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|End of 20th Century Matrix |
|Kathleen Hastings |
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|HIS/135 |
|January 27, 2013 |
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End of the 20th Century Matrix
Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1990s and beyond:
|Earned Income Tax Credit |Economic prosperity under Clinton |
|E-mail |Creating a budget surplus |
|NAFTA |The Internet and the World Wide Web |
|Telecommunications |The Brady Bill |
|Somalia and Rwanda |Apple |
|Internet marketing |Digital divide |
|Kosovo |Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell |
|Cell phones |Microsoft |
|Event |Significance |
|Earned Income Tax Credit |“Some 27 million working adults with low and moderate incomes, most of whom are raising children, received |
| |the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in 2009 to reduce their taxes and supplement their earnings. Studies |
| |have found that the EITC encourages work, reduces poverty, helps families meet basic needs, and improves |
| |children’s achievement in school and likely increases their earnings as adults.” |
| |http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3793 |
|E-mail |“Every day, the citizens of the Internet send each other billions of e-mail messages. E-mail has become an |
| |extremely popular communication tool. In the beginning and even today, e-mail messages tend to be short |
| |pieces of text, although the ability to add attachments now makes many messages quite long. Even with |
| |attachments, however, e-mail messages continue to be text messages — we’ll see why when we get to the |
| |section on attachments.” http://computer.howstuffworks.com/e-mail-messaging/email.htm |
|NAFTA |“NAFTA’s effects on employment, on the other hand, are hotly debated. Clinton administration officials |
| |estimated in the late 1990s that expanded trade in North America had created over 300,000 new U.S. jobs. |
| |Economic Policy Institute (EPI) economists Robert Scott and Jesse Rothstein contend, however, that such |
The Essay on Netiquette Mail Message Dries
As we enter the age of computer technology, more and more people are relying on the computer for communication. The main medium of computer communication is e-mail. When using e-mail there are some basic unwritten rules that one should follow. E-mail protocol, better known as netiquette, is the list of rules that are generally followed. None of these have officially been written down in a book, ...
| |claims amount to ‘trying to balance a checkbook by counting the deposits and not the withdrawals.’ This is |
| |because NAFTA and other trade agreements have also increased U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico-and by |
| |quite a lot more than exports. Since 1993, America’s trade deficit with its North American trading partners |
| |(exports minus imports) has ballooned from $16 billion to $82 billion annually. As Scott points out, |
| |‘increases in U.S. exports create jobs in this country, but increases in imports destroy jobs because the |
| |imports displace goods that otherwise would have been made in the U.S. by domestic workers.’” |
| |http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NAFTA_FTAA/NAFTA.html |
|Telecommunications |“Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a milestone in the history of telecommunications in the United States. |
| |Coming 12 years after the breakup of AT&T, the Act attempts to move all telecommunications markets toward |
| |competition. The Act envisions competition in all telecommunications markets, both in the markets for the |
| |various elements that comprise the telecommunications network, as well as for the final services the network|
| |creates. Building on the experience of the long distance market, which was transformed from a monopoly to an|
| |effectively competitive market over the last 12 years, the Act attempts to promote competition in the |
| |hitherto monopolized local exchange markets. The Act recognizes the telecommunications network as a network |
| |of interconnected networks.” http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/telco96.html |
The Term Paper on Cell Phone Technology
Technology had become engrained in our society. Everywhere people are using cell phones, including children and teenagers. Cell phone technology and technology in general have change the way we do everything in our society. Technology has dramatically altered our world. They have become a necessary part of everyday life so much so that it is leaking into the education world as a new tool despite ...
|Cell phones |“During the 1990s, great improvements were made in the mobile phone technology. These phones used Second |
| |Generation, or 2G technology. In 1990, the first cell phone call was made using the new digital technology |
| |that became characteristic of this era. The Second Generation cellular phone technology was faster and much |
| |quieter than its analog predecessor. As a result, it became even more popular than previous models, too. The|
| |new technology also made them capable of being smaller rather than the large briefcase-sized units from the |
| |1980s. Smaller batteries and other technology that made the phones more energy-efficient helped contribute |
| |to their smaller sizes and their popularity. Companies also strived to make the prices more affordable than |
| |the mobile phones of the 1980s. You could buy a decent cell phone with 2G technology for |
| |approximately $200 along with an airtime service. The cell phone industry was beginning to take off. |
| |The Third Generation technology, or 3G, is what many people currently use in their digital cellular phones |
| |today. This technology was created very soon after the excitement that the 2G technology created. This new |
| |technology is not only capable of transferring voice data (such as a phone call), but it is also able to |
| |transfer other types of data, including emails, information and instant messages. These capabilities have |
The Essay on The Advantages and Disadvantages of Mobile Phone Technology
1.Multitasking– Yups, Androidphones can run many applications, it means you can browse, Facebook while listened to the song. 2.Ease of Notification– Any SMS, Email, or even the latest articles from an RSS Reader, there will always bea notification on the Home Screen Android phone, do not miss the LED indicator is blinking, so you will not missa single SMS, Email or even Misscall . 3.Easy access to ...
