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- 2151: C-SPAN, the Cable TV channel
- ... the chairman and CEO of C-SPAN, is also a host on many of C-SPAN's programs. Brian's primary belief is that people should be able to see government in action without soundbites, computer maps, models, images, music, and news anchor commentary. Brian feels that if people can see government in action without the normal clutter, then they can more easily make decisions for themselves about politics and the ... view of our government in action. In addition to video, C-SPAN also has 2 different audio networks that broadcast international and American political content, unfiltered and uncut. Also, C-SPAN has moved into the computer world and has established a homepage to provide information to people about its services, as well as receive feedback from viewers via email. One of the most unique aspects of C-SPAN is that all ...
- 2152: 20s And 30s
- ... of bootleggers who were able to supply the public with illegal alcohol. Many of these bootleggers became very rich and influential through selling alcohol and also through other methods. They pioneered the practices of organized crime that are still used today. Thus, Prohibition led to the rapid growth of organized crime. A conflict between religion and science was centered in the Scopes Monkey trial, which debated the right to teach evolution in the schools of Tennessee, a fundamentalist state. Clarance Darrow, the defense lawyer, won the ...
- 2153: HOPE Foundation
- ... over 488,00 kids have gone to college on the HOPE scholarship due to the lottery (Message from the President 1). Also, the lottery helps pay for pre-kindergarten facilities and programs, as well as computer and technology upgrades for their high schools through the HOPE foundation. North Carolina needs to take a serious look at the revenue Georgia brings from its lottery and think how it could be beneficial for ... project that the HOPE program involves itself in is the elementary, middle school, and high school technology situation. The funds taken from the lottery for this program are used for instructional technology, which consists of computer hardware and software, automation of media centers, satellite dishes and/or networking. Also, these funds are used towards technology centers for training teachers and administrators in how to incorporate technology into the curriculum and providing ...
- 2154: Hand Guns Must Go
- ... Some keep handguns for protection; others collect them as a hobby. There is a substantial amount of people in America that own handguns for one specific reason, to commit crimes. Usually they are committing a crime just by having a gun in their possession. The person is breaking current laws anyways; making tougher gun control laws will not change the fact that they are committing a crime. How can guns be kept away from criminals? By taking away their guns, and stopping them from getting replacements. Guns are an easy to use, low cost killing device. One pull of a trigger and ...
- 2155: Gangs
- ... members tries to be the most manly. This often leads to all members participating in "one-up-manship". Quite often this will then lead to each member trying to commit a bigger and more violent crime or simply more crimes than the others. With all members participating in this sort of activity it makes for a never ending unorganized violence spree (A sort of Clockwork Orange mentality). In gangs with more intellegent members these feelings end up making each member want to be the star when the groups commit a crime. This makes the gang much more organized and improves the morale of members which in turn makes them more dangerous and very hard for the police to deal with and catch (There is nothing harder ...
- 2156: Communication Over The Internet, and The Effects It Will Have On Our Economy
- ... pay local rates. · In essence the local phone companies almost promote this. - When you log on to the internet chances are that you are logging on through a local internet provider. You will use your computer modem to dial up and create and data link with your net provider. Where does the net provider get his super fast net connection from? He gets the connection from the local phone company. · How ... looking at technology as well to reduce there costs. Costs such as man labour. The new technology will also create jobs for graduating students from Universities, there will be a large demand for programming skills, computer oriented network managers, system operators etc.. Technology is a tool in which we will improve your quality of life, it will aid us in making life easier so that we can enjoy it to the ...
- 2157: Claudius And Hamlet
- ... and welfare." In his book, The Wheel of Fire, he continues this line of thought to conclude that Claudius is "a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime. And this chain he might, perhaps, have broken except for Hamlet" (Jump, 125). Although Knight's views of Hamlet and Claudius are almost the extreme opposite of my interpretation, I understand how he developed this ... state of chaos. The most glaring weakness of Wilson Knight's interpretation of Hamlet is his conclusion that Claudius is "a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime" (Jump, 125). Knight dismisses the murder of Old Hamlet too easily. As John Jump states, "Claudius was no impulsive offender, suddenly acting our of character. He deliberately and treacherously poisoned his mistress's husband, a ...
- 2158: Brutus, An Honorable Man
- ... Cassius proposal and stood up for what he believed in, then he could be viewed as an honorable man. The second henious act Brutus commits is murder on his dear friend Caeser. After commiting the crime he said "If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesers, to him I say that Brutus love to Caeser was no less than his". Brutus killed his dear friend because ... avoided any grilling he may have received from Octavious and Antony had he lived. Instead of getting a firm talking to, his death may have tricked everyone into believing that he felt remorse for his crime. This may be true because toward the end of the play Antony sais " This was the noblest Roman of them all". Although Cowardly, commiting suicide may have been the most intellegent move Brutus could have ...
- 2159: Macbeth: A Mature Man of Established Character
- ... solicitings cannot be evil, cannot be good." Still, he is provided with so much natural good that he is able to control the apprehensions of his inordinate imagination and decides to take no step involving crime. His autonomous decision not to commit murder, however, is not in any sense based upon moral grounds. No doubt he normally shrinks from the unnaturalness of regicide; but he so far ignores ultimate ends that ... his roof-we may even say that the consequences which he fears are not at all inward and spiritual, It is to be doubted whether he has ever so far considered the possible effects of crime and evil upon the human soul-his later discovery of horrible ravages produced by evil in his own spirit constitutes part of the tragedy. Hi is mainly concerned, as we might expect, with consequences involving ...
- 2160: Son of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
- ... don't want to have anything to do with the FBI," he says. Ricky White says FBI agent Ron Butler told him in 1988 that the FBI had determined that Roscoe White was at a crime scene in far Northeast Dallas at the time Kennedy was shot. Butler declined to comment on any conversations with Ricky White. QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY Shaw, the director of the JFK Assassination Information Centre in Dallas ... uncertain terms that if she opened her mouth she was dead and her children were dead," Shaw says Geneva White told him. Shaw says Geneva White told him she confronted her husband after an organized crime figure approached her in New Orleans in 1971 and told her to deliver a warning to her husband. According to Shaw, Geneva White was shown nearly a dozen photographs and identified the man in New ...
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