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- 10911: Building A Radio Empire-chancellor Media
- ... named Rosing developed the theory of television. By 1928, three television sets were put in homes. And in that same year, the first scheduled broadcasts evolved in Schenectady, New York. In 1939 the New York World s Fair premiered the television to the public. That same year, regular television broadcasts began. By 1941, NBC and CBS began commercial transmissions, and by 1949 network television resonated throughout America. By 1951, there were ... of Hoover s, Inc. http://www.hoovers.com/hoov/press/media.html 10. Media Awareness Network. http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/indus/main/htm. 11. Neufeldt, Victoria and David B. Guralnik. Webster s New World Dictionary of American English: Third College Edition. Cleveland. 1991. Page 913. 12. NewsAlert. Chancellor Media to be Renamed AMFM Inc.; Shareholder Meeting Date Set for July 13th to Vote on Name Changed and Proposed Merger ...
- 10912: Karl Popper And Thomas Kuhn 2
- ... sets out to describe why his gut tells him that these are unscientific theories. He argues against theories that have explanatory power. Popper has a problem with Marxists because no matter what happens in the world, they can explain the event in light of their theory. When a person believes a theory to be true, everything that happens is a verification of the truthfulness of the theory. Popper’s example is ... that Popper’s ideal of proper science is useful, and he seems to agree with me ("neither a problem of meaningfulness or significance, nor a problem of truth or acceptability.") Kuhn looks at how the world really works, a far more significant area of study. Popper thinks that he has all of the answers. I distrust people who think that they know everything. I agree with Socrates, who said something like ...
- 10913: SAMUEL SEABURY
- ... to force Seabury to admit he wrote the “Westchester Farmer”, he neither denied it nor admitted it. Eventually he was released, and this was the final step in pushing him against the patriots. When the war he predicted broke out, he housed his family in the British- held city of New York. He stayed there until the war was over ; then he took a job as a preacher and lived an uneventful life until his death.
- 10914: The Immortal Harley Rider
- ... vibrated with youthful exhilaration to be in command of such a powerful machine. I was a mighty dark knight on a charging, raven-black steed. I was young, invincible, and knew no fear. My whole world became a jumbled rush of adrenaline-fueled chaos in a matter of moments. I topped a rise in the two-lane country road and entered the strange world of helpless fear. At the bottom of the hill a black Ford Fairlane was turning left into my unstoppable path. “Oh shit!” I exclaimed loudly. My five-hundred-pound metal stallion lunged relentlessly toward disaster ...
- 10915: Knowledge
- ... with increasing technology. The internet is one of the newer sources of both education and entertainment. It is also fairly harmful. Many things that are banned from television and movies are easily accessible on the World Wide Web, to everyone, including children. The relationships that we have with people, whether it is co-workers, family, or friends, directly influence us with every interaction. In the workplace, the people that one may ... teachers. Home is where we learn the morals and values that we, as adults, pass on to our children. Our manners and etiquette that are learned at home are what we bring into the outside world and portray to others. The knowledge and insight that we acquire from our family members are never forgotten and stay in our hearts and minds for a lifetime. I believe that the relationships one has ...
- 10916: Network Security And Firewalls
- ... them. We have security everywhere we look. There are armed guards in our stores and even schools. Police officers patrol the streets trying to keep people safe. We have people to provide security in a world where things are physical, but what to we do in a computer world, where what we want to keep safe is information? This is where computer security comes into play. We need to define computer security and discuss how computer systems are kept safe. Security is defined as ...
- 10917: If There Was A Revolution In 1998
- If There Was A Revolution In 1998 We live in a world that has tried to pass off exploitation, oppression, racism, sexism, discrimination against gays and lesbians, and destruction of the environment as everyday facts of life that can not be changed. "That's just the way ... life, and unfortunately, there are not enough jobs for everyone. If there was a revolution, we should make more job space, and jack up the minimal wage so that people can actually survive in this world. We need these changes; it would make America great again, now its not looking so good. If we are so worried about the presidents sex life and the way he represents us, we should be ...
- 10918: An Significant Experience
- ... several quarrels within our home, ones I had never before noticed. I viewed sides of our family that I had never seen before. Adults whom I had once regarded as the "bestest" people in the world were now simply minds with thoughts completely different from me. The people whose words used to be right to me were now wrong, although I never mentioned it. As I walked the streets, I hardly ... happy that she grew up to perceive life and its realities. After spending three weeks in my home country, and covering six years of lost distance, I could only ask myself one question: has the world changed or have I?
- 10919: George Orwell's 1984
- ... Plenty” where economic affairs were handled, they decided who got how much of something almost always being too little of a ration. The last branch is called “The Ministry of Peace” which handled all the war affairs such as where the next bomb they launched would hit and who they needed to destroy next. Big Brother had a slogan that read “WAR IS PEACE”, “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY” and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”. Winston worked in the Ministry of truth where he's job was to rewrite the news on the newspaper called Times. Another character is O'Brien ...
- 10920: The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
- ... again at the end of the film both involve criminals pickpocketing. That whole concept is corrupt. Thievery is deception, plain and simple. The mere settings of the film imply corruption as well: Venice, the ancient world which is corrupt, and Paris, the modern world which is just as corrupt. Relationships, Ideas of Marriage and The Concept of Love As one of the great unromantic of the cinema, Lubitsch liked to use a satirical approach when dealing with the purity ...
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