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    change during the 13th hundred: trade, commerce and banking grew. The Internet, on the other hand, was invented in 1969 by a man called J.C.R Licklider. Changes Internet did to our economy are basically employment, payments and time value. Since the world began, history has repeated itself in extraordinary and also horrible ways. A positive example of this is the growth and improvements in both the Renaissance culture and the Internet made to the global economy. During Renaissance, italian cities became

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    individual state’s jurisdiction. With the Internet invading each home in the United States, Internet gambling which typically occurs across state lines has come into focus. In the current issue of The Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary, Benjamin Miller thoroughly addressed the current state of the law regarding Internet gambling and the effects of recent legal developments in the industry in “The Regulation of Internet Gambling in the United States: It’s Time for

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    smartphones and these devices are usually connected to the Internet. These devices have multiple purposes such as to surf the World Wide Web for information, to communicate with family, friends or businesses and to purchase products without leaving the comforts of home. Each of these devices, computers, tablets, cell phones and smartphones come equipped with a web browser application used to surf the World Wide Web. The amount of users on the Internet today and the possibility of each user utilizing multiple

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    boredom was one of the factors identified by participant as being a major cause in dealing with their use of the internet.Secondly, symptoms of internet addiction found in this study were being engrossed with the internet, anxiety when not using internet, lying and covering up internet use, negative impacts on real-life functioning. The overuse of the internet can lead to depression or increased depression, social isolation, loss of job, financial debt, divorce, underachievement in school, and tension

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    Computers in the 1950's

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    scientist said that computers would only be for government usage only. "Then when the scientists saw the potential computers had, scientist then predicted that by 1990 computers may one day invade the home of just about ever citizen in the world" ("History" Internet), the scientists were slightly wrong, because by 1990 computers were just beginning to catch on. Then a few years later when scientists when to major corporations to get help with a special project, the corporations said no, because computers

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    Social Network has Negative Effects on Children’s Lives The Internet is the best way to access an abundance of information as there are more than 800,000,000 million websites in the world. An abundant information that people intend to know can be found on these websites. The Internet has collected everything together without separating content. Adult websites are free and easy to access and some of the adult websites do not require a user to verify age before access. In fact, every year tens of millions

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    Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Definition of the internet 3 1.3 History of the internet 3 1.4 Internet use 3 1.4.1 Internet use world-wide 3 1.4.2 Internet use in Kenya 3 1.5 Impact of the internet 3 1.6 Conclusion 4   1.1 Introduction In order to achieve political, economic and personal advancement, the internet has played a major role in it. The internet, according to Wikipedia, has many uses that include data sharing, e-commerce, booking of tickets, socializing

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    The Internet Essay

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    The Internet The Internet and World Wide Web are commonly used words among people today. As a college student especially, the Web and Internet play a huge part of life. What is sometimes tough to realize though is the newness of the Internet and the Web. Because the two have become such a huge part of life, it is shocking to consider that the Internet itself has only been in existence for the past thirty years or so. It is important to understand the history of the Internet and the creation

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    9/11 Research Paper

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    Paragraph 1: The two media sources i am using is Television and the Internet on 9/11 disasters. The television and The Internet will help me because i can use like CNN news or History channel and i can also research on the 9/11 attack. The disaster and the devastation and the fatality on 9/11. Journalist are reliable because without they help i wouldn't tell you about the 9/11 disaster. When did this disaster occurred? On September 11,2001 8:45 A.M. on a clear Tuesday morning. Where did this disaster

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    intelligent questions, they actually do not know anything(Bauerlein). An American writer, Nicholas Carr, believed the internet took away human’s ability

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