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- 2201: Fundamental of Racism
- ... the location of a person in this story. For instance, the so-called shantyville was though to have only Blacks living there. Sam believed that a poor area such as this was the center of crime and poverty in Wells. In a similar place he also thought that the crime there was high, but it was a residential erea for cocasian. This was the part of town where Cocasian who had no money or prospect lived in misery. He felt that these types of people ...
- 2202: Antigone
- ... tries to help her brother without worrying about what will happen to her. She says, "I intend to give my brother burial. I'll be glad to die in the attempt, -if it's a crime, then it's a crime that God commands" (Sophocles 4). She was also punished for doing what was right. Her epiphany came, hidden from the audience, before she hung herself. Creon's "nobleness" of taking in young Antigone and Ismene ...
- 2203: Oligopoly
- ... to their advantage. Over the past few months there has been talk about dismantling Microsoft Corporation. The U.S. Justice Department has mentioned a breakup of Microsoft, which would help destroy their monopoly in the computer industry. However, some people still have concern about the disruption of Microsoft and its effect on the computer industry, which has largely thrived and operated on Microsoft s standard. Today the phone industry, once the biggest monopoly in U.S. history, is evolving into an oligopoly consisting of three or four huge carriers ...
- 2204: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... Texas. It worked its way up the Mississippi River, and within a decade was commonly used throughout the entire nation. Currently, marijuana is considered a “ Schedule One controlled dangerous substance.” That classification makes it a crime to be in possession of marijuana. In New York State, possession of under four ounces of marijuana is a violation, and is punishable by only a ticket, and possible probation. Possession of four ounces or ... this opportunity for income, they are also spending millions of dollars per year to enforce growing laws. Those helicopters aren't cheap. Another pro-legalization argument is that it could be helpful in preventing drug crime. Many people hear this and think, “But, if you legalize marijuana, then there will be more of it around, and the problems will get worse.” But if you think about it, that isn't really ...
- 2205: The Handmaids Tale
- ... children, if they were lucky enough to have one. The poorer women were called Econowives and performed the duties of wife, handmaiden and Martha. The final category was the "unwomen"; those who had committed some crime such as abortion, or who were too old to be good for anything. These "unwomen" were sent to the edges of the colonies to clean up nuclear waste or work in the industries. Both of ... were many reasons why people were no longer having children at the normal rate. First, the pollution, diseases, nuclear problems and resulting mutants deterred people from having children because the future looked pretty bleak. Secondly, crime rate was very high, with most of them being sexual atrocities. Women and children were in danger, yet many people denied that such things could ever happen to them, and did nothing to stop it ...
- 2206: History Of The Detective Novel
- History of the Detective Novel Perhaps the first crime writer was Cicero. He was born Marcus Tullius Cicero in Arpinum, a small town on the outskirts of Rome on January 3, 106 BC. As a young man in Rome his skill as an orator ... the Rue Morgue (1841), in which he attempts to clear the name of a friend who is accused of murdering two women. The story features several traditional mystery elements like an apparently locked and impenetrable crime scene, Dupin's rather less intelligent but loyal assistant, and an unexpected plot twist leading to a surprise solution. The only writer to rival Poe in importance in the mystery genre is Arthur Conan Doyle ...
- 2207: Tourism ]
- ... people; amusement and entertainment; special events; shops; and atmosphere. The pull of these attractions is in turn affected by five variables; reputation, cost overall quality of the urban environment (of which big-city problems, particularly crime, congestion and inconvenience are a part) locations and climate. The strength of a city’ s appeal depends on a combination of some or all of these factors, measured against the allure of other cities or ... Attractions are meaningless if the tourist does not respond favorably towards them. His preferences and preoccupations are ultimately the factor on which promoters must concentrate. Quality and urban environment Pollution, decay filth, decay coldness, confusion—crime, cost, stress, ugliness Cities reflect the heights of human aspiration and the depths of human weakness. They are every extreme of success and failure, of beauty and ugliness, of wealth and poverty, of creativity and ...
- 2208: New Eye Tracking Techniques Improve Realism of Aircraft Simulators
- ... aircraft pilots under simulated conditions, but to be effective the simulation must be convicingly realistic. At present, th e training facilities use large domes and gimballed projectors, or an array of video screens, to display computer-generated images. But these installations are very expensive and image resolution is low. Further, it would take an enormous amount of addi to improve image quality significantly throughout the whole viewed scene. However, based on the visual properties of the eye, realism can be obtained by providing a high-resolution 'area of interest' insert within a large, low-resolution field of view. If the image-generating computer 'knows' where the pilot's fixation is, it mage there. The technology to make this possible was developed by a research team headed by Professor Richard Frecker and Professor Moshe Eizenman. The work was carried ...
- 2209: The Stalking of Celebrities
- ... life. That's a very high price to pay for fame.”11 Where stalking is concerned, society, it seems, wants to keep it a personal matter. Perhaps due to the mostly domestic context of the crime, most people rely on the out of sight, out of mind approach where stalking episodes are concerned. Cases are viewed as “lover's quarrels” or “ personal matters,” and other people (often including law enforcement officials ... In Texas, antistalking laws were enacted in 1994. The initial law took a fairly proactive stance against stalkers, citing an offense as “ intent to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment or embarrass.”19 Stalking is a crime and should be seen for what it truly is--a continued violation of personal freedom and peace of mind. Stalking victims are followed, harassed with phone calls and letters and threatened physically.20 In a ...
- 2210: Personal Territories
- ... feeling. There are many different kinds of personal territories such as cultural, behavior, and interests. From my pervious experience, my personal territory involves my own interest. I love computers a lot and I sees the computer room as one of my personal territories in which others are not allowed to take away from me. ˇ§Thatˇ¦s mineˇ¨; I always have this feeling. Once after and argument with my brother, he tried to do some tricks on it so that I was not able to use the computer without his help. Although it is only a small quarrel between sister and brother, it seems to me that my own world was taken by him. I had never been as angry as how I ...
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