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- 4731: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... screen images in ways never before possible. Analysts in this field say that it is only a prelude to the emerging world-wide network popularly known as the electronic information highway( ). Two of the Japan's formidable corporate giants, Sega of America Inc., and Nintendo of America Inc., are a real force behind the growing phenomenon. `The world wide home--videogames marketwhich they dominate is worth arouwnd $20 billion, of which ... and holding library books. It is that easy. Evans, a concerned mother of two boys, complains, "You see, those mothers know when their kids go to the mall or some place like that, they won't be able to buy cigarettes, or alcohol or pornographic magazines." Evans continues, "But kids can walk into any movie rental store and pick up one of these violent video games, nobody will say no. The ... bit and 64-bit systems due next year from Nintendo, Sega and Sony Corporations (Fitzwrald **). For now, the main issue is violence. Richard Brandt, in his essay titled, "VIDEOGAMES: Is All That Gore Really Child's Play?" paints some graphic pictures of the hard core violence( ). While Nintendo, the trend and price setter of the industry acknowledges that two thirds of its consumers are under 15, they released a game ...
- 4732: Computer Security
- Computer Security About two hundred years before, the word "computer" started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even didn't know what is a computer. However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer. Therefore, computer become more and more popular and important to ... flood of coffee. Besides, human caretaker of computer system can cause as much as harm as any physical hazard. For example, a cashier in a bank can transfer some money from one of his customer's account to his own account. Nonetheless, the most dangerous thief are not those who work with computer every day, but youthful amateurs who experiment at night --- the hackers. The term "hacker "may have originated at M.I.T. as students' jargon for classmates who labored nights in the computer lab. In the beginning, hackers are not so dangerous at all. They just stole computer time from the university. However, in the early ...
- 4733: An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... Hawthorne with The Scarlet Letter. Perhaps one might wonder which author did a better job in doing so, but with such different pieces of work, this is hardly a question that can be answered. Miller's the Crucible was written in the nineteen-fifties, with a definite purpose, to remind Americans of the horrible witch trials that took place in Salem, even before the American Revolution was a thought. It served ... Miller wrote a play, which was not well received by the first audiences to witness it, but none the less is now recognized as one the finest pieces of literature written by an American. Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter was written in the eighteen hundreds, with no other purpose but for Hawthorne to write a novel. Hawthorne perhaps chose this dark subject to convey his contempt for Puritanism. He was a man preoccupied with the hidden sin which is illustrated in not only the Scarlet Letter, but also in The Minister's Black Veil. One might even say that Hawthorne's ancestry (Hathorne) is what he might consider his own "Pearl", and this is why he changed his name. Like Miller's the Crucible, The Scarlet ...
- 4734: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... stage of human lives. It is the part that humans reach maturity, become adult, and attain full growth. Also, it means one more thing. It could mean understand more about the society. In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mocking Bird, it shows the different ways of growing up and different kinds of growing up. There are three main character who went through the process of growing up. Scout mentally grew ... a lot toward prejudice of Maycomb County after an unfair trial. Scout was the teller of the whole book. She was a young daughter of a lawyer, Atticus. They lived in Maycomb County with Scout's brother and Aunt in the 1930's. At the beginning of the book, she didn't know much about the prejudice of Southern America. She basically knew nothing about prejudice. She thought every person was the same as her. But she ...
- 4735: Discrimination In The Workplace
- ... color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, martial status, political belief, or mental or physical disability. This is a great ethical code for discrimination in the workplace. If everybody would follow this code then we wouldn’t have so many problems with discrimination in todays jobs. Opposing views are at most when it comes to discrimination. “The effects of discrimination linger,” says Cecilia Conrad, a research associate at the Joint Center for ... which focuses on issues of interest to blacks. “Whites are still benefiting from Jim Crow,” she adds. Many people argue that many whites still view blacks as their intellectual inferiors. Whites feel that Blacks shouldn’t have high level jobs as blacks think it’s raciest if a White person is given a job for the position they both applied for. These are some opposing views people have shared on discrimination. Affirmative Action is a plan to offset past ...
