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- 9151: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts – technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled,” says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some ... under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government's education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle ... a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70's to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our country's political process, in a technologically advanced world. Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S. The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our country's short history, we have seen the development of the printing ...
- 9152: Hedda Gabler
- ... with. My pistols, Jorgen. General Gabler's pistols" Jorgen - "For goodness' sake! Hedda darling! Don't touch those dangerous things! For my sake, Hedda!". These pistols are a symbol of masculinity and are associated with war, a pastime which women are excluded from other than in the nurturing role of nurses and are thus not tolerated by society. Tesman implores Hedda to cease playing with them, but even his "superior" position ... an emulation of her father's socially venerated role as a general. Hedda pretends to have been friends with Thea in order to solicit her confidence: Thea - "But that's the last thing in the world I wanted to talk about!" Hedda - "Not to me, dear? After all, we were at school together." Thea - "Yes, but you were a class above me. How dreadfully frightened of you I was in those ...
- 9153: Heart Of Darkness - Ignorance And Racism
- ... man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us - who could tell?" (Conrad 37). The end result of Conrad's ignorance of not knowing the behavior of African people concluded his division of the social world into two separate categories: "us," the Europeans, and "them," the Africans. Achebe concludes Conrad's ignorance towards the natives by stating, "Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as 'the other world,'... a place where man's vaunted intelligence and ferment are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality" (252). "Heart of Darkness was written, consciously or unconsciously, from a colonialistic point of view" (Singh 278). Conrad didn't ... the Heart of Darkness," "Conrad sets up Africa 'as a foil to Europe, a place of negations... in comparison with which Europe's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest.' Africa is 'the other world,'..." (281). Bibliography Achebe, Chinua [An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.] Heart of Darkness. By Joseph Conrad 3rd ed. Ed. Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton Critical 1988. Conrad, Joseph Heart ...
- 9154: Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With the Passage of Time
- ... of her ‘birth.' When she learns of her replicant heritage, she is devastated, as any person would be, and ironically grieves in human ways. She numbs from the shock, in a haze from her personal world suddenly crumbling to dust. We would no doubt react in a similar way if we were suddenly told we were replicants. In other words, even in her defeat, she brilliantly fits Tyrell's “more human ... their transport shuttle. In a similar way in Terminator 2, Skynet, the national defense's intelligent super computer “ “decided our fate in a microsecond” when it initiated a nuclear strike to kill most of the world's population. How could a computer grow to make such a decision? Although John teaches the T800 why its wrong to kill, no one ever taught Skynet the value of human life, for it was ... uses what it has already learned to learn more. Roy has come infinitely far from a thoughtless soldier, contemplating the nature of his human surroundings and longing for days he can peacefully breathe in the world around him. Finally, it lives long enough,or at least think it has in Rachel's case, to truly reach a state of equilibrium we call ‘humanity.' Like any state of equilibrium, it is ...
- 9155: Comparison Between Virginia Wo
- ... mythological references . His two opening lines: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing maybe viewed as at once underscoring the painful nature of the process of rebirth in the world of nature. This may also be seen in late inferences to the Fisher King . We could see clearly the use of the seasons as different forms of tradition, April as cruel, Winter keeping us warm ... essay is that material reality is not dependable and that external reality is less important. She uses symbolism in her work for example the tree which is a symbol of concrete life emphasizing the personal world. A Room Of One s Own , by Virginia Woolf, might be seen as a kind of cultural odyssey. A critic has pointed out, however, that this is really not as perplexing as it might seem ... two different meanings of the word culture . On the other hand culture is an anthropological concept, it s about how live embracing , one might say, the patterns through which people in a society experience the world. Different societies, he says, have different cultures. But on the other hand there is the more common meaning of culture , simply donating the arts, including fiction. In A Room Of One s Own, it ...
