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- 4781: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... crucial to survival and many people think that we may need lots of canned and dry goods. As in any crisis situation, some believe that the worst will happen: We will all die, go to war, or the world will explode, etc. Then again, others think that maybe we should be prepared just in case all of our electricity goes out and we have no way to store our goods. Personally ... will affect it. Media on Y2K The media had virtually ignored the Y2K problem. To the major networks and cable news channels, the millennium computer rates were right up there with UFOs and the War on Drugs. Their great filler stories and depth of investigation was so short it could fit under a door. That is until January 1999. In January there was a rash of news coverage and special ...
- 4782: Agreeing To Disobey
- ... exist. If a person obeys a higher authority, he/she often disobeys the unacknowledged higher authority known as ones conscience. Henry David Thoreau supported this claim when he stated in his story called Walden and Civil Disobedience: There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as the higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived ... Reading Across the Curriculum. Behrens/Rosen. Logman Publishers USA. 1999. (149-153). Milgram, Stanley. "The Perils of Obedience ". Reading Across the Curriculum. Behrens/Rosen. Logman Publishers USA. 1999. (115-127). Thoreau, David Henry. Walden and Civil Disobedience. Cambridge, Mass: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1849 Word Count: 1167
- 4783: Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... bitter argument has been debated, legislated, and written about extensively. Although the Internet contains content children should not view, censoring the entire or part of the Internet will infringe on the First Amendment and other civil liberties that Americans have fought and bled over since the birth of our Constitution. Four years ago, Congress approved the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which was designed to protect children by prohibiting indecent speech or ... could jail or substantially fine anyone who chooses to use certain profane words on the Net(Irwin). Mr. Goodwin, founder of EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit organization that deals with the protections of civil liberties in the information age, was one of the many honored guests that attended the protest rally in San Francisco. He was quoted as saying, Take a moment now and listen. Mr. Goodwin ripped a ...
- 4784: Franny And Zooey And The Razor
- ... he was only trying to help her move on with her life and start over again. In addition, Larry tries to escape from his vivid memory of the death of a close friend in the war. His emotional disturbance leads to his search for meaning and what life is all about, which did not involve going back to school and furthering his education. Larry feels that by losing his friend it ... such a poor taste, sort of, to want to act in the first place. I mean all the ego. 6 Furthermore, in The Razor s Edge, Larry did not go back to school after the war, but he did have a great opportunity to be his best friend Gray Maturin s partner in a successful business operation, which he later rejected. Elliot could not understand why Larry would turn down this ...
- 4785: America and the Computer Industry
- ... card punch and electric typewriter. It was slow, requiring 3 to 5 seconds for a multiplication, but it was fully automatic and could complete long computations without human intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their ... in price of older processors. In other words, the price of a new computer will stay about the same from year to year, but technology will steadily increase (Zachary, 42) Since the end of World War II, the computer industry has grown from a standing start into one of the biggest and most profitable industries in the United States. It now comprises thousands of companies, making everything from multi-million dollar ...
- 4786: John L Lewis
- ... also including the before nonunion South. This campaign was trying to get the coal miners of America to regain their trust is the union. After WWII had broken out and the Americans had entered the war, the UMWA singed the no strike pledge. Coal production was booming but the accident rate was up to, also the miners were sinking farther and farther into poverty because of growing inflation. In 1943, John ... effect the national coal reserves. Cause of these walkouts congress passed the Smith-Connally Act, which subjected unions to tighter regulations about strikes. John did get health care and pensions from these strikes. After the war the need and use of coal was dropping drastically. With this happening many men left the union to get other jobs, this weakened the stability of the union. John was approaching his 80th birthday and ...
- 4787: The Arrival Of The Internet
- ... You can cut many of the strands and it still hold together. This is how the phrase "World Wide Web" came into existence. The Internet has grown and improved over the years; from a cold war project, to a medium for exchanging ideas and information worldwide. As a cold War project, the Internet was developed to provide reliable communication during a nuclear attack. The Internet doesn't have a failure point.(Lloyd, 11) Even if a number of computers were destroyed, they would be bypassed ...
- 4788: Hamlet Plot Summary
- ... queen has. Polonius then enters and announces the arrival of Cornelius and Voltimand from Norway. They report that the king has calmed his nephew but would like to travel through Denmark's land to make war with the Poles. Polonius then tells the king and the queen of the behavior of Hamlet. He gives the reason for the behavior as being a infatuation with his daughter. When Hamlet enters everybody leaves ... shocked. Horatio then speaks of what has happened. Hamlet has declared Fortibras the king of Denmark. Fortibras then orders four captains to see that Hamlet is accorded full honors, including "soldiers" music and rites of war.
- 4789: The Invention of the Computer
- ... by cardpunch and electric typewriter. It was slow, requiring 3 to 5 seconds for a multiplication, but it was fully automatic and could complete long computations without human intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their ... in price of older processors. In other words, the price of a new computer will stay about the same from year to year, but technology will steadily increase (Zachary, 42). Since the end of World War II, the computer industry has grown from a standing start into one of the biggest and most profitable industries in the United States. It now comprises thousands of companies, making everything from multi-million dollar ...
- 4790: GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology
- ... the next two centuries, sextants and chronometers were used in combination to provide latitude and longitude information. In the early 20th century several radio-based navigation systems were developed, which were used widely during World War II. Both allied and enemy ships and airplanes used ground-based radio-navigation systems as the technology advanced. A few ground-based radio-navigation systems are still in use today. One drawback of using radio ... The typical hand-held receiver is about the size of a cellular telephone, and the newer models are even smaller. The hand-held units distributed to U.S. armed forces personnel during the Persian Gulf war weighed only 28 ounces. So you can more easily understand some of the scientific principles that make GPS work, let's discuss the basic features of the system. The principle behind GPS is the measurement ...
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