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Computer Program Home Page
713 wordsSometime in the mid 1960 's, during the Cold War, it became apparent that there was a need for a bombproof communications system. A concept was devised to link computers together throughout the country. With such a system in place large sections of the country could be nuked and messages could still get through. In the beginning, only government "think tanks" and a few universities were linked. Basically the Internet was an emergency military communications system operated by the Department of D...
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American Medical Association Violence On Television
1,317 wordsTelevision is a pervasive and complex part of childrens lives, there are many factors that affect how much and what they view. Television is more and more becoming a curriculum. Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) pools evidence from over 2, 500 studies within the last decade on over 100, 000 subjects from several nations to show that the compiled evidence of television's influence on behavior is so "overwhelming" that there is a consensus in the research community that "violence on television doe...
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Chicken Hawk Floats William Duffy Farm Life
532 wordsLying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly, Blowing like a leaf in green shadow. Down the ravine behind the empty house, Into the distances of the afternoon. In a field of sunlight between two pines, The droppings of last year's horses I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on. A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home. The poem "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, " by James Wright, ex...
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People And Animals Personality Disorder
1,234 words... ti social. People that are both antisocial and alcoholic are prone to violent behavior. Not every antisocial becomes a criminal. An antisocial person's disorder peaks between the ages of 24 and 44 and After the age of 30 the sociopath fights less and performs less crime but the illness can persist into the ages of between 60 and 70 but after 30 are less likely to be in trouble with the law. In a sociopaths in their thirties will continue to have problems such as unstable relationships, subst...
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John Stuart Mill Colleges And Universities
2,582 words... e one who ultimately determines whether they consider certain speech offensive. in the rez, perhaps you could look at not the targeted groups reaction, but the university as an entity's reaction. would they find offense to the statement? also, when you look at "hate", it is the way a person feels right? so then in the phrase "hate speech", do you look at the hate that a speaker feels towards a targeted group or is it the hate that the group interprets in the actual speech? (a) hate speech is...
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Theory Of Evolution Origin Of Species
887 wordsBefore November 24, 1859, many people simply believed that species were created by God in their present forms, or that it was possible for organic matter to be spawned from inorganic matter. However, Charles Darwin used these ideas to create his thesis, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The first true theories on evolution arise during the classical Greek period. On a handful of Greek philosophers believed in the theory of evolution and natural selection. Unfortunately, the...
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The Medias Effect On Underage Alcohol Abuse
1,790 wordsThe Medias Effects on Underage Drinking The use of alcohol is a major aspect of our society. It is used in religious ceremonies, during socialization, and its presence is seen everywhere. Second only to caffeine, more people drink alcohol than any other substance. It appears in many forms such as beer, wine, and hard liquor. It has been praised, denounced, accepted, and outlawed in the past century alone. The effects of alcohol are numerous. From drunk driving accidents to fetal alcohol syndrome...
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University Of California Mentally Retarded
1,431 words... desires, including sexual sin, and concealment. In both sexes, Hehe's require each other to hinder all of their desires for sexual intercourse, although they admit to having strong needs for sex. They also believe that people must keep the producers of sexual excitement repressed. The things that produce sexual excitement for them include womens breasts, and the Hehe women keep themselves completely covered at all times. The most proper people in their culture conceal all enjoyment, not only...
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Gloucester Subplot In King Lear
1,459 wordsDiscuss the significance of the Gloucester subplot in King Lear. King Lear, hailed by critics as Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, is a thematic play which questions the natural chain of order and the consequences of events which in turn disrupt this chain. The play revolves around Lears division of his kingdom amongst his daughters, one of whom (Cordelia) he rejects after she fails to declare her love publicly for him: Lear understands Cordelia's lack of words to represent her lack of feelings, b...
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Hester And Dimmesdale End Of The Film
1,560 words... her trappings of power as his example. The Scarlet Letters filmmaker, Roland Joffe, mastered the coloring of his film just as Hawthorne did. An interesting visual cue he used was a slight, brilliant red bird. The bird first glided across the screen when Hester was planting her garden. Joffe silenced all background noise and music while the bird, in nearly slow motion, flapped out of the forest. The effect was hazy and surreal; all focus was on the radiant animal. Time resumed its interminabl...
