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- 2251: Being an Outsider
- ... her writing of her relationship with Muriel. Towards the end of the relationship, when Muriel begins to wander, she writes of herself like she is looking in on a scene from the outside with no control over the situation. She sees her control slipping away and feels there is nothing she can do to stop it. After taking all this in consideration, Lorde was an outsider, but she created this for her readers. According to Ker Conway, she ...
- 2252: Religion
- ... are motivated by the service of their god. I suggest that a more accurate definition of word would be as follows. Religion, a feudal system of government which uses fear, hate and sometimes lies to control and manipulate people for the betterment of a select group of individuals. To better illustrate this point let's look at just three of the countless examples that human history has to offer. The Inquisition ... t limited to the Ancient world. Today we have people like Louis Farakahn and Adolph Hitler and David Koresch who use god to propagate racism and hate, there by giving them the power unite and control a given segment of the population. As you can plainly see, religion is much more than the worship of a supernatural force as its leaders would have us believe. It is in fact, a method ...
- 2253: America and the Computer Industry
- ... In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of computation that demonstrated that a computer could have a very simple and yet be able to execute any kind of computation effectively by means of proper programmed control without the need for any changes in hardware. Von Neumann came up with incredible ideas for methods of building and organizing practical, fast computers. These ideas, which came to be referred to as the stored ... output means such as page printers, cathode-ray-tube displays, and graphing devices; and optional magnetic-tape and magnetic-disk file storage. These found wide use in business for such applications as accounting, payroll, inventory control, ordering supplies, and billing. Central processing units (CPUs) for such purposes did not need to be very fast arithmetically and were primarily used to access large amounts of records on file. The greatest number of ...
- 2254: Prostitution
- ... customers to go through an exam before business is able to proceed. This practice of screening customers adds to the record of safe sex in legal prostitution. With this in mind, brothels are able to control (to an extent) the statistics of STDs in legal prostitution. In summary, legal prostitution is a safer alternative to street prostitution because customers and job applicants are screened for STDs. Another benefit of legal prostitution ... for both patrons and workers. Government regulation would also mean the elimination of pimps. Street prostitutes are normally controlled by a pimp who usually keeps the prostitute dependent on drugs so that he/she can control the money that the prostitute makes. While many critics may maintain that prostitution is immoral and unethical, the issue cannot be denied. Prostitution happens all over the world and in most cities. A great deal ...
- 2255: Black And Yellow Perils In Col
- ... re-affirmed racially motivated 'scientific' ideas that the colonising Europeans were both evolutionary and culturally superior to their Imperial subjects, due to their conquering of their sexual instincts. This assertion that blacks were unable to control their sexuality animalised them, and thus served to confirm the theories of racial science which legitimised the presence of their European conquerors, who saw themselves as civilising the 'dark continent' . This coincides with theories that ... a method of cementing the existing sexual, social and racial boundaries which nineteenth century European culture had established. As the nature of 'black peril' scares was that they increased during periods of worry concerning imperial control (due to tension as much as anything else), the concept of sexual abuse of white women by black men proved to be useful to those enforcing the Imperial regimes. Reports of sexually degrading crimes (whether ...
- 2256: The Life Of Stalin
- ... new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was to allow the outlying provinces some degree of self-rule and their own governments (although they were not to be fully independent). Of course, when Stalin assumed total control over the Soviet Union he fully centralized the government according to his original suggestion. After Lenin's first stroke, he suffered from several more which eventually left him bedridden and practically an invalid. During this ... joyful and jubilant mood. He had good reason to be -- the major obstacle in his drive for power was gone. In 1924, there were three primary factions that had sufficient power to seriously contend for control of the Party -- the Bukharinists (or Rightists), the Troskyites, and the newly-formed Troika (consisting of Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev). Stalin and his men at the end of 1928 struck out to turn regressive Russia ...
- 2257: Comparsion Between Hearst And
- ... were very similar. In 1880 Hearst's father, gains ownership of a small newspaper in San Francisco called The Examiner. Hearst father was losing massive amounts of money on the paper when Hearst asked for control of the paper. Hearst's father hoping his son would take his place in the family mining and ranching business, finally conceded and allowed William to run the paper. Both Hearst and Kane immediately began ... and encourage his second wife, Susan Alexander. Kane tried to use his papers to change Susan from a horrible to a great opera singer. He did this by manipulating the news and, therefore, trying to control what people read thought. Kane used his papers to attack companies in which he was the major stockholder. Charles Foster Kane had success in attacking large companies on the behalf of the people; he would ...
- 2258: Protecting The Innocent
- ... www.unhchr.ch.org/hurdoca.html). United Nations Organization. Home Page. 29 March 2000. (www.un.org/rights.html). White House Office of the Press Secretary. "Clinton Administration Plan to Expand Community Policing and Reduce Gun Violence". 11 August 1993. (http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2r.text). Bibliography Works Cited "Capital Punishment". Britannica Online. 04 April 2000. (http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/index/1/0,8377,12071100 ... www.unhchr.ch.org/hurdoca.html). United Nations Organization. Home Page. 29 March 2000. (www.un.org/rights.html). White House Office of the Press Secretary. "Clinton Administration Plan to Expand Community Policing and Reduce Gun Violence". 11 August 1993. (http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2r.text). Word Count: 1230
- 2259: The Life of John F. Kennedy
- ... changed the course of politics for years to come. Who knows what would have happend if Kennedy was president. However, out of tragedy came some good . President Johnson made a firm stand and passed new gun laws. The laws stated that people could no longer purchase guns through mail order and that no one could have a gun under age. This was an attempt to lessen senseless acts of violence. As you can see, the tragic death of Robert Kennedy was an act of violence that was spurred through hatred and jealousy. When ...
- 2260: R. v. Keilty
- ... the Supreme Court of Canada on the grounds that the trial judge erred in law. The facts in the case were not disputed but the actual definition of possession under section 2 of the Narcotic Control Act was the issue. The appellant never actually did sell the narcotics nor did he at anytime have possession. It is illogical to convict a person of possession when they don't actually have possession as defined in the Criminal Code. Therefore is it logical to convict a person of trafficking if there were no narcotics? Crown arguments The actual possession is irrelevant because section 2 of the Narcotic Control Act states that trafficking means: (a) to manufacture, sell, give, administer, transport, send, deliver, or distribute, or (b) offer to do anything referred to in paragraph (a) otherwise than under the authority of this Act ...
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