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Consensual Crimes Corrupt Codes Of Ethics
2,740 words... , and anecdotes. Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism said that, "In 12 hours of coverage, there were only about 10 minutes' worth of actual facts. " Stephen Lacy, acting director of Michigan State University's School of Journalism in East Lansing said through the coverage of the Kennedy tragedy, he saw, "a bigger disconnect between the press and the public. It was a bit of overkill, especially on television. " He went on to say that "The media have not quite ...
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Racial Undertones In Brer Rabbit
559 wordsAmong the finest of America's humorists and Southern local-color writers, Joel Chandler Harris, b. Eatonton, Ga. , Dec. 9, 1848, d. July 3, 1908, did much to popularize American Negro plantation culture. His most memorable creation, "Negro Folklore: The Story of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox, as Told by Uncle Remus, " first appeared in the Atlanta Constitution on July 20, 1879. The popularity of the story led him to publish the collection Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (1880). In the 1880 s Harris ...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Animal Farm
1,108 wordsAnimal Farm was written between November 1943 and February 1944, but was not published until August 1945, principally as a result of political objections that arose over the book's attack on Stalin and the Soviet Union. It was turned down by a number of publishers in England (including T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber) and America. One American publisher rejected it because, he said, Americans were not in the mood for animal stories. Orwell, fearing implicit censorship and convinced of the urgency...
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Radio And Television Electronic Mail
480 wordsThe internet is a computer-based worldwide information network. It is composed of a large number of smaller interconnected networks called internets. Unlike the traditional broadcasting media, such as radio and television, the Internet is a decentralized system. It can publish ideas, and can sell products with a minium overhead cost. The internets from which the Internet is composed are usually public access networks, meaning that the resources of the network can be shared with anyone logging on...
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Word Of God Wrote The Book
2,045 words... Earth and other heavenly bodies. Thus, part of Copernican theory would be correct. In addition, while studying the Sun, he furthered his conclusion on floating bodies, and in 1612, his Treatise on Floating Bodies was published. "To modern historians of science, the discourse marks Galileo's first entry into experimental physics and forms the basis for his subsequent enduring work in mechanics" (Reston, 48). During this time, he would also reveal that Venus had phases of shading similar to th...
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Electronic Publishing Transfer Protocol
1,107 wordsIt's 6 PM and a faceless modem dials into an Internet provider. Using File Transfer Protocol, he logs onto a UNIX server in Indiana. He types in a few arcane commands, and within a half hour he possess the complete score for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Pi to a million digits, various works of classic fiction, political papers, census results, the CIA World Factbook, the King James Bible, and some books about the Internet. No, this isn't some "hacker" snubbing his nose at copyright law - this is ...
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Pearl Buck 1892 1973
1,547 wordsPearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, and were stationed in China. Pearl was the fourth of seven children (and 1 of only 3 who would live until adulthood). Buck was born in the U. S. so she could be a natural U. S. citizen. The Sydenstricker's lived in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), in Kiangsu (Jiangsu) province. Pearl's father spent much time away from home, traveling ...
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Barriers To Entry Free Of Charge
1,131 words... sated for by a much higher sales volume. There is no other way to explain the pirate industries: evidently, at the right price a lot of people are willing to buy these products. High prices are an implicit trade-off favouring small, elite, select, rich world clientele. This raises a moral issue: are the children of Macedonia less worthy of education and access to the latest in human knowledge and creation? Two developments threaten the future of intellectual property rights. One is the Inter...
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Massive Amounts Hard Drives
1,492 words... pick up a bag of Pizza Rolls and a bottle of Mountain Dew. Internet advertising during the. com mania - and even now - expects people to click on the damned banners. Which smart people don't do. But the banners still can be worthwhile. I am increasingly encouraged by correctly targeted advertisements (like Seagate ads on hard drive sites) and "general interest" ads like ones for McDonald's that don't expect us to click on the things when we see them. Alas, we cannot order cheeseburgers over ...
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Walt Whitman The American Poet
553 wordsTheres no question to who the worlds greatest poet is, William Shakespeare, but theres also no question to who the worlds greatest 19 th century poet is, Walt Whitman. Whitman was a great influence on many American and foreign poets. His style and concerns are like no others. Where would American literature be today without Walt Whitman? Whitman was born in Huntington, New York. He was the second born of nine children. His family moved when he was four and he grew up in Brooklyn. For many years ...
