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- 6491: Even from it's humble beginnings, the Internet has always been a battlefield between phreaks and administrators
- ... a new fad ("The More I Learn" A1). The Internet originally began as DARPANET, a government-created network, which was designed for defense communications. The Net structure is such that it could survive a nuclear war ("Internet History"). The creation of the Net can not be blamed for the existence of hackers though, hackers are older than the Net itself, but the Net is the largest 'hacker haven' today (Spencer, "Hacking ... they can be obtained for free ("Internet History"). Although some of the original universities have dropped off the Net for various reasons, every major university in the United States, and now, most others in the world, have a connection to the Internet (Quittner 61). Although it isn't easy for an individual to get a direct connection to the Net, many private institutions are getting connections. This is mainly due to ... Doug. "Reality Check." Spin January 1994: 62. FtS Productions. "Avoiding Detection." Computerized Text. FtS Productions. "Field Phreaking." Computerized Text. "Horror Movie Characters Get Handy Tips." Saginaw News 11 March 1995: B4. Himowitz, Micheal J. "New World, New Worries." Saginaw News 16 March 1995: A1-A2. "Internet History." Computerized Text. "The Manifesto of a Hacker." Computerized Text. "'The More I Learn, The Less I Know'." Saginaw News 16 March 1995: A1- ...
- 6492: Improving Cyberspace
- ... censorship. Like the Internet, some spots contain hard core pornography, yet some have good content. Operators usually orient their BBS's for the local community, but some operators open their system to users across the world. The government can shut down a BBS if it transfers illegal material across a state border according to federal law. As a postal worker in Tennessee showed, shutting down a BBS with illegal pornography is ... help establish moral standards. According to a local survey, 83% of adults online have downloaded pornographic material from a BBS. 47% of minors online have downloaded pornographic material from a local BBS (Crandall). In another world wide survey, only 22% of 571 responders thought the Internet needed regulation to prevent minors from obtaining adult material (C|Net). Obviously, something is wrong with America's morals. A child cannot walk into a ... too late. Works Cited C|Net. Survey Internet: 29 July 1995. Crandall, Jason. Survey Muskegon, Michigan: 29 Jan. 1996. Elmer-Dewitt, Philip. "On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn." Time 3 July 1995: Proquest. Heyman, Karen. "War on the Web." Net Guide Feb. 1996: 76-80. Huber, Peter. "Electronic Smut." Forbes 31 July 1995: 110.
- 6493: How The Internet Got Started
- How The Internet Got Started Some thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold war think tank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties succesfully communicate after a nuclear war? Postnuclear America would need a comand-and-control network, linked from city to city , state to state, base to base . But no matter how throughly that network was armored or protected , its switches and wiring ... it is a bargain you can talk to anyone anywhere,and it doesnt charge for long distance service. It belongs to everyone and no one. The most widely used part of the "Net" is the world Wide Web. Internet mail is E mail a lot faster than the US Postal service mail Internet regulars call the US mail the "snailmail" File transfers allow Internet users to access remote machines and ...
- 6494: Slaughter House Five: Time Travel
- ... Billy is dreaming and that when he comes across a disturbing memory he leaps into another time period, another dream. By leaping through time you stay out of reality. It's like being in another world without actually being there. This is the best and easiest way to get away from in all. Billy's seems to have many unpleasant memories and each time one surfaces he goes back or forward ... time, Vonnegut changes the time period. . Why does Billy's time travel? He says it's because of the Tralfamadorians. They did this to him so that he would never have to face the real world. I believe that this is from the war and its's post traumatic stress disorder. It seems that he can't handle dissatisfaction, he doesn't want to handle it. He is not out to change the future of the past though. ...
- 6495: Haliburton Created Sam Slick To Voice His Own Positions
- ... the most distorted of ideas and causing us to gravitate towards the flattest of categories, that makes these connections and systems and relations dangerous. Our life as moral beings has its roots in this abstract world of unseen connections, categories and ideas greater than the individual. The same imagination that perceives the categories and generalizations which describe an individual, also fashions ideas of national and humanitarian obligation, and makes sympathy possible ... there was still uncertainty in the colonies about the American experiment with democracy, about the relation of Britain to its lost colony, about the status of Nova Scotia and the other “Canadian” colonies, about the world status of America and its citizens. Anglo-American political relations were at their lowest ebb since the War of 1812. Severe clashes over territorial boundaries, financial obligations, and regulation of the American slave-trade occurred in the late 1830's and Nova Scotia was smack in the middle of this chaos. It ...
- 6496: The Fortunate Pilgrim
- ... books and going to the theater with her friends. Instead, she would have to go back to work and help support her family. During the years, Lucia Santa’s watched her daughter confront the adult world and marry a well-off educated Jewish man. Larry became a husband and a father and found himself drawn into the Mafia. Her son Vinnie continued to work and take on increasing pressures of his ... the end. The death of Vinnie changed her family forever. Gino realized he had to grow up and become the man his mother had always pushed him to be. Business was booming because of the war, and Lucia Santa and her family were finally able to move to Long Island as she had always dreamed. As she looked around her Tenth Avenue tenement for that last time, she pondered the last ... without sorrow, without fear of death and the terror of judgment day. She thought about each and everyone of her children’s dreams. Lucia Santa knew her son Gino would never come home after the war. He would become a pilgrim in search of the American dream. She begged for mercy that if she could hear his footsteps at the door she would do it all over again, she would ...
- 6497: Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution
- ... everyone knows there is no such thing as immortality, and so he got kicked out too! This time by his own people. In Animal Farm a boar name "Old Major" has a dream about a world where animals rule, there are no differences, all equality, a dream about communism. This same thought applies with the idea of Stalin and his plan in ruling Russia. So when Snowball hears this him and ... it you would get executed. In conclusion I think Animal Farm is a great novel and not only did I learn about a group of Animals taking over a farm but I learned more about World War one history and Russia's history
- 6498: A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief in the Truth
- ... the past played a huge role in her actions because she feared being alone and she feared becoming human. She was called a “Fallen Monument” because she was so unreal. She never escaped her little world or let anyone in because when she did she was always hurt. Emily’s dissatisfaction with existing belief was really a war with the past and present. Her beliefs sealed everyone out and kept her sheltered in her world. Because she was monumental she was inhuman and when she died I think she really lived.
- 6499: A Separate Peace: Finny How Things Change
- ... novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a boy named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace. While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Gene's best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. Phineas, or Finny as he was sometimes called, was the most popular boy in school. He was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete ... novel by tracing his seeming perfection, his strong beliefs, and his ability to forgive. Finny changed from being the best athlete in the school to being the only one who couldn't go to the war. Finny was a very good person. Finny was a very firm believer in what he thought was right. Finny was a very forgiving person, believing in the forgiveness of friends. Unfortunately, Finny died due ...
- 6500: Things Fall Apart: Roles, Responsibilities, and Treatment of Women
- Things Fall Apart: Roles, Responsibilities, and Treatment of Women Throughout the world, from the beginning of time to today, women have been thought of as inferior, men's possessions and only there to serve man's every need. As far back as the nomadic civilizations, women were ... that week, leaving him time to relax. "When did you become a shivering old woman," Okonkwo asked himself (as he sat there), "you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed." He feels that he has ... The Ibo, expected women to make mistakes, therefore an inadvertent death was called a female crime. Chinua Achebe gave the women in his novel, Things Fall Apart, roles similar to those of women, throughout the world at that time but most importantly similar to women in Pre-Colonial Nigeria, where this book takes place. The positions of women in Pre-Colonial Nigeria, varied with each tribe. "Women held a basically ...
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