Constitution." (Bernstein 21) The punishment also cannot be “grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime charged, nor can it violate the convicted individual’s dignity. In Rummell vs. Estelle, it was upheld that it did not constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" to impose a life sentence, under a recidivist ...
- 1505: Stonehenge
- ... Avon. VI. Gerald Hawkins, an astronomer from Harvard College Observatory, felt that the most obvious purpose for Stonehenge was a huge important calendar, marking one major day in the year, the summer solstice. After more computer research, Hawkins found that Stonehenge also seemed to mark significant risings and settings of the moon. He programmed his computer to pinpoint where the sun and moon rose and set in 1500 BC. The results were astonishing. Hawkins wrote, "There was no doubt. Those important and often duplicated Stonehenge alignments were oriented to the sun ... on the alignment of the Aubrey Holes, and came to a conclusion. He concluded that the Aubrey Holes were used to predict eclipses of the moon. He theorized that the holes were a huge "Neolithic computer", suggesting that the priests of Stonehenge placed wooden markers in certain Aubrey Holes. By moving the markers, people could calculate and predict eclipses of the moon. Hawkins reached that conclusion by noting that eclipses ...
- 1506: The Failures Of Affirmative Ac
- ... managers fell 25% in 1969 due to restrictions put on them when affirmative action was adopted (Nebraska Advisory Committee 27). You ask, ”What did these white males do to bring about their termination?” The only crime that they were guilty of was being white. This hardly seems fair to punish so many innocent men for the crimes of a relative few. But the injustice toward the white male doesn’t end ... history has never seen. Works Cited “Affirmative Action at the University of California at Berkeley” Online. October 28, 1996. http://pwa.acusd.edu/~e_cook/ucb-95.html “Civil Rights” Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia. (1996). [Computer Program] SoftKey Multimedia International Corporation. United States. Commission on Civil Rights. Affirmative Action in the 1980’s: Dismantling the Process of Discrimination. Washington: 1981. United States. Nebraska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on ...
- 1507: The Use Of Propaganda In The N
- ... that it was the Jews that killed their savior also evolved from that time period. Along those lines, the notion that all Jews of forever were responsible for Jesus’ death, for they approved of the crime, would have certainly done it again (according to the anti-Semitics), and had always rejected his teachings. As the Medieval period came, the Christians’ hatred for Jews further articulated and was brought to a new ... haven.ios.com/~kimel19/index.html#index. Internet. AT&T Worldnet Service, Vrs. 3.0. Windows 95, disk. Levin, Nora. The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry. New York: Schocken Books, 1973 Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. Computer software. Microsoft Corporation, 1996. Windows 95, 6.39 MB, CD-ROM. Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945. West Orange: Behrman House, 1992.
- 1508: Industrial Revolution
- ... today. The Industrial Revolution began by making old materials more quickly, less expensively, and it led to the development of new products. Some of these new products are washing machines, radios, television sets, and the computer. The computer decreased the amount of time needed to write a paper. With a typewriter, if a person made a typographical mistake, he had to start the page over again. With the computer, you can delete the mistake by the touch of a button. The internet allows someone to exchange information with someone on the opposite side of the world in seconds.
- 1509: Labor Unions
- ... completed by a committed led by Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas, they found that the officials of the Teamster Union took union funds for their own use and had also be linked to organized crime (World, 1985). This particular incident led to the passing of the Landrum-Griffin Act (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act) of 1959 (World, 1985). The Landrum-Griffin Act was “…aimed at protecting union members from ... his article, “ The Nature of Work in the Twenty-First Century: Certain Uncertainties,” describes tomorrow’s jobs as being soared across 24 hours, less routine, requiring creativity, greater problem-solving skills in collegial collaborative teams, computer assessed, and richly rewarded. Organizations will have very few permanent highly skilled decision makers surrounded by an army of skilled doers who work temporarily for a given firm but develop careers for themselves as “nomadic ...
- 1510: Islamic Terrorism
- ... are becoming more readily available. The terrorist attack in Tokyo that injured 5,000 people is an example of this kind of terrorism. The latest threat is the cyber terrorist, who can corrupt a governments computer system, steal money, and/or classified information while never leaving his house. Changing methods and techniques that terrorists employ today make threat of attack worse than ever. First, terrorists operate at an international level, no ... rise in the number of casualties (311 people killed and 2,652 wounded)(16). The third aspect of terrorism that is new is cyber terror. It has become very easy to penetrate the telecommunications and computer systems of nations and also private organizations, and enter new computer codes that cause the system to shutdown or which make it accessible only to the intruder. Terrorists use computers, cellular phones, and encryption software to evade detection and they also have sophisticated means of ...
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