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Freedom Of Speech Radio And Television
1,222 wordsThe Internet offers a much greater potential for interactive communication between information senders and receivers than the more traditional methods of communication such as newspaper, radio and television. Freedom of speech ascertained by the constitution is not an absolute right. Depending on the medium through which information is delivered various degrees of the freedom to express one's self is protected. Internet communication may be analogous to either a specific existing communication m...
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Communications Decency Act Act Of 1996
1,739 wordsThe Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming popular among those who are interested in the information superhighway. The problem with this world we know as Cyberspace, the 'Net, or the Web is that some of this information, including pornographic al material and hate literature, is being accessible to minors. Did you know that 83. 5 % of the images available on the Internet are pornographic al? Did you know that the Internet's pornography and hate literat...
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Hundred Years War Foot Soldiers
1,230 words... that Edward prepared for battle. "Edward had deployed his troops in person, laughing with them according to Jean le Bel and urging every one of them to do his duty, making even cowards into heroes. " He placed his men in three sections. The first of which was the front line, consisting of dismounted men-at-arms with archers on the left and right flanks. They were led by Edwards son the Prince of Wales and a host of nobles. The second was a group of men-at-arms placed behind the front line, t...
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Founding Fathers Copyrighted Material
1,806 wordsCivilization, the thing that makes humans different from the other animals on this planet, is the ability to pass knowledge down from generation to generation with each successive generation building on the knowledge of all generations that came before. It is this human knowledgebase which has allowed us to progress to the point we are at today and it is this knowledgebase that is now under attack, an attack that threatens the very roots of civilization. In 1790 George Washington signed into law...
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Rain Forests Major Threat
1,200 wordsIn this melanistic form the cats are more difficult to separate, however the jaguars large head and stocky forelimbs are often a good way to differentiate between the two cats. In the wild, identification would not be an issue as the cats inhabit different continents - the jaguar is the only member of the panther family to be found in the Americas and its is by far the biggest cat on the continent. The Jaguars range, which once spanned from the southern states of the USA down to the tip of South...
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Basic Human Rights Heart Disease
1,147 wordsItalian and American Researchers demonstrated last year that heart muscle cells multiply after a heart attack, and now they have evidence that primitive cells travel to the new heart in a transplant patient and grow new muscle and blood vessels. The evidence comes from male transplant patients that received hearts from women; when male cells were discovered in the donated female hearts. This is the first evidence in humans that human hearts can regenerate. The regeneration is possible through st...
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Physical Environment Ability T
805 wordsEcosystem Succession and Nutrient Retention Outline: Introduction Identification of definitions Paper goals Body Various Ecosystems Role of nutrients Conclusion Future research offers Possible applications of research results This research article deals with ec system success and nutrient retention. Ecsystem's are pen systems in which biochemical functions consist f inputs frm varius sources, ut puts t varius sinks and a variable degree f internal recycling (Peter M. Vitusek and William A. Reine...
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York City Rental Housing
2,655 words/ 5, 8 New York Citys rent stabilization system In the following essay I am going to examine New York Citys rent stabilization system and make a statement that the abolishment of the given rent stabilization system would have mostly beneficial effects on the NY community as a whole. I will state that rent stabilization act of NY in fact benefits the rich (mostly affluent individuals in lower and mid-Manhattan districts) and is of no use to the majority middle-income and minority lower income NY ...
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Cellular Telephones Electronic Surveillance
1,737 wordsOverview The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 was adopted to address the legal privacy issues that were evolving with the growing use of computers and other new innovations in electronic communications. The ECPA updated legislation passed in 1968 that had been designed to clarify what constitutes invasion of privacy when electronic surveillance is involved. The ECPA extended privacy protection outlined in the earlier legislation to apply to radio paging devices, electronic ma...
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Sexually Explicit Material Langston Hughes
3,344 wordsCensorship of American Media and Music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press. In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by lawmakers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist an...
