... for a day, after discovering a social media post that talked of killing "16 white male students and or staff" and "any number of white policemen"; Western Washington University suspended classes after a post suggested lynching a student leader; and Washington College in Maryland closed for several days ... the name of Quintonio LeGrier, who died from multiple gunshot wounds, and the other was a fifty-five year old woman by the name of Bettie Jones, who died from a gunshot wound to the chest. "Police are supposed to serve us and protect us, and instead they kill us," ... , December 26, 2...

• Word Count: 746
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... but there is an alarming increase in the desire for a "quick fix". This "quick fix" is cosmetic surgery, and studies show that the number of people using cosmetic surgery to solve their personal dissatisfaction is increasing at an alarming rate. The once low-key, obscure realm of plastic surgery was ... finally men are catching on." Furthermore, according to the article "The Hard Body Sell" by Laura Fraser, available in the March/April edition of Mother Jones magazine, "Men are responding to a consumer culture that is less and less forgiving toward those who are not young, trim, and att...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... system and give every parent a $3000 or $4000 voucher. How do you [stop schools from] raising their tuitions and pricing out many of the families we want to help most?" (Jones). The idea that schools would be a competing, open market for school voucher slips manifests the thought that allowing private schools to take public money with little oversight opens the way ... for about 5% to 10% of the children who are presently in the public school system, leaving the other 90% to 95% of the kids in the system at a further disadvantage" (Jones). Vouchers would not solve the problem for trappe...

• Word Count: 2864
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... "This is primarily due to the competitiveness of business and the advancements of workplace automation" (Workplace Privacy, 1998). Many employers now utilize LAN based computer systems, electronic mail, automated phone systems, card access and video systems. Employers now have the capability to monitor, with ease, many of the employee's routines. Employees don't want their privacy infringed upon. However, unless ... any legal situations. The following outline covers some alternatives that employers and employers should consider in order to prevent any unforeseen problems: • employees s...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... who are evicted or have left their families because of difficulties. Still others define homelessness as being without shelter, but this definition reduces the seriousness of the issue and excludes a number of people deprived of "homes." Unfortunately, while these examples may be accurate in defining a certain type or category of the homeless population, they do not delineate its parameters. That is ... with both an individual aim to keep a chair and a collective goal to keep everyone seated. Imagine, as well, that in this game not only are seats gradually removed, but the number of pla...

• Word Count: 4318
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . This provision could mean that any person suspected of some sort of electronic violation would be subject to having their email and phone conversations recorded and used as evidence against them. Investigators have been granted the authority to tap any phone a terrorist may use rather than one single line. Also permitted is the delay of notice for execution of a search warrant if ... a seemingly insurmountable task. Terrorists do whatever they want to whomever they want. Terrorists do not have to follow rules and regulations. Unfortunately, government agents must adhere strictly to an ...

• Word Count: 1697
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... privacy of individual's correspondence as well. However, the privacy of associations is often times sacrificed in instances of garbage searches and wire tapping in which letters or conversations with any number of correspondences could be uncovered. Although a lack of privacy granted to individuals may help to fight crime, innocent people are affected by the lack of privacy as well. Gottfried points ... the "ability and motivation to monitor the telephone conversations of any citizen it chooses" (Goldsmith "Telephone Privacy"). This is a scary idea for Americans because nearly every per...

• Word Count: 2150
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... very untrue. Racial profiling is based on the premise that minorities commit most drug offenses. Because police look for drugs primarily among African Americans and Latinos, they find an uneven number of them actually in possession of contraband. Therefore, these people are arrested, reinforcing the idea that drug trafficking is primarily a Latino or African American thing. At the same time, white ... the officer flashed his lights at him. The officer took Gammage out of the car and saw him grab something that was reportedly a weapon, but was his cell phone. The officer knocked the phon...

• Word Count: 1570
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... In Olmstead v. United States, a bootlegger got caught violating the Eighteenth Amendment, which is barred the sale of alcohol, moslty by wiretapping in to his phone where he worked by the F.B.I. Olmstead argued that "the wiretap amounted to an illegal search and, therefore, violated his rights under the fourth amendment" (" ... the Fourht Amendment. But the government has tried hard to get this to be not so argumentative by passing laws that allow phone tapping The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 was enacted to address the problem of technology hindering wireta...

• Word Count: 592
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... asks you to hold. The voice runs through a programmed version of how you can now save more money than ever on long distance calls. You listen; then hang up the phone to resume your meal. How functional is this? Well Telemarketing is a booming industry within the United States. One only has to stay home on any given night to have this ... see that Telemarketing is connected to something invaluable to our society the telephone. The connection is direct and distinct. Therefore telemarketing is solidly in our lives because if we have a phone, (as the majority of us do right now in America),...

