...monitor which is showing a picture of a tiny fetus inside the womb struggling violently to avoid the intruding device of death. This is, in all actuality, the witnessing of the killing of a person, a human being. This topic is so powerful that the debate over pro-life against pro-choice has been going on for many years. People need to be made aware of what is happening nearly everyday in the United States which is the killing of innocent lives by the thousands. According to the pro-life movement, abortions need to be prohibited with no exceptions, to defend the right of human life. Contrary to this belief, pro-choice activists strongly disagree by arguing on every level possible and stating that it is the woman’s decision if she wishes to interrupt a pregnancy within her womb. So, while supporters of abortion claim it should continue to be legal in the United States, especially if the mothers life is endangered or the pregnancy was caused by rape, it actually should not be made legal because of the fact that it is the killing of an innocent human being, the methods used to do so are barbaric, and because there are other choices available as an alternative to abortion. First, let’s take into account the pro-choice advocates issue regarding the right to terminate a pregnancy if that pregnancy endangers the mother’s life. According to Morgentaler who wrote an essay for 123.HelpMe.com, he states that,” when women are older, they no longer...
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...Taking on McCarthyism: Hollywood’s Response to the Blacklist Instructors name Date Taking on McCarthyism: Hollywood’s Response to the Blacklist Following the communist scare of the 1950s the House of un-American Activities (HUAC) was established and it made a blacklist of movie actors, screen writers and directors who they considered as allied to the communists party. The most prominent of these was the ‘Hollywood ten’ who refused cooperation. This paper will critically examine the black list and the response of Hollywood to the list and to Senator McCarthy who was a significant figure in the movement. This paper will focus on the response of artists who made films that addressed this imposition, scrutiny, and show that Hollywood did not stand for this opposition. McCarthyism is an act of making ungrounded accusations that touch on issues of treason and disloyalty a term that was derived from the name of Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s when there was a communism scare. He chaired several committees that were involved in the accusations against different people who were suspected of being communists. The term was derived from his obsession with communists although he had nothing to do with the Hollywood arrests (Humphries, 3). During this period, movie directors and screenwriters used to get subpoenaed to attend hearings where they would be required to defend their position and involvement in the American communist party. Many of these directors lost their...
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...reason that abortions were made illegal at one point was because of money issues and a lust for white supremacy. It seemed to have nothing to do with the rights of a child or a woman. One of the reasons why abortion came into question in the beginning of the 1950s was due to the fact that a lot of doctors and lawyers were seeing many cases of illegal abortions and it was becoming a large social problem. Since there was a lack of competition for legal abortions, doctors found no problem making them legal again -- “They felt that abortions were justified under certain circumstances, and they began to see the laws against abortion as an infringement on their own medical discretion” (Straggenborg, 1991). And so the issue arose again with many pro- choice groups speaking up. Then with court cases like Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade, abortion again became legal in the United States. When looking at a topic like abortion, there are many things that one must take into account. Yet before we look at both sides of the issue, let’s look at exactly what the issue is. If we were to state that abortions should be illegal, then we are potentially putting the burden of a child and a pregnancy on a teenager. As well if it were to be illegal,...
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...Planned Parenthood& The Defunding Movement Introduction Planned Parenthood is a national nonprofit organization of the United States. It is a fundamental provider of reproductive health care. Planned Parenthood has 61 affiliates throughout the country, with an estimated 700 health clinics in almost all states. It is not only a health care provider, but also an educator and advocate for women’s health. Planned Parenthood assists women in making conscious and well-informed choices about health, sex, and family planning. Every year over three million women, men, and teens visit Planned Parenthood associated medical centers to receive health care such as routine gynecological exams, breast and cervical cancer screenings, contraceptive services, abortion care, sexually transmitted infection/disease testing and treatment. According to Planned Parenthood, one out of five female Americans pays a visit to a Planned Parenthoodcenter throughout the course of her life (Planned Parenthood, 2014). Because Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization, it relies heavily on government funding to support its broad mission and programs. At the end of the 2014 fiscal year, it was revealed that Planned Parenthood health centers were recipients of $528.4 million in government funds. These funds were the largest source of income for the organization followed by private donors, charitable foundations, and non-government sources. With this being said, federal funding is absolutely essential to...