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Gore Presidential Debate
1,232 wordsCheney and Lieberman Debates Republican Dick Cheney and Democrat Joseph Lieberman confronted each other Thursday night in their only vice presidential debate, disagreeing pointedly but politely over taxes, energy and military readiness The vice presidential debate took place on October 06, 2000 at at Centre College in Danville, Ky. The moderator is Bernad Shaw. They covered the positions discussed in the presidential debate and introduced new ones as well? the rights of homosexuals, racial profi...
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Alexis De Tocqueville Bill Of Rights
1,566 wordsAlexis de Tocqueville writes about the tyranny of the majority in early American democratic history. He believes that the way the American government and its basis on democracy have created an inequality amongst its people. Tocqueville believes that the power that was given to its people is so strong and direct that it is easily misused to solely benefit the majority. To back his belief of the tyranny of the majority, he lists examples of the immense power that the majority has over the ruling g...
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United States Supreme Court United States V
1,299 wordsFlag Burning can be and usually is a very controversial issue. Many people are offended by the thought of destroying this countrys symbol of liberty and freedom. During a political protest during the 1984 Republican Convention, Gregory Lee Johnson was arrested for burning an American flag. Years later in 1989, Johnson got the decision overturned by the United States Supreme Court. In the same year, the state of Texas passed the Flag Protection Act, which prohibited any form of desecration agains...
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First Amendment Rights Freedom Of Speech
2,296 wordsFreedom in America No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms of the freedom of expression. When it comes to evaluating the degree to which we take advantage of the opportunity to express our opinions, some members of society may be guilty of violating the bounds of the First Am...
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Trade Organization Wto World Trade Organization
4,265 wordsELECTRONIC COMMERCE Washington in duty-free move The US is seeking to extend the duty-free status of international online transactions to protect the development of global electronic commerce, the Clinton administration said yesterday. Susan Esserman, deputy US trade representative, said the US wanted the World Trade Organization to agree at the earliest possible date to extend the current moratorium on customs duties for electronic trade. In testimony to the Senate foreign relations sub-committ...
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Compact Disc Previously Mentioned
3,904 wordsMany of the products we buy today are no more than large collections of zeroes and ones. High-priced software, high-quality music, and valuable reference material such as computerized databases or CD-Rom encyclopedias are commercial products like any other, but the media of their transmission makes them different in at least one aspect: it is possible to copy them freely, or at least extremely cheaply. A compact disc of Elvis Costello and the Attractions is different from, say, a ham and swiss s...
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Canopy Jars Body Parts
936 wordsMummification is the form of embalming practiced by the ancient Egyptians. The mummification process changed over time from the Old Kingdom, when only kings could be mummified to the New Kingdom, in which everyone could be mummified. The entire process of mummification to be completed took 70 days. After a body was delivered to the per never, which is where the embalmers conducted their tasks. The first thing that was done was put the deceased on a slanted table. The first thing that needed to b...
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Intellectual Property Rights Mp 3 Files
2,056 wordsNapster Napster Napster s Battle Napster has become a part of all most every individuals vocabulary. It can be argued that Napster is the same blank tapes, meaning that both can record music from the original format and be used to play later. Also, people who think that Napster should be shut down say that it is taking money away from the artist and their royalties. It is subject debated; whether or not Napster has violated the copyright laws set forth by the record companies. This is to be dete...
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Three Types X Y
799 wordsThe problem is that we need to compress our programs while still having them function correctly and process items differently depending on type or class. The solution is polymorphism. Polymorphism in object oriented programming is the programming languages ability to process items differently depending on their data type or class. In other words, it is the ability to redefine methods for derived classes. The true rule for C++ polymorphism is that when one class, named A is derived from or inheri...
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Goods And Services Foreign Competition
2,973 wordsLet us protect our key industries from unfair foreign competition From the Beginning K In addition to adopting a free trade policy, Government has protected the key US industries from unfair foreign competition. Domestic industries feel pressure from foreign competitors because of lower pricing and better quality products. For these reasons, competition can become intense and has caused our industries to seek government protection. Protectionism brings together business and labor, sixteenth cent...
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