• Word Count: 1268
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... as the economic system in which private individuals and business firms carry on the production and exchange of goods and services through a complex network of prices and markets. There are a number of key characteristics of American Capitalism. First, is that basic production facilities, thus land and capital, are privately owned. Second, economic activity is organized and coordinated through the interaction of ... to have worked for some time, thus, for example, in 1928 the price of stock in the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) multiplied by nearly five times, and the Dow Jones indus...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... that would provide adequate living income. The Agriculture Adjustment Adminstration made rental payments to farmers for retiring acreage from cultivation in the basic crops and paid farmers to reduce the number of hogs and cattle. Although it was later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Courth, the AAA caused for millions of acres to be retired and farm prices improved. Other acts ... such as the Soil Conservation and Domstic Allotment Act and second AAA paid farmers to follow soil conservation practices and established marketing quotas to keep surpluses down. The Bank Head Jones Act...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... express themselves outside of the school by selecting their own outfits. In this way, they can develop their confidence and enhance their individuality too. The Long Beach Experiment was a great exemplary of school success. Long Beach Unified School District was the first district to experiment with a dress code rule. After implementing the program, the district found a reduction in ethnic and racial tension ... ...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ). He notes in his four descriptive proposals that no one is happy with the current system; doctors and patients feel they have no control, health care costs are rising, the number of uninsured is going up, and pressure on state budgets will mean close scrutiny of Medicaid. Emanuel sees the key in providing a solution that both liberals and conservatives can endorse ... . A committee would certify managed care or health insurance companies and monitor the quality of delivery systems. This is a bare outline of the proposal and the author admits that there are a number of details to be work...

• Word Count: 1508
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a group of today's superstar artists joined together in New York City for a nonprofit fundraiser. This involved various artists collaborating to remake Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", and people could call a phone number to raise money to help stop the spread of AIDS in Africa. In light of the events of September 11 these artists dedicated part of the proceeds and the song ... ...

• Word Count: 1352
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... they can correspond with students by email. And working parents, whose schedules can make conferring with their children's teachers a logistical challenge, can connect more readily through email or by direct phone connections to classrooms. But advocates say that new technologies can be used to do more than make school fun or help busy parents reach teachers. As they see it, teachers ... and that they have ample opportunity to develop 21st Century Skills. Most educators agree that parental involvement is a key determinant of children's success in school. Telecommunications technologies ...

• Word Count: 2254
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... creating benefits to everyone. One of the latest innovations within America Online occurred last year when the company took over Tegic, a small cellular phone company in Seattle. "Tegic makes software that allows you to enter data on a screen phone more easily, using some clever text recognition algorithms" (strom.com). America Online's Instant Messenger application will soon be the port of the phones ... ...

• Word Count: 478
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... arrest those guilty. As a result, the power to search people and property after a minimal threshold of suspicions has been cited as necessary part of law enforcement protocol. Activities, such as phone tapping, were considered "dangerous and unwarranted practice[s]" by the legal authorities of the alcohol prohibition era. (www.ottawacitizen.com) There was even a time when undercover police officers selling drugs to ... respected the constitution is a compelling reason to legalize drugs. Our legal system was certainly not conceived with today's drug laws in mind. Considering the widespre...

• Word Count: 2317
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... at and highlights the intersection of tremendously complex and significant social trends concerning the body, gender, psyche, medical practice and ethics, globalization, aesthetic ideologies, and both communication and medical technologies."(Jones 4). Sometimes people are coming to such extremes in finding out who they are that they are even changing their sex to the opposite one. Brazil is a bright country and culture ... ...

• Word Count: 3143
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... integrated into arguments made by some unions in the form of referring the system of wages that they were working under, to slavery. One union leader in particular, Mary ("Mother") Jones, said, " the black man knows what liberty is" (Foner, 142). Though not a comment of malice, it illustrates the incognizant manner in which white people refer to the black man's struggle ... ...

• Word Count: 359
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... integrated into arguments made by some unions in the form of referring the system of wages that they were working under, to slavery. One union leader in particular, Mary ("Mother") Jones, said, " the black man knows what liberty is" (Foner, 142). Though not a comment of malice, it illustrates the incognizant manner in which white people refer to the black man's struggle ... ...

• Word Count: 363
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in comparison to the days before the attacks. After the tragedies of September 11, consumer spending fell dramatically. Spending fell as a result of a drop in equity wealth and the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its "biggest weekly decline since the Great Depression". The multiplier effect of both declining wealth and falling consumer confidence caused final sales to drop by 1.5 percent the ... ...

• Word Count: 616
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to consist of "G" for general audiences, "PG" for parental guidance, and "R," "X," and "NC-17" for mature audiences (the "PG-13" rating would appear in the 1986, for the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) To minimize the probability of young audiences seeing television shows intended for more mature audiences, such programs were often showed at night, when children were ... ...

• Word Count: 958
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... -competitive in American society. In conclusion, the use of Affirmative Action has documented gain in racial and gender equality, which has been shown in several studies (Bowen & Bok, 1998, Murrel & Jones 1996), we must not allow the negative connotations of Affirmative Action out weigh the positive effects that it had on America as a whole. We need affirmative action to insure the ... ...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to Britain were the same as, and in some cases less than, those from 1771 to 1775; despite the fact that the population had nearly doubled. As seen in Joseph Jones" letter to George Washington, America could not even pay the soldiers that gained it independence in the first place. John Jay's "Instructions to the United States Minister to Great Britain ... ...

• Word Count: 787
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate