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- 6741: Julius Caesar Biography
- ... great games, making sure the Romans would remember his name. This same year he was accused of planning to murder the consuls, but was not sentenced. Two years later, Caesar was elected pontifex maximus, or high priest. He was then, soon after, elected praetor, and the optimates became nervous for the first time because of his popularity. Again they accused Caesar of a crime. They said he was desecrating some secret ceremonies which women in the high priest house held. He then divorced his wife to fix this accusation and stop larger troubles. Caesar was now in debt and got Marcus Licinius Crassus, the richest man in Rome, to pay his 830 ...
- 6742: ISDN vs. Cable Modems
- ... several desirable properties as an application to consider for exercising residential infrastructure. Internet technology is based on a peer-to-peer model of communications. Internet usage encompasses a wide mix of applications, including low- and high-bandwidth as well as asynchronous and real-time communications. Different Internet applications may create varying degrees of symmetrical (both to and from the home) and asymmetrical traffic flows. Supporting all of these properties poses a ... market for ISDN equipment at fostering the development of needed technology. In addition, commercial development of both cable and ISDN Internet access has been hindered by monopoly control of the needed infrastructure—whether manifest as high ISDN tariffs or simple lack of interest from cable operators.
- 6743: The Crucible: Evil and Greed In Man
- The Crucible: Evil and Greed In Man High personal, acquisitions, evil desires and massive greed took part in shortening the fuse of the chaotic corruption of the Salem witch trials. Amidst the quiet and peaceful period of the Puritan era in America, not ... Miller 71). From this, it can be conceived that she would disastrously knock down any obstacle to get what she wanted. Another character who brings greed upon themselves is the Reverend Parris. He uses his high social status as a priest as an excuse to obtain that of which he considers is a requirement for such a prestigious man as he believes to be. In an argument between Reverend Parris and ...
- 6744: Movie: Stand and Deliver - Mr. Escalante Should Be An Inspiration to Everyone
- Movie: Stand and Deliver - Mr. Escalante Should Be An Inspiration to Everyone In the movie Stand and Deliver, double entendre ran rampant. During an Algebra lesson one day at the beginning of the school year, Mr. Escalante told Angel, a gang member, to "fill the hole". Not only was he referring to the hole as an illustration, but also to the hole in the students lives as a result ... learning and self improvement, but Angel, stubborn to the core, was not going down without a fight. Through seemingly endless struggles, Mr. Escalante endures hardships and insults to try and save the students and the school. Finally, he finds a handhold and clings to it as if his life depended upon it. In the end, Angel, as well as the other students, makes a huge stride by studying and passing the ...
- 6745: Racism - The Future
- Racism People see it everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing, it’s a power that has taken over through the last two years. In doing research on Racism, I ... are. Hate in America is getting worse and worse everyday. Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. No less than one month ago, two teenage boys committed the worst school shooting this country has seen, killing 13 helpless teenagers and 1 courageous teacher. These two boys made it clear, that they hated blacks, Christians, athletes and foreign people (O’Donnell). They killed a black for ...
- 6746: The Crucible Essay
- ... hate that man. I don t want to kill that man. But he say, You work for me, Tituba, and I make you free! I give you pretty dress to wear, and put you way high up in the air, and you gone fly back to Barbados! And then he come one stormy night to me, and he say, Look! I have white people belong to me. And I look----and ... Governor Danforth is a man that takes his position very seriously. This however is what caused his downfall at the end. Being so conscious of the witch situation in Salem and also having such a high power of influence as a judge, Danforth made it his duty to find and persecute all those guilty of witchery. But Danforth was basing his persecutions on whatever the girls would say or whoever they ...
- 6747: Internet Security
- ... manager who's already looking ahead to another job"(Rothfeder, "November 1996 Feature" 3). While electronic espionage is increasing, so is the ability to protect computer systems. "The American Society for Industrial Security estimates that high-tech crimes, including unreported incidents, may be costing U.S. corporations as much as $63 billion a year" (Rothfeder, "November 1996 Featuer" 1). There are many ways for businesses to protect themselves. They can use ... time task force be set up to study the vulnerability of the nations informational infrastructure. This would create a rapid-response team for investigating computer crimes. They also proposed to require all companies to report high-tech break-ins to the FBI (Rothfeder, "November 1996 Feature" 4). Security for the Internet is improving, it is just that the usage of the Internet is growing much faster. Security is a key issue ...
- 6748: Dead Poet's Society: Significant Experiences; The Twists of Life.
- ... Neil to strive towards what he thought was important, not what his father thought was important. Neil's life was drastically changed as a result of his meeting Mr. Keating, from a life dedicated to school, to a life dedicated to living. The impact of this association with Mr. Keating was that Neil was a different person after, he attempted to break free of the conformity that was suppressing him and ... and they all understood that it had been Neil's choice to do what he had done. To his peers, Neil's death would be remembered as his way of openly defying his father, the school and everybody and anything else that had ever gotten in the way of his dreams. If Mr. Keating had not entered their lives, Neil's friends would most likely have simply grieved for their loss ...
- 6749: My Antiona
- ... committed suicide. This hurt the family tremendously. Antonia was given the responsibilities that her father had and growing up for her changed in a matter of seconds. She could not join her fellow classmates in school because she had to tend to the work around the house. She became the head of the house. After time, the Shimerdas had a new log home built for them by the neighbors. The family ... Antonia became closer and Jim begins to like Antonia more. But the feelings were not mutual. Then, Jim and Antonia started to go their separate ways. Jim started working extremely hard in his studies at school and ended up going to Harvard to finish his pre-law studies. Much time has passed, and when Jim returned to Black Hawk, he learned that Antonia had become pregnant and returned home from Denver ...
- 6750: The State of the US Family
- ... slowly begun to become units of single parents. "In these single parent family units, have tripled since the 1970's where as the two parent families have decreased by 250,000. Two primary reasons…the high divorce rate and an increase in unwed mothers" (Henslin 323). With the high divorce rate and unwed mothers, there seems to be a lack of stability in the family. The children of these homes only have one parental role model to draw their elements of social integration from ...
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