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- 651: Fighting For An Innocent Death
- ... City Police officers. The officers identified themselves and when Diallo reached in his back pocket to pull out what eventually was found to be a mere wallet the four police officers opened fire. Carroll shouted "Gun!" then he and McMellon immediately started shooting and each emptied their sixteen round clips into the body of a 22-year-old immigrant form Guinea. In a period of approximately eight seconds all forty-one ... States legally on a work visa, which would have expired in April of 1999. After the execution ended, Carroll went to inspect the already deceased body of Amadou Diallo. When he saw there was no gun he immediately began to administer CPR pleading "Don't die! Don't die!" (qtd. in Morganthau). Tom Morganthau author of the article in NewsWeek "Cops in the Crossfire", summed it up best when he said ... found guilty of second degree murder. Affirmative action groups demand justice along with Saikou and Kadiatou Diallo Amadou's parents. "Under the law, the officers were justified in shooting if they thought Diallo had a gun, even if they were wrong" (Morganthau). Defenders say McMellon, Carroll, Boss, and Murphy were justified in shooting Amadou Diallo because he could have fit the description of the Bronx Rapist. Yet “there was no ...
- 652: How Media Influences Women
- ... is the ideal female body they use. It is absolutely tight, contained, bolted down. Being thin is not enough. Women need to be in shape as well. Obtaining that body becomes a matter of self-control. It illustrates to me that they are saying thin women are in control. They have mastered the discipline of dieting and exercise. It is the fat women who are not in control. Fat has become associated with laziness and lack of self-discipline. Of the statistics that I ran across while researching this topic said that eighty percent of girls between the ages of eight and ...
- 653: Criminal Insanity
- ... has found "that in psychopathic murderers there was less activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain" ("Natural Born..." 10 ). Could this lack of activity in an area of the brain that is known to control certain emotions in people be the cause of criminal insanity? It is possible, but that is most likely not the only cause. Dr. Raine says that he believes that violent and psychopathic behavior is caused ... a head in the trunk of his car. Curiously, the psychiatrist said that he was 'quite well adjusted', and doing great" ("Serial..."). According to Dr. Frazier many people have murderous fantasies but are able to control them through a series of "bypass techniques". Some examples of these bypass techniques include walking to the point of exhaustion, strenuous nighttime employment or temporary isolation (Methvin, 34). Many times people are able to control their murderous feelings, but those who are not able are the ones who eventually become the criminally insane, lusting after blood at every moment. Often times it is a highly publicized murder that will ...
- 654: Comparative Harms Of Legal And
- ... their family and friends. Attempts will be made in this paper to compare the harms that occur from the abuse of legal and illegal drugs. Throughout U.S. history there have been many attempts to control drug use. The first attempt to control drugs in the U.S. came about in 1868. In that year the Pharmacy Act of 1868 was passed (Drugs 78). The act required the registration of anyone that was dispensing drugs, such as prescriptions ... the 1980’s the government began what is known as the War on Drugs. During this time many task forces, drug enforcement offices and drug polices began to appear and the focus of the drug control began to come down to punishment rather than treatment. Lets try to define abuse and what it means to abuse drugs. Drug abuse consists of taking more than the prescribed amount of a medication ...
- 655: Change Management
- ... to change is hence conducive to change. An organisation that is well structured for change is one that is organic. An organic organisation has the structural characteristics mentioned above and others like wide span of control, cross-functional teams, free flow of information and low formalisation. Organic organisations have “organisational structure that is highly adaptive and flexible with little work specialisation, minimal formalisation and little direct supervision of employees.” (Robbins et ... an organisation to become a learning organisation. Leadership can be used to reduce the resistance to change by altering people’s attitudes, expectations, perceptions and behaviour through motivation, communication, participation, facilitation, negotiation manipulation and coercion. Control is “The process of monitoring activities to ensure they are being accomplished as planned, and of correcting any significant deviations.” (Robbins et al., 2000, p.683) The control of the organisation needs to flexible enough to absorb and deal with change. Managers need to move away from bureaucratic style of control to encourage change. Bureaucratic organisations strain the use of rules, regulations, ...
