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- 181: RAP CENORSHIP
- ... government leaders, but did not obliterate censorship altogether. Instead, the job of expurgating unacceptable ideas has simply fallen into new hands using new tactics. Censors now assume the guise of capitalist retailers and distributors, special-interest groups, and less influential but still passionate religious and government authorities. Their new techniques are market-censorship (dominating the marketplace), constituitive censorship (the control of language), power-knowledge (restricting knowledge), as well as the traditional ... trash may open new vistas for the unsophisticated; moreover, the very judgment of what is trash may be biased by one's own unsuspecting limitations, for instance, by one's class position or academic vested interest (Riesman 1950). On a less profound, but no less important point, people gain pleasure from the arts. Indeed, to some people, art's sole purpose is to provide pleasure. Philosophers from Aristotle to Immanuel Kant ... Increasing the difficulty of obtaining erotic materials, harassing and punishing pornographers and purveyors of pornography, setting minimum age limits for the purchase of these materials, and so on, may have the unwanted effect of increasing interest in the materials, rendering them more desirable, and producing a greater impact on the recipients, than if none of these measures were utilized (Broch 1971). When a piece of literature or art is censored, ...
- 182: ... trouble making teens. Plato has been deserted by his parents long ago and struggles to maintain any kind of relationship with anybody. His actions, the shooting of the puppies, the constant lying to establish any interest of his companions, show how emotionally-disturbed and desperate he is for any kind of relationship with anyone. He searches for connection, someone to become his family. Close to the end of the movie, Jim ...
- 183: U.S. and Swedish Trends in Tax Reform
- ... enacted the Tax Reform Act (TRA-86). The act passed with a great deal of bipartisan support. This support was made possible by two features of the act. The first was that federal income tax rates were to be cut dramatically. While this would lead one to believe that federal government receipts were cut substantially as well, it was the second important feature of the bill that allowed it to be ... of several liberal Democrats for some time. In addition, conservatives in Congress wanted to reduce the escalating federal budget deficit at the time. Also, a prevailing attitude of the time was that reducing marginal tax rates would benefit the economy. It was believed that specific tax breaks and deductions to support economic growth would not be needed with the greatly reduced tax rates. The combination of Democrats wanting more vertical tax equity and Republicans wanting lower marginal rates allowed the Tax Reform Act to gain widespread support in Congress. Since TRA-86, tax policy in the United ...
- 184: Philosophy Of Jeremy Bentham
- ... his own words and then offer my observation as to where he went wrong. The community is a fictitious body composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were members. The interest of the community then is, what?-the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it…..To take an exact account then of the general tendency of any act, by which the interests ... person of those whose interests seem most immediately to be affected by it: and take an account, 1. Of the value of each distinguishable pleasure which appears to be produced by it in the first interest. 2. Of the value of each pain which appears to be produced by it in the first interests. 3. Of the value of each pleasure which appears to be produced by it after the first ... number of things in the preceding passage were and still remain unclear to me. The first thing that I will take up issue with is Bentham's perspective about the interests of the community. The interest of the community is said to be a sum of the total interests of its several members. It is never specified what how exactly this total is acquired or even if the members of ...
- 185: Euthanasia
- ... patients’ guardians. The courts considered several factors in making a determination: What are the state’s interests in terms of human life? When does the patient’s right to refuse treatment override the state’s interest? What does the right to refuse treatment entail, and is it included in the patient’s right to privacy? Do a patient’s guardians have the right to refuse treatment on behalf of a patient ... s interests, which were seen as preserving human life and the physician’s right to administer medical treatment according to her best judgment, with that of the individual. The court reasoned that the state’s interest weakens and the patient’s right to refuse treatment increases as the “degree of bodily invasion increases and the prognosis dims.” In this case, because it was agreed that the patient was incurable, the treatment ... consist of substantially weakened the balance between individual rights and state’s rights in favor of the state. The Cruzan court further shifted the balance towards the state when it stated that the State’s interest is in the unqualified preservation of life, an interest that does not weaken in light of the patient’s rights. These findings led the Cruzan court to deny the patient’s guardians the ability ...
- 186: The Merger of Banks
- ... NationsBank, not to Wachovia. No matter, though. The attitude seems to be that if anyone is buying banks, then nothing will do but we all join in. Some mortgagors are selling out because of low interest rates that have been with us since the early 1990s. Unhappy with the returns they can generate with the use of their money in a climate of such low interest rates, some are choosing instead simply to sell out and move on. Mortgagors handling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages are particularly unhappy with the returns they can muster, and are more than happy ...
- 187: The Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling
- The Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling Genetic engineering has developed and blossomed at a frightening rate in the last decade. Originating as merely an area of interest for scientists, genetic engineering has now become an area of which all people should be somewhat knowledgeable. DNA profiling has many uses, both positive and negative, in our society. Aside from its usefulness in many ... people's rights to privacy. For instance, if a private institution, such as a bank, an employer, or an insurance company, receives access to this information, it could influence decisions on loans, hiring practices, insurance rates, etc. Society, then, is faced with a conflict between an individual's right to privacy in one's genetic composition and the employer's or insurance company's interest in knowing about a person's health problems. This conflict will constitute the remainder of this paper. Over the next ten to fifteen years, scientists involved in the federal government's "human genome project" ...
- 188: Ch.23 Study Guide
- ... help members settle disputes through peaceful means, discourage foreign intervention in the region, and promote economic development and democracy. 10. Most Latin American countries have borrowed heavily from foreign banks and governments. During the 1980s interest rates rose and the world economy slowed. 11. Banks lowered interest rates and extended the repayment period. They also canceled some debt in exchange for the ownership of local companies. In “debt-for-nature swaps,” foreign leaders agreed to cancel a small part of a ...
- 189: Ronald Wilson Reagan
- ... push his program through congress. The Presidency When Reagan became president he started out in a recession. 11 percent of the work force was unemployed in fall, 1982. This recession reduced inflation significantly, but the interest rates remained high. During the next two years the economic recovery began. The unemployment came down, but thousands of factory jobs disappeared. The new jobs, which were mostly in service industries, paid less, leaving inflation low ... of Reagan s actions fueled a 5-year stock market increase. During his run, he had very high military bills and was forced to borrow money from different countries, especially Japan. The huge deficit kept interest rates very high which made the value of the U.S. dollar soar. But a large devaluation of the dollar in 1986 failed to overcome the huge trade deficit. This caused a panic on ...
- 190: MEDLINE
- ... software would mediate their encounter and guide them through the database's complex structure. Grateful Med was great software. A 1988 study conducted by the NLM, one of the very few available on actual success rates of MEDLINE use, showed user satisfaction with search results at 86%, and well over half of the users surveyed were Grateful Med end-users. The Grateful Med software was modified for the web and introduced ... like the third party vendors twenty years earlier, the web entrepreneurs developed their own web-based interface to MEDLINE, with varying results. IT IS THIS DEVELOPMENT THAT SIGNALS THE BEGINNING OF CONSUMER AWARENESS OF AND INTEREST IN MEDLINE.Until its appearance on the web, hardly anyone outside the health professions community was even aware of MEDLINE's existence. PreMEDLINE was a new database of quickly marked up records for material that ... search results, and in certain conditions, this can have important research or clinical implications. No consumer health focus. Regardless of the interface selected, MEDLINE is a poor choice for many topics that are of great interest to consumers, such as common conditions, lay descriptions of diseases and conditions, and alternative and complementary therapies. The contents of MEDLINE was never intended for consumers. The journals covered by MEDLINE almost without exception ...
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