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Alfred Hitchcock School Library
1,607 words... for a peeping Tom killer in his forties (the age of the murderer in Bloch's novel), the director proposed using a much younger character and even suggested to the writer that Perkins get the lead role (Rebello 111). When Hitchcock began production on PSYCHO, he was told that he would have to use the facilities at Revue Studios, the television division of Universal Studios, which Paramount had rented for the making of the film (Rebello 112). Although he was unable to use his regular cinematog...
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Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Boston Bedford St
1,777 wordsAt the heart of mankind, there are certain rules by which society runs. These timeless laws or ethics cross cultural bounds in order to preserve lifes order and maintain a righteous standard. For example, almost all societies agree that it is immoral to kill another human being outside of self-defense. Christine Mene free of the School Library Journal defines ethics as the moral principles by which a person is guided (1). Many people develop their moral beliefs from their religious premises, but...
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Cyber Patrol Internet Censorship
1,610 wordsThere is nothing more frightening than active ignorance, the German poet Goethe stated. Ignorance is alarming, no matter what good intentions it is hidden behind. Today, an ignorance of the issue of Internet censorship has left a threat to free speech, our constitutional right. Even worse, many of our lawmakers are the ones feeding this fire. The first major law concerning the matter was the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996. The CDA made it a crime to transmit indecent material over the ...
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Feng Shui An Introduction To Good Luck
1,550 wordsI. What I Know, Assume or Imagine Just a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking of a topic for this I-Search Paper, but I didnt really know what I want to do except that I want to do something unique, something that will surprise the readers, something that has not been done before. I came up with two possible topics: landscape designing and origami. After couple more days of dilemma, I ended up doing landscape designing because I have always been interested in that field of career. So my research ...
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Internet Censorship Federal Funding
925 wordsThe internet was created in the 1960 s as a communication tool for the military so that if there was a nuclear attack the military could still communicate according to the internet censorship report. It wasn t until the 1980 s that it was opened up to the public. The number of people on the internet has grown from an estimated 56 million in 1995 to over 200 million in 1999 according to the same web site. The internet itself did not become a debatable topic until NBC ran a segment in 1994 on the ...
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First Amendment Rights Catcher In The Rye
1,645 wordsCensorship in Public Schools -A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain obscenities or offensive sexual references (Berger 59). -A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school boards decision to remove Richard Prices The Wanderers, and to restrict the use of Stephen Kings Carrie and Patrick Manns Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the b...
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People Were Killed Drug Testing
1,904 wordsDrug Testing in the Workplace Welcome to our team Mr. Dave Matthews. Here at Vandalay Industries, we take pride in hiring the highest caliber of workers such as yourself, and to ensure the safety of all our employees in the latex factory, we ask that you pee in to this plastic cup. While this may not be the best way to bring about a companys drug testing policy to a new hire, the fact remains that in most every position today, if no urine sample is given, it translates into no job for you! Drug ...
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Cyber Patrol Internet Censorship
1,629 words? There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance, ? the German poet Goethe stated. Ignorance is alarming, no matter what good intentions it is hidden behind. Today, an ignorance of the issue of Internet censorship has left a threat to free speech, our constitutional right. Even worse, many of our lawmakers are the ones feeding this fire. The first major law concerning the matter was the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996. The CDA made it a crime to transmit indecent material over ...
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Young Adults Library Journal
430 wordsLois Duncan is the author of over 40 books, ranging from childrens picture books to adult novels, but she is best known for her young adult suspense novels such as Killing Mr. Griffen and her newest book Gallows Hill. Many of these have been chosen as ALA Best Books for Young Adults and Jr. Library Guild Selections, and they have won Young Readers Awards in 16 states and three foreign countries. In 1992, Duncan had recieved the Margaret A. Edwards Award, presented by the School Library Journal a...
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Alfred Hitchcock Norman Bates
3,094 wordsHe Alfred Hitchcock ALFRED HITCHCOCK He was known to his audiences as the Master of Suspense and what Hitchcock mastered was not only the art of making films but also the task of taming his own imagination. Director of many works such as Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and The 39 steps, Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots, witty dialogue and tales of mystery and murder. In doing so, he inspired a new generation of film makers and revolutionized the thriller film, making him a legend ...
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San Francisco Chronicle Listening To Music
2,277 wordsMozart and the Mind Music appears to be one of the fundamental activities of mankind. In nearly every country around the world people are dancing, singing, jiving, or chillin to their favorite tunes. There is just something about the variations of musical notes all mixed together that can alter the way we act, feel, and even think. It is generally agreed that music causes some kind of increased arousal in those who are the least bit interested in it and are listening with some degree of concentr...
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Violent Crimes Juvenile Crime
1,120 wordsIn Taming Teens TAMING TEENS In the words of Thomas Jefferson Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain security will gain neither and lose both. (Anders 1) In todays society many jurisdictions are looking toward teen curfews to help stop teen crime. The curfew generally prohibits anyone younger than the age of seventeen from being in public from 11 PM until 6 AM on weekdays and from midnight until 6 AM on weekends. Although, teen curfews are put into effect to tame young teens, tee...
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