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    worried if they would be getting punished by the school for things they posted outside of school. “This is the government essentially hiring a contractor to stalk the social media of the kids,” said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that defends privacy, free speech and consumer rights. “When the government -- and public schools are part of the government -- engages in any kind of line-crossing and to actually go and gather information about people away

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    Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1913 in Vienna, Austria. At a young she was well rounded in the knowledge aspect, learning German, French, and Italian, as well as the basics of engineering. Her passion for acting began at a young age as she quit school to pursue her career. In just a short period of time, she obtained many roles and was “the most beautiful women in the world”. Starring in many films, inventing a device that helps our present day technology, and having

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    Edward Snowden is America’s most recent controversial figure. People can’t decide if he is their hero or traitor. Nevertheless, his leaks on the U.S. government surveillance program, PRISM, demand an explanation. Many American citizens have been enraged by the thought of the government tracing their telecommunication systems. According to factbrowser.com 54% of internet users would rather have more online privacy, even at the risk of security (Facts Tagged with Privacy). They say it is an infringement

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    Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, November 9, 1914, Vienna, Austria. She was born to Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lviv. Lamarr had three kids in her lifetime; Anthony Loder, Denise Loder, and James Lamarr Markey. Lamarr had an interest for films and acting from a young age. She was privately tutored from age 4. By the time she was 10 years old she was a proficient pianist and dancer. She could also speak four languages. She enrolled in Max Reinhardt’s

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    The internet is one of the greatest and most significant inventions of the 20th century. It has become the biggest data foundation to receive all kinds of information, particularly knowledge related to education and improving one’s skills. Downloads are needed in order to receive data from computer networks which are remote systems, typically a server. Copyrighted content needs to have appropriate permission to download it and without this permission doing so could constitute copyright infringement

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    The internet is one of the greatest and most significant inventions of the 20th century. It has become the biggest data foundation to receive all kinds of information, particularly knowledge related to education and improving one’s skills. Downloads are needed in order to receive data from computer networks which are remote systems, typically a server. Copyrighted content needs to have appropriate permission to download it and without this permission doing so could constitute copyright infringement

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    The internet is one of the greatest significant important inventions of this century. It has become the biggest data foundation to receive all kinds of information, particularly educational knowledge and skills. Downloads are needed in order to receive data from computer networks which are remote system, typically a server. Copyrighted content needs to have appropriate permission to download it and without this permission it could constitute copyright infringement. According to Towers (2009), the

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    through the trial and hardships, from 1492 to 1877 the core of the American identity, the frontier had a constant presence through the years, but through the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth, the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin’s virtues, letters, Abolitionist, such as William Garrison, Fredrick Douglas, and the civil war, the definition of American identity as the ‘frontier’, grew and developed into something that defines what it means to be an American. The

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    The history of America has been the ballast for our future. We fought many battles to gain the independence that we take for granted today. There have been countless great men who have built the stern of this great nation. Some of those men were the founding fathers. The founding fathers incorporated the Constitution so we would have a future of freedom and stability. When I was little, my father, who was in the U.S. Navy, told me about the time he escorted the U.S.S. Constitution, which was the

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    Is our technology taking us closer to the world of Big Brother? In my opinion I say yes but I also say no. Yes because social media for one makes us more like a hive mind in a way because social media we see something and we fill in the gap for those who do not know. Another example is that there are cameras are everywhere and is supposedly for public safety in a way it is but reality they are watching us. They have building cameras inside and out, street cameras, traffic cameras, and even the cameras

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