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- 2991: Smartcards
- ... as a fingerprint to restrict its use to one person. The most sophisticated cards can manage several passwords and can use authentication and ciphering techniques to provide virtually total security. History behind Smartcards In January 1974 Roland Moreno, a Frenchman and former reporter, devised a revolutionary new payment system. His idea was an electronic stored value application mounted on a ring ... card (Two-chip card) by Bull CP8 in 1979 housed a memory chip and a SmartCards microprocessor supplied by Motorola. The card was then publicly demonstrated in New York at American Express. The first Smartcard to be used as a Cardiac pacemaker user identity card was a bi-chip CP8 and then the first Tele payment experiment in the world was ...
- 2992: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... s the United Stated has committed itself to and unprecedented war on marijuana that is costly, unjustified and impossible to win. The topic of Marijuana is quite broad. It encompasses history, legislation, and the benefits as well as the harms of the plant itself. Marijuana is the name of the plant known to botanists as Cannabis Sativa. Other names for the ... is delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol. This substance otherwise known as delta-9-THC which causes Marijuana's psychoactive effects. "The effects of Marijuana", according to Leo Hollister, former president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and current professor at the University of Texas "poses no greater risk that moderate consumption of Alcohol." Harvard Professor Lester Grinspoon in his book, Marihuana, the Forbidden ...
- 2993: Hemp: A Help or a Hindrance?
- ... Bureau of Narcotics, have made presses against hemp use. Their primary concern being that marijuana causes harmful effects to people who smoke it. It is now in the minds of American citizens that marijuana is a bad thing, something that shouldn't be a part of our society. The ones who smoke it are somewhat cast out of society, and due ... has been debate on whether or not to legalize marijuana. Hemp has been used in many ways. From using it to get high, to making paper for money. Throughout its history the plant has been very useful. It has proven to be a valuable asset to our economy and is something that cannot simply be brushed away. Although there are many ...
- 2994: Cocaine
- ... two species, cultivated primarily in Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia, supply the world’s cocaine. It also can be harvested four times a year. Coca leaves have been used before recorded history by South American Indians, so the knowledge is derived totally from archaeological sources. Chewing coca leaves has been associated historically with the religious ceremonies of the Incas and reserved specifically for nobility. The ...
- 2995: Soccer
- Soccer Introduction Soccer is the worlds most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is one of the most ... that players can do. Soccer can help you stay fit and healthy. Many people can play soccer and benefit from it. Soccer is very fun and a great recreational sport. History of the Activity Games similar to soccer were played in China as early as 400 BC. In about 200 AD the Romans played a game in which two teams tried ...
- 2996: Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, & Company
- ... company should take. This disagreement became even bigger during the depression of 1907, when the companies profits dropped by nearly a half million dollars, the first such drop in company history. Sears wanted to increase advertising in order to increase sales while Rosenwald wished to trim expenses to weather the financial woes. Because Sears was in Europe at the time, Rosenwald ... died on September 28, 1914, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at the age of 50. During his life, Sears succeeded in a big way, having built a company which has become an American institution.
- 2997: Andrew Jackson
- ... drunk, a gambler, and an adulterer (Britannica, 258). Adams also said that he was an illiterate backwoodsman, which actually helped Jackson because it added to his appeal as a common American. (Encarta, 6). Jackson added to the mud slinging by calling Adams rich, in College, but it was a close race by the popular vote (Britannica, 258). The voters weren’t ... everything he got the hard way. Andrew Jackson is a class act that is as tough as an old hickory! Works Cited Jerome McDuffie, Gary Piggrem, and Steven Woodworth. AP History Guide. Piscataway, NJ: REA Publishing "Jackson, Andrew." Encarta Encyclopedia. 1999. "Jackson, Andrew." Britannica Encyclopedia. 1995. Summers, Robert S. "The Internet Public Library-Andrew Jackson."
- 2998: Freedom Bound
- In his book, Freedom Bound, Robert Weisbrot argues that the civil rights movement is interwoven with American political reform of the time, and furthermore, that "the black quest for justice and the national crusade for a 'Great Society' are best understood in relation to each other" (Weisbrot ... student protesters, to add a more intimate perspective to the movement. Through this, he successfully demonstrates that the civil rights movement was not simply an event in our nation's history, but rather, a movement comprised of many different people with many different backgrounds, all working toward a common goal of equality and freedom. Weisbort's focus is not merely on ...
- 2999: Spanish Labor Systems And Indi
- In the US it is very common to still hear of the poor way African Americans were treated in the early part of this nations History. We hear stories of black slaves working 18 hour days picking cotton and the trauma of slaves being beaten for disobeying their masters. For many African American families, it seems, that was the way of life not long ago. While it is very important to realize what these African Americans went through, I think it is often ...
- 3000: Social Stratification
- ... don t like to think so. This aspect of the system is castelike. The various racial minorities are endogamous and are given lower collective status than the dominant white majority. American racism has a long history of the observation of social distance (segregation) and ritual pollution (segregated bathrooms and taboos on interracial sex or marriage). This castelike system is even more complicated by the fact that ...
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