[William Gurley April 3, 2002, 4:00 AM PT ] What I once considered to be just a mild nuisance is now a genuine drain on daily productivity. ... In addition, the magazine inspected freely available public records. The editors were able to obtain birth dates, civil court filings, commercial loans and debts, corporate ties, driving records, home phone numbers and addresses, marriage records, neighbours' addresses and telephone numbers, real estate records, Social Security numbers, tax liens and vehicle and voter registrations. ...

• Word Count: 1934
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I am a 19-year-old Caucasian male in America and that is how the community sees me. ... In the beginning of the film he and one of his associates try to book time in a recording studio to cut their first record, but the white owner of the recording studio does not like the idea. It is not until they bring a white lawyer into the studio with them to negotiate that they are finally able to get in and record. ...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One of the forerunners of this movement and the first artists in recorded history to have created a genuine Abstract artwork was Pablo Picasso. ... I am going to have to apply Einstein's theory of relativity to this comparison between the anxieties of today and the early twentieth century. ... I am a strong believer that ideas should be subject to change, and that we should learn from our past and be very wary of our structuring of ideas into belief systems that become increasingly hard to change even if it is proven for the better. ...

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With 30% of recorded music sales coming from niche music buyers, satellite radio has the potential to fulfill the demands of a very large consumer segment. ... Including installation, an after-market receiver is expected to retail for $400 to $500 - about double the cost of a conventional AM/FM system. ...

• Word Count: 2299
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While pursuing college studies, I was able to turn my focus to the society, and there are many sociological phenomena which I am unfamiliar with that are rather inconvenient truths. ... Anything we do can be caught on surveillance camera or anything we say may be recorded. ... I am in opposition to same-sex marriage and the thought that an open mind must accept this. ... Many criticize Wall Street's CEOs earning fortune and widening the gap between the rich and the poor, and for the same reason, I am an opponent of ridiculously high salaries allotted to a few players in the league. ...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Incomplete records are kept, as well as loophole in the system has caused it to fail. ... (Unknown 1, 2012, Para 5) Another example is the "Virginia killer got a gun; he should have been prohibited from buying because his records were never reported to the FBI's gun background check system. ...

• Word Count: 2206
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On May 10, 1961 the JCS went on record as recommending a military solution to the crisis in Vietnam. ... The following day his successor Lyndon Johnson declared "I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went". ...

• Word Count: 2373
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"President Obama, who in 2008 said he would push for a law that would grant many of these immigrants legal access to jobs in the United States, instead deported a record number of immigrants working here illegally" (Immigration and American Jobs). ... I am not saying we as a country should let immigrants fend for themselves, but we should regulate it much deeper than it is now. ... I for one have never trusted our government and am against making such a plan with such a poor country. ...

• Word Count: 2005
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

During the late 1800's immigrants flocked to America in record numbers. They came to America with high hopes of freedom and opportunity. Freedoms they could not have enjoyed in the countries they formerly called home. They came to America looking for the chance to rise above the common man and ma...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And for the record, not to go off on a rant, I have been drinking Coors Light and at no time did loud POP music begin to play while having good looking twins in bikinis appearing before me dancing having a good time. ... I guess what I am trying to say is that if Ralph Lauren put horse manure on a plate with a string attached so you could wear it as a hat and told you that it's the new Fall fashion line, would you wear it? ...

• Word Count: 1486
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• Grade Level: High School

Regrettably, these poor employees have no knowledge about or control over what is going on, employers go from reading employee emails and checking personal records to attaching video cameras in fitting rooms. ... Furthermore, computer monitoring has significantly contributed to the violation of civil liberties of employees by assisting employers to find past employment and financial records and medical accounts. ... I am a 40-year-old mother of three: nothing I have ever done in my life equals or deserves the humiliation, degradation and mortification I felt....

• Word Count: 2476
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This outlook is done using council records, autobiographies and first hand accounts. ... For some reason teenagers dramatize everything, teachers know this, parents know this, and I am realistic enough to know this. ...

• Word Count: 1920
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• Grade Level: High School

America, the ruthless super of this world has retained that status by means of using their vast economic wealth as well as their strategic manipulation among countries in need of their support. The Cuban Missile Crisis was an act of retaliation by both the Soviet Union and Cuba, to prevent America f...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"- These words, spoken by George Bernard Shaw, provide only a brief glimpse into what is happening in our country today. America has become addicted to meat consumption. Thank...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School