Voting helps shape your community! I voted yesterday to have my tax dollars help support the local science museum here. Earlier this year‚ I participated in a petition campaign to put our local government’s spending to a vote. They were passing a indebt to my grandchildren to pay for this year’s renovations of the government office buildings downtown without giving us a say in it. We got enough signatures to allow for a vote and We The People of my little city voted it down. To make changes
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economical. Since September‚ my understanding of what an activist and what social justice‚ equity‚ and community organizing are has expanded drastically. Yes‚ an activist is all the things I mentioned before‚ but an activist is also someone who works tirelessly and puts all they have into a cause that goes against the common opinion in a society where the big and powerful corporations tend to get what works best for them. An activist keeps going and fighting for what they know to be their truth‚ even when
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Economy Thoreau was a writer like no other. In March 1865 he decided to build a log cabbing by walden pond. He built this cabin in Massachusetts in a town called Concord. He builds this cabin to as a personal experiment. He was using this cabin as a tool to transcend from the society. He had his mind made up and put into detailed focus that he would find out everything there is to discover about humans. The reason why he built the log cabin away from everyone is because he thought that the
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Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ former president of the united states‚ said‚ "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you‚ but what together we can do for the freedom of man." He also said‚ "The cost of freedom is always high‚ but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose‚ and that is the path of surrender‚ or submission." Kennedy understood the true honor of what being an american is. There have been other presidents who know it too‚ such as Theodore Roosevelt. He
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Gaming has been around since the late 1960’s far later than I had thought‚ for me I had always thought that the Atari 2600 was the first gaming system known to mankind‚ and after starting my research I found out how wrong I was. In this part of the teams paper I will discuss the different types of this technology thought it history. In 1967 the first gaming console ever was created and was named the “Brown Box.” A German born television engineer Ralph Baer and his colleagues created the Brown
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opinions do not reflect negatively on us or our intelligence. However‚ the media stream of sexist material makes this belief a fallacy. During this essay‚ I will discuss how the media influences the gaming industry and those who partake in the video game hobby‚ how the interactive media contradicts what the PR departments say and how this sexism reinforces the idea that women should be objectified and this image plays into the hero wish fulfilment of males. Video games were always seen as a male dominated
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Video Games and Gaming Technology Improvements Since the 1990‘s‚ technology is rapidly improving around the world. From televisions to cellphones‚ these improvements are very beneficial in today’s society. One major improvement is gaming technology. The most popular games in the 90’s consists of the Playstation‚ Sega Genesis‚ and the Nintendo 64;however‚ these games are fifth generation consoles and in today’s world‚ gaming technology is processing an eighth generation. Graphics‚ controllers
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07 Application of Biometrics in Mobile Voting Donovan Gentles1‚ Suresh Sankaranarayanan 2‚ 3 1Mona Institute of Applied Sciences‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica dongen02@gmail.com 2Computing & Information Systems‚ Institut Teknologi Brunei‚ Brunei 3Department of Computing‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica pessuresh@hotmail.com Abstract — Voting process in today’s era is behind its time in respect of the usage of modern ICT. The voting process is being seen mostly as a manual
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Gaming in Kentucky Former Governor Paul Patton introduced the possibility of casino-style gambling in the Commonwealth of Kentucky on Tuesday April 27‚ 1999. Over the past thirteen years there has been a firestorm of controversy surrounding the costs and benefits – both economic and social – of such an initiative. Gambling‚ in Kentucky‚ has evolved largely as a partisan issue with Republican lawmakers leading the opposition. Current Governor Steve Beshear is continuing the fight for casino-style
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The Threats of Online Gaming It seems that only now people are finally starting to be aware of the negative impact that online gaming has on both the physical and psychological aspect of the gamer’s lives. The more people that know about the social isolation‚ narcissism‚ increased aggression‚ and negative academic and occupational consequences that results from excessive online gaming‚ the bigger the drive will be to take the precautionary steps needed to at least reduce the negative by-products
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