- 656: Computer Viruses: Past, Present And Future
- ... and, now, client-server systems. These systems are more cost-effective and they are being deployed more broadly within organizations for a growing range of mission-critical applications, from finance and sales data to inventory control, purchasing and manufacturing process control. The current, rapid adoption of client-server computing by business gives viruses fertile new ground for infection. These server-based solutions are precisely the type of computers that are susceptible - if unprotected - to most computer ... this by exploiting computer code, already on the host system. The virus can infect, or become resident in almost any software component, including an application, operating system, system boot code or device driver. Viruses gain control over their host in various ways. Here is a closer look at the major virus types, how they function, and how you can fight them. File Viruses Most of the thousands of viruses known ...
- 657: Controlling Computers With Neu
- ... the human brain with a computer. That statement is a very crude way of explaining this idea. As you may already know, the electrical nature of the human nervous system--the basis for direct neural control of computers--has been recognized for more than a century. In 1849, the German physiologist Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond, first reported the detection of minute electrical discharges created by the contraction of the muscles ... Christopher Reeves after suffering an accident on horseback, has been left a quadriplegic. Because he is unable to move his body, Mr. Reeves is unable to use a computer. This technology can enable him to control a computer cursor with his eyes. Using a “visual keyboard”, he will be able to type out messages. Institutions dedicated to the rehabilitation of paralysis victims use the “visual keyboards”. This software displays a standard ... in a state of peace as everyone would have equal information. In the future, individuals who have lost limbs will be able to obtain new ones. The only difference is, they will be able to control these bionic limbs as if they were born with them. Also, they may be able to feel sensation on these limbs. This idea is similar to the scene in the movie The Empire Strikes ...
- 658: Computers and The Disabled
- ... Computerized vans allow many disabled people to drive, by having onboard computerized lifts to place the disabled in the driver's seat. Movement sensitive hardware, as well as computerized shifting devices allows the disable to control the van with very little physical movement. Children with disabilities now have access to many computerized devices that enable them to move freely in their home as well as outside. The battery operated bigfoot truck ... 95 help system was designed to help users with hearing, motor and some visual disabilities, they include information on the built-in access features. The controls of these features are centralized in the Accessibility Options Control Panel. This specialized control panel lets the user activate and deactivate certain access features and customize timing and feedback for a limited individual. A program for the disabled called StickyKey helps a person who doesn't have much ...
- 659: Escapism and Virtual Reality
- ... inherent in each design. For this very reason, the uses of computers are now too many to ever consider listing exhaustively and so only a representative selection are considered below. Computers are now used to control any other machine that is subject to a varying environment, (e.g. washing machines, electric drills and car engines). Artificial environments such as hotels, offices and homes are maintained in pre- determined states of comfort ... precursors. Some such future concepts, in which computers would be of vital importance, might be the performance of delicate surgical procedures by robot, controlled by a computer, guided in turn by a human surgeon; the control of the flow of traffic in a large city according to information gathered by remote sensors; prediction of earthquakes and national weather changes using large computers to simulate likely progressions from a known current state ... acquired before it can be used effectively. The top level of complexity on this scale is the use of computers as flexible tools and the construction of the series of instructions known as programs to control the operation of the computer. Escapist thoughts begin when the operations of the programs have to be understood. In many cases, it is either too risky or time-consuming to set the programs into ...
- 660: MkIS Support For The Marketing
- ... deeply grateful to Professor Markku Sääksjärvi of the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration for his invaluable support and critique in this endeavour. Introduction More and more, companies are faced with the need to control an ever larger and rapidly changing marketing environment. The information processing requirements of companies are expanding as their competitive environment becomes more dynamic and volatile (Child, 1987). To handle the increasing external and internal information ... From the marketing management point of view, MkIS were tools for managing marketing information, marketing research, marketing planning, modelling marketing transactions, decision making in marketing, budgeting, analysing different courses of action, and for reporting and control (Higby and Farah, 1991; Li et al., 1993; Morris et al., 1989; Vandermerwe and Carney, 1987). In modern marketing thinking, MkIS are not regarded simply as systems limited to management. Moriarty and Swartz (1989) also ... needs, should be company strategy and redesigned management processes, particularly the marketing management process with the help of sophisticated IS. MkIS offer an effective way to co-ordinate the vertical process of marketing management and control between several user groups. The hierarchical division of tasks can be restructured with the help of effective MkIS, and by providing at the same time, sophisticated new ways to transfer marketing information between different ...
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