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...HUL 231: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE History and its representation in literature * The Holocaust Name: Pooja Nath Entry No: 2009CH10087 Group No: 1 Contents | Chapter | Page Number | | | | 1. | Literature from the Holocaust: An Introduction | 3 | 2. | Piecing Together History: Stories of Survival | 4 | | Map: Nazi Concentration Camps | 4 | 2.a | Before the war | 4 | 2.b | During the war | 5 | 2.c | After the war | 6 | 3 | Maus: Graphics and Symbolism | 6 | 4 | Comparative Analysis: Understanding the Characters | | 4.a | Sophie and Vladek | 8 | 4.b | Sophie and Anja | 9 | 4.c | Nathan Landau and Holocaust survivors | 10 | 4.d | Stingo and Art as narrators | 10 | 5 | Bibliography | 11 | Literature from the Holocaust: An Introduction “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.” Adolf Hitler Official figures tell that six million Jews, two million Poles, one million Serbs, five million Russians were exterminated during World War II – the actual toll of executions by the Nazi Government, can never be estimated. Holocaust was a period of unspeakable horror and infernal ramifications which were not only felt across Europe but also in places like Laos. When I began this term paper, it was meant to be a study of the literature pertaining to this period of Nazi regime in Poland during World War II. What it turned out to be was a account of implacable and starkly real evil. A subject that has inspired countless movies...
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...today’s women have had to adjust. One of these adjustments are the number of children she is willing and able to provide for. Advancements in technology in the past century has enabled her to control this, specifically abortion and the use of contraceptives. Hypothesis Changing roles in the family unit have caused the dynamic to change. Women have become the sole provider to the family in many households forcing them to earn a living as well as take care of the children. Conflicting sets of moral and ethical values within society have made their choices more difficult. By controlling which options she has availible, is society choosing for her? When does a specific group of personal values out weigh an individuals freedom to live their life as they see fit? Is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness only available to those who make the laws? Historic Supreme Court Cases In the mid 1800’s woman’s suffrage movement came to the United States and the fight for equality started. The 14th Amendment was ratified in July of 1868 and included the...
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...http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1967/feb/23/a-special-supplement-the-responsibility-of-intelle/ the responsibility of intellectuals A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals Noam Chomsky FEBRUARY 23, 1967 ISSUE TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politicson the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of intellectuals. I read them as an undergraduate, in the years just after the war, and had occasion to read them again a few months ago. They seem to me to have lost none of their power or persuasiveness. Macdonald is concerned with the question of war guilt. He asks the question: To what extent were the German or Japanese people responsible for the atrocities committed by their governments? And, quite properly, he turns the question back to us: To what extent are the British or American people responsible for the vicious terror bombings of civilians, perfected as a technique of warfare by the Western democracies and reaching their culmination in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, surely among the most unspeakable crimes in history. To an undergraduate in 1945-46—to anyone whose political and moral consciousness had been formed by the horrors of the 1930s, by the war in Ethiopia, the Russian purge, the “China Incident,” the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi atrocities, the Western reaction to these events and, in part, complicity in them—these questions had particular significance and poignancy. With respect to...
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...Version 1 General Certificate of Education (A-level) January 2013 English Literature A (Specification 2740) LTA1C Unit 1: Texts in Context The Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature Report on the Examination Further copies of this Report on the Examination are available from: aqa.org.uk Copyright © 2013 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Copyright AQA retains the copyright on all its publications. However, registered centres for AQA are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their own internal use, with the following important exception: AQA cannot give permission to centres to photocopy any material that is acknowledged to a third party even for internal use within the centre. Set and published by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance. The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (company number 3644723) and a registered charity (registered charity number 1073334). Registered address: AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX. Report on the Examination – General Certificate of Education (A-level) English Literature A – Unit 1: Texts in Context: The Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature – January 2013 PRINCIPAL EXAMINER’S REPORT: January 2013 LTA1C The Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature The entry was around 2000 candidates, compared to nearer 7000 last summer and about 1400 the previous January, with the large majority of students choosing to answer on Duffy’s...
