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- 1601: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His mother's negligence left Manson without a home and without much of a future. Manson turned to crime to support himself, and he soon became very good at it. When just a child, he became a criminal and spent his last years of childhood in a correctional facility. After his release from the ... claims that he wasn't responsible for the murders and acts as if the bloody slayings were of no importance. Manson was a criminal to the core. In his life he had committed almost every crime imaginable. His life of crime developed a warped mind that he used to sinister ends. His never having a loving family deadened him to having any morals or guilty feelings. He felt no remorse for the killings and acted ...
- 1602: Bill Gates: Biography
- Bill Gates: Biography William H. Gates Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1996, and employs more than 20,000 people in 48 countries. Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew ... Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's executive vice president for sales and support. While ... the MITS Altair. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success of ...
- 1603: John DeLorean and His Acomplishments
- ... would have the Eureka bank president sit there instead... Hmmm... From these new "facts," DeLorean surmised that he was getting in a tad over his head. He figured that Hoffman was an associate of organized crime, and Eureka was a multi-billion dollar Mafia mouthpiece. Besides that, Hoffman had been making allusions to a "drug deal" of some type. DeLorean felt that he had to scare Hoffman a bit as well ... massive, international money laundering scheme. As the days went on, the calls from Hoffman kept coming. He kept telling DeLorean that he and his partners were big muc ky-mucks in the world of organized crime. He continued to threaten the DeLoreans. John continued on the road towards a breakdown. His world was falling apart but DeLorean wasn't licked yet. On October 18th, John sat down and wrote a letter to his lawy er, Tom Kimmerly, outlining his plan. Tom-- I'm going to L.A. tomorrow to accomplish a minor miracle! I will have induced organized crime to literally donate $10 million to reopen the Belfast plant- and when they figure it out they cannot do anything about it! Hoffman, Benedict, Hetrick, and Vicenza are not what they appear to be- ( ...
- 1604: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His mother's negligence left Manson without a home and without much of a future. Manson turned to crime to support himself, and he soon became very good at it. When just a child, he became a criminal and spent his last years of childhood in a correctional facility. After his release from the ... claims that he wasn't responsible for the murders and acts as if the bloody slayings were of no importance. Manson was a criminal to the core. In his life he had committed almost every crime imaginable. His life of crime developed a warped mind that he used to sinister ends. His never having a loving family deadened him to having any morals or guilty feelings. He felt no remorse for the killings and acted ...
- 1605: The Holocaust: Tragedy in the 20th Century
- ... that these occur almost everyday. Many people would like to ignore this horrible truth and go on with their daily lives. To unjustly accuse people of imagined crimes, and then to punish them, is a crime itself. The Holocaust is an event that took the lives of millions of innocent people. Between 1939-1945, six million people were murdered. Almost ninety percent of the Jewish population in Europe was destroyed, and for what? Their lives were taken because Adolf Hitler believed that being Jewish was a crime. How can one man decide that he is more worthy that others because of their religious beliefs or the color of their hair. He lifted himself above others and decided who should live and who should die, and for that crime he remained unpunished. Those who have survived the holocaust have firsthand knowledge of the evil people, which so unfairly struck and deprived them of what was rightly theirs. To refer to the holocaust as ...
- 1606: Decriminalizing Prostitution And Legalizing Brothels In The United States
- ... existed almost forever; therefore, I suggest that it would be better to make it decriminalized and legal. Academic American Encyclopedia says that “the illegality of prostitution forces prostitutes and their customers into the underworld of crime" (”Prostitution" 669). This “underworld of crime” includes rip-off, robbery, and violence of customers, prostitutes or pimps. To avoid these crimes, the government operating brothels should handle prostitution as a business. First of all, what are brothels? The article, “Prostitution Goes ... agree-upon services. (22) As you can see, the system is easy and clear to know what kind of contract is made between the client and the brothel. This system would help to decrease “underworld crime” (“Prostitution” 669) and questionable reputation of prostitutes. Second, several sources point out that the police spend too much money and time arresting the prostitutes because of the illegality. For example, “Legalized Prostitution: Street Cleaning” ...
- 1607: Gangs
- ... ever had before. They did not make their headquarters in public places, but in private places. Gangs also acquired greater legal and political sophistication. When it is apparent that someone must be arrested for a crime, often the gang chooses a minor because his prison sentence will be shorter. Serving a term in jail helps boost his reputation. Gangs Today Since the 1980s, as the ghettos become more and more overcrowded ... Many teens die in automobile accidents, which could have prevented if they had chosen to say no. Each year it is blame in the deaths of more than four thousand teens (Claypool, p. 42). No crime kills more teenagers in America. Kids who are drinking regularly in high school seem to be fully aware of the penalties and laws against underage drinking, possession but don't care. They agree that driving ... constantly hearingarguments that seeing TV violence, particularly children, desensitizes usso we accept real violence more off handily maybe it even triggers realviolence. The theory behind the TV attacks is always the same: if Bobbycommits a crime, he's not responsible and his parents are notresponsible: Something Else is responsible. The problem in this society isn't the easy availability of drugs, or guns, or television, although allare scape goateed. All ...
- 1608: Bill Brady on Violence in America
- ... the guns are more high powered, and the acts themselves are more random. Native American reservation in South Dakota has a murder rate more then doubled then that of LA. The rate of murder and crime in some of the poor, rural towns in Mississippi equals that of Newark. Poverty and loss of hope all play a big factor when dealing with towns with a high rate of crime. In Detroit nearly 80% of the kids are born with single parents. In 1991, 30 % of all children in the U.S. were born with single parents. Among black children, it was two-thirds. Some ... sometimes be gone. A high number of teenage boys claim they have no best friends and they trust no one. When only a “gang” gives life meaning, death cannot be far behind. The emerging federal crime bill is an attempt to counter raising violence. Many of the opinions on how to stop violence are unsure opinions. There is no real answer. Nothing so far will put a drastic effect on ...
- 1609: What If The World Had Only Two Faces?
- ... name. Most importantly, the intelligence, personality, and ideas of each individual would still be unique. That would keep competition and new inventions in existence. The bad vs. the good would also dwell, resulting in both crime and philanthropy. Materialistic things available to us would not be changed because of the physical appearance of people. The brilliant minds would still have founded new things like cures and vaccines of diseases. Technological advances would have occurred; the computer, for example. Bill Gates’ guise would not have affected his invention of Microsoft. Although physical appearance would be identical, inner qualities and capabilities would vary. A world like today, with many faces, brings variety in ...
- 1610: Media Violence
- ... places are more admissible of aggression than others. Aggressive behavior was more acceptable in the city, where a child's popularity rating with classmates was not hampered by his or her aggression. In bigger cities, crime and violence are inevitable, expected, and therefore, are left unchecked and out of line. In other research among U.S. children, it was discovered that aggression, academic problems, unpopularity with peers, and violence feed off ... study show that "long-term exposure of children to television violence has led to an increase of an extra ten thousand homicides a year in the U.S.. The American Medical Association found that violent crime between the years 1976 and 1992 among 13 and 17 year-old teenagers rose 106 percent, and the violence in the media had something to do with it (np). Another study revealed that people... "are ... defendants were inspired by Hollywood to commit real mayhem. Greg Torre, director of Georgia Film and Video Commission, said, "This ruling does not sit with me well. If an individual is going to commit a crime, I do not think it takes a movie to do it." Justice Norman Fletcher wrote dissents to both rulings, saying, "Violence in movies is prejudicial and unnecessary in light of corroborating evidence. The movie ...
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