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example of this tradition is the Inuapu people which believe the whale offers its life to them as a gift and feel they have a spiritual connection with the whale. Many countries practice this culture which resulted in The International Whaling Commission (IWC) granting countries to hunt under indigenous hunting provisions in greenway. However, because of such frequent hunting it led to these gentle giants being almost extinct. In March 31st 2014, the International Court of Justice issued a…

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was a law that would let anyone enter the communications business and to let any communications business compete in other markets against each other. Prior to the act in 1996, the U.S. telecommunications industry was a monopoly and the act opened the doors to anybody who wanted to be a part of the communications industry. Although it opened the doors to anybody it also led to concentration of media ownership. Concentration of media ownership is essentially when…

Construction workers were just digging on a mountain in Santa Cruz County, California. They were surprised when they came across fossils during their dig, but it's not unusual to find fossils in a mountainous area. what was extremely odd about this fossil is that it was an almost completely intact fossil of a whale. Whales in the mountains How did the whale get there? It's not like it decided it would one day swim to the mountains, and it definitely didn't fly there. Luckily, a…

Whale hunting has suffered from decreasing popular support in recent years. Greater understanding of whales and their place in the ecosystem has coupled with global initiatives and coordination between countries has reduced the number of whaling countries to only three - Japan, Norway, and Iceland. All three of these nations claim that whaling is an important cultural activity worthy of an exemption from a global ban on whaling. This paper will focus on Norway and Japan. Cultural activities can…

Merriam Webster defines Net Neutrality as a requirement for all Internet Service Providers(ISPs) to treat all Internet data the same regardless of its source, type, or destination. Some people argue against net neutrality because they feel that the government should not be allowed to regulate the Internet. Net Neutrality is an important part of our society, it allows for an open Internet which is free from discrimination, monopolies, and prevents it from becoming stagnant. ISPs are like the…

In the article “Point/Counterpoint Network Neutrality Nuances”, Barbara van Schewick expresses the importance of net neutrality in ISPs. Van Schewick explains in the article, her opinion that the ability to access information should not be controlled by ISPs. To support her thesis, van Schewick presents examples of ISPs restricting the availability of services, and the consequences of these restrictions. She strongly emphasises the importance of net neutrality throughout the article, which helps…

Discussions: Several discussions, debates were going on supporting and opposing net neutrality. There are advantages and disadvantages regarding this. Several regulations are also brought w.r.t protect net neutrality, but bigger corporations are still trying to oppose this free and open access of internet. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed below: Advantages: 1) No Limitations: There are no limitations on internet service usage other than the limitations proposed by the government.…

It was pretty normal to see a missing persons' report in the local newspaper. People seemed to go missing every once a month in the town of Terre Mortes. Nobody seemed to know what the hell happened to them after they went missing, because no one ever came back. Almost every day the police ran up and down the roads attempting to find just a hint of evidence. They never found any of course. Honestly, whoever took the people must have been amazing at hiding anything and everything. The whole town…

consumer who spends quite a few hours a day using the Internet, be it for business or pleasure, I care about what is going on online. Net neutrality is something that has recently sparked some interest here in America when the Federal Communications Commission voted on net neutrality regulations. The big question is what exactly does this vote mean and will it really influence the regular consumer as much as the twitter trends…

legislation, so they challenged the FCC in court. As a result, the US Court of Appeals scrapped the rules against blocking and discrimination, leaving transparency as the only required guideline (Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission). Considering the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has yet to finish developing a system of net neutrality in the United States, the fate of the Internet is…