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- 1571: Computers
- ... the consumer find merchandise that they might other wise probably cannot find. The World Wide Web allows users to find information on goods and services, pictures of products, samples of music (Used by record Companies), short videos showing the product or service, and samples of programs. Although a consumer cannot order directly from the Web site, the business will often give a Voice telephone number or an order form that costumer ... Consumers can find reviews, tech-info, and other bits and pieces of information. Each person who uses the Internet has an identification that sets them apart from everyone else. Often called handles (from the old short wave radio days). Electronic mail addresses allow information exchange from user to user. Business can take advantage of this by sending current information to many users. A user must first subscribe to the mailing list ... The article showed essentials of web savvy such as the availability of video and sound (music) files. For this consumer I can say that I have purchased at least two compact disks after hearing the short sample released by the record companies. The video clips are eye catching and may influence people to buy the companies products. I was disappointed in the information on Gopher. It mainly showed the differences ...
- 1572: What To Do?: Terrorism and the Media
- ... safety, and the security of their future actions. One motive of terrorists is to sway the publics belief in police forces dealing with the terrorist incident. For that reason the printing of damaging articles and stories requires some restraint (Alexander 36). An example of the media needing restraint occurred on April 30, 1980, when a group of Arab secessionists captured the Iranian embassy in London. As the SWAT teams began to ... up a list of guidelines that all the reporters must follow during terrorist situations (Alali 10). One option for the media to take is that there should be a consensus of standards for covering terrorism stories. There are several parts to this consensus and they are as follows: don't over exaggerate events that are already sensational; the media should paraphrase terrorist demands so they do not get all their political ... that they should not make accusations that the police can not respond to for legal reasons. Police agencies feel that reporting, exaggerations, and the threat of due dates should not drive the content of news stories. They wish for equal coverage of the terrorism and police actions. The police also require support of society and to get it they need the support of the media, this aids them in their ...
- 1573: Lucille Ball
- ... comedienne. Not only was she the star of the world renowned television show, I Love Lucy, but she has also performed on radio, in films, and even on Broadway. Ball had an extraordinary personality. "In short, Lucille Ball's unique brand of wacky physical comedy made her the queen of TV. . ." (Dziemianowicz 54). Her hit television show, I Love Lucy, was one of the most watched television shows of all time ... of course, achieved eternal life" (Brady 342). Prior to her television success, she also had much success on her radio show My Favorite Husband. The show was a comedy based on based on "the delightful stories of Isobel Scott Rorick's gay, sophisticated Mr. & Mrs. Cugat, starring Lucille Ball with Richard Denning" (Brady 159). The show soon became a hit, thanks to Ball's humor. "Just before Christmas 1948. . . General Foods ...
- 1574: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- ... moved to Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi, when young Clemens was 4 years old. It was in this river town that he grew up, and from it he gathered the material for his most famous stories. The character of Judge Carpenter is somewhat like his father; Aunt Polly, his mother; Sid Sawyer, his brother Henry; Huck Finn, a town boy named Tom Blankenship; and Tom Sawyer, a combination of several boys ... Behind his mask of humor lay a serious view of life. Tragedy had entered his own life in the poverty and early death of his father, the loss of a daughter, and his bankruptcy. His short story, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg', published in 1900, which showed greed at work in a small town, is an indication of Twain's dark side. The controversial 'Huckleberry Finn', which is periodically banned in ...
- 1575: Evolution And Creation
- ... theory of evolution and creation are the same and different in a lot of ways. Lamarck was the first person to come up with a theory for evolution. There are a lot of different creation stories in the Native American The theory of evolution means that all plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary communications of slight changes in the production or generations. The word evolution means The historical ... them together and it would produce the desired plant. He believed this happened in nature also and he called it the survival of the fittest or natural selection. There are a lot of different creation stories and they are the same in that since but they are all different. The creation stories start at the beginning of the world. The creation myth I ve chosen to wright about is based on what native Americans believe. Here is a quote from chief Weneinock of Yakima God created ...
