The memorial is known as the USS Arizona Memorial. It is a tribute to World War II. The address of the memorial is 1 Arizona Memorial Place Honolulu, Hawaii 96818. The memorial is located where the USS Arizona battleship was sunk (“Facts”). The memorial has three levels to it and each level has a certain purpose. The first level is used as an…
Short Essay Assignment After reading the Larkin text, I agree that the military government of Burma has been a sort of ‘reflection’ of the British colonial government that preceded it. According to Emma Larkin, forty years of dictatorship has been similar to the British colonial government. One percent of the 50 million Burmese population are in the army. Along with these, there are 18 million members if the Union Solidarity and Development Association which are promised better educational and…
sharing is not possible. • Application sharing - Allows to implement client/server applications. • User communication - Networks allowing users to communicate to each other, for example; Using e-mail, newsgroups, and video conferencing. • Voice over IP - Voice over is a modern change in telephone calls, which allow people to send telephone calls using standardized Internet Protocol rather than using PSTN (anagram for - Public Switched Telephone Network). COPYRIGHT LAW – The Copyright Law gives…
“The Hidden Web”, or most infamously known as “The Deep Web”, is a portion of the Internet that is not indexed by standard search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etcetera. The reason for this is because standard search engines cannot directly access data that is held in databases, which makes it incredibly difficult for search engines to index. So, how does one go about entering the Deep Web? And what are their intentions? Even though an ordinary person like you and me have no business to…
In Brazil, the use of social media is increasing and has transformed the way that citizens address social issues, access and share information, and interact with others. In this literature review, I am going to use the ideas of Bastos (2014), Horst (2011) and Margetts (2016) to examine the extent to which social media has influenced political communication, activism, society, and culture. The first article looks at the relationship between political discussions on social media and offline…
In the contentious debate between endangering a fetus to scavenge embryonic stem cells or to capture adult stem cells, most people find themselves at a crossroads to what is proper. But before deeming the morality of this typically taboo subject, there must be some type of understanding as to what stem cells are and how they are used. To begin with stem cells have the exceptional gift of being able to differentiate into numerous types of cells depending on how far along they have matured. There…
When some people think of the internet, they think of freedom. The freedom of sharing and receiving information, the freedom of expression, and the freedom of speech are all exercised on the web. With all this, one couldn’t expect such a place to be neat and clean. If content isn’t meant for someone under the age of 18, the parents of that minor should be monitoring what they’re viewing. If content is illegal, there are laws set in place to prohibit and punish those who break them. It shouldn’t…
Laptops computers, convenient for its mobile design and Wi-Fi capability, designed for anyone who is on the go, or a luxury device for home. A large number of laptops offer Wi-Fi compatibility and various applications such as music, DVD/CD players, and games. Some even offer camera’s so users can Skype each other from all around the world; these cameras are dangerous as they are susceptible to hackers. A hacker mostly works in the cyberspace and uses information on the web and techniques to…
The Privacy Act contains 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) which provide the rules for how agencies such as IP Australia must handle your personal information, including how you can request access to, and correction of, that personal information. Work place safety legislation This administers and provides advice on the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the…
Those of the civil society engage in social movements or collective actions that challenge the norms of life in search of solutions to global problems. Civil society also aims to promote transnational social movements to help with global campaigns to address issues in developing counties (Lamy Pg. 175). One civil society group is Anonymous, a group of international hackers against censorship. Anonymous has an article in Annual Editions on Edward Snowden and his leaking of over 50,000 pages of…