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Specific Task Software Patents
950 wordsSoftware consists of lists of instructions that a computer reads and executes. The tasks done by a computer are largely repetitive; the same chunks of instructions are executed many times. Each chunk performs one specific task and goes by the label algorithm, a method for accomplishing a specific task. In the United States, it is possible to obtain a patent for a software algorithm. One example of a patented software algorithm is the LZW software algorithm. The LZW patent is owned by Unisys. The...
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Jim Crow Cash Crop
1,183 words... from hemp (8). Hempseed oil can also be used for lighting, and was at one time, the most popular fuel of choice for this purpose. Futuristic US citizens, such as Henry Ford, envisioned a nation powered by organic, renewal Bio Mass Energy derived from hemp. Its demise was realized as the large monopolies were negotiating their rise to power (8). So how did this gift from God, this plant that served as legal currency become illegal? Why? Many factors came together, which eventually ended up ya...
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Mother And A Father Gays And Lesbians
1,587 wordsUsually a persons beliefs come from what kind of upbringing they have had. And in the case of whether or not it is right for homosexuals to adopt comes those beliefs. Most think it is totally immoral for a homosexual person to adopt because it is not the traditional family. The traditional family refers to the idea of a husband, a wife, and their dependent children, whose relationships are traditionally recognized by law (CQ researcher, 782). Today, fewer and fewer American households are tradit...
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Penalties For Teens That Drink And Drive
1,272 wordsPenalties For Teens That Drink and Drive About four years ago, I was on my way home from Fayetteville, when I saw a truck spin into oncoming traffic and hit another vehicle. The man in the truck immediately went straight through his front windshield. The next day, as I was reading the newspaper, I realized that the man driving the truck was drunk. Therefore, I continued to read on and discovered that there were also two innocent passengers in the car that was involved. All three were pronounced ...
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Tobacco Companies Big Tobacco
773 wordsThe movie, The Insider, is about Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive of one of the largest tobacco companies in America. He is fired from his job, and is soon contacted by Lowell Bergman, the producer of 60 minutes. Bergman, played by Al Pacino, asks Wigand, played by Russell Crowe, to make sense of some papers about fire statistics, which belong to, tobacco company, Wilson Phillips These papers mysteriously show up on his doorstep. Wigand lets it drop that he has some inside information ...
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Women To Have An Abortion Roe
459 wordsWhenever the topic of abortion is brought up most people think all the way back to the trial of Roe vs. Wade. This was the trial that made it legal for women to have an abortion. As a member of the Catholic Church, we feel that abortion violates the 5 th Commandment, That Shall Not Kill. But the laws now state that t a woman has a right to chose weather she want her baby or not. The case of Roe vs. Wade started at the end of 1972 and ended in late January of the next year. The case had been file...
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Supreme Court Ruled Full Faith And Credit
1,049 wordsSame Sex Marriage, Acceptance in the United States Marriage is much more than merely a commitment to love one another. Marriage entitles financial responsibility, as well as authorized financial benefits. It is the institution that provides automatic legal protection for the spouse, including medical visitation, inheritance of a deceased spouse's property, as well as pension and other rights. Society has become accustom to what they believe is normal by their traditions and religious beliefs. Ma...
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Gun Control Legislation Five Day Waiting Period
1,077 wordsIn the 1960 s after the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kenedy, gun control became a major subject of public passion and controversy. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of thi...
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The Black Panther Party
678 wordsWho really are the Black Panthers? I believe the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was a great asset to their community during the 1960 s. What was the Black Panther Party for Self Defense? They were a group of revolutionists who believed their "destinies should be taken into their own hands, " they eventually set up community programs to help the populace. I also Believe that the Panthers are legends who inspire many people all over the world from when they began on into today. The Black Pan...
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Ethical And Legal Issues Concerning Email
745 wordsEthical and Legal Issues Concerning Email For the last 10 years the service of e-mail (transmitting of electronic text messages via Internet from one e-mail box to another) received huge popularity. It became fast and rather reliable way of communication, allowing connecting people from any distant places on earth. Frequently e-mail is used by numerous business companies and organizations with the purpose of marketing, promotion or selling of their goods and services. That is why recently the is...
