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- 341: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet The Communication Decency Act is a bill which has insulted our right as American citizens. It a bill which SHOULD not pass. I'll share with you how Internet users are reacting to this bill, and why they say it is unconstitutional. Some individuals ... users. Some examples of such programs are AOHell which can give you access to America On-line for free and E-mail Bomb, or otherwise harass others using the service (American On-line just passed a bill that gave them the right to allow users to let them scan their mail for such harmful things.) Another thing that could be banned ... because the CDA says those "classics" contain offensive material. The act also prevents any sites in existence which tell teens about safe sex and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Most on-line newspapers such as USA TODAY, will have to be blackened out when the monitor's screen shows them articles about sex. "Ignorance is caused by stupidity!" That has become a ...
- 342: Stephen Crane Biography
- ... University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball. Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a novel about a civil war soldier, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24 this was Cranes most famous work. Crane was then hired as a reporter in the American West, and Mexico. At age 27 Crane moved to Jacksonville, Florida where he got married. While in Jacksonville, his boat the Commodore sank off the coast and Crane wrote about ... Greco Turkish war and later settled in England where he made friends with famous writers of the time including H.G. Wells and Henry James. Crane also covered the Spanish American War for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. During the last few years of his life, he was in debt and suffering from tuberculosis. He died on June 5, ...
- 343: Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- ... she visited soldiers who had lost their sight or hearing. She devoted much of her time to fund- raising for organizations for the deaf and blind, helping to found the American Foundation for the Blind, and serving as vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in Britain. She campaigned to make Braille, the raised form of writing, the ... Song of the Stone Wall Out of the Dark Peace at Eventide Helen Keller in Scotland Let Us Have Faith The Open Door Helen Keller wrote extensively for magazines and newspapers, most particularly about blindness, deafness, socialism, social issues and women's rights. Books about Helen Keller Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (by Joseph ... It won an Academy Award as best feature-length documentary. Awards Helen Keller has received so many awards that they are too numerous to mention; an entire room at the American Foundation of the Blind in New York City is used to display them. She was awarded her own country's highest civilian honour, The Presidential Medal of Freedom. In ...
- 344: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... given to her out of pity of her husband. That same year, Marie failed by two votes to be elected to be in the Academy of Sciences. Worse yet, some newspapers said that her close friendship with the scientist Paul Langevin was wrong because he was a married man with four children. Marie received many spiteful letters and became distressed. A ... million men were x-rayed, which saved tens of thousands of lives and prevented an untold number of amputations. Between 1916 and 1918, Marie Curie trained 150 people including 20 American Expeditionary Force members in x-ray technology of radiology. After the war ended, Marie continued to train radiologists for another two years. Marie disliked reproters and kept away from journalists. One American reporter, Mrs. Marie Melaney was persistent. Marie finally gave in to her and agreed to an interview. The two quickly became friends. Mrs. Melaney understood how Marie had put ...
- 345: Harriet Tubman 2
- ... masters did not make their slaves work on Sundays and thus might not miss them until Monday, when the runaways had already traveled a full day and a half. Second, newspapers advertising the escape would not be published until the beginning of the week, so by the time copies reached readers, Tubman and the fugitive slaves were likely to be close ... Brigade before its heroic but futile attack on Fort Wagner in 1863. She later received an official commendation, but no pay for her efforts. In 1869 she married an African American war veteran, Nelson Davis. He died in 1890. Tubman spent the years after the war in the North, where she continued her work to improve the lives of blacks in ... of the National Conference of Colored Women in America (NCCWA), a group formed to combat attacks, made by the press and others, on the morality and civic pride of African American women. The NCCWA evolved into the National Association of Colored Women in 1896, although Tubman had only limited involvement in this organization. She also became a strong supporter of ...
- 346: Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky
- ... s are always happy, and he is usually hugging his daughter or wife. The Americans never hear anything bad about his wife and daughter on the news or in the newspapers. When Clinton's administrative people heard about his impeachment, some of them walked out, but most of them stayed and kept their loyalty to him. That shows that he is ... When he meets people in real life, he never pushes them away. On a recent meeting with congress Clinton was telling them that “We have to be there for the American people.”. This is a way of showing his loyalty to the American people. He is a loving father, and is currently putting Chelsea through school. He supports her in every way a father can. This shows the young person that he ...
- 347: I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- ... A. Reader picked up a copy of his comic strip and liked what they saw. Life in Hell gradually became a common comic strip in many free weeklies and college newspapers across the country. It even developed a cult status. (Varhola, 1) Life in Hell drew the attention of James L. Brooks, producer of works such as Taxi, The Mary Tyler ... strip. Groening presented Brooks with an overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. Groening intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other and drive each other crazy". Groening named the characters after his own family. His parents were named Homer and Margaret and he had two younger sisters named Lisa and Maggie. Bart was an anagram for "brat". Groening chose the last name "Simpson" to sound like the typical American family name. (Varhola, 2) Brooks decided to put the 30 or 60 second animations on between skits on The Tracy Ullman Show on the unsuccessful Fox network. Cast members ...
- 348: Computer Crime
- ... responsibility of the parents to censor their children's access to information, not the government's. The court of appeals, in effect, granted the Internet the protections previously granted to newspapers, one of the highest standards of freedom insured by our Constitution. The Clinton administration has vowed to appeal this decision through the Supreme Court. Technological crime is harder to prosecute ... As interesting to see will be how the government will fight on this new battle ground against the new types of crime, while preserving the rights and freedom of the American people.
- 349: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... significant and insignificant are rewritten to reflect the party's utopian beliefs. They thoroughly destroy the records of the past; they print up new, up to-date editions of old newspapers and books; and they know corrected versions will be replaced by another, re-corrected one. Their goal is to make people forget everything- facts, words, dead people, the names of ... Harper and Row, 1983. 122-136. Leyden, Peter. "On the Digital Age: Dawn of a Second Renaissance" Star Tribune. 25 June 1995: 1t+. Orwell, George. 1984. New York: The New American Library Inc., 1983. Reilly, Patrick. Nineteen Eighty-Four, Past, Present, and Future. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1989. Stansky, Peter and William Abrahams. Orwell: The Transformation. London: Gramala Publishing ...
- 350: Bermuda Triangle
- ... Fort Lauderdale. The plane also had the number 28 on it, which was Lieutenant Taylor’s plane number. Several theories have been submitted to the Navy, civilian government officials, and newspapers regarding the disappearance of this flight. An engineer in New York submitted a set of very detailed drawings in which he depicted the five planes and the flying boat in ... the boat, and to this day there is no explanation for the disappearance of the crew. Numerous industrial and commercial airliners have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle. British South American Airways had a short, unhappy life due to the Triangle. The airline lost three large planes. Two of them, the Star Tiger and the Star Ariel, vanished without a trace ...
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