1. Public Enemy Number One
In Public Enemy Number One, Mike Males says, "America, from Michael Medved to "Mother Jones," has discovered the real cause for our countries rising violence: television mayhem, Guns N" Roses, Ice-T, and Freddy Krueger." This is a very strong statement. Placing all the blame for society's problems on these factors is very risky.
Television, for example, does have some excessive violence. The fact that Tom and Jerry, run around throwing dynamite down each others throats, and dropping anvils on the others heads. This is nothing compared to the violence that occurs on the news everyday. Children know the difference between Tom and Jerry and real life. We know that Tom and Jerry aren't really hurting each other, that they aren't reality. They are cartoons. You can't really paint a tunnel on a wall and run through it, children don't believe this. Why would they believe that they could blow someone up and not hurt them? While the school shootings on the news, are so real, it is hard to believe. Many television shows have positive messages about life, and how to deal with growing up. In a recent episode of 7th Heaven one of the children's friends, Simon, told him, that they were going to go and shoot the bullies that endlessly made fun of him at school. Simon called the police, told his parents and prevented something that could have been a horrible tragedy. We need to clean up the world, before we can expect violence to be taken out of television.
I think, movies are also being blamed when it isn't their fault for society's down fall. Freddy Krueger and Terminator 2 are not the reason why people are killing each other. It is hardly reality for a robot to be melted down, then molded back together, and have knives for arms, or attack and kill people in their dreams. Do you honestly think that Michael Myers or Jason have anything to do with children taking guns into their schools to shoot bullies? People kill people, not movies.
Their hit single "Rapper's Delight" tore through the billboard charts, becoming the first rap song to make it to number one spot. ... More groups of "rappers" sprouted from everywhere in the 1980's, the most famous of which being 2 Live Crew, Public Enemy and Ice T. ... Yet one of the prime characterizations of rap music lies within the music's lyrics. ...
If the enemy intercepted the message, they would have to decypher the message in order to get the information. ... This major fault of the one key system made it very vulnerable to attack. ... The problem got even worse when one tried to imagine encryption employed on a massive scale. ... Only one person can encrypt text with my private key, and that's me. ... When someone purchases an item from a store online, their account number is encrypted by the browser using the store's public key, and then sent to the store in cyphertext. ...
Stalin: The Preventable War World War II was a tragedy for a number of countries. ... One of the largest similarities was a syndrome named "little man's complex." ... While Hitler had the intention of killing as many people as possible, Stalin wanted to rid himself of his enemies (16). Stalin was a terrible public speaker, and Hitler had a way of amazing the crowds with his speeches (17). ... The war can be blamed on a number of things, but the largest reason was the leaders at the time. ...
Both governments consider their citizens expendable - public executions and secret abductions rob people of their right to life. ... These public executions are designed to prevent similar acts of dissention among the ciphers. ... In One State, ciphers can have conflicting emotions, as D-503 frequently exhibits in his writings - but these are treated more as a sickness in One State than a cause for death. ... Newspeak, the language of Oceania, is designed to "narrow the range of thought" (Orwell, 53), by limiting the number of words the populace knows. ... It even invents "enemies" like Emmanu...
In his abscence he was declared a public enemy in Rome by his opponents. ... His defeat of his enemy gained him the dictatorship. ... He had himself named dictator during 82 B.C., and began the systematic butchery of his enemies. This proscription, done with public lists, soon surpassed all Roman precedents. ... Sulla also founded a number of colonies for his veterans. ...
The Air force bought a number of U-10 Helio Couriers. ... The next question is: how can one teach someone the basics of flight if they do not understand what one is saying to them (Haas 169)? ... The Untied States denied the American public of all knowledge of the military combat in Laos, because the American public was already protesting the military participation in Vietnam. ... Even though flights were cut back there were still a great number of missions flown. ... In one instance a bridge was destroyed near a town. ...
While at the time the risk of the actions -- at worst the loss of the war in one or both theaters and at best, a prolonging of the war -- were substantial, ultimately, the rewards outweighed the risks. ... They also understood that delaying American involvement in the European conflict ran a significant risk of losing the support of the American public; a public more focused on the war with Japan, the enemy who had directly inflicted pain and damage on the United States. ... It was important for the Allies that the Soviets remain in the war; the Russian front was tying up a large number of G...
Sixty-one percent of the public and ninety-six of American leaders support remains strong, as in past years, for an active overseas role for the United States. Half of the American public believe that today America is playing a more important role as a world leader than ten years ago and seventy-nine of the public and seventy-one percent of American leaders believe that ten years from now America will have an even greater role in the world than the do now (2). ... Americans believe that in the future international terrorism is the number-one threat to U. S. vital interests, with chemical an...