everyone in the world is not as lucky. As technology becomes more important to our society‚ many government officials fear social media for its power to end careers or start rumors - but does that give them the right to regulate online content? Hugo Chavez‚ the Venezuelan president‚ seems to believe he has the right to impose restrictions on Internet content‚ similar to those seen in countries such as Iran and Cuba. He was quoted as saying‚ "the Internet cannot be something open where anything
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hear the people sing? Sing the song of angry men..." Perhaps many people are familiar with the song above‚ and this is from the movie called Les Misérables. The plot of the movie is based on the novel written by a French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. The beginning of the movie is set in the early 19th century France‚ in a prison. This movie is mainly about the main character‚ Jean Valjean‚ was sentenced to the jail for 19 years only because of having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving relatives
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charged with a capitol offence had the right to a counsel rather than all persons. From his cell‚ Mr. Gideon wrote to the United States Supreme Court and appealed his suit against the Florida Department of Corrections. In March of 1963‚ Justice Hugo Black delivered the opinion and concluded that Mr. Gideon was wrongly treated under the 6th amendment. As a result of this over 2000 convicts were freed although Mr. Gideon himself was not freed‚ rather given a retrial. In his retrial Mr. Gideon was
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Javert: A Man with a Mission Many times in life‚ people start to wholeheartedly follow a goal. They focus solely on the goal‚ abandoning all reason and logic. Javert was one of these people. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ Javert was a police inspector who believed in absolutes. Consequently‚ for him‚ nothing could be both right and wrong; things were either completely good or completely bad. This attitude helped form his goal of life: to follow the law obediently and punish all criminals
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Movie Report for Les Miserables Les Miserables is a master work of Victor Hugo‚ one of the most prestigious novelists in the field of French literature. Under the background of nineteenth century‚ the novel has clearly appeared the plot by describing the tragic life of the impoverished people in England. The hero‚ Ran A Rang‚ a poor worker who had been sentenced to prison‚ once successfully crawled towards the higher class of society in his endeavors through disguising himself and doing good
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Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The country is just over the size of two California’s and has a population of approximately twenty-six million people. Venezuela gained its independence from Spain in 1830. Its government is democratically elected with Hugo Chavez as the current president. Chavez is currently pushing his political idea of “21st Century Socialism” and is nationalizing many of the infrastructural industries. The economy of Venezuela is facing twenty percent inflation rates and a national
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presented in the subheading‚ as it reveals “Venezuelan president blames CIA‚” situating this as a subheading infers that the author also agrees with the president‚ hence the article includes elements of being bias. Lopez seems to support former president Hugo Chavez‚ as he used The Food and Agriculture Organisation figures to prove that famine indicators have more than halved “to less than 5% since Chavez came to power‚” stating that Chavez assisted in the decrease of starvation within the Latin American
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underway in Venezuela passed a decisive test over the weekend of April 13-14. Hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants across the country rose up to defeat a U.S.-backed coup attempt organized by the Venezuelan capitalist class against President Hugo Chávez. It was a genuine victory of people’s power in the first open clash of social classes in the oil-rich South American country. But the victory also lays bare the fundamental question of the Venezuelan Revolution: how to organize the popular
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country’s business environment and adversely affect the goals of business enterprise. There are three kind of political risk in the case “Chavez’s Venezuela”‚ macro-political risk‚ micro-political risk and legal risk. After populist socialist president‚ Hugo Chavez took the office of Venezuela‚ he took many actions to control the country and enhance his own power towards the whole country which made the macro-political risk occurred. Macro-political risk is the changes to the general societal environment
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Love is a flame‚ easily snuffed out but just as easily rekindled. Flames are capable of eternally living‚ similar to love. The power of love is sometimes underestimated. In his novel Les Misérables‚ Victor Hugo demonstrates what love can really do for a person. Love is explored throughout the novel in several different ways. Hugo’s theme is that love should be shown to all‚ even if the receiver does not seem worthy‚ as shown through his character’s lives. Love has the power to redeem anyone. When
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