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The Son Of Sam And Terror New York
1,296 words
The 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 words
A 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 words
Over 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 words
I 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 words
Failures 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 words
As 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 words
The 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 words
Elaine 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 words
What 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 words
Recently 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 words
The 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
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The 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
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CD 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
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Gloria 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 words
In 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 words
The 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 words
The 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 words
Partial-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 words
The 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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