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Face To Face Sound Byte
810 wordsMultimedia technologies have, in recent years, become an essential part of our every day lives. Many aspects of life; business and home alike, have changed as a result of multimedia technologies, such as the ways in which we do business, and the ways in which we get entertained. Our lifestyles have become far more technologically orientated, and multimedia has become a way of communicating, entertaining, learning, doing business and even socializing. This essay will discuss some of the ways in w...
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Gender In Horror Films Carrie Alien And Amityville
2,094 wordsThe representation of gender in horror films varies from director to director, writer to writer. However certain characteristics of gender representation do, at times follow a certain theme. Whilst studying the evolution of horror films it struck me that in some cases the film, while appearing to differ only ever so slightly from the novel upon which it was based, would create images onscreen that would imply things that the novel had never done. Through the tiny differences between novel and fi...
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Unjust Man Socrates States
760 wordsThrasymachus states that 'justice is simply the interest of the stronger' (338 c). In order to support this notion, he states that people who are in power in government make laws, and since these people design these laws, they will serve the interests of themselves. The laws will then be the justice of the subjects, and since the ruling class could be restated as the stronger class, then justice could be stated as being in the interests of the stronger class. He goes on further to say that the u...
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Cost Effective Total Cost
1,050 words... ; $ 3, 800 $ 2, 250 Yearly Costs: T 1 Line ($ 202 / Month) $ 2, 424 $ - $ - Cisco Pix (SmartNet License) $ 1, 500 $ - $ - WebSense (License) $ 8, 000 $ - $ - Federal License $ - $ - $ 1, 000 Warranty - Parts $ - $ 908 $ 250 Subtotal $ 11, 924 $ 908 $ 1, 250 Middle School T 1 Terabeam Stratex WAN Unlicensed Licensed Equipment: Router/CSU/DSU $ 2, 350 $ - $ - Radio Link to Lincoln $ - $ 9, 075 $ 6, 875 Towers (30 ') on each Building $ - $ 1, 500 $ 1, 000 Subtotal $ 2, 350 $ 10, 575 $ 7, 875 In...
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Economic Integration Of The Baltic Sea Region
1,301 words... country's size. The graph on this page shows the current route map for Finnair domestic and its subsidiary, Golden Air, and breaks their destinations down by area. (Destinations in Finland) Geographically, the served destinations are limited to the areas with the greatest number of people, which also means that they are serving the economic hubs of Finland. Estonian owned airline, Estonian Air serves only 10 destinations, all of which are large cities outside of its own country. However, lik...
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Successful Companies Four Months
1,946 words... f dynamic systems, making the relationships between customer satisfaction, critical success factors, and key process indicators immediately apparent. o Scientific creativity methods ensure innovation can be effectively applied when and where it is needed, and knowledge supply chain technology ensures that every new lesson learned is immediately available to anyone in the enterprise with a need to know. Six Sigma methods define the tactics. PPM methods incorporate the new technology to make S...
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Violence In Film And Music
672 wordsSince film was introduced in 1923 as a means of entertainment, violence has played an increasing role as a way of enthralling the masses. However, it is only in recent films such as The Gangs of New York (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) which have displayed gratuitous amounts of violence, the latter highlighting a real disparity with its certificate. Films such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Seven (1995), Copycat (1995) and American Psycho (2000) may be read, in part ...
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Violence Against Women Partners
1,629 wordsViolence against Women Partners (1) In order for us to be able to define principles, upon which social policies that are meant to protect women partners from sexual and physical abuse, need to be based, we need to understand what creates preconditions for the violence against women in the first place. The article The 10 Steps to End Violence against Women, which is available on the web site of Step It Up Ontario, provides us with the insight on the essence of such violence: Five times more women...
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Violent Video Games American Psychological Association
880 wordsArgumentative/Persuasive paper Nowadays, it became a statement of good state, on the part of Bible thumper's and those who refer to themselves as conservatives, to think of violent video games as such that encourage young people to indulge in anti-social behavior. For example, the article Violent Video Games can Increase Aggression, which is available on the web site of American Psychological Association, implies that it is such games that result in more and more young Americans being deprived o...
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Ethnic Cleansing Racial Affiliation
2,520 wordsIs Violence Encouraged by the Medias (1) Nowadays, it became a statement of good state, on the part of Bible thumper's and those who refer to themselves as conservatives, to come up with public statements that blame the influence of Medias for all the evils in the world. Namely, the self-appointed guardians of public morality refer to Medias influence as such that encourage citizens to resort to violence, as the ultimate mean of dealing with their life problems. For example, the article Media Vi...
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