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Pentium Iii Disturbs Privacy
494 wordsThe recent release of the Intel Pentium III has consumers as well as businesses concerned about the privacy of the computer world. The controversial issue is a feature in the Pentium III chip known as a Processor Serial Number or PSN. It identifies individual machines connected to the internet by way of a unique number embedded in the chip. According to Intel the PSN will be used to identify users in electronic commerce and other net-based applications. The PSN will be used as access control for...
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Legalized Gambling Excise Taxes
1,168 wordsThe squeeze is on. Demand for government to decrease it's reliance on sales, property, and income taxes as sources of revenue is continuing to rise, leaving policy makers scrambling for new, less painful sources of revenue. Also going up are the costs of providing public services, entitlement programs, and conducting the other various functions of government. This upward spiral requires that they simultaneously look for better, cheaper, and more effective spending strategies. It is no wonder tha...
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African Countries Policy Makers
1,162 words... n men and women. The threat from malaria is a global and not an African issue. One billion people are at risk from malaria and between 1 - 2 million deaths per year are due to malaria and 90 per cent of the deaths are in Africa. Given the global warming and increased international travel, urban malaria is now a major public health problem in Africa and persons from developed countries who have no immunity are at great risk. On March 13, 1998 a new global initiative was announced by the new D...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
1,554 wordsIn 1900 the average American traveled about 1200 miles in a lifetime, mostly on foot, and mostly within his or her own village or town. By the end of the century, the typical American adult would travel some 12, 000 miles by automobile alone, in just one year. About 8, 000 cars were registered in the America at the start of the 20 th century. There are now some half billion in the world, with one-third in the United States, where more than 1. 5 trillion miles are traveled each year. How the auto...
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Food And Drug Administration Breast Implants
378 words1. Identifying the Individual victims of unsafe products On November 6, 2000 in the first smokers class-action suit to go to trial nationally, Judge Robert Kaye uphold the $ 145 billion damage award to three sick smokers, representing 300, 000 to 700, 000 sick Florida smokers or their families. On October 2, 2000 the death toll in the Firestone- tire recall rose to 101, which will probably rise in months to come. Mabel and Rafael Valdes are just two of the hundreds to file lawsuits against Fires...
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Types Of Memory Notebook Computers
1,521 words... ou enter in to it (Lauckner 7). Then you have the parts of the computer that deal with the results of computation back to the user, and these are called the output units (Lauckner 7). The next important piece of the computer is the memory, which makes it possible for the computer to keep the programs and information ready and available. All of these computations are done in the central processing unit, or know as the CPU. This is the primary operation of your basic computer and shows how a c...
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American History In Motion Pictures
1,538 wordsWe were there while the Titanic sank, we stormed Omaha Beach at Normandy, we saw the Battle of Gettysburg in person, and we rode throughout the west with Wyatt Earp. We were able to do this because Hollywood allowed us to journey to these historic times through the movies. Hollywood allows us to journey back in time to see how people lived, to witness the major events that shaped our world, and help give us a better understanding of a time period that we might not otherwise grasp. The movies hel...
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Wood Varnish Sound
298 wordsIn the video we saw in class we learned about the advancement of music with the development of technology. The first thing that we saw was how the bell makers now use computers to eliminate the unwanted sounds from bells by creating bells of different shape. Also we saw how the organ manipulates sound by sending it through different tubes of different diameters and by decreasing or increasing the size of the tubes then we saw how technology manipulates all those sounds by using filters. How thos...
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Art And Technology Schwartz Moffat
1,714 wordsMany modern artists use high technology equipment in their works. Whereas traditionally artists used a pencil or brush to make beautiful works of art, artists in the early twenty-first century are now using sound, video or computer generated images. Digital art developed from simple patterns and shapes made using computer programs to finished works of art which can look as realistic as a watercolour or oil painting. Modern art exhibitions often include more videos and installations than traditio...
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Makers Of Barbie Poem The Mirror Pretty
310 wordsThere is a noticeable comparison between the poem "The Mirror" By Sylvia Plath & the article "Barbie" that appeared in the Newsday Tuesday November 18, 1997. The comparison is about how people look, and how society could reflect how you may feel about your looks. In the poem "The Mirror" it tells about a lady who dislikes the way she looks. She thinks of herself as being ugly. In the article it tells how Mattel (the makers of Barbie) want to change the looks & features of Barbie. The reason for ...
