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- 26521: Dress Code
- ... local school, often at the request of parents. There should be a dress code for students for several reasons. Many public schools today are making dangerous decisions and these decisions may end up saving someone's life. The decisions are about school uniforms and dress codes. Public schools are beginning to open their eyes to the real world and see what their students are wearing and what the clothes are about ... expensive and many kids steal them. Baggy clothes are very dangerous because students can carry guns or other illegal items into the schools. Many people are discriminated by what they wear but dress code doesn't discriminate anyone. Some clothes are not appropriate for schools, such as clothes that have inappropriate symbols or sayings.
- 26522: Archetypes
- ... Ophelia. Hamlet does not only show signs of war towards himself but also to others. Hamlet feeds his thirst for revenge by sneaking up on Claudius while he was trying to pray, but he doesn't kill him kill him because he does not want to send him to heaven He feels he should be banished to hell. Hamlet is also at war with his mother. He confronts his mother about ... with everyone. But especially against Laertes after he has discovered of the plot against him. He then commits more acts of violence and murder against Claudius and Laertes. After Claudius was killed and his father’s death had been avenged, Hamlet felt a sense of peace. Even though he knew that he was going to die he still felt he had done something for his father. The questions is would any ...
- 26523: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
- ... Multivac, controlled humans by telling the authorities about who was going to commit a crime causing someone to be imprisoned until the danger has passed. It was the computer that made the decision of someone’s freedom or imprisonment and that controlled others to arrest a person it suspected of committing a crime controlling his/her destiny. The decision of imprisoning someone for a crime a person did not commit was ... questions that would normally embarrass people if they would have to ask someone else about it. Multivac could access its vast database of trillions of pieces of knowledge and find the best solution for one’s problem (All The Troubles of The World 153). All the people believed that Multivac knows the best and allowed a computer to control their lives by following the solutions Multivac had given them (All the Troubles of The World 153). Humans followed a computer’s solution to a problem they could not solve themselves allowing a computer to take control over their lives not allowing them to think for themselves. In the Nine Tomorrows, Isaac Asimov often criticizes our ...
- 26524: Dickinson; A Biography
- ... more than a third of her total output of poems. In 1862, seeking advice about the quality of her poems, Dickinson wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a popular critic. Higginson advised against publication of Dickinson's poems because of the irregular rhythms, adapted from hymn meters, slant rhymes, eccentric phrasing, and emotional intensity. Nevertheless, she continued to write poems in that style. By the late 1860's, she had become a total recluse, dressing in all white, and withdrawn from contacts beyond the family. Emily Dickinson led a simple life. She was devoted to her parents, her sister Lavinia, and to her ... for Judge Lord. Emily Dickinson chose not to publish many of her poems for fear she would be misunderstood. During her final years she neer left her house or garden. Since her death of Bright's disease, Dickinson has become known as one of the greatest and most powerful poets who ever lived.
- 26525: Oppression
- ... Oppression is completely based on hatred and preys on you when you sleep, or when you are at your lowest point. It kicks you when you are down, and pushes you further down the rabbit’s hole. It forces you to fight when you are the weakest and will take your very last breath. It takes one problem and snowballs until you can not take it anymore. We can learn to ... nonexistent. Oppression is what makes life hard. It tests you to see if you will make the stand for freedom, or be oppressed. African-Americans were oppressed for hundreds of years, and when it couldn’t get any worse, they found and fought with their leaders for what they believed in, freedom. Both the Egyptians and Hitler oppressed Jews for 5000 years, when he decided to wipe out their entire race ...
- 26526: Cable Modems and ADSL
- ... be sufficiently low that telephone companies will be able to match CATV pricing strategies, if necessary. However, telephone companies are already connected to the entire customer base; CATV passes a small fraction today, and won't pass more than 40% by 2000. Even with a tie in territories covered by both enterprises, telephone companies will achieve 70 - 80% market share over-all, in the U.S. If dial up modems can serve as an example, once central office infrastructure has been fully deployed (no more than three years), ADSL and cable modems can grow from low millions to tens of millions ...
- 26527: Jamestown Fiasco
- ... America. Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607 by a group of settlers led by Captain Christopher Newport, who was hired by the London Company. In looking at the first fifty years of the colony's existence, historians have learned much about early colonial attitudes toward religion, gender roles, labor, and Indian life and culture. In this exert Morgan focuses on the possible causes for Jamestown's major problem--producing their own food. One possible reason to why the English fail to grow food was poor "organization and direction" of the colony. The government appointed by the charter placed full powers in ... an incredible number of the population proportionally compare to England. Out of 105 settlers when the colony started, 28 were "gentlemen," and in later settlements 56 out of 190 were "gentlemen." These numbers gave Virginia's population about six times as large a proportion of "gentlemen" as England had. Gentlemen were known to be people that had no manual skill, nor were expected to do manually labor. They were there ...
- 26528: A Comparison Of Typewriters Vs
- ... perform some functions computers cannot, but a personal computer (PC) cannot be used a mere typewriter (nor should it be). Perhaps that is why one large survey found that 85% of secretaries who use PC's also use typewriters. Using microchip technology, sophisticated electronic typewriters can perform many of the automatic functions and editing functions of which computers are capable. Automatic functions. Among the features of electronic typewriters are automatic centering ... varies with the amount of advanced features included. Some machines are upgradable so that the appropriate level of sophistication can be obtained without replacing machines. REFERENCES Audion, Mark. "Using Electronic Typewriters: the Basics, Plus ." Today's Office, July 1986, 55-64. Fernberg, Patricia M. "Electronic Typewriters: Understanding the Product." Modern Office Technology, March 1989, 48-50. Paez, Patricia. "Typewriters: Technology with an Easy Touch." Today's Office, September 1985, 55-72.
- 26529: Leaders of the Progressive Movement
- ... denied women suffrage. Thus, in the course of their lengthy struggle, these women learned that their gender was most capable of getting the needed social reforms accomplished. They banded together and formed the National Women's Suffrage Association, which was instrumental in gaining women the right to vote. Each of these three women made a unique and enduring difference in American society. Even in the time before women's suffrage, Jeanette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives. During her time there, she worked tirelessly for all kinds of legislation to help women, while never compromising her pacifist stance. Jane Addams also worked ... betterment of the poor. She wrote many books about worthy causes such as peace, and endured harsh criticism of her work. Perhaps the most radical of the three, Emma Goldman, took her work for women's rights one step further. Although she was skeptical about suffrage, Goldman worked for contraceptive information to be given to the "New Woman". She fought prejudiced Victorian attitudes, as all of these women did, with ...
- 26530: Animal Rights
- ... the experiments are replicated also which causes an unneeded demand for animals to perform experiments. Experiments which have already been proven are still being experimented with. However, animal research is an integral part of today's society when thinking of how much progress we have gained in human health with the use of animal experimentation. To date some forty-one Nobel prizes have been awarded to scientists whose achievements depended on ... diabetes and medications important in the management of asthma, epilepsy, arthritis, ulcers, and hypertensions are a few more to add to the list. To take animal research away would also be to halt our society's advancement of more procedures and more medicines to enhanc he better living of humans. In addition, there are no alternatives to animal experimentation that can give the same results that it can. In certain research ... experiment. Humans are the only alternatives to animals for this and when faced with this alternative, most people prefer the use on animals as the research model. Animal research is necessary to maintain our society's well being. Many people think it is morally wrong but when the advantages are considered with the disadvantages, the good outweighs the bad. Animal Research is necessary to continued progress in human health. If ...
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