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- 301: Kevorkian Essay
- ... support for assisted suicide and euthanasia. But since Kevorkian's started his assisted suicides, voters in Washington and California have defeated propositions that would have legalized Kevorkian's activities. Major newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle opposed the measure being voted on in California. Organizations such as the California State Hospice Association and California Commission on Aging also opposed the measure. These newspapers and organizations could not be described as religious publications or groups in any way. Kevorkian is attempting to use the public to influence the courts and legislatures into accepting assisted ... with Dr. Jack Kevorkian," Free Inquiry, Fall l991, p. 15 15 Kevorkian, Prescription: Medicide, p. 214 16 Ibid. 17 J. Kevorkian, "A Fail-Safe Model for Justifiable Medically-Assisted Suicide," American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 1992, pp. 11 & 28 18 Gilbert, Ohio Northern University Law Review (1994), p. 674 19 Testimony of Jack Kevorkian, M.D., Michigan v. Kevorkian, Oakland ...
- 302: Spin Cycle
- ... themselves lapping it up like a kitten with milk, but near the end you finally begin to ask yourself: how in the hell does he know what he knows.. All American presidents in the modern era have had a special group of political advisors to assist the president in his dealings with the media. This isn t anything that is new ... submitting to ruthless, tabloid-like tactics? This book leaves you wondering. Maybe the real blame should be placed on the public. After all, if the people did not purchase the newspapers and watch the new stories, they would eventually cease. We like to blame the press for circulating dirty laundry. But aren t we, the people, equally to blame if we buy these magazines and newspapers and watch these television programs? Whether you like politics or not, you will enjoy Spin Cycle. Just sit back and let Howard Kurtz take you on a journey through ...
- 303: Crime and the Black Market in Modern Day China
- ... to be imposed if the Chinese government didn't immediately comply with a US-Chinese piracy agreement. However, at press time, China stated that they would retaliate with duties on American agricultural and automotive products. China insisted that they were trying to rectify the situation, and the punitive tariffs never went through. The United States currently has a 34 billion dollar ... encourage it. For example, China permits only 10 new foreign movies to be distributed within its borders each year. Although China says this is to protect its domestic film industry, American film makers estimate that they lose $150 million a year due to piracy of films that would be otherwise unavailable to the Chinese public. China may be the worst piracy ... and destroy their pets. In Dongcheng, one of Beijing's districts, Mr. Li stated that it is not uncommon to find and destroy approximately 500 dogs a week . State run newspapers rage against dog lovers who lavish food and money on their pets. On January 26th, 1994, the Legal Daily reported angrily that at one hospital doctors turned away a ...
- 304: Are UFOs Real?
- ... Walter Haut, public relations officer, finished the press release he'd been ordered to write, and gave copies of the release to the two radio stations and both of the newspapers. By 2:26 p.m., the story was out on the AP Wire: 'The Army Air Forces here today announced a flying disk had been found' As calls began to ... from the base retrieved all of the copies of Haut's press release from the radio stations and newspaper offices. The Las Vegas Review Journal, along with dozens of other newspapers, carried the AP story: "Reports of flying saucers whizzing through the sky fell off sharply today as the army and the navy began a concentrated campaign to stop the rumors ... this is a unique issue of universal concern, such an action would be appropriate and warranted. Essentially what presidential candidate Jimmy Carter promised and then failed to deliver to the American people eighteen years ago in 1976. Additionally, it would cost nothing, offend no one, and be applauded by all. To provide positive assurance for all potential witnesses, the Order ...
- 305: The History of Phamaceutical Compounding
- ... pharmacists and pharmaceutical chemists. Other drugs that are considered to have less therapeutic value are analyzed by the National Formulary. These less therapeutic value drugs are then published by the American pharmaceutical Association which was founded in 1852. They have been published since 1888. If their is any significant variation from the pharmacopoeia and formulary standards, the violator may be prosecuted ... virtual disappearance of the preparation and compounding medicines is the most notable change in pharmacy in modern times. In the 1920's, over 80 percent of the prescriptions filled in American Pharmacies required a knowledge of compounding. However, in the 1970's only one percent or less combined two or more active ingredients. Another change that has occurred is what the ... or is interested in pharmacy to use their computer system to find out information in regard to medication, medical equipment, Medicare, or to ask the pharmacist a question. Various community newspapers run articles where a pharmacist will answer a question that a person may have or discuss new prescription and nonprescription medication. Today's profession of pharmacy has the opportunity ...
