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Schools And Libraries Advantages And Disadvantages
1,718 wordsThe Internet has been in universal use for many years. It is a powerful research and communication tool, and it can be used for personal enjoyment. However, there is a dark side to the Internet. There is obscenity on the Internet. There is also explicit but legal material [... ]. There are bomb recipes, militia materials, hate speech of every stripe mixed in small amounts with political, legal, medical, technical, and sports-related resources, the rock music fan pages, [and] the science fiction ...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,664 words... t started to grow into wide use, the Government began to become concerned about what children were being exposed to online. Until the Government began to interfere, most libraries did not use Internet filtering. Many cases of minors being exposed to pornography began to appear. In the year 2000, Bill Clinton signed the Childrens Internet Protection Act (CIPA) as part of Federal Bill HR 4577. The CIPA required schools and libraries that had federal funding designated for Internet use to insta...
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Thousand Six Hundred Andrew Carnegie
604 wordsAndrew Carnegie always thought reading was one of the best ways to learn. He was also a very generous person in the industrial revolution. To be very generous in donations you do need money, and he definitely had a lot of money to be generous. This generosity completed the industrial revolution. He made most of his money with his steel company called the Carnegie Steel Company. The Carnegie steel company then changed to the United States Steel Corporation. In one year, 1900, his company made for...
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Diverse Workforce Managing Diversity
1,559 wordsDiversity in the Workplace As companies are becoming more and more diverse its becoming more and more important for companies to understand and manage it. The people of different background, races, religion creates diverse workforce. There is an importance of having diverse workforce to provide better performance. There are perspectives of managing the diverse workforce, which require organization leaders and managers of being responsible of attaining better diverse workforce. Diversity means di...
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Caged Bird Sings Red Riding Hood
1,467 wordsCensorship in School Libraries The most debatable and controversial form of censorship today is the banning of books in school libraries. Banning books that educate students is wrong and selfish. Censorship of books in school libraries is neither uncommon nor an issue of the past. Books with artistic and cultural worth are still challenged constantly by those who want to control what others read. The roots of bigotry and illiteracy that fuel efforts to censor books and free expression are unacce...
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Second World War First World War
4,692 wordsIn the second and third decades of this century, a new kind of artistic movement swept Europe and America. Its very name, Dada two identical syllables without the obligatory -ism distinguished it from the long line of avant-garde's which have determined the history of the arts in the last 200 years. Its proponents came from all parts of Europe and the United States at a time when their native countries were battling one another in the deadliest war ever known. They did not restrict themselves to...
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Schools And Libraries Freedom Of Expression
1,095 wordsYou make the decision Whenever a new kind of information technology is born, there is always been somebody on hand to try to censor it. Because the Internet is new and wide open, it has become the current central target for politicians over issues of censorship. When our country was born, the first public document over which patriots shed their blood declared the need for our liberty, our freedom in our new nation. Later, when our founding fathers decided to specify certain rights in our new Con...
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Sexually Explicit Material Amendment Guarantees
1,373 wordsThe Internet Censorship Internet Censorship The internet has become one of the most widely used means of media in the world today. It provides people with everything from getting directions from one place to another, to downloading entire books that can be read on the computer without ever having to visit a library or bookstore. However, the internet is also host to significant amounts of sexually explicit material-as many as 28, 000 hard-and soft-core pornography sites (Warren 52). The World Wi...
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World War Ii Library Of Congress
1,727 wordsAn automated library is one where a computer system is used to manage one or several of the library's key functions such as acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, circulation and the public access catalog. When exploring the history of library automation, it is possible to return to past centuries when visionaries well before the computer age created devices to assist with their book lending systems. Even as far back as 1588, the invention of the French " Book Wheel" allowed schola...
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