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Prior Restraint Can Be Accepted
645 wordsSome people believe that there are no circumstances under which prior restraint of the press, either print or broadcast, should be accepted or tolerated. I disagree with that statement and do believe there are certain times when prior restraint should be accepted or tolerated. This is not an issue that is or should be taken lightly because I am in strong agreement with protecting the First Amendment, however in specific and special cases I can understand the government feeling the need to interv...
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Center Of The Universe Nicolaus Copernicus
877 wordsNicolaus Copernicus, who lived from 1473 until 1543, is known for his idea that the sun is motionless at the center of the universe and that the earth and other planets all revolve around it. This Polish astronomer revolutionized beliefs involving the universe, making his thoughts controversial in his time, but common knowledge in our own (Westman). Before the time of Copernicus, people had extremely different views of the universe. A Greek astronomer named Ptolemy had his own theory of the eart...
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Freedom Of Speech Pentagon Papers
1,524 wordsSpeaking Freely Chapter 1 In this chapter Floyd Abrams discusses the Pentagon Papers Case that starts a series of trial narratives. In 1971 Nixon administration tried The York Times Co. (New York Times Co. v. United States case). The New York Times Co. was represented by the legal scholar Alexander Bickel and Floyd Abrams. Floyd Abrams recalls the events of that case when Attorney General John N. Mitchell used Section 793 of the Espionage Act to sue the newspapers for publication of stories rela...
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Euclidean Geometry Number Theory
704 wordsCarl Friedrich Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who dominated the mathematical community during and after his lifetime. His outstanding work includes the discovery of the method of least squares, the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, and important contributions to the theory of numbers. Born in Brunswick, Germany, on April 30, 1777, Johann Friedrich Carl Gauss showed early and unmistakable signs of being an extraordinary youth. As a child prodigy, he was sel...
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Written Word Powerful Force
793 wordsCensorship in the Written Word The written word is mankind s oldest form of recorded information. It has allowed us to read about ideas and events of times long past. Writing was once accessible only to the rich and powerful, but the printing press allowed the common people the ability to read books cheaply, and more importantly, the ability to publish books and pamphlets of their own. Using a printing press, anyone had the ability to record and distribute his or her ideas. The printed word beca...
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Spike Lee Daily Telegraph
1,757 wordsHaving read Mel Dear Mel Having read the avalanche of outraged articles in the UK press that preceded the UK launch of The Patriot, I readily admit that I was expecting to see a distinctly anti-British Movie. One such headline complains for example about a blood libel on the British People. Some considerable way into the film (which, putting the controversy to one side, was otherwise enjoyable), I found myself questioning whether such criticism was justified. Characters on both sides, including ...
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T S Eliot Waste Land
1,387 wordsA student at Illinois Wesleyan University recently confessed to holding a morbid fear of parked cars. He said, Im terribly afraid one of them will roll right over me (Hamel). The actual odds of a parked car suddenly rolling over him are extremely slim; however, that does not alleviate his fears. It takes this poor boy a great amount of personal will power just to walk across a street where there are parked cars. As senseless as a fear of parked cars may be, people constantly allow their lives to...
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Abolition Of Slavery Frederick Douglass
2,285 wordsFrederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime in 1817; like many slaves, he is unsure of his date of birth. His mother was owned by a white man named Captain Anthony, who likely was Douglass father. Captain Anthony was a clerk for a rich man named Colonel Lloyd. For slaves, life on Lloyds plantation was brutal: they received little food, almost no clothes, no beds, and were constantly overworked and exhausted. Slaves who broke rules, willfully or not, were often beaten or whipped, sometimes ...
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Time To Kill Bachelors Degree
1,156 wordsPOOR BOY TO CELEBRITY John Grisham has risen from a poor boy to a very a famous and successful author with best-selling novels. He has had eleven excellent books published and will soon have his twelfth novel published. Grisham has used his education in law to write innovative novels about court cases and lawyers. Although becoming an author was far off from his childhood dream of playing professional baseball, he is living the dream of many young aspiring authors. John Grisham has become a cele...
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People Lives Side Of The Story
1,349 wordsEssay # 1 The News Being objective has been an unrealistic ethic that defines the news media. Fallows ague's that journalism and the news has provided largely entertainment fluff and has virtually selected unthinking news communicated to the American people; and Parenti agrees and states that the Media is big business and therefore is not independent, objective, neutral, informative, balanced, and truthful. Their ideas may seem outlandish and farfetched, but it is the fact of life for the media ...
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