copyright

Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers both published and unpublished works. Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. He will be able to sell his poem for money. Other people will have to pay him to use the right to the poem. For more information about copyright click here

Our Friend the Kumquat

The Kumquat Festival is a day of outdoor community fun with live music, food booths, shopping and plenty to keep the whole family busy. The festival unfolds in the heart of historic Dade City and each year gets bigger and bigger. Click Here for more information. Wikipedia

writing tools

The number one thing that will help me with my writing is word choice and arrangement. Since I write music, using words that are direct, concrete and familiar--words that build vivid and accurate pictures for my listeners. I feel by doing this I will be able to have them hear my message, and hopefully they will be able to connect to the song in some way.

Editor

The editors of a newspaper supervise staffs that may range from one to 50 or more people, and each is responsible for a certain part of the publication. Although they are supervising the news report for the once-daily print publication, they also keep in mind the 24-hour news cycle of their Web sites and early versions of stories to the online editors. Literary editors need to make decisions on whether or not to publish a certain manuscript. They have the final say of what goes into the final product.

ACORN

I think that it was good that they busted them for abusing the system, but they should have taken a different approach to it. People should know when they are going to be video taped. One reason is in most states it is illegal to video tape people without having their permission. If they would have asked permission to video tape these people falsely recording their occupations, they would have denied. You can also look at it from both stand points. One point being that what some people at ACORN did was illegal. Since what they did was illegal we should not have a problem debating on whether or not hidden cameras were ethical.
Aristotle would have thought that hidden cameras were not the way to go about this. He believed that being a moral person involves not just knowing what is right but choosing it as well. The leaders in the hidden camera investigation knew that setting up those cameras was not the most moral thing to do, but they still did it anyway. He would also think that the violators at ACORN should take responsibility for their voluntary actions which involve others. Kant would ask them how they would feel if they were to be lied to. It would kind of fall under the rule of karma. If people are doing illegal activities, justice will be served and they will be caught. If you take the chance to cheat people out of their money by telling lies about your occupation, you must have to pay the consequences. They should have thought about how they would feel if somebody tried to cheat them out of their money. Since Utilitarianism focuses on the relationship between morality and the law, they would have thought that it was wrong on both sides. One side being what some people did at ACORN was illegal. The other side being that putting up hidden cameras is not moral.

Skank

I think that the woman is not a skank. I think that she had to much to drink and she made a mistake.