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The Son Of Sam And Terror New York
1,296 wordsThe Son of Sam and Terror of New York "At one a. m. on July twenty-ninth a man was cruising in the Bronx when he spotted two young women sitting in a parked blue Oldsmobile. He swung around a corner and abandoned his car, pushing the bag-covered pistol into the waistband of his trousers. With his characteristics gait he shuffled back toward the women, Donna Lauria, eighteen, a medical technician, and Jody Valenti, nineteen, a student nurse. They were parked in front on Lauria's home; her parents...
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Wall Street Journal Gore Plan
1,523 words... n student outcomes, it does not explain why growing expenditures for the nation over all has not produced similar results, or why expenditures in non-instructional staff have been growing for the past thirty years, expenditures which could represent growing bureaucracy costs. While Card and Kruger's research does not explain why increased school spending affected student outcomes, it does show that at times increased spending can affect student outcomes. The important distinction is while ca...
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Federal Communications Commission Time Warner
2,018 wordsA little over one week ago, on May 1, 2000, millions of Time Warner Cable customers? 3. 5 million to be exact? woke up without the American Broadcast Company (ABC) on their TV dial. While these 3. 5 million, which pondering the coming of the Apocalypse without Regis, Kathy Lee or Susan Lucci for a day, news spread across the country about the reality of the situation. After the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a transmission deal, after five months of negotiating, ABC service was cu...
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Film Industry York Times
2,122 wordsOver the past decade the independent film industry has grown and is now considered a staple in the film industry as a whole. Many filmmakers find more artistic freedom in this side of the industry. They are not bound by a studio s politically correct and profit driven decisions, although recently production companies have been heading in that direction. By raising the money for the picture on their own the filmmakers give themselves artistic control over the film and have to answer to no one. Th...
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Vincent Millay Edna St
1,246 wordsI think my feelings right now could be summarized from a quote from the made for TV movie: The House Without a Christmas Tree (Mary Catherine Gallagher Christmas). Just as Mary Katherine Gallagher, a character from the popular television show Saturday Night Live, has mastered expressing her feelings through words, so has the famous poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Her expert skill over the words of the English language was far superior to most others. It was this dominance that led Edna St. Vincen...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
803 wordsFailures of Capital Punishment Is the death penalty a just way of punishing those who commit a horrible crime? The answer to that depends on the standpoint of an individual. Fox Butterfield of the New York Times notices that? In the view of some, the failure to enforce the death penalty reflects and enduring ambivalence about the capital punishment. Others say that the death penalty opponents have found ways to triumph over the public will to carry out executions. ? In a capitalistic standpoint,...
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Freedom Of Speech Censorship Of The Internet
1,451 wordsAs the end of the twentieth century nears, a new medium and tool has emerged as the future of communications, business, news, education, and entertainment. This tool is the Internet, a worldwide network of computers currently connected by phone lines. While it is still in its infancy, its power as a medium is very great, and this is being recognized ever more frequently by the businesses and people it connects. However, it is also abundant with information that is considered inappropriate, adult...
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Criminal Justice System Equal Justice
544 wordsThe American criminal-justice system, writes Georgetown law professor David Cole, has effectively become a two-tiered system, with differing levels of regard depending on the race or class of a given citizen who comes into contact with it. The thousands of African Americans who have been confronted by law-enforcement agents nationwide for fitting the description of alleged perpetrators would likely agree, but, according to Cole, it isnt just the cops that operate this way; judges, prosecutors, j...
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T S Eliot Quot And Quot
2,704 wordsElaine Oswald and Robert L. Gale She was born Marianne Craig Moore in Kirkland, Missouri, the daughter of John Milton Moore, a construction engineer and inventor, and Mary Warner. Moore had an older brother, John Warner Moore. She never met her father; before her birth his invention of a smokeless furnace failed, and he had a nervous and mental breakdown and was hospitalized in Massachusetts. Moores mother became a housekeeper for John Riddle Warner, her father, an, affectionate, well-read Presb...
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Megan Law Unusual Punishment
1,948 wordsWhat is the best way to deal with people who prey on our children? Should we send them away forever or should we brand them sex offenders for the rest of their lives. Do the sex offenders have rights? The government feels that the best way to deal with this type of criminal is to brand them. Megan's Law or Registration of sex offender law was created so that people would be able to protect themselves and their children from such people. Sex offenders, supposedly, are chemically unbalanced and ar...