- 1576: The United States' Involvement In World War 2
- ... agreed to an armistice by mid June of 1940. Yet, Germany eventually controlled France. (Renouvin, 186) Italy had entered the war as the battle against France came to a close. Italy could only afford a short war, but saw the advantage of acquiring land with Germany surging. Seeing that France was out of the picture and Britain stood alone they calculated this was the opportune time to enter and become part ... on the home front. Britains survival in World War II depended largely upon shipments of food, war materials and other supplies across the Atlantic ocean from mainly the United States and Canada. They were also short on vital raw materials such as oil and aluminum. Britain attempted to protect the vessels bringing the supplies, but Germanys submarine force proved to be too great a match. Since 1939, Britain had lost ... exuberant amount compared to the entire wars cost of 900 billion dollars. The United States alone paid for over a third of the war. Along with that, the Allies costs combined were billions of dollars short of what the United States costs were. The United States also put up even more money for the aid of their Allies. Over 50 billion dollars worth of equipment was sent to the Allies. ...
- 1577: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship
- ... important for parents to provide moral guidance for their children, and parents should have this responsibility. 2. However, at the same time as we carry out moral guidance, we have to come out with some short term approaches to solve the problem in a more efficient way as well. 3. An alternative to government censorship is the technological fix, which would prevent misuse of the Net and would have the same ... sexual material in many media. Providing children with moral guidance is the foremost solution to the problem. However, at the same time that parents carry out moral guidance, Americans have to come out with some short term approaches to solve the problem in a more efficient way as well. An alternative to government censorship is the technological fix, which would prevent misuse of the Net and would have the same effects ... technically and politically impossible. The foremost solution to the problem is for parents to provide moral guidance for their children. At the same time they are providing moral guidance for their children, Americans also need short term technical solution. Intelligent censoring software and proxy servers can let parents disallow their children access to certain sites. In this way, parents can keep their children from the offensive materials on the Net. " ...
- 1578: Crime Films
- ... the man who knows nothing more than a life of crime, always running from the law and ultimately dying full of fear. One of the main reasons that we sympathise with the gangster, for a short time, may be the inherent knowledge of what is likely to happen. We are not sure of how the events will unfold but we have an idea that they will develop against a definable set ... be exposed to other possibilities are the fundamental reasons for entertainment. The criticisms being aroused by those who are opposed to the way in which crime is occasional depicted, believe that real life and the stories told by films are becoming increasingly similar. The criticism can be justified in some respects but by justifying these criticisms there is an implied ignorance for the individual intelligence of the general population . Bibliography David ...
- 1579: Symbolism In The Lottery
- ... her story. It opens the eyes of readers to properly classify and question some of today s traditions as cruel, and allows room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions. The Lottery is a short story that records the annual sacrifice ceremony of a fictional small town. It is a detailed narrative of the selection of the person to be sacrificed, a process known to the townspeople as the lottery ... obviously religious natures. Others, such as Adams, are a bit more obscure. The Delacroix family has a name that literally means of the cross. The principal Delacroix character, Mrs. Delacroix, appears several times throughout the short story. She functions as a friend to Tessie Hutchinson, the woman ultimately selected for the sacrifice, but turns on her at the end along with the rest of the townspeople. Delacroix is not angry with ... Hutchinson has three children. The lottery occurs on the twenty -seventh day of June, and the oldest man in the town has been to seventy-seven lotteries. The number three has two meanings in this short story. The first is the Christian concept of the Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The box, and thus the lottery itself, rests upon the Christian concept of religion. The number ...
- 1580: Milton Friedman
- Milton Friedman Milton Friedman, like so many great life stories, was the subject of a very tough childhood. He was son to a couple of poor immigrants, born on 31 July 1912, in New York, America. At the age of fifteen, Friedman's father died ... faire) style society, which is probably at the will of those who already have great wealth and (and occasionally or) power (i.e. Jeff Kennett). The Government does this, only because it brings in immediate short-term revenue. I do not believe however, that this will be an overall gain for the economy in the long run. I chose, after reading through a brief biographical description of each of the six ...
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