- 306: Online Recruiting And Employee
- ... to search for job applicants. They may also choose to communicate with career office employees at universities and colleges to attract candidates, use networking methods at professional organizations, advertise in newspapers or on television, or use more recent recruiting sources such as the internet to find potential future employees. Recruiting job seekers over the Internet is a recent trend that allows ... networking or attending career fairs, but is becoming very popular in our society. It is a good resource when an applicant is in search of a career opportunity. Lately, many newspapers place their job ads online for job seekers to view. Electronic advertising is a method of recruiting that corporations should consider when searching for qualified applicants to fill an opening ... until a conditional job offer is made." (Mathis and Jackson, pg.82) These exams are valid if the physical characteristics of the candidate are essential to the job responsibilities. The American and Disabilities Act prohibits companies with more than 15 employees to ask questions about a candidates medical conditions before a job offer is given. Employers need to have a ...
- 307: BEHIND THE SCENES
- ... air as was evidenced in the “Geraldo” broken-nose episode of 1988. Will the talk shows finally reform themselves? The prospect seems unlikely. Thanks to Freedom of the Press every American with a TV or a radio can participate in a trial by jury. This is not what was intended by a “jury of one’s peers” and only succeeds in ... the issue of presidential security (The Nation 111). Simpson was a third-string celebrity whose great fall (if it comes to that) affects no one but his alleged victims. The newspapers and the broadcast networks are primarily marketing vehicles, and it’s up to editors and programmers to divine and manipulate the fantasies and fetishes of the market in order to ... that the Advisory Council on Social Security issued its report recommending that some of the fund be invested in the stock market. Here’s a proposed change that affects every American, yet during the short time it showed up in news reports, Newsweek gave us Paula Jones on the cover and then, in an even more puerile gesture, a head ...
- 308: Advertising 3
- ... be highly selective and concentrated on a particular segment of the public such as stockholders, suppliers, or opinion leaders. Intensive community coverage may be secured through the use of local newspapers, radio, or television advertising. Which will provide enough space to tell a complete story and inform and educate people. The advertiser can control the timing and space given a public ... start saying it themselves, then they say it to someone else and they remember it, and so on. So word of mouth was a reliable source, as well as the newspapers, radio, and television. "Vocal advertisement came first; visual second,"(Wood 23). There are five creative strategies that advertisers use: 1. Objective (what advertisers should do). 2. Target Audience (who is ... towels, and a package of one hundred cost only sixty-five cents. The manufacturers hired Helen Hayes, Gertrude Lawrence, and Ronald Coleman to model in articles using these tissues, and American women were told that Kleenex Kerchiefs were the "scientific way," as well as the glamorous way, to remove rouge, foundation, powder, and lipstick. In five years their sales steadily ...
- 309: Should There Be Stricter Laws on Pornography?
- ... report that was submitted by minority members of a commotion that was established by congress in 1967. This commotion was designed to study the impact of obscenity and pornography on American life. The final article is "Let's put Pornography Back in the Closet" by Susan Brownmiller. Brownmiller is a Journalist, Women's rights activist, and a founder of Women against ... pornography should not be tolerated. The first amendment should not allow certain forms of threatening or degrading forms of speech. The commission reports showed evidence that a majority of the American public feels that there should be tighter restrictions on pornography. One hundred adults were interviewed on their feelings toward this issue. Eighty-five of them felt that there should be tougher state and local laws concerning pornography being sent through the mail. Seventy-six felt that there should be stricter laws concerning the types of magazines and newspapers sold over the counter. Although there are many similar ideas among the three articles, there are also many differences between them. Brownmiller states, "In 1973 materials were judged obscene ...
- 310: The Inverted Pyramid And The E
- By: Joe Cerniglia Newswriting, as it exists today, began with the adoption of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraph’s occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. Before the telegraph ... down all ranks of the British Democracy have been stirred to the depths of feeling by the declaration which the president of the United States made on behalf of the American Nation. ‘Hands across the sea,’ is no longer an adequate expression of the relationship between the two great English-speaking peoples. It is now a union of hearts forged by ... the first piece from 1917, and the very modern lead in the second, illustrate that newswriting is changing from the original narrative style that was still very prominent in the newspapers from the Civil War era, to the more contemporary style that can be seen in the news papers of World War II. By 1941 and the start of the ...
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