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- 1161: Censorship of Music in the Media
- Censorship of Music in the Media The American society of today has buried its head in the sand. If our venerable representatives in Washington, D.C. and our respective state capitols feel the need to regulate which musical albums and concerts I should be exposed to, then I guess that means I will have to find someone to vote for ... the works of that artist are "indecent." My idea of what is "indecent" might be entirely different from your idea. This is definitely tampering with First Amendment rights. More freedoms are being taken away every day every day and we have to keep those and try to regain those that we have lost. The question is, how do you fight the Supreme Court? For now we need to stop any form of ...
- 1162: Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court?
- ... events were videotaped and lasted about ten minutes. The children then returned individually ten to twelve days later for a memory test and were asked to recall everything he or she could remember about the day in the trailer. Various questions were asked, which included specific and misleading questions. Rudy and Goodman concluded that although the children's participation level in an event did not have a pervasive effect on their ... when it immediately followed their training. Infants treated postevent data as part of the original training procedure. However, the postevent information did not impair their recognition of the event if it was delayed by one day. Rovee-Collier et al (93) proposed that “......postevent information displays conflicting information coactive with it in primary memory and creates a new, updated memory token of the event” This seems to suggest that children are ... that sufficient research has been done to achieve a system of questioning that will eliminate the suggestibility and social aspects of a child's testimony, all such testimonies should be treated with caution. REFERENCES Bernstein, D. A., Roy, E. J., Srull, T. K., Wickens, C. D. (1994) Psychology, 3rd edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, MA. Ceci, S & Bruck, M. (1993). Suggestibility of the Child Witness: A Historical Review and Synthesis, Psychological ...
- 1163: Coke
- ... Coke. The diagram plots the four reasons Goizueta adores the business: (1) Selling concentrate requires little capital; (2) it produces superb returns; (3) it demands minimal reinvestment; (4) it spills an ocean of cash. One day recently, Coca-Cola’s cerebral chairman and CEO was asked to pull out the second chart. This one illustrates PepsiCo’s altogether different strategy, which has involved pouring billions of dollars into capital-intensive businesses ... obstacles, say some of Oswaldo’s co-conspirators, was his uneasiness about sleeping with the enemy. He earned the nickname "Casper the Ghost" because he disappeared at times during the negotiations. "I never thought we’d reach a deal," says Oswaldo. The two sides finally came to terms early this year, when Coke agreed to pay an estimated $500 million to acquire 50% of the Cisneros bottling business, plus its homegrown ... he began phoning Ozzie. "Roger called me four times since April," Cisneros says. People close to Enrico say that when Cisneros didn’t return his first call, he figured something was going on. By Memorial Day he felt certain that Cisneros was conspiring with Coke. But Pepsi’s people in Latin America told him, "No, there’s nothing to the rumors"--which is what Ozzie was telling them. In early ...
- 1164: George Walker
- ... to think of himself as a sort of private detective to bring evil down from the inside. Here in lies his personal pursuit of justice. HEATHER- We should have called the police. POWER- Nah. They'd ruin everything. Besides, vengeance is mine saith the Lord and since the Lord isn't here tonight I'm standing in. Vengeance, therefor, is mine. (Page 882, Modern Canadian Drama) In Zastrozzi, there is not ... in a series of fights. They kill one another off leaving just Zastrozzi and Verezzi, but Zastrozzi lets him go so he can find him again. Zastrozzi- You have to hide. I am giving you day and I am coming after you. And do you know why I am coming after you? Verezzi- No. Zastrozzi- Because it will keep me preoccupied. Now leave. And hide well. I wish to be preoccupied ... to think of himself as a sort of private detective to bring evil down from the inside. Here in lies his personal pursuit of justice. HEATHER- We should have called the police. POWER- Nah. They'd ruin everything. Besides, vengeance is mine saith the Lord and since the Lord isn't here tonight I'm standing in. Vengeance, therefor, is mine. (Page 882, Modern Canadian Drama) In Zastrozzi, there is ...