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...GOOD EVENING I’M HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT CAPITALISM. I’M HERE BECAUSE A FEW WEEKS AGO I SAT ON A PANEL AT CBS ASSESSING STUDENTS WHO HAD APPLIED FOR OVERSEAS INTERNSHIPS I EXPECTED TO MEET DENMARK’S NEXT GENERATION OF BUSINESS LEADERS INSTEAD I MET DENMARK’S NEXT GENERATION OF NGO OFFICERS, CHARITY WORKERS AND UNITED NATIONS BUREAUCRATS. ONE STUDENT AFTER ANOTHER TOLD ME HOW THEY HAD NO INTEREST IN A CAREER IN BUSINESS. HOW BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN MONEY. IT WAS AS IF CAPITALISM WAS SYNONYMOUS WITH EXPLOITING THE POOR, PUTTING CHILDREN TO WORK IN FACTORIES, DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT. IT WAS AS IF YOUR SCHOOL HAD BEEN POISONED, THAT A COLLECTIVE GROUPTHINK HAD TAKEN HOLD AND IT HAD BECOME IMPOSSIBLE TO STAND UP FOR THE MARKET ECONOMY WITHOUT LOSING ALL YOUR FRIENDS. THAT’S WHY I’M HERE. I ASKED TO BE HERE. TO STAND UP FOR THE MARKET ECONOMY. FOR CAPITALISM. AND FOR LIBERTY – WHICH IS WHAT MAKES IT ALL TICK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE MARKET ECONOMY IS MANKIND’S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION WAS GOOD. EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY WAS QUITE IMPRESSIVE. THE LUNAR LANDINGS DESERVE A MENTION. BUT CAPITALISM IS A MIRACLE. WE HAVE INVENTED A MAGICAL SYSTEM THAT ALL BY ITSELF GENERATES PROSPERITY AND MAKES EVERYBODY RICHER. CAPITALISM IS A FORCE FOR GOOD NOT BECAUSE IT MAKES THE RICH RICHER – ALTHOUGH IT DOES - BUT BECAUSE IT LIFTS THE POOR OUT OF POVERTY. THE BIG WINNERS FROM CAPITALISM – THE JACKPOT LOTTERY WINNERS – ARE...
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...self-conscious: Peter Singer p. 24 Moral rights: the foetus and the mother p. 26 A woman’s right to an abortion: Judith Jarvis Thomson p. 28 ‘Why abortion is immoral’: Don Marquis p. 29 Anthology of Texts Unit 2 model answers: ethics (Edexcel) ‘Why abortion challenges us all’: Rowan Williams ‘Contraception and abortion within Protestant Christianity’: Gloria Albrecht ‘Virtue theory and abortion’: Rosalind Hursthouse Appendix: sample exam questions and level descriptors Notes Pages A Modern Controversy: the Case of George Tiller Profile: George Tiller (2009) To some anti-abortionists George Tiller, who was shot dead on Sunday, was a mass murderer known as "Tiller the Killer". To his patients and many pro-choice supporters, he was a hero committed to women in need of help. For two decades, Dr Tiller spent his life looking over his shoulder. He had become a lightning rod for anti-abortion activists and in 1993 survived an attempt on his life. He rarely talked about his work for fear of...
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...SPECIAL REPORT I N T E R N AT I O N A L B A N K I N G May 19th 2012 Retail renaissance SPECIAL REPORT INTERNATIONAL BANKING Retail renaissance The internet and mobile phones are at long last turning boring old retail banking into an exciting industry, says Jonathan Rosenthal IF YOUR BANK could start over, this is what it would be, trumpeted the marketing campaign for the launch in 1999 of Wingspan, an internet bank. The following year the bank was gone. In September 2000, a few months after the dotcom bubble burst, it was absorbed by its boring American bricks-and-mortar parent, Bank One (now part of JPMorgan). For all the high hopes that the internet would transform banking, most other internet banks launched around that time met with a similar fate. Citi f/i, an online bank started by Citigroup, was folded back into its parent in 2000. NetBank, an American pioneer of internet banking, soldiered on for longer than most but was shut down by banking regulators in 2007. On the other side of the Atlantic, Egg, Britain’s rst stand-alone internet bank, shook the market in 1999-2000 when it gained more than 2m customers within months of starting up. But within a few years it, too, had in e ect disappeared, its customers having been sold rst to Citigroup and then to Barclays and the Yorkshire Building Society. It was an ignominious end to a bold experiment in online banking that had caused palms to sweat in banking centres around the world. The promise of internet banking...