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Analysis Of The Atomic Cafe Documentary 1982
1,226 wordsAnalysis of The Atomic Cafe Documentary (1982) Atomic Cafe can be thought of as the example of a new genre in the field of documentaries. Some critics refer to it as observational grotesque. It is clear that producers strived to expose the sheer futility of duck and cover tactics, when it comes to protecting people from the effects of nuclear explosion. However, Atomic Cafe would never be able to become critically acclaimed, if it was only providing viewers with the historical insight on how did...
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Graphic Arts Monthly Paper Graphic Arts Monthly June
802 wordsReport About Paper Industry The surveys of the paper landscape at the 2000 mid-point have found that the commercial printing and publishing business have been healthy. This, combined with substantially higher prices for paper, plus a surge in demand by what can only be called dot-com mania, is driving paper company profits. Numerous factors have been found to influence price and demand in the paper market. Paper, which can constitute as much as half of a typical commercial printers billings, app...
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One World Government First World War
1,731 wordsWorld Order: Theoretical Interrogations It is not a secret that today America is the most influential country in the world. Americas rise to world power is a consequence of the nations geographical position, natural resources, and dynamic energy. (Carpenter 1992, 74) For relatively short period, America became so strong that today it is a single superpower in the world. After the First World War, the European nations assumed that the United States would continue to involve itself in internationa...
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Eric Clapton Electric Guitar
1,177 wordsThe History of Guitar By Four hundred years ago the guitar was invented. Since then, guitar has been a great innovative instrument. It serves as the heart of a song, or sound. From Jazz, and Blues, to Heavy Metal, and punk music guitar has been perhaps the biggest factor in modern music. Between acoustic guitar, and electric guitar there is a lot of history. When guitar was first invented, it looked nothing like the guitars that we know. The first guitars were lutes. Lutes evolved into vihuelas,...
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Software Makers And Service Providers Makers And Service Providers Children
456 wordsCensorship of inappropriate material has been an issue with every form of mass media. Now the new and upcoming Internet is becoming the focus. Software makers and service providers are choosing what the public should see. Does this seem right? How can a stranger choose what another person or their family sees on the Internet? Parents and adults should choose what they and their children are exposed to on the Internet. Among all the great things on the Internet there are some things that parents ...
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Positive Law Civil Law
240 wordsREVIEWING KEY CONCEPTDefine natural and positive law. Identify the fundamental differences between the theories of natural and positive law. Give an example to illustrate each of these theories. ? NATURAL Law is based on the theory that law has some higher or divine origin, entitling it to a supremacy. A set of ideal rules of conduct, from which it is believed all human law should originate. The law has some higher authority. Universal and doesnt change. ? POSITIVE LAW My be described as laws re...
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Social And Political Traditional Beliefs
1,439 wordsJudges exercise judicial power. They play an integral role in the judicial process, as they apply the law and in some cases create the law. While doing this they must take consideration of current political, social, moral and economic considerations and adhere to a certain consensus of society. The role of the judge is taken for granted by many people who view their role as an administrative one. Judges, especially those of the Supreme and High Courts are under extreme pressure and do not just d...
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Decision Makers Formal Structure
1,326 wordsModern Organizational Theory Vs. Improvisation Essay, Research Modern Organizational Theory Vs. Improvisation Modern Organizational Theory vs. Improvisation Organization theory deals with the formal structure, internal working, and external environment of complex human behavior within organizations. As a field spanning several disciplines, it prescribes how work and workers out to be organized and attempts to explain the actual consequences of organizational behavior (including individual behavi...
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Division Of Labor Public And Private
804 wordsOne Dimensional Man Today technology has taken over just about every aspect of our daily lives. According to some this is a good thing because it makes our lives easier and more efficient. For others it is not so great for some of the same reasons that its proponents support it. Technology, and more specifically technological progress have lead us down a road full of contradictions, which is especially true in the area of liberty. It has programmed us to believe that there is another set of prim...
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Young Offenders Act Democratic Society
746 wordsLobbyist necessary for government reform Lobbying is a formal and recognized part of the democratic system. Lobbying is any form of direct or indirect communication with the government or its officials designed to influence public policy. A lobbyist is a paid professional who makes his / her living by influencing government. Business firms or various economic and political groups are the most frequent employers of lobbyists (e. g. Tobacco companies). A lobbyist is hired for their expertise and k...
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