- 1165: Gun Control
- ... millions more are kept by responsible sportsmen for hunting, trapshooting, and target shooting,” this was a reply from Dolan to an English visitor to America, who was astonished by the figures of firearms (7). “I’d say that the United States is an armed camp,” said the English visitor (Dolan 7). In despondence to Dolan’s defending the millions of guns owned by citizens for protection or sport, the Englishman said ... Hawkes 5). Although, all guns are deadly, the most dangerous is the handgun (Dolan 9). The handgun is responsible for 50 percent of the United States murders, leading to a figure of 30 murders a day and when you add suicides and fatal accidents the daily death-rate rises to over sixty (Dolan 9). All of this leads to one of the most important and difficult issues of today, gun control ... writes Dolan, are people required to have a permit or something equivalent to purchase a handgun: Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina, Missouri, Virginia (in certain counties), and Illinois ( requires an I.D. card issued by the state) (Dolan 21). There are also Federal Laws, which came about in the 1900’s (Dolan 21). The Gun Control Act of 1968 consists of two main parts called “Titles” ( ...
- 1166: Macbeth: Lying
- ... plans. He had become so paranoid, that his feelings had become numb, shown in act 5, scene 5, "I have almost forgot the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek." Not only did his paranoia cause him grief, but also the unhappiness of his wife, Lady Macbeth who commits suicide in Act 5. Macbeth shows his remorse after he finds out the news, "To-morrow, and to-morrow and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to this last syllable of recorded time...Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more...signifying nothing". Meanwhile, ...
- 1167: George Washington: Biography
- ... of civility." His father died in 1743. This caused George to live with his half brother Lawrence at Mount Vernon, Lawrence's plantation on the Potomac. Lawrence became a substitute father for his brother, he'd married into the Fairfax family, prominent and influential Virginians who helped launch George's career. George wanted to go to sea, however, he was discouraged by his mother; Instead he turned to surveying. In 1748 ... the sieur de Jumonville was killed and most of his men were captured. Washington pulled his small force back into Fort Necessity, where on July 3 he was overwhelmed by the French in an all-day battle fought in the rain. Surrounded by enemy troops, with his food supply almost exhausted and his dampened ammunition useless, Washington surrendered. Under the terms of the surrender signed that day, he was permitted to march his troops back to Williamsburg. Discouraged by his defeat and angered by discrimination between British and colonial officers in rank and pay, he resigned his commission near the end ...
- 1168: Duddy Kravitz
- ... A man without land is nobody"(Pg.48) So with this advice Duddy set his sights on getting himself his own piece of land.Duddy seemed like a changed man but he wasn't. One day Duddy met a girl named Yvette. He liked her and so he decided to go out with her. this was good at the time but as long as Duddy needed something he would stop at ... dvery dishonest and what he did to Duddy was very immoral and wrong. What Duddy did was wrong to because he could of gotten jail time but of course he was not aware of this. d Another dishonest character that we can look at in this essay is Max Kravitz (Duddy's father). Max was an ordinary father who drove taxis for a liviHg. He did although do one thing which ... good friend of Duddy's and together they were making money. One thing Duddy forgot to realize though ie as Virgil was doing his job, was that Virgil had epilepsy. As Virgil went out one day to do his job he got into a fatal accident and was hospitalized. Virgil was not able to walk again and Duddy felt bad because he had a part in causing the accident. Though ...
- 1169: Political Parties
- ... the 16 years when Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson were in the White House. The Great Depression of the 1930s had a powerful influence on American politics. The economic disaster helped the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as president in 1932. His first administration forged what has been called the New Deal coalition. In response to New Deal social programs, millions of Americans were attracted to the Democratic ranks ... slavery, the Civil War, and the Depression, the Democrats and the Republicans remained the two major parties. The New Deal coalition diminished, but did not destroy, Republican power. And, beginning with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, the Republicans regained much of the public loyalty that was lost during the New Deal years. Party organization. Unlike parties elsewhere in the world, the Democratic and Republican parties in the United ... organization is the precinct, or election district. The chief official is the committeeman, or precinct captain. This official's job is to win friends for the party and to get out the vote on election day. The official also schedules social events, recommends party members for political jobs, and provides transportation to the polls on election day. The next higher level of leadership in cities is the ward committeeman and, ...
- 1170: Nutrition and You
- ... most concentrated. Fats produce more that twice the amount of energy that is in carbohydrates or proteins. Besides having a high concentration of energy, fat acts as a carrier for the fat soluble vitamins, A, D, E, and K. Also, by helping in the absorption of vitamin D, fats help make calcium available to various body tissues, in particular, the bones and teeth. Another function of fat is to convert carotene to vitamin A. Fat also helps keep organs in place by surrounding ... makes it's recommendations based on studies of consumption of the given nutrient. On the recommendation it will usually specify what size diet the recommendation is based on, for example, a two thousand calorie per day diet. It is harmless to ingest excess of most vitamins. However, some vitamins are toxic in large amounts. Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin which is only available in two forms. Pre-formed, ...
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