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United States Congress Spanish Speaking
903 wordsRecently National Language Good Morning Recently the United States Congress has been debating whether or not to declare that English is the national language of the United States and that all instruction in public schools is in English. There is no question what the language of this country is, it is irrefutably English, it was the language of our Founding Fathers and the language that the Declaration of Independence was written in, as well as the United States Constitution. I resolutely believe...
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Heavy Burden Prior Restraint
268 wordsThe New York Times printed allegedly classified documents that leaked from the Pentagon about the war in Vietnam. A 47 volume classified history of the American involvement in Vietnam was distributed to the Times and, later, the Post by Daniel Ellsberg, a minor writer in the Pentagon Papers. The Times published these papers bit by bit until the Nixon administration sought an injunction on the Times to stop publication. The Supreme Court found that the First Amendment did not permit an injunction...
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Grateful Dead Recording Studio
3,413 wordsThe Making Woodstock Joel Rosenman woke up on Friday, August 15, 1969, at 6: 00 A. M. This was the first day of what is now known as the most famous rock festival in history, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Joel, along with John Roberts, Artie Kornfeld, and Michael Lang, created Woodstock. Joel woke to one of the biggest traffic jams in history located outside The Pines, the hotel where Woodstock s staff was staying. Route 17 B lead right to the site of the festival, Max Yasgur s Farm. It took...
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Wall Street Journal Mp 3 Player
1,300 wordsCD Burners Who Should Be Held Responsible? In today? s world many people are using CD burners to copy Compact Disks (CD? s). The question is who should be held responsible, the companies that manufacture these devices or the people that use the devices to copy CD? s of friends and family members. No matter how you look at it, it is digital piracy, which is illegal and goes under the copyright laws of the individuals that produced the music that is being downloaded. I think that the companies tha...
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Year Old Daughter Side By Side
1,150 wordsGloria T. Hull However uneasy her identity may be, it is imperative for Lorde that she read the world as a meaningful text and not as a series of interesting and elusive propositions. For her, to " read" is (1) to decipher like the musician Prince the signs of the times, (2) to decades the lesbian / gay community doeth submerged signification of the visible signs, and (3) to sound out clearly and " to your face" uncompromising truth as she sees it, in that foot-up, hands-on-h...
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Life In General Grover Corners
1,885 wordsIn a New York Times review of Thorton Wilder s play, Our Town, reviewer Brooks Atkinson proclaimed that Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reveries (Atkinson 119). Our Town can certainly be considered an example of the universality of time, social history, and religious ideals. Thorton Wilder was born in 1897. He was interested in the theater since his childhood. By the time he entered Oberlin College in 1915 he had already written three short plays, or thre...
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20 Th Century V Chip
1,587 wordsThe Simpsons Revolution Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are some of the world s most favorite cartoon characters, and make up one of television s most famous shows, The Simpsons. These 5 intriguing characters, along with a large array of other characters, come straight from the imagination of writer, creator, and cartoonist Matt Growing. This 20 th Century Fox presentation of family life gives a facetious look at American families in the very late 20 th Century. The 5 leading character that...
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Thirteenth Amendment Dred Scott
902 wordsThe World According to Liberals Possessing the Key to Truth, Justice, Compassion, Sincerity and Good Intentions Smug, arrogant, condescending; believing that they alone have good intentions; and they alone have the heart, mind and soul to really care. All else is an imitation and an illusion. This is the Democrat view of their political opponents. Democrat ideas and policies are the only sincere and genuine ones. They are to be the measuring stick for all else. Read their own words and discover ...
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Partial Birth Abortion Civil Liberties Union
1,428 wordsPartial-Birth Abortion There are hardly many topics that can raise such debate, and invoke such passionate discussion, as does abortion. Whether one is pro-life or pro-choice, the clear and definitive line between the pros and cons of abortion predictably leads to a standstill of opinion. Each side is sure that their view is the right view, and the nature of the abortion issue does not allow for a middle ground. Abortion arguments, however, are even further broadened and complicated by the sub-i...
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100 000 People Gun Ownership
1,390 wordsThe Comparison And Contrasts Of The Usage The Comparison And Contrasts Of The Usage Of Guns In The United States And Great Within the United States, every police officer carries and is trained in the usage of firearms. Also, we have much less strict rules about gun usage and ownership of guns. Conversely, In Britain, only special police squads use guns and gun ownership is strictly regulated. This paper will attempt to compare and contrast gun usage in both societies and, hopefully, give a glimp...
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