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- 361: Serial Killer: Ted Bundy
- ... was something that he never got over. Depressed over the break up he dropped out of school. He had trouble keeping interest in anything after his true love left him. They kept in touch through letters, but Stephanie made it clear she did not want to be together. This break up would lead to a spiraling obsession. To make matters worse, Ted learned in 1969 that his "sister" was really his ... as strongly for her as she did him. She was unsure if she was the only woman Ted was seeing. She was also unaware of his former girlfriend and their relationship as it continued in letters. Ted remarked that there was a difference in his feelings for Meg. Stephanie would remain the one true women he ever loved. Between 1969 and 1972 Ted’s life changed dramatically. He had high hopes ...
- 362: How England Instigated The Ame
- ... American Revolution. More and more British Soldiers were sent to America to enforce the Navigation act, to the continued irritation of the Colonists. Committees were established to promote opposition to England and its Intolerable Acts. Letters were written to rile the colonies into shunning the acts, and Great Britain, seeing it as the beginnings of a rebellion, ordered all colonies to disown the letters (The American Revolution: War for Independence, pg. 128). When the colonies refused, England insisted the Royal Governors disband the legislatures, which they did. This spurred the Colonies to band together against this threat to self ...
- 363: Jackie Robinson
- ... 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. He went to the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA he showed a great deal of athletic ability. He was the first student-athlete to win varsity letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track. In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his journey through the Army. It was a segregated army then. He ... season he was spit on when sliding into a base, had balls thrown at his head, and received death threats. He also endured malicious catcalls and racial slurs shouted from the stands, along with unsigned letters that threatened his life if he continued to play baseball. Even with all these things going on he still stole home 19 times. He was a graceful fielder, timely hitter, and aggressive base runner. His ...
- 364: You've Got Mail
- ... that great of an impact in the world, others would argue the more traditional forms of communication have become obsolete. In the traditional world of communication, things are simple. People hand-write or type personal letters or business memos. They read newspapers and magazines. They call each other on the telephone and even leave each other messages on answering machines. They watch television and movies. Through their eyes, ears, and written ... cost of the call. As with all forms of communication, people are always concerned with how secure things are. With traditional forms of communication, even with the highest level of security, things are easily stolen - letters and memos can be easily copied; audio and video recordings can be quickly recorded; hard copies of any kind can be easily destroyed. As for the technology-based forms of communication, things are a lot ...
- 365: Cyrano De Bergerac 3
- ... and giving up his chance in having Roxanne. When he realizes that Roxanne doesn't love him because he's not as handsome as Christian. He would even help Christian in writing lovely poems and letters because he loves Roxanne so much and want her to be happy. Another example would be when he listened to Roxanne and protects Christian even though getting rid of Christian would help his chance of ... his sweet poems and his good looks. But she said she would still like him even if he were ugly. At the end she realize that it was Cyrano who wrote all those poems and letters. What love to Le Bret, De Guiche, and Reaganeau's mind is that they all wanted Roxanne. They all wanted to get rid of Christian and the best way to do it is to send ...
- 366: The War On Tobacco
- ... stating that nicotine had a ³similar organic chemical² to drugs like cocaine and morphine. With such a high level of potency, the warnings should not be in fine print, but should be broadcasted in bold letters on the packs of cigarettes, televised, and in every magazine ad for cigarettes. Continuing the way they are, it seems the tobacco companies are more of a culprit rather than a normal business. The tobacco ... stating that nicotine had a ³similar organic chemical² to drugs like cocaine and morphine. With such a high level of potency, the warnings should not be in fine print, but should be broadcasted in bold letters on the packs of cigarettes, televised, and in every magazine ad for cigarettes. Continuing the way they are, it seems the tobacco companies are more of a culprit rather than a normal business. The tobacco ...
- 367: Cryptography
- ... enigma machine. Basically it used twenty six wheels, one for each letter in the alphabet they spun at a certain rate that the only way you could decrypt the message was if you knew what letters where on what disks, what order they were in and what rate they were spinning. In this fashion the Nazi’s were very inclined to say that their encryption was unbreakable. It wasn’t until ... the next last for the second, and so on. This system, called Atbash, is exemplified in the Bible, in Jeremiah 25:26, in which “Sheshech” is written for “Babel” (Babylon), using the second and twelfth letters from the end of the Hebrew alphabet instead of from the beginning. In the early 1970s, LUCIFER, a cryptosystem that used both substitu¬ tion and transposition was developed by MIT. In 1976, the National Institute ...
- 368: Emily Dickinson 2
- ... of the pieces Emily wrote were poems. Emily was a very isolated individual. She rarely ever got out or had any contact with anybody outside of her home. Along with writing her poems she wrote letters to the people that she did have contact with. In the letters that she would write there would be poems somewhere within them. Emily wrote a total of 1,775 poems in her lifetime. Even though she wrote these poems she never let it be known that ...
- 369: Radio: A Form of Communication
- ... De Forest invented the audion, or Triode, which was able to amplify radio and sound waves. Radiotelephone and Radiotelegraph Up through this time, radio communication was in the form of radio telegraphy; that is, individual letters in a message were sent by a dash-dot system called Morse Code. (The International Morse Code is still used to send messages by shortwave radio.) Communication of human speech first took place in 1906 ... In early radiotelegraph communications the transmitter was keyed on and off in a coded fashion using a telegraph key or switch. The intelligence was transmitted by short and long bursts of radio waves that represented letters of the alphabet by the Morse code's dots and dashes. This system, also known as interrupted continuous wave (ICW) or, simply, continuous wave (CW), is used today by amateur radio operators, by beacon buoys ...
- 370: Hackers and Security. What Are the Effects of Data Encryption and Firewalls?
- ... as old as the art of communication. In times of war encryption was called 'code,' and could be employed to keep the enemy from obtaining the contents of transmissions. Simple ciphers include the substitution of letters for numbers, the rotation of letters in the alphabet, and the 'scrambling' of voice signals more complex ciphers work according to sophisticated computer readings that rearrange the data bits in digital signals. In order to easily recover the contents of an ...
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