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- 141: 1984: Control is Power
- 1984: Control is Power In the novel 1984, George Orwell demonstrates that power is obtained through control, just like some aspects of today in society. Control is a powerful tool when it is used by the government. Orwell in his novel explains the governments control over humans in an exaggerated sense, but in many aspects it is correct. He shows ...
- 142: Deregulation Of The Airline In
- ... 1993 and the FAA estimates that the nation¡¦s airline system will have to accommodate 917 million passengers by the year 2008. The growth in air travel threatens to overwhelm the presently inadequate air traffic control system, which has not kept pace with available technology in navigation, communications, and flight surveillance. Much of the equipment used for air traffic control today is based on fifty-year-old technology; for example, analog simplex voice links for communications and ground-based radar for surveillance, and VHF Omnidirectional Range/Distance Measuring Equipment (VOR/DME) for navigation. The lack ... the risk of accidents in heavy traffic situations. Capacity limits are being reached in both airports and airspace, with congestion delays in departure and arrival schedules reaching record numbers. Funds to upgrade the air traffic control system are available in the trust fund created to receive the tax applied to airline passenger tickets and the tax on fuel for general aviation. The General Accounting Office says modernizing the air traffic ...
- 143: Should Handguns Be Legal to All
- ... Handguns Be Legal to All For some time now the question of whether or not handguns should be legal to all citizens has haunted our society. Is it morally right for anyone to carry a gun and shoot it when they feel it to be necessary? Doesn't the second amendment still hold true today? These question are ones that have been thrown back and forth between pro and anti gun users for some time and will probably continue for some time longer. There are people who say handguns in the home can only cause unneeded accidents. There have been several incidents where a child in the household has mistaken a gun for a toy and has injured themself or others. Also there have been occasions where careless gun owners have left their guns loaded and someone was shoot accidentally. Studies show that four people die ...
- 144: 1984: Government's Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens
- 1984: Government's Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is an American classic which explores the human mind when it comes to power, corruption, control, and the ultimate utopian society. Orwell indirectly proposes that power given to the government will ultimately become corrupt and they will attempt to force all to conform to their one set standard. He also sets ... that the corrupted government will attempt to destroy any and all mental and physical opposition to their beliefs, thus eliminating any opportunity for achieving an utopian society. The novel shows how the government attempts to control the minds and bodies of it citizens, such as Winston Smith who does not subscribe to their beliefs, through a variety of methods. The first obvious example arises with the large posters with the ...
- 145: Birth Control at Schools
- Birth Control at Schools Living in a society where birth rates among young adults are steadily rising, passing out condoms in high schools can be a very effective way to promote safe sex. Although passing out free ... has become a very controversial issue, this is a great way to start educating and promoting the need for safe sex. On the other hand, many parents and children think that passing out free birth control is only promoting and supporting children to have sex at an early age. The distribution of condoms at high schools may be very offensive to some parents and children. Although most children are required to take a sex education course at the high school level, some parents strongly believe that it is not the school's responsibility to teach their children about sex and birth control. Also, parents believe that there should be a heavier influence on teaching the students about birth control products and sex education, instead of distributing free condoms. Passing out free condoms at high schools may ...
- 146: Population Control in China
- Population Control in China After I came to the Untied States, I found out that a lot of American people disagreed with the Chinese government allowing Chinese people to have only one child in each family. However ... any family in China, and most Chinese people even think that it is a right decision to allow only one child per family. Because most people didn't have any kind of knowledge about birth control, they continued to have babies after the birth of their first child. From 1950 to 1980, the increase in the total population of China in the last fifty years, caught the attention of some scientists ... rising so quickly that many people were worried that they would not have any home or shelter. The law first started in the big cities. The hospitals gave lessons to the young couples about birth control. They also explained the good things about having just one child, such as lower costs for the family, and a population stabilization. At first, some people misunderstood the law. They thought they could be ...
- 147: Asimov: Will Computers Control
- ... of computers in the future, however, might have negative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated by computer programs ... less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computer ould start to control humans' lives and make humans become too dependent on the computers. Another point that is criticized by Asimov is the fact that people might take their knowledge for granted allowing computers to take over ...
- 148: Fascism and its Political Ideas
- ... to organize an organization led mass movement in an effort to capture the state power. When the power is in the firm grip of the ruler, or IL Duce, the government will be used to control the population and everything in it so the community will be benefited. Fascism’s ideal government would be fashioned around the good of the community or nation. Everyone would work for the benefit of the ... obedience. Adolf Hitler established his own personal ideology, Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle. The book was written while Hitler was in prison and not yet in power. Mussolini fashioned his ideology after he took control of Italy. Despite their two different angles on the use of Fascism Hitler and Mussolini both worked similarly on how they established their principles in the same basic manner. Their principles came from basic responses ... was ready for a new political aspect, was the birthplace of fascist ideology. Benito Mussolini was the man who brought this ideology to Italy. Mussolini had been looking for the perfect opportunity to take complete control of the country and now was the time to do so. Mussolini said "Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary…does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal" (Nazi Fascism ...
- 149: Hand Guns Must Go
- ... 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 ...
- 150: Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation of the Chinese Military
- ... Shih-k’ai’s Transformation of the Chinese Military Yaun Shih-k’ia (1859-1916) was one of China’s most successful rulers, but his rise to power came the way many modern dictators claim control. Yuan would use his military family lineage and knowledge to create the first modern and dominant army in China. This army would later be the reason he would lose his position, but would then bring ... would be, and these test would be based on the Confucius theories. Its desire to hold on to the old ways would cause the country to become a target for foreign countries to try and control. The foreign invasion would begin after Japan had defeated China in the first Sino-Japanese War. In the Shimonoseki Treaty, Japan would insert a “most-favored-nation clause,” which would alow Japan and other countries ... boots, canvas tents, raincoats, blankets, field glasses, drums, telephones, and medicine. The infantry was armed with standardized Mauser rifles, the calavary with both Mausers and lances, and the artillery with Maxim machine guns and six-gun batteries of one- to six-pounders” (Ch’en, p. 35). All of this paid off when Lord Charles Beresford, the British rearadmirl came to Hsiaochan. The admiral was impressed the men under Yuan’s ...
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