- 4736: An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... Hawthorne with The Scarlet Letter. Perhaps one might wonder which author did a better job in doing so, but with such different pieces of work, this is hardly a question that can be answered. Miller's the Crucible was written in the nineteen-fifties, with a definite purpose, to remind Americans of the horrible witch trials that took place in Salem, even before the American Revolution was a thought. It served ... Miller wrote a play, which was not well received by the first audiences to witness it, but none the less is now recognized as one the finest pieces of literature written by an American. Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter was written in the eighteen hundreds, with no other purpose but for Hawthorne to write a novel. Hawthorne perhaps chose this dark subject to convey his contempt for Puritanism. He was a man preoccupied with the hidden sin which is illustrated in not only the Scarlet Letter, but also in The Minister's Black Veil. One might even say that Hawthorne's ancestry (Hathorne) is what he might consider his own "Pearl", and this is why he changed his name. Like Miller's the Crucible, The Scarlet ...
- 4737: Computer Protection
- Computer Protection About two hundred years before, the word "computer" started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even didn't know what is a computer. However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer. Therefore, computer become more and more popular and important to ... flood of coffee. Besides, human caretaker of computer system can cause as much as harm as any physical hazard. For example, a cashier in a bank can transfer some money from one of his customer's account to his own account. Nonetheless, the most dangerous thief are not those who work with computer every day, but youthful amateurs who experiment at night --- the hackers. The term "hacker "may have originated at M.I.T. as students' jargon for classmates who labored nights in the computer lab. In the beginning, hackers are not so dangerous at all. They just stole computer time from the university. However, in the early ...
- 4738: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- ... with them and he went along to help and show everyone how to and operate most of the vehicles. Synopsis: My book is about how Richard Levine tries to and does find the InGen corporation's second dinosaur island which he had been searching for and trying to locate for years. The second island is only a few hundred miles away from the original , and they both were abandoned when a ... took with him were attacked and all but Levine were killed. He would be found later. The team left for the island soon after to try and find him. Unknown to anyone, two of Levine's students at the middle school where he helps, sneaked into the cargo of the plane and went to the island with them. His two star pupils, Kelly and Arby really wanted to go when he ... them that he was going on an exploration in the Caribbean to an unknown island. Almost as soon as they got to the island Kelly and Arby were found and everyone realized that they shouldn't but were going to have to stay the whole expedition. At the time they didn't mind. They later set up base and took the Explorer they brought to look around. They followed an ...
- 4739: Hills Like White Elephants
- ... Hills Like White Elephants displays the differences in the way a man and a woman view pregnancy and abortion. The woman looks at pregnancy as a beautiful aspect of life. In the story the woman’s pregnancy is implied through their conversation. She refers to the near by hills as elephants; "They look like white elephants" (464). She is comparing the hills to her own situation, pregnancy. "They’re lovely hills. They really don’t look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees" (465). Just as the hills have their distinct beauty to her, she views pregnancy in the same fashion making the ... views pregnancy just the opposite. When the girl is talking about the white elephants and agrees that the man has never seen one, his response is, "I might have, just because you say I haven’t doesn’t prove anything" (464). This shows the defensive nature of the man, and when the woman implies the he is unable to differentiate between what is beautiful and what is not. Another issue ...
- 4740: Adolf Hitler
- ... can see already Hitler was a very cruel person. The fact that he wanted one dominate race was unbelievably true. First of all, the fact he would kill everyone one way or another that didn’t have blond hair and blue eye and was of German descent, was a frightening fact. The idea of this gives me quite a scare my self, because I have brown hair, and brown eyes and would I have been killed just because I did not Hitlers physical standards. Also Hitler himself did not have blond hair and blue eyes. Next, I don’t think that you should judge anyone by the way they look or what they do; that is very wrong. Hitler’s idea of one dominate race was a very bad one. Adolf Hitler was born in an Austrian town known as Braunau am Inn. Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler’ ...
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