Essays Tagged: "aims"

The Communications Decency Act

cent or not. The Communications Decency Act, also know by Internet users as the CDA, is an Act that aims to remove indecent or dangerous text, lewd images, and other things deemed inappropriate from p ...

(5 pages) 80 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

"Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse" Paul St Pierre

Throughout the story 'Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse' Smith aims to 'mind his own business'. This however seems to back fire on him and doesn't quite turn out h ...

(4 pages) 43 0 5.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Gun Control

Brady Law, the Second Amendment and some of the percentages and death rates is the U.S.Gun control aims to keep high risk people away from guns while not putting much of a burden on law abiding citiz ...

(2 pages) 73 0 4.8 Aug/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Capital punishment. this essay is opposed to capital punishment

m doing so, and or to cure criminal patients through treatment. Punishment is just not only when it aims at redeeming the person being punished, but also when it is a sacrifice to the common good.Stri ...

(3 pages) 463 2 4.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

The Friendship Theme in The Epic of Gilgamesh

vancement of friendship between Gilgamesh and the steppe man, Enkidu. Fame and immortality were the aims of Gilgamesh but friendship was not. While trying to get immortality, he learnt what friendship ... gamesh evaluated Enkidu, and found him enough talented and powerful to be his companion through his aims, getting fame and immortality.That benefit based relation turned to almost a real friendship, a ...

(3 pages) 135 0 4.1 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

This work is basically a critical review of Bergen's book: Holy War Inc. but it is also a good source to aid a student in his/her research of US international policies, oil, etc.

fghanistan to his eventual place as the figurehead of a greater world wide Islamic movement. Bergen aims to identify a number of events that he argues are key to understanding the development and purp ... 98 US embassy bombings in Africa and the terrorist strike against the U.S.S Cole in Yemen, Bergen claims were the first initial attacks on the United States' military and economic might; an obvious fo ...

(9 pages) 169 2 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History

The essential elements involved in planning and assessing drama at key stage 3.

planning and assessment go hand in hand. Whether it is to plan for a group or individual student's aims through differentiation constant assessment and reassessment of students goals and own teaching ... work, we then have to question the rationale behind teaching Drama because there are immediately no aims or goals set and therefore the subject begins to lose all credibility.Secondly, where are the s ...

(12 pages) 137 0 3.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Spoken discourse

art of it in terms of interactional strategies and exchange procedures, while for its other part it aims at describing it by applying some rules of a grammar of speech to it.The analysed discourse is ... uestion can be analysed in terms of these strategies.1. THE TURNTAKING SYSTEMStenstrom (1994: 68) claims that the turntaking system involves three basic strategies:*taking the turn*holding the turn*yi ...

(10 pages) 177 0 2.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

How Successful was the Nazi youth policy?

ccessful in some areas however in other areas it failed. Firstly though, it is important to see its aims before it can be deemed successful or not. The Nazis aimed to make Children obedient and discip ...

(4 pages) 43 0 4.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Nobility and Violence: Chivalry in Medieval Europe. French and English chivalry examined, its origins, institutions, and guiding philosophies. Primarily the work of Painter and Kaueper contrasted.

stem of genteel decorum dotted with duels over honor and occasional fighting. Dissimilarly, Kaeuper aims to prove in his work that gentlemanly behavior was in fact a thin and often false veneer on a s ... vior was in fact a thin and often false veneer on a system of brutish and unrestrained violence; he aims to pick apart the exclusively idealistic and romantic views widely held nowadays on medieval ch ...

(9 pages) 111 0 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Rhetorical Analysis of Bell Hook's "Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education"

nd values too and that it has nothing to do with what social class a person is classified as. Hooks aims her beliefs towards the lower working class people. Because hooks feels strongly about her beli ...

(3 pages) 95 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Terrorism: What It's All About. What Is Terrorism? Will it ever stop? Why do people resort to terrorism? Terrorism is the war of today.

described as the unlawful use of fear or force to achieve certain political, economical, or social aims. Because it is so hard to define, organizations like the United Nations have had great difficul ... by providing money, training, and weapons to terrorist groups whose activities serve their national aims. Governments may also plan and carry out terrorist actions themselves, although they usually de ...

(3 pages) 704 6 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Writable DVD Formats - Advantages and Disadvantages, a 2 page report on the above subject which got me an 85 mark (A Class) everything written is factual.

ogy from CD was used in a side step, then moved forward, advancing the hardware beyond the original aims and life expectancy of the intended product. The shift from CD to DVD writing is taking a simil ...

(3 pages) 93 0 4.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

The Law of Torts

ance11 Legal Studies "The Law of Torts"forRuby GymsockBy Codi MansbridgeContents1.0 Introduction1.1 Aims1.2 Sources1.3 Authorisation2.0 FINDINGS2.1 Rypper's Suit of Gymsock2.1.1 Conditions for Neglige ... S3.1 Rypper's Suit of Gymsock3.1.1 Defences3.1.2 Counter Suit4.0 RECOMMENDATIONS1.0 Introduction1.1 AimsThe Aim of this report is to give legal advice to Ruby Gymsock about her dispute with Ralph Rypp ...

(5 pages) 255 0 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Gulliver`s Travels: the initial reason it was written

travel literature popular at the time and exploring the contradictions of human nature.The initial aims of Gulliver's Travels, aside from satirising travel literature, were to expose and disparage th ... travel literature popular at the time and exploring the contradictions of human nature.The initial aims of Gulliver's Travels, aside from satirising travel literature, were to expose and disparage th ...

(5 pages) 62 0 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

High Level Programming with C++ and Digital Interfacing [A Simple Laboratory Experiment]

lated through the use of the software to denote a string of bits which represent an ASCII character.AimsThe aims of this experiment were:*To introduce the concept of programming in a high level langua ...

(2 pages) 59 0 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Lorna Dee Cervantes: "Beneath the shadow of the freeway". An interpretation of the poem

are numbered. It can be assumed that the arrangement of the verses was done consciously and that it aims at a certain reception on the side of the reader. Each time a stanza or sub-stanza starts, a ki ...

(5 pages) 62 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The creation of Tic-Tac-Toe game using the C/C++ language, includes full code of the actual program

h and Trevor Snaith's noughts and crosses program, for this semesters work. The report includes the aims throughout the project, which is to produce a noughts and crosses programme in "C", the problem ... works. It also shows some improvements on how the programme could be made better, and a conclusion.AimsTo develop a "C" program that allows two people to play "noughts and crosses. The computer must ...

(13 pages) 155 1 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages

The management process : what managers are and what they typically do.

ng an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims' . The nature of management is the process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the ...

(9 pages) 884 3 3.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Greek play, "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles.

ould be trusted at all, and when all of the prophecies come true, it appears that one of Sophocles' aims is to justify the powers of the gods and prophets.When he was a young man in Corinth, Oedipus w ...

(3 pages) 126 0 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature