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Net Neutrality and Data Discrimination “They who can give up their essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin. When you sacrifice your freedoms for security you deserve neither. The same goes for internet freedoms. When you sacrifice the freedom and openness of the internet for any type of law you deserve nothing. The internet started on the basis of the words, free, open and…

help with stopping the spread of the HIV virus. The regimen of medications is tailored to the individual patient. There are several different categories of medications available. (NIH) Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs) work by blocking reverse transcriptase, which is an enzyme that the HIV virus needs to make copies of itself. Some of the medications in this category are; Ziagen, Videx, Epivir, Zerit and Retrovir (AZT) Retrovir is the first medication to be produced in the…

Introduction This essay will be discussing Multimodal discourse analysis looking at Gunther Kress’s article on discourse analysis and also looking at other theories of multimodality that can help explain how meaning making is achieved and use relevant examples as part of the discussion. Multimodal discourse analysis “choice leads to selection” Multimodal discourse analysis is the study of language not only through text and speech but mixed together with other tools or modes such as, pictures…

The movie begins with a statistic that “only 38% of high school seniors can read at 8th grade level” ( Bowdon, 00:01:26) to shock the viewers into Journalist Bowdon crafts a coherent, frequently clever and engaging, entirely one-sided film that portrays public education, especially in New Jersey, as unredeemably corrupt and wasteful of school funding. He argues for two alternatives to traditional schools. One is publicly funded charter schools, which are privately run bring in titution revenue…

Have you ever been treated wrong and felt it was right to set out for revenge? The article "Blocking the Transmission of Violence" by Alex Kotlowitz talks about Martin Torres and Zale Hoddenbach and their involvement in a Chicago program called Ceasefire which is supposed to stop violence in it's tracks. Revenge is not justified because by seeking revenge it can cause you to go to jail, may cause you to feel guilty or may cause more harm to yourself. Revenge is not justified because it may…

schools have unfiltered internet access to both students and teachers? The schools should filter the internet to the students and teachers due to the open window of time for cyberbullying and obscene sites are being exposed to the next generation. By blocking the internet, schools will be a learning environment for the students once more. Throughout schools, bullying has occurred in many forms, but the worst kind has been through the internet.…

fetal development. However, after a wound hair follicle formation and regeneration can still occur in mouse and rabbits (Ito et al., 2007). The way the skin responds to a wound differs between mammals. Humans for example respond to deep skin wound by blocking the hair formation and instead it forms a scar (Reynolds et al., 1999). On the other hand, rodents regenerate their hair after a wound (Ito et al., 2007). These differences between mammals are due to different concentration of some growth…

In astronomy, precession is an important concept that determines our view of the night sky. Over the centuries, our view of the night sky has changed due to precession. As a result, everyone should have the right and a duty to know about astronomy. Precession impacts our night sky; thus it is crucial to be aware of. Precession is caused by the axis of rotation twisting due to the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon that makes the Earth’s axis upright relative to its orbit…

Theme essay In the beginning of the story “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara, the protagonist Squeaky is very protective and aggressive mainly because of her disabled brother, she is also only in third grade and she lives in the big city of new york. But later she learns that being to protective can hurt the ones you love and other people around you. In the beginning we can tell Squeaky is very tough and protective even though she is only a little girl with skinny arms, she is like this most…

In the book Odyssey written by Homer many different themes are used to help show the reader the struggles and conflicts the Odysseus must face on his long journey home. These themes demonstrate how a character can change over a period of time, however at times it seems as if Odysseus’s desire to return home is purposely delayed due to his personal actions and choices. The themes that are shown in the Odyssey, when closely analyzed, help paint a picture for the reader on how Odysseus’s journey…