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- 5251: Real Face Of Terrorism
- ... terrorist lives under. Since 1948, the Palestinians have been continuously robbed of their land and self-rule while being subjugated to third-class citizenry and terror. The Israeli government is the only one in the world that openly admits to sponsoring assassinations for their own state security. The Israeli military and police use torture and arrest to place the discourage the Palestinian people from free thought and the right to the democratic process. When an individual commits a terrorist act, their families are punished by having their homes destroyed in what Israel claims as collective punishment. The G7 (the worlds most powerful countries) signed a declaration in 1996, which clearly states; "We reaffirm our absolute condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, regardless of its perpetrators or motives. Terrorism is a heinous ... foreign policy is also a form of terrorism or not. Take the sanctions against Iraq, for example, which is heavily endorsed and enforced by the United States against the will of the majority of the world. The sanctions restrict food and medicine imports to Iraq in order to bring down Saddam Hussein. The result is more than 1.2 million deaths, according to the very organization that began the sanctions, ...
- 5252: Effects of the Year 2000 Problem
- Effects of the Year 2000 Problem Almost everything in the world is recorded or run by computer. Electricity, communications, medicine, weapons, money, food, factories and just about anything else you can think of will be effected by the year 2000 problem. The year 2000 problem could be the biggest technological problem the world may ever face. Some people are preparing for world wide crisis. Others believe some lucky person will invent a small disc that will eliminate the problem in less time that it takes a person to pop the disk in their computer. Either way ...
- 5253: Same-sex Marriage
- ... Does this exclude homosexuals? Many think so simply because they believe that marriage is not a right, but a privilege. This argument means that because gays are not going to bring a child into the world, they do not deserve the privilege of marriage. Those that oppose this argument see marriage in a different way. They believe that if you love someone, you have the right to bond yourself to them ... deny them the benefits which heterosexuals can receive. If the innate sexual preference of any given person cannot be changed, the United States government can no longer keep homosexuals from the rights which they deserve(World Press Review, 1993). Though it may seem beneficial to the struggle for gay rights, if a "gay gene" is ever pinpointed, there could be dire consequences. In recent years, many Catholic churches have had "treatment ... s sexual preference simply by looking at them or taking a small blood sample. Many fear that this will change if studies prove conclusive that there is a specific gene for homosexuality(U.S. News & World Report, 1995). The third and final side of this argument is that a gay gene simply does not exist. Some scientists accuse Hamer of "stacking the deck" and choosing his subjects so selectively that ...
- 5254: Should Governments Use Private
- By: Eric Chao E-mail: neo29@collegemail.com In the modern world, countries like Canada and the United States tend to move from the left wing to the right wing. Is this a good thing? Adam Smith's laissez-faire theory, "The Invisible Hand", explains the fact ... great productivity. Any ordinary home computers you can see now are all a hundred times better than the computers that were used on the space satellites before. China, the country with largest population in the world, now happens to be a backward country. Ever since communism was introduced in China, it has been fallen behind in the worlds economy. China believes public enterprise will eventually be the best economic system. But in fact, Chinese people, who are known as hard working, has become lazy and lost their productive sense. The Chinese ...
- 5255: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
- ... The increased use of computers in the future, however, might have negative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated ... they would only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of ... and doing everything for them. According to another story in the book, Asimov also describes how computers would be able to predict probabilities of an event, future. In the story All the Troubles of the World one big computer predicted crime before it even happened, allowing the police to take the person who was going to commit the crime and release him/her after the danger has passed (All The ...
- 5256: The Stone Angel---literary Ess
- ... of existence, but to those who believe in the afterlife, as a whole new chapter of the unknown. When Hagar realizes the proximity of death, she is in denial. She comes to live in a world of memories in the past. She created her own illusion because she cannot understand the weakness coming forth in her, like her tears "the incontinent wetness of the infirm" (pg. 31). All her life, she ... of John. You can see her softening near the end, although she would not admit it. In addition to denial, she reaches a stage of anger and indignance with herself and others in the small world that is her life. She can no longer perform the simplest tasks such as dressing herself or walking down the stairs. It irks her to need help, which is one of the reasons she can ... the end of the novel, Hagar reaches the final leg of her journey and accepts her fate instead of trying to deny she could ever cease to exist. She finds it "hard to imagine a world" and her "not in it" (pg. 250). She wonders if "everything will stop" (pg. 250) when she does. And yet, she will never just lay down and die, she will be ready to go ...
- 5257: Global Stratification
- Global Stratification There are many different income groups that make up the world. There is high income, middle, and low income groups. The high income groups average about 10, 000 to 25,000 dollars a year. These include countries such as the United States and Switzerland. The countries ... the former Russia, and Eastern Europe. Low income groups, unfortunately are mostly farmers and account for about sixty nations globally. This group has no industrial technology and makes up close to one-half of the worlds population. Technology: Almost two-thirds of the population of the low income are farmers but the power of industrial technology is absent. These individuals are greatly limited to the complex machinery needed to produce sufficient crops. Population Growth: Countries with the least developed economies have the worlds highest birth rates. Populations of poor countries double every twenty-five years. Cultural patterns: Poor societies are typically traditional. Groups pass folkways from generation to generation. Social Stratification: unequally distributed wealth is often ...
- 5258: Morality and Ethics and Computers
- ... By using a credit card or check cashing card, entering a raffle, or subscribing to a magazine, people provide information about themselves that can be sold to marketers and distributed to data bases throughout the world. When people use the world-wide web, the sites they visit and download things from, make a record that can be traced back to the person.6 This is not protected, as it is when books are checked out of ... information on a computer's hard drive. Now, people must buy additional software just to detect viruses and possibly repair infected files. Making illegal copies of software is also a growing problem in the computer world. Most people find no problem in buying a computer program and giving a copy to their friend or co-worker. Some people even make copies and sell them to others. Software companies are starting ...
- 5259: Computers
- ... As did the gold miners set out to California on carriages to stake their claim in the gold rush, business and entrepreneurs are rushing to stake their claim on the information superhighway through Gopher sites, World-Wide Web sites, and electronic mailing lists. This article explains how businesses and entrepreneurs are setting up information services on the Internet that allows users to browse through picture catalogues, specification lists, and up to ... its search tools. Being able to find products through many catalogues is what make the Internet shine in information retrieval. This helps 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 ... at which the Internet was growing, and the use it could serve businesses to expand their user outreach. I have personally used these services to find business that sell hard to find products. Through the world wide web I have found specialty companies that I believe I would not have found. The article showed essentials of web savvy such as the availability of video and sound (music) files. For this ...
- 5260: Why After School Jobs Are Beni
- By: Katy Wade E-mail: crash261@yahoo.com AFTER SCHOOL JOBS In a world where getting ahead less of what you know and more of what youve done, I think that after school jobs for students are increasingly beneficial. I dont believe the myths that with a ... have always been involved in at least three school activities. A teenager that has a job is more apt to be taught responsibility, learns more about money and gets a jump start on the real world after high school. One challenge that I have had to overcome, but ultimately grown stronger from is that of finding an appropriate time to finish my homework. I no longer take class time to work ... them about money. At the risk of sounding like a codjity old man, kids these days dont know the value of the dollar. I know many kids that are going to be in a world of hurt when Mom and Dad aren't there with their wallet to give them money to go out or buy their clothes and CDs. I now think twice before spending $115 dollars ...
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