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- 611: Questions of Ethics In Computer Systems and Their Future
- ... It is without a doubt as big if not bigger than any other public means of communication that has come before it. With that in mind I think the government is trying to extract it's pound of flesh for what they believe is missed revenue dollars that could be made in the form of tax regulations. "There are probably insiders touting stocks on the Internet either anonymously or under assumed ... the National Association of Securities Dealers, which oversees the NASDAQ market. The argument that they are both (the government and NASDAQ) currently running with is the "protection of the investor". When one looks at NASDAQ's complaint it is fairly superficial, for them it is clearly a loss of income for their trading enviorment, for the government it is a loss of taxes that could be derived from those trades. Are ... from it. The success rate of convictions from past indiscretions is low at best, one only has to look at the mountain of arrests for "insider trading", that the government launched during the late 1970's through the middle 1980's to realize for all the hype of cleaning up Wall Street not a whole lot ever came from the scourging. What it seems to me is Ms. Shapiro would ...
- 612: Canadian And French Relations
- ... over the colony, and now they had to unite if their was any hope of achieving confederation. The French people of lower Canada and the English people of Upper Canada had many differences, and weren't extremely trustworthy of each other. The French Canadians were in a tough spot when the call for confederation came around. They were afraid of losing their culture if they joined the Canadian confederacy, but they also didn't want to get assimilated into the United States. The French Canadian attitudes towards confederation in the eighteen sixty's, can best be seen through the views of the leading French Canadian politicians of the day. In French Canada around the period of confederacy, their were two main political parties, the bleus and the ...
- 613: Racism
- ... the benefits of society and the right of citizenship is no longer nearly total, as it once was. But discrimination still limits the opportunities and stifles the hope of many minority groups, in the U.S. as well as around the world. At this moment in our nation΄s history, it is critical that we start remedying the effects of discrimination. We find that many successful civil rights remedies, voting right laws, which have begun to take part in the Congress and state legislatures ... dream" was performed in washington, on August 28. By this time discrimination, social issues, and violence, such as the Ku Klux Klan, was already present. We must sadly confront the issue that his dream, hasn΄t become a reality yet. Although there are laws meant to end racial discrimination, in what concerns legal rights, education and jobs, we still find it more than present. Martin L. King΄s widow, Coretta ...
- 614: P. T. Barnum
- P. T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum reinvented the circus. His knowledge of what people want and how to make people think they want what he had was amazing. He constantly fooled people and had a way of making the customers come back. Barnum was ultimate salesman. He single handedly turned the circus into the "Greatest Show On Earth" it is today. P. T. Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut on July 5th 1810. He later called himself a "Yankee doodle dandy, plus one." He was the oldest of five, all raised in a typical Connecticut saltbox house, which is an average, large house, is that still stands today. His father, Philo Barnum, dabbled in several trades. His father owned his own dry goods store. Barnum's mom, Irena Taylor, was a housewife. The family was moderately well off. Barnum, as a child was influenced by a strict Protestant work ethic. He fallowed a type of Christianity called Congregationalism. Congregationalism was ...
- 615: Personal Writing: Plans
- ... question: Are we alone in the Universe? with a loud no when aliens arrived and began demolishing major cities all over the world. We all gazed out the windshield as we laughed at my sister's comment about the president in the film: "He was so broken up over the little wife's death that he went immediately and put on his flying suit to go kick those alien's buts himself." "And how 'bout the stripper who was perfectly happy in her job and...," David began and never finished as a large truck two to three cars ahead began rolling away from us ...
- 616: The Color Purple
- The changes in Celie's character For people to be equal they need a chance to become equal by self-discovering themselves. As we are growing older during our childhood we depend on our environment, parents, and peers to create ... and developed will have a large affect on the individual. Most of the people that succeed in life come from stable families, in well positioned environments. While those that are not fortunate enough often don't have the opportunities to rise to the top or even get a chance to self-discover themselves. Self-discovery is important because it is intended to increase an individual's self-awareness, and help them to identify their own beliefs, skills, potentials, and talents. But when an individual is forced or destined to grow up in an atmosphere in which there doesn't exist ...
- 617: Polygamy
- ... Smith, Contributor 5:259) 1849 Petition for the State of Deseret rejected by Congress, State boundaries were too large and most of that large area was unoccupied at that time. ("A Constitution for Utah", Stanley S. Ivins, Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 25 1957 p. 95.) 1850 Fall, A geographically smaller Territory of Utah was approved with Brigham Young as Territorial Governor. (Ivins, p. 95.) 1852 August 29, The revelation on celestial ... public discourse on that principle. (Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology, August 29, 1852 ,Sunday, Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, p.53, Orson Pratt.) 1853, Orson Pratt published "The Seer" in Washington DC, it contained Joseph Smith's revelation on plural marriage. "It is hoped the president-elect, the honorable members of congress, the heads of the various departments of the national government, the high-minded governors and legislative assemblies of the several ... of the great republic will patronize this periodical." ("The Seer", Orson Pratt, January 1852 issue, p.7, see also Doctrine & Covenants section 132. 1st published 1876 SLC.) 1856, The new Republican party selected for it's national platform a call to abolish the "Twin Relics of Barbarism, Slavery and Polygamy". ("The Mormons and the Law: The Polygamy Cases", Orma Lindord, Utah Law Review, p. 312.) 1856 March 17, The 2nd ...
- 618: The Jungle
- ... the sudden wishes of their masters, who are the capitalists who own and run private industries. The Jungle starts with the marriage of Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus in America, which was organized by Ona's cousin Marija. The novel then flashes back to their lives in a rural Lithuanian town, and how their families, Ona's stepmother Elzbieta, and her five children, Jurgis' father, and four other adults, thought that America would be such a great place to live in and decided to move to America. The day after the wedding is over, everyone was back to work and Jurgis and Ona's married life was cheerless. The pressures of work, poverty and illness stifles the families spirits and then Dede Antanas, Jurgis' dad, dies. After Jurgis gives his father an inexpensive funeral, he decides to join ...
- 619: The Arrival Of The Internet
- The Arrival Of The Internet The Internet can no longer be avoided. Everywhere you turn it's .com this and .com that. It seems that everyone has a web-page on the Internet including your relatives and neighbors. There are more than 100 million U.S. citizens that use the Internet today and this number is growing exponentially.(Consol, 26) This limitless technology has provided a means for people anywhere in the world to communicate with each other, sending and receiving ... one another via telephone lines, optical fibers, radio and satellite links. If one computer goes down the others are linked together to bypass the defective/destroyed computer and get the information to its destination. It's much like a spider web. You can cut many of the strands and it still hold together. This is how the phrase "World Wide Web" came into existence. The Internet has grown and improved ...
- 620: Analysis Of Jack Turners The A
- Jack Turner s The Abstract Wild is a complex argument that discusses many issues and ultimately defends the wild in all of its forms. He opens the novel with a narrative story about a time when he explored ... about them to several people. His second visit to the pictographs was extremely different- he had removed the wild connection with the ancient mural and himself by publicizing and talking about them. This is Turner s main point within the first chapter. He believes that when we take a wild place and photograph it, talk about it, advertise it, make maps of it, and place it in a national park that ... or never having heard of the place and stumbling across it on your own during a hike. Unfortunately, almost every wild experience between nature and the public has been ruined by the media. Through Turner s story he begins to explain the idea of the wild and its importance and necessity of human interaction with the wild. The second chapter contains two major ideas. The first is Turner s defense ...
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