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- 1571: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... major university attempted to regulate what types of Internet access its students had, with results reminiscent of a 1960's protest. A research associate at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study of pornography on the school's computer networks. Martin Rimm put together quite a large picture collection (917,410 images) and he also tracked how often each image had been downloaded (a total of 6.4 million). Pictures of similar content had recently been declared obscene by a local court, and the school feared they might be held responsible for the content of its network. The school administration quickly removed access to all these pictures, and to the newsgroups where most of this obscenity is suspected to come from. A total of 80 newsgroups were removed, causing a large disturbance among ...
- 1572: Computer Software Piracy
- ... from studies sponsored by the National Institute of Justice is that persons involved in computer crimes get form skills and interests at an early age. Usually they are introduced to computers at home or in school and usually start their "career path" with illegally copying software. As young people interact with hackers, they incorporate the beliefs of the hackers into their own. Many of these unconventional beliefs of young hackers about ... have been illegally accessing computer systems. Colleges and universities do not usually include computer use and abuse in their courses, arguing that it is the responsibility of the schools. On the other hand, many secondary school educators are not sure about what should be taught and are reluctant or unable to add ethical computer education to many subjects in the curriculum. Textbooks on computer literacy rarely mention computer abuses and individual ... have worked together to prevent software piracy in educational institutions. In 1987, the Software Copyright Committee of the International Council for Computers in Education (ICCE) developed a policy to guide educators. The policy call on school districts to teach staff the provisions of the copyright law and both staff and students the ethical and practical implications of software piracy. This policy has been adopted by many school districts across the ...
- 1573: Computers and Society
- ... in another country to teach a class through video confrencing. The attempts to spread computer technology into the class room have produced results and taught lessons as to how computers should be applied. The Belridge school district in McKittrick California was one of the most technological school districts in America. Every student had two computers, one at school and one at home, which contained many brand new teaching programs. The high school had a low powered television station that broadcasted every day. The classes were small and parent involvement was high. Even ...
- 1574: Computer Communications
- Computer Communications Communications. I could barely spell the word, much less comprehend its meaning. Yet when Mrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at the junior high school, it triggered something in my mind. Two weeks later, during the last month of my eighth grade year, I figured it out. I was rummaging through the basement, and I ran across the little blue box that my dad had brought home from work a year earlier. Could this be a modem? I asked Mrs. Rubin about it the next day at school, and when she verified my expectations, I became the first member of Teleport 2000, the only organization in the city dedicated to introducing students to the information highway. This was when 2400-baud was considered ... kid that summer. I sat in front of the monitor twenty-four hours a day, eating my meals from a plate set next to the keyboard, stopping only to sleep. When I went back to school in the fall, I was elected the first president of Teleport 2000, partially because I was the only student in-the school with a freenet account, but mostly because my enthusiasm for this new, ...
- 1575: The Internet Beyond Human Control
- ... is because the Internet is capable of flashing up pornographic picture or comments at anytime. Also their is many different chat lines that consist of a lot of profanity and violence. A majority of high school students are minors. This is why most colleges are hooked up online to the Internet system. The government is trying to figure out ways to police the Internet so this will not happen. The problem with that is it is a very hard task to do. It is almost guaranteed this will not happen for another five to ten years. Being hooked up online helps make high school easy to slide through. There is a student at Chichester Senior High School that has a home computer hooked online with the Internet system. So when he has a term paper due all he does is down load a term paper on the system with the same ...
- 1576: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... attempted to regulate what types of Internet access its students had, with results reminiscent of a 1960's protest. A research associate, Martin Rimm, at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study of pornography on the school's computer networks. He put together quite a large picture collection (917,410 images) and he also tracked how often each image had been downloaded (a total of 6.4 million). Pictures of similar content had recently been declared obscene by a local court, and the school feared they might be held responsible for the content of its network. The school administration quickly removed access to all these pictures, and to the newsgroups where most of this obscenity is suspected to come from. A total of 80 newsgroups were removed, causing a large disturbance among ...
- 1577: Coming of Age in Mississippi: Anne Moody
- ... a woman who watched her. She could find no answers, however, and this began her crusade for racial equality. After working to help support her family and ever increasing amount of siblings during her grade school years, Anne entered high school. It was here that a major turning point occurred. A fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was murdered for whistling at a white woman. It was then that she began to hate not only ... early age. She had also become a supreme athlete and was able to get a basketball scholarship to Natchez College, a junior college in Mississippi and not New Orleans, where she wanted to go to school. It was here where she had one of her initial confrontations with authority. Feeling the rules set down for the basketball team were unfair to her she refused to obey them and eventually won ...
- 1578: Catcher In The Rye
- ... one of my favorites. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to hold grasp of this book and read it, it is superficially, the story of a young mans expulsion from school. However, if you study the story, it is so much more than that. Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in the 1950s in New York, has been expelled from prep school for poor achievement. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school for a few days prior to the end of term and goes to New York to take a vacation before returning home to his parents. Told as a monologue, the book describes Holdens ...
- 1579: The Cultural Gap In Joy Luck Club
- ... where he felt torn between two cultures. Wong's parents came to America in 1974. For the first couple of years, they lived a life not exposing themselves to the American culture. Once Wong started school, his surrounding influenced him, as in his friends who spoke "perfect" English and his teachers who taught and exposed him to the American culture. "It was like I was bringing home the American culture to my parents everytime I learned something new in school," Wong recalls. "I remember bringing home the first permission slip to go on a field trip when I was in kindergarten. My parents couldn't get over the fact that field trips existed. They thought going to school meant staying at school and not leaving the playground. They weren't too happy about letting me go until my teacher explained to them that the field trip would be educational." Differing cultural values ...
- 1580: Christian or Hypocrite
- ... his companions. While at Mr. Legree's, two female slaves, Cassy and Emmeline escape. When Legree and others go to pursue the runaways Tom remained behind and prayed for their safety. Tom was joined in prayer with people who had learned of Tom's Christian ways. Legree believes Tom knows the plan of the fugitives escape, and Tom knows Legree will confront him. Again, Tom puts his trust in God. "But ... severe punishments. Mr. Covey is a professed Christian man. However, Mr. Covey does not display a Christian lifestyle. Covey only displays his love for God when there is really nothing better to do. "A long prayer at night made up for a short prayer in the morning, and a few men could seem more devotional than he when he had nothing else to do (Douglass 1044). Mr. Covey insisted on a morning and evening prayer. Covey prayed out ...
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