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- 1501: Personal Writing: Welcome to Maysville
- Personal Writing: Welcome to Maysville As an enrolled student at Mason County Middle School I welcome you. This school has a great academic status and we are one of the first schools in Kentucky to offer the Student Technology Leader Ship Program (S.T.L.P.). Not only do we have a great school, but we have a wonderful community as well. The east end of downtown is a fast pace area with friendly people. Forrest Avenue (the main street) brings access to many homes, the fourth and ...
- 1502: 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 ...
- 1503: 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 ...
- 1504: 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 ...
- 1505: 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, ...
- 1506: 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 ...
- 1507: 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 ...
- 1508: 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 ...
- 1509: Toni Morrison's Beloved: Sethe, A Brave Mother In Love, Or Is She Selfish In Her Weakness?
- ... Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of compassion is also murder. Throughout the work, seems to have two separate identities, which affect her actions. When reunited with Paul D., Sethe recalls her reactions to School Teacher’s arrival with no mention to her daughter’s death. “Oh, no. I wasn’t going back there [Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead” (42) Sethe believes she made a moral stand in ... freedom, freedom from brutality, from fear, and from pain. In killing her daughter she saved herself, for the second time. Sethe was still free, and she wasn’t going back to Sweet Home, or to School Teacher no matter what the cost. Sethes children were a part of her, and they were a part she was not going to submit to slavery. They needed to be protected, because the loss of them meant the loss of Sethe herself. When Sethe saw School Teacher coming she “collected every bit if life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out away, over ...
- 1510: 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 man’s 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 Holden’s ...
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