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- 901: Internet Censorship
- ... entire online community can see what you have to say. Unfortunately not everyone wants to set up homepages dealing with the spin rates of atoms or the airspeeds of South American swallows. Most ISP's are more than willing to set up homepages dealing with the most gratuitous of acts aimed at very specialized audiences. This is where the problem of ... stirs strong passions. So does the question of whether free speech on the Internet should be sharply curtailed, as some Senators and Member of Congress have proposed. But the "flame war" that ensued on the computer networks when the story was published soon gave way to a full-blown and highly political conflagration. The main focus of discontent was a new ... the government. More damaging to Rimm are two books that he wrote, excerpts of which have begun to circulate on the Internet. One is a salacious privately published novel, An American Playground, based on his experience with casinos. The other, also privately published, is titled "The Pornographer's Handbook: How to Exploit Women, Dupe Men & Make Lots of Money". Rimm ...
- 902: Human Rights
- ... Sweat drenches the colored bodies that work the fields, while the Master sits in the enormous noble house being waited on by the servants. Many people have worked to stop civil injustice acts like this, but it still happens in some form, or another today. White or black, straight or gay, male or female, equal rights should never be compromised. Of ... long way from the times of slavery. America has suffered from many things, and has made many people suffer. It has crushed the will, and the lives of thousands of American Indians, African and Hispanic Americans, and far too many others to count. It has killed, murdered, and ignored the human rights of billions in the name of Progress. Through the ... way and form discrimination is wrong. Why is it that giving human rights to everybody is such a bad thing to some people? Many deaths have come about because of Civil rights issues. World War II was basically based on discrimination, and a power trip. Human lives aren’t disposable. The color of skin, gender, or sexual orientation never makes ...
- 903: The History of The Internet
- ... go back to 1962. In 1962 the original idea for this great network of computers sprung forth from a question "How could U.S. authorities successfully communicate after a nuclear war?" The answer came from the Rand Corporation, America's foremost Cold War think-tank. Why not create a network of computers without one central main authoritative unit (Sterling 1) The Rand Corporation working along side the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency ... the New York state senate passed a bill which, barring a constitutional challenge, made speech that is "harmful to minors" punishable as a felony. Ann Beeson, chief cyberlitigator for the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU), said "The law will show how nonsensical state regulation of the Internet is. It will affect online users not just in New York, but throughout ...
- 904: The French Revolution
- The French Revolution The French Revolution was much like the American Revolution, in that the people rebelled and broke away from their government. Those who rebelled against the government had a good cause; however, I strongly agree with George Washington’s ... sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated "A Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction- to appoint one of their number to preside, provided that no person be ... shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled. The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the ...
- 905: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Author: Casey Connealy The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was written by Frederick Douglass himself. He was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland in approximately 1817. He has, "…no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any ... North Star". Not only did he present news to the slaves, but it was also highly regarded as a good source of information for those opposed to slavery. During the Civil war, Douglass organized two regiments of black soldiers in Massachusetts to fight for the North. Before, during and after the war he continued his quest to free all the slaves. ...
- 906: Owens Valley Aquaduct
- ... gate and completely halted the flow of the river. Seven hundred others joined the demonstration, and together they protested the injustice that had been committed against them. “The Owens Valley War”, the title appropriated by a local newspaper for the demonstration, had reached its climax. “The Owens Valley War” was already over; the dainty valley community suffered its defeat to the powerful metropolitan giant. Then one of the greatest civil disasters in American history took place. The Mulholland built, St. Francis Dam collapsed. This released a fifteen billion gallon flood that scoured a path to the sea two miles ...
- 907: Ulysses S. Grant
- Ulysses S. Grant American General and 18th President of the United States of America, Ulysses S. Grant, was a master war strategist who won the first major Union victories during the Civil War; however, political leadership proved to be far different from military leadership for Grant. While in office from 1869-1877 Grant scarcely attempted to control events, made injudicious appointments ...
- 908: Infanticide
- ... but that is not always the case. The shortage of funds for child welfare, the poverty of many communities, understaffed hospitals- these conditions exist the world over, in times of war and peace. It has been sadly documented, incidental infanticide by neglect is inevitable. (Piers, 17) Killing a baby is an immoral act, and we often express our outrage by calling ... devised by man. The D & X procedure they say, is incredibly painful for the infant. Abortionists acknowledge that the procedure is frequently preformed on healthy mothers with healthy babies. The American Medical Association supports a ban on this procedure. (Jahr, July 23, 1998) Today in 17 states, partial-birth abortion is a criminal act. Even in Roe vs. Wade, which struck ... motel room or bathroom stall. (Pinker, New York Times) Increased efforts are needed to identify adolescents who have hidden their pregnancies in order to provide them with prenatal care. The American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for counseling adolescents stress that the menstrual or sexual history, or questions about symptoms, are unreliable ways of detecting pregnancy. Unwanted and undisclosed pregnancies may ...
- 909: HRM - Ever Evoloving
- ... This continued to be the trend up until WWII, when men left the country to fight and women left rural America to fill factory jobs as their contribution to the war effort. This movement was the beginning of nationwide workplace and societal changes that have accelerated during the last half of the 20th century. The move from rural to suburban environments ... an increasing number of age discrimination suits, organizations need to develp a sensitvity to age issues and policy specific to older employees. A recent off shoot of EEO is the American with Disablities Act (ADA). ADA has created a need for new policies and procedures in accommidating employees with handicaps and disabilities. The emerging legal view that Acquired Immune Deficiancy Syndrome ... problems in the human side of enterprise? The answer lies in part to growing societal pressures. Concern over the condition of blue-color jobs in the 1930s, as well as civil rights and equal opportunity legislation in the 1960s and 1970s, has paved the way to revamping HRM policies to recognize and respond to shifting social values. More simply put, ...
- 910: The Work of Robert Frost
- ... he is a really wise poet, the one thing has been the same thing as the other. He is more than a New England poet: he is more than an American poet; he is a poet who can be understood anywhere by readers versed in matters more ancient and universal than the customs of one country, whatever that country is. Frost ... Distance is a good thing, and so is admitted difference, even when it sounds like hostility. For there can be a harmony of separate sounds that seem to be at war with another, but one sound is like no sound at all, or else it is like death. Let each thing know its limits even as it strains to pass them ... ancestors have said. The minister says of the old lady who used to live in The Black Cottage:-- One wasn't long in learning that she thought Whatever else the Civil War was for, It wasn't just to keep the States together, Nor just to free the slaves, though it did both. She wouldn't have believed those ends ...
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