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United States Government Technological Advances
1,431 wordsAfter viewing Enemy of the State, one can not help but feel vulnerable to the technological advances of our government. However, most Americans find it difficult to believe that they are being watched by agents of the United States government. When Americans do accept that their privacy is being invaded, they assume that only the United States government, or rich and powerful companies are responsible, yet with todays technology your next door neighbor could be listening. Americans believe that ...
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Hospice Care Medical Record
1,920 wordsAs we have learned, the hospice idea is not new. Literally meaning "given to hospitality, " hospices provided comfort, kindness, and nourishment to people in need hundreds of years ago. Today, hospices offer comfort to people as they near the end of life's journey. Hospice is a special way of caring for people with terminal illnesses and their families. It is a multidisciplinary health care program that is responsible for palliative and supportive care with consideration of the patient's and fam...
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Public Health Microsoft Products
1,513 words... ? Possibly... but I still don't believe so. Could it reduce the workload by 30 %? Quite likely. " Tools are available, but are only tools, not cures or quick fixes. How will this affect society and the industry in 2000? How stable will software design companies be as more and more competitors offer huge "incentives" for people to "jump ship" and come work for them on their problems! ? Cash flow problems will put people out of business. Computer programmers will make big bucks from now until ...
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Fourth Amendment Unreasonable Searches
1,040 wordsPrivacy. There seems to be no legal issue today that cuts so wide a swath through conflicts confronting American society: from AIDS tests to wiretaps, polygraph test to computerized data bases, the common denominator has been whether the right to privacy outweighs other concerns of society" This quote from Robert Ellis Smith explains, in one sentence, the absolute need to ensure privacy in the workplace. One of the most interesting, yet controversial, areas concerning public personnel is employe...
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Private And Public Bulletin Boards
1,037 words... rms of whether the person had an expectation of privacy in the situation which the state singles out for intrusion. The monitoring by the employer of employee conversations in lounges during work breaks would most assuredly be regarded as a monitoring of behaviors outside the employer's sphere of interest. The heightened expectation of privacy attached to oral conversations is recognized in legislation like the Federal Wiretap Act, which prohibits both private and public employers from inter...
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Ministry Of Truth Matter Of Fact
1,095 words... w paradoxical conclusion that the prevailing mental condition in Oceania must be one of controlled insanity (1984 p. 225). Eventually it is the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc (1984 p. 205). Finally apart from the permanent surveillance of Party adherents and the distortion of reality, the mutability of the past is another crucial tenet of Ingsoc. In fact as far as the philosophy of the regime is concerned there is a significant correlation between the future, past a...
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World Trade Center Al Qaeda
3,393 words... knew three weeks before 9 - 11 that two hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who were involved in the bombing of the USS Cole in November 2000, were in the United States. Although their names were listed in a watchlist of potential terrorists, which contained names of people for which the entry to the US is forbidden because of their terrorist connections, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were not stopped at their entry into the US neither were they arrested later. Although the CIA knew t...
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The Of Tuberculosis Among Low Income People
1,609 words... aged 20 to 45 years. Age adjustment was accounted for using the direct method with 1990 U. S. population statistics as follows: aged 15 - 24 (80, 596, 000); aged 45 - 46 (46, 710, 000) (Tuberculosis control law 1993). iii. data analysis and results 1860 cases were explored in both South Central and Harlem. Both districts are low-income, medically under-served communities with large numbers of immigrants such as Hispanics, blacks or Asian-Pacific Islanders. The data was evaluated with the obj...
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Working Class Thought Police
1,007 words... him. In The Immorality Of Capitalism, Marx describes the inevitable collapse of capitalism and the united revolution of the working class proletariat. The proletariat working class in Marx's philosophy are represented by the proles of 1984. Although the proles make up 80 % of the population, they are barely mentioned in the novel. The question remains, why did Orwell's proles not rise up as they should have according to Marx? The reader gets the impression that the proles are really seen as ...
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People Of Oceania Back And Forth
1,528 wordsOne of the major prophecies that Orwell outlines in his novel is the idea of the tele screen which can watch anyone at any time this is a reality in today's society. One of the major connections that Orwell makes about the tele screen of 1984 and today's society is that you could spy on people. The tele screen might be the most closely compared to microphones and cameras, but there are also many other devices that can be easily used for spying. Within the area of the tele screen anyone could be ...