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Intellectual Property Rights Terms And Conditions
935 wordsVirtual Organization E-Business E-business is a totally new trend which is developing as a mainstream reality very quickly and gaining more and more popularity. But conducting this kind of business is not an easy task companies have to face hundreds of problems which not always have simple solutions. The main problems a company may face while conducting an e-business are: physical risk, technical risk, legal obligations and procedural measures. The first problem everybody meets is framework and ...
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Bob Marley Record Label
1,302 wordsbob marley was found and died in the same place. he now has over 200 fan websites and his latest son ziggy marley is writing in his throne Reggae singer, guitarist, and composer. Born Robert Nesta Marley, on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica. Raised mostly in Trenchtown, a poor section of Kingston, Jamaica? s capital, Marley began singing with his friends Bunny Livingston and Peter Mackintosh (later shortened to Tosh) when he was a teenager. Marley? s first single, ? Judge Not,...
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Flag Burning American Flag
406 words&# 65279; Our right to protest can be conducted in many methods. By speech, by petition, by billboards, by sending letters, by holding up signs and walking around in circles, by televising concerns, by going on talk shows, radio shows, and even by burning the American Flag. Flag burning is only one of the many methods of negative expression. Today we debate over the American Flag, what does it stand for and what is it s value. First of all, what is a flag? A flag is a fabric used for symbolic pu...
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Married Woman Legal Rights
926 wordsColonial Women Women did not have an easy life during the American Colonial period. Before a woman reached 25 years of age, she was expected to be married with at least one child. Most, if not all, domestic tasks were performed by women, and most domestic goods and food were prepared and created by women. Women performed these tasks without having any legal acknowledgment. Although women had to endure many hardships, their legal and personal lives were becoming less restricted, although the chan...
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Relationship Philosophy
1,538 wordsWage Differences at Robert Hall I. Problem The Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware are paying men and women different wages for essentially the same job. This is morally wrong because it is gender discrimination. II. Analysis A. The management of Robert Hall learned in 1973 that it was entirely legal for them to pay male salespersons more than female salespersons. Management feels that it is okay to pay women clerks less, because the commodities that they sell cannot bring in the s...
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Changed My Life Problems At Home
1,154 wordsFragment: Changes in Life By Aaron S. Kirby English 11 CP. Ware March 7 th, 199 Outline Thesis Statement: Changes in life like these can change you both physically and mentally for the rest of your life depending on the severity of the situation. I. In early August of ' 96 my life at home became a living nightmare. II. I applied to the first ad I saw in the paper and strangely enough, I actually got a call from Ramada Inn in less than 3 days after applying. III. In my lifetime I have seen a lot ...
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Role Model Gun Control
552 wordsThe following is an excerpt from an ABC news broadcast on September 16, 1999: And so it has happened once again. After the massacre at Columbine High School and a day trading firm in Atlanta and the Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles, now someone has walked into a church in Fort Worth, Texas and started shooting. The target, 150 teenagers attending a prayer service. Once again we are learning about the killer. Larry Ashbrook, a man with no criminal record but a history of mental problems. A ma...
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Pursuit Of Happiness One
541 wordsLife, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the most commonly recited of out fundamental, natural rights. It seems fitting that the right to life would be mentioned first. Without the right to remain alive, to be safe from attack, to defend oneself against attack, the other rights become meaning less. It is impossible to enjoy liberty, the pursuit of happiness, or anything else if one is not alive, or if one? s life is threatened. As a society, we have taken steps to try to protect thi...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
1,633 wordsHarriet Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a poor slave girl who ran away from her plantation at the age of 28. Throughout the course of her life many people and many things challenged her. Each situation she was faced with tested either her mental or physical strength, usually both. She persevered through all of her trials stronger and wiser, and was willing to always help others through their own. Not one to instigate unless extremely necessary, Harriet was known for her quick th...
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Police Officers Police Brutality
496 wordsThe Police Coercion Police Coercion The police exist to protect the public from harm, abuse, murder and infringement of personal rights. They are here to sustain those persons who have committed a crime against the laws of the land. Basically, the duty as a police officer is to protect the good from the bad. Ironically, however, in many cases this is not true; sometimes the police will play the role of the bad man. In one recent case, police officers were convicted of over-excessive use of force...
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