- 9156: The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society
- ... common purpose has frayed. Today, only about 5 percent of American households are on-line, but what happens, the critics wonder, when half the country is wired? Will we escape the unpleasant complications of the world outside our locked doors by opting for communities in 'cyberspace,' where we can enjoy the company of people who share our interests and our views? Where the streets never need to be cleaned and you ... other places probably came from petroleum. (Plastics can also be made from coal or natural gas.) Petroleum also becomes the gasoline that powers the car. Extracting the petroleum involves wells and refineries all over the world. Tankers carry the oil across the seas. Sometimes, as in the case of the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident in Alaska's Prince William Sound, they spill it. Spills can kill birds, fish, and marine mammals ... loading and unloading of tankers. Cleaning up after spills and urban pollution is a daunting task, but it can be done. (Herring 19) Automobiles are a good example of how technology can backfire on this world. Automobile exhausts are polluting the atmosphere so much that the next big technological advancement should be to find a way to heal the environment. However, healing the environment sounds like a great plan except ...
- 9157: John McCain
- ... with Democratic candidate Bill Bradley, is credited as being the first to discuss reforming the campaign finance system (Cox, Finklestein). In the Youth Survey conducted by Project Vote Smart, respondents aged 18-24 chose the World Wide Web as their most useful information source ("General Population"). McCain is utilizing the power of the Internet to build mailing lists, solicit contributions and to attract young voters, many of whom are "more acquainted ... day" ("Students 4 Dole"). McCain is enticing young voters with his numerous television appearances, advertisements and magazine covers. Newsweek and Time both gave McCain covers and tried to expose the "real McCain" by describing his war experiences, volatile history, and his plans for the presidency. The "Weekly Standard" broadcast news magazine introduced a cover story entitled "The Media's Favorite Republican" and McCain appeared on the Fox Sunday news show to ...
- 9158: KKK
- ... the civil rights amendments being passed over 40 years ago, racism continues to thrive in America. A good example of this is the southern-based organization called the Ku Klux Klan. Immediately following the Civil War, this group came about during the Reconstruction Era. Because of the ratification of the 13th amendment, ending slavery in the south, the KKK emerged with a cause that has yet to be put to rest ... approach, the Klan gets more positive attention from unintelligent southerners. The same web-site mentioned earlier states, "It [the Ku Klux Klan] is not merely a 'social association', but a dynamic, crusading white movement of world-historical perspective seeking the establishment of White Christian Political Self Determination." Throughout history, the Ku Klux Klan has attempted to prevent the equality of America. They will continue to flourish by persuading more uneducated Americans ...
- 9159: Hackers and Security. What Are the Effects of Data Encryption and Firewalls?
- ... open holes in the server) which can then be sent certain packets of data, called nuking, that can crash and disable the system. According to Dan Farmer, of Sun Microsystems, Every day, all over the world, firewalls and hosts are being broken into. The level of sophistication of these attacks varies widely; while it is generally believed that most break-ins succeed due to weak passwords, there are still a large ... of data into a form, called a cipher, that cannot be easily intercepted by unauthorized people (The New Hackers Dictionary). The use of encryption is as old as the art of communication. In times of war encryption was called 'code,' and could be employed to keep the enemy from obtaining the contents of transmissions. Simple ciphers include the substitution of letters for numbers, the rotation of letters in the alphabet, and ...
- 9160: Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- ... promising a new era of greatness and wonder . . . as long as you don't own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora's Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a "bug" or "virus," but is more a computer industry mistake. Many of the PC's, mainframes, and software out there ... or is it going to corrupt as well?! The answers to these questions and others like them are not answerable with a yes or a no. For one thing, the "leading experts" in the computer world cannot agree that there is even a problem, let alone discuss the magnitude upon which it will impact society and the business world. CNN correspondant Jed Duvall illustrates another possible "problem" scenario. Suppose an individual on the East Coast, at 2 minutes after midnight in New York City on January 1, 2000 decides to mark the year ...
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