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Drug Testing Part Ii
763 wordsDrug testing has been used in many countries for a long time. It has become a standard of working life for many employees. The tests are taken on the recruitment stage or at intermittent periods, because during these periods there is no evidence of misconduct, poor performance or any other reason to suspect drug use. (Workers Privacy Part II) It should be pointed that drug testing is accessible and do not need extra expenses. There are a lot of easy to use kits. They determine traces of drugs wi...
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Effective Use Of Computers On The Battlefield Future
1,240 wordsEffective Use of Computers on the Battlefield of the Future Abstract This paper emphasizes the importance of using computer technology on future battlefields. Outline p. 1 Beginning of Computer Era in military p. 2 What future holds p. 3 - Conclusion The history of military conflicts in 20 th century shows that they tend to become less continuous, which is accomplished by the implementation of new informational technology. In 17 th century, wars often lasted for 30 - 50 years. World War One went...
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World Health Organization Communicable Diseases
951 wordsHealth Policy Abstract The paper explores development and implementation of non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention polices in the developing countries by the example of Pakistan and its National Action Plan for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Control and Health Promotion in Pakistan (NAP-NCD). The NAP-NCD health policy that addresses clinical prevention is analyzed and the advocacy activities that brought the policy into being are described in details. Health Policy Introduction The deve...
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Computer System E Mail
376 wordsDiscovering Computers: Ethics in Action Carnivore or DCS 1000 was a Microsoft Windows-based workstation with and a removable disk drive and packet-sniffing software, implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the FBI claimed that Carnivore was designed to effectively monitor electronic and email communication on the internet, and, therefore, was aimed to prevent terrorism attacks and to monitor and store the e-mail and internet activity of suspected criminals, terrorists and sp...
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Discourse Theory And Orientalism Views From Foucault Said
1,772 wordsDiscourse Theory and Orientalism: Views from Foucault and Said Said describes Orientalism as, ... the generic term that I have been employing to describe the Western approach to the Orient; Orientalism is the discipline by which the Orient was (and is) approached systematically, as a topic of learning, discovery and practice. (Said, p. 77) By this, Said is saying because we treated the East like a school subject, we have learned to treat the East as an inferior. Which has developed into somethin...
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Racial Profiling Terrorist Attacks
2,353 wordsNYPD and Preventing Terrorism Terrorism is not a new concept it is something that exerted itself in a variety of ways, and has long existed throughout the history of our world. Todays new technological advancements have made it easier for terrorists to operate more freely, as a result terrorist acts have increased world wide not only in the number of attacks, but also in the amount of devastation caused by each individual attack has also increased. Along with this quick advancement of technology...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Alcohol During Pregnancy
1,857 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Preventable Birth Defect? If women didn? t drink anymore during pregnancy, there would never be another baby born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effect? (Mccuen 33). This is a very powerful statement. It is also a very simple cure for an alarmingly high birth defect that all women have the power to stop. ? Every year more than 40, 000 American children are born with defects because their mother drank alcohol while pregnant? (Mccuen 34). That is 1 to 3 per ...
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Middle Class Upper Class
1,641 wordsIn 1948 Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell, wrote a book with chilling insights into the future, 1984. This book did quite a number on the literate world. People who have read this book have had mixed reactions, from fear to hatred of our governmental system. However, 1984 came and went, and no signs of the tales told in the book were realized by the mass- population. There is no Ingsoc, there are no helicopters looking into windows. Most people have written this book off as a good scienc...
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Linda Tripp Biological Father
975 wordsPrivacy and the Internet Robert Wright wrote an essay featured in Time Magazine on October 19, 1998. The essay was called Sin in the Global Village and it focuses on personal privacy in cyberspace. The Internet is a rapidly growing web of information that more and more people are using. The benefits are for instance immediate access to information from all around the world, electronic mail that arrive at a blink of an eye, being able to publish ideas on personal web pages, and even downloading a...
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Super Highway Million Dollars
2,079 wordsPrivacy is something that is everywhere, it is all around you. Privacy is where you eat, it is where you work, it is the people you associate with, it has everyone to do with you and where you do it at. Privacy is highly controversial between individuals, some people shrug it off and say, I have nothing to hide others just don t feel its necessary for someone to know what kind of things they put in their weekly trash. Are new privacy laws needed? Should the government start putting restrictions ...
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