| |helped to increase the amount of sales and the popularity of these new phones. Many users prefer to use the |
| |instant messaging capabilities to “text” other users rather than call them in the form of a traditional |
| |phone call. Many cell phone companies offer free and very affordable phones for consumers who sign-up with |
| |their airtime service for a contractual period. Prices for the services range but the competition in the |
| |industry is helping to keep them more affordable than they have been in previous years.” |
| |http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/mobilephones.html |
|The Internet and the World Wide |“The final major breakthrough of the 1980s—and one that would decidedly set the course for the 1990s and |
|Web |beyond—was a 1989 proposal at the Swiss physics lab CERN to create a World Wide Web. The idea came from Tim |
| |Berners-Lee, a British-born physicist working at CERN at the time. His plan, which was not well received |
| |initially, was to allow colleagues at laboratories around the world to share information through a simple |
| |hypertext system of linked documents. Eventually gaining CERN’s approval, Berners-Lee and others at the |
| |research center began developing the now familiar standards for the Web: hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) |
| |to delineate how servers and browsers would communicate; hypertext markup language (HTML) to encode |
| |documents with addressed links to other documents; and a uniform resource locator (URL) format for |
| |addressing Internet resources (e.g., http://www.cern.ch or mailto:[email protected]).
By 1990, |
The Essay on Don Quixote World Life Man
'Man of La Mancha' is the story of Alonso Qui jana, a poor gentleman from Spain. He has read so many of the exaggerated romances of chivalry that he finally believes them to be his reality and sets forth as Don Quixote, a knight-errant on his old horse seeking many misadventures. And while this insanity may be an object of distress for others, Quixote's madness is comforting to himself. And all he ...
| |Berners-Lee had likewise created the first Web browser and server software to feed information to the |
| |browser.” |
| | |
| |http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Int-Jun/Internet-and-World-Wide-Web.html#ixzz2JEMpVInP |
|The Brady Bill |“On the last day of the 1996-97 term, the Supreme Court issued a harshly divided 5-4 decision which gutted |
| |the Brady Act. Enacted in 1993, this act ordered sheriffs and police chiefs in 28 states to conduct |
| |background checks on handgun purchasers. Handgun sales were to be delayed for five working days while checks|
| |were conducted.” http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/KopelGM1.html |
|Apple |“Time and again Apple has led the industry, whether that was to adopt 3.5″ floppies or SIMMs in the mid-80s |
| |or colorful cases in the late 1990s. And Apple has extended its influence well beyond the world of personal |
| |computers. The FireWire bus they invented shows up on all the good digital video cameras. The iPod has taken|
| |the MP3 market by storm. And the Newton has inspired a decade of personal digital assistants. |
| |Just as the Mac’s GUI lead to Windows, Apple’s QuickTime has led to Real Player and Windows Media Player. |
| |iTunes and iMovies have their own knockoffs on the Windows side. Shortly after the iBook shipped with |
| |AirPort, Dell decided that it also had to offer a laptop with wireless networking. Anything Apple does, the |
| |rest of the world wants to copy.” |
The Essay on Besting Market Failure With Perfect Competition
Market failure is said to occur when goods or services are not allocated in an efficient manner, or when the quantity of a good or service in demand is unequal to the quantity supplied (“Market Failure,” 2007). In other words, market failure is the absence of perfect competition in which prices are known to automatically move to economic equilibrium and the quantity demanded equals the quantity ...
| |http://lowendmac.com/musings/03/0203.html |
|Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell |“When President Obama signed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT), gay rights were expanded in a |
| |limited way. Even though gays can now serve openly in the military, advocates for their rights say there’s |
| |more work to be done. The benefits that accrue to military spouses will not be extended to gay partners, |
| |even those who are legally married in their home states. And on the big three goals of the gay-rights |
| |movement—marriage, equality, and laws protecting them against employment or public-accommodation |
| |discrimination—gays are exactly where they were before. Some states and private companies have adopted |
| |progressive policies on gay employees. But in a state with no such protections, a hotel owner can still |
| |refuse to let a gay couple book a room, and a business owner is allowed not to hire someone on the basis of |
| |his sexual orientation.” |
| |http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/12/22/looking-beyond-don-t-ask-don-t-tell.html |
|Microsoft |“Since the 1990s, Microsoft has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a |
| |number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its|
| |largest acquisition to date. As of 2012, Microsoft is market dominant in both the PC operating system |
| |and office suite markets (the latter with Microsoft Office).
The company also produces a wide range of other|
| |software for desktops and servers, and is active in areas including internet search (with Bing), the video |
| |game industry (with the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles), the digital services market (through MSN), and mobile |
| |phones (via the Windows Phone OS).
In June 2012, Microsoft announced that it would be entering the PC vendor|
| |market for the first time, with the launch of the Microsoft Surface tablet computer.” |
| |http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft |
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References
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3793
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/e-mail-messaging/email.htm
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NAFTA_FTAA/NAFTA.html
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/telco96.html
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/mobilephones.html
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Int-Jun/Internet-and-World-Wide-Web.html#ixzz2JEMpVInP
http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/KopelGM1.html
http://lowendmac.com/musings/03/0203.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/12/22/looking-beyond-don-t-ask-don-t-tell.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