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...million," Cohen recalled. "We were competing head-to-head with Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Sun-all the big boys. And we were 82 playing this very big-stakes game for e-commerce. IBM had a huge sales force selling all this e-commerce software. One day I asked the development director who worked for me, 'Say, Jeff, walk me through the development process for these e-commerce systems. What is the underlying Web server?' And he says to me, It's built on top of Apache.' The first thing I think of is John Wayne. 'What is Apache?' I ask. And he says it is a shareware program for Web server technology. He said it was produced for free by a bunch of geeks just working online in some kind of open-source chat room. I was floored. I said, 'How do you buy it?' And he says, Tou download it off a Web site for free.' And I said, 'Well, who supports it if something goes wrong?' And he says, 'I don't know-it just works!' And that was my first exposure to Apache . . . "Now you have to remember, back then Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Netscape were all trying to build commercial Web servers. These were huge companies. And suddenly my development guy is telling me that he's getting ours off the Internet for free! It's like you had all these big corporate executives plotting strategies, and then suddenly the guys in the mail room are in charge. I kept asking, 'Who runs Apache? I mean, who are these guys?'" Yes, the geeks in the mail room are deciding what software they will be using and...
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...Intel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Connection Utility User's Guide Intel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Connection Utility User's Guide Supported wireless adapters: Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 Centrino® Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 Centrino® Advanced-N 6200 Centrino® Wireless-N 1000 WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 WiFi Link 5300 WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150 WiFi Link 5100 Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN Wireless WiFi Link 4965AG_ PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection PRO/Wireless 3945_BG Network Connection With your WiFi network card, you can access WiFi networks, share files or printers, or even share your Internet connection. All of these features can be explored using a WiFi network in your home or office. This WiFi network solution is designed for both home and business use. Additional users and features can be added as your networking needs grow and change. Depending on the model of your Intel WiFi adapter, your adapter is compatible with 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n (draft 2.0) wireless standards. Operating at 5 GHz or 2.4 GHz frequency at data rates of up to 450 Mbps, you can now connect your computer to existing high-speed networks that use multiple access points within large or small environments. Your WiFi adapter maintains automatic data rate control according to the access point location and signal strength to achieve the fastest possible connection. All of your wireless network connections are easily managed...
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...Google SketchUp THE MISSING MANUAL The book that should have been in the box® Google SketchUp THE MISSING MANUAL ® Chris Grover Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Taipei • Tokyo Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover Copyright © 2009 O’Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (safari.oreilly.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: (800) 998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com. Printing History: May 2009: First Edition. Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, the O’Reilly logo, and “The book that should have been in the box” are registered trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual, The Missing Manual logo, Pogue Press, and the Pogue Press logo are trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and O’Reilly Media, Inc. was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in caps or initial caps. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions...
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...Future of Finance Finance is the study of how investors allocate their assets over time under conditions of certainty and uncertainty. The term financial crisis is applied broadly to a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. In the 19th 20th and early 21st centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking fears, and many recessions coincided with these fears. Other circumstances that are often called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, currency crises, and sovereign defaults. Financial crises directly result in a loss of paper wealth; they do not directly result in changes in the real economy unless a recession or depression follows. The 2007–2012 global financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis and 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the threat of total collapse from large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world. In many areas, the housing market also suffered, resulting in evictions, foreclosures and prolonged unemployment. The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in trillions of US dollars, and a downturn in economic activity leading to the 2008–2012 global recession...
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