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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ............................................................ 130 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS ........................................... ... ..................................... 143 WORKING AND RESTING IN THE WELFARE STATE .............................................. 145 POVERTY IS RELATI... ...r is unethical, but this war is ethical. Abortion is unethical, denying a women‘s freedom to control her own body and her own pregnancy is similarly ... ...icans have one of the highest abortion rates in the world at 51 per 1,000 women of child bearing age. Why are they saying one thing while doing some... ...e decides based on the Constitution and the laws developed by the elected legislators. Why did the U.S. take the evangelical turn it did from 2000 to... ...rity be allowed to overrule the popularly elected several hundred 122 legislators? It may work, but it is not democratic. There are so many quest... ...der v. Bull in 1798.(75) After a probate court hearing the legislature of Connecticut passed a resolution, which probably couldn‘t be called a law. ...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ... the universal propensity to prepare for and recover from war. Plato’s city-state and Bacon’s island state were too small to be useful as models for... ...r Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,000 or rich... ...an state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,000 or rich Connecticut with an average income of $36,000. Of course countries such ... ...are a couple of problems however. In a democratic world would the people of Connecticut vote for reducing their incomes by 90%. Another factor is tha... ... geniuses—and it needs thinkers to help put it all together. But the common women and men, the blue collar workers are extremely worried. They think... ...egal and generally frowned upon. The idea of the God approved practice that women should be the homemakers and subject to their husbands has given wa... ...e. I love my job of researching, interviewing and reporting. But brilliant legislators often force us into an 52 unwanted retirement to make roo...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...hrough the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Nu... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the ... .... Now if we were to stop here and simply require that today’s policy makers, legislators, and judges recite the Jefferson Warning before they rush off... ...printing presses or TV towers, not normal citizens. It did not help that the legislators were largely both ignorant and distrustful of the technology ... ... rape, stores being broken into with impunity, rescue helicopters fired upon, women and children sexually assaulted in the convention center where many... ...stifying ecstatically to the virtues of Charles’s lady friend. Charles liked women—a lot of women, according to his biographers— and a lot of women li... ...efineries first Making a killing off the price of gas He would have been up in Connecticut twice as fast... After all that we’ve been through nothing’s ...

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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? Th...

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... Seymour H. Fine With Foreword by Philip Kotler Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TH... ...SS 14 Social Issues and Causes 14 SOME CONCEPTS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES 15 INCREASE IN CONCERN WITH IDEAS 17 From Inner to Other-Directedness 17 Vol... ...d order, in other words, brainwashing. Webster's New World Dictionary , in fact , states that the word is "now often used disparagingly to connote d... ...n restrictions on the spread of ideas have been so relaxed, at least in the United States. Government, church and family are as liberal as they have... ...e marketplace. One witnesses a freer proliferation of concepts as minority groups, women and children are becoming emancipated from their former inf... ...arianism Veteran's rights Vivisection Voter registration Wife abuse prevention Women's rights Source: Constructed by the author Trialabilit... ...g is a form of marketing conducted by an estimated 15,000 professionals who canvas legislators in the U.S. Capitol's corridors and lobbies (hence the... ...process provides a valuable forum in the marketplace for ideas. To a great extent legislators rely on lobbyists as sources of information from their... ...and. While many Americans abide by the 55 mile per hour speed limit, the state of Connecticut developed a particular reputation for diligence in po...

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...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ... not gone. It is here to stay because it is sorely needed. But it is in a state of flux. Old maxims break down. New modes of operation emerge. Fu... ...ess, it shed thousands of unfortunate authors who did not meet its (never stated) sales criteria. Others bet the farm on content creation and pa... ...w realize it. It is characterized by enhanced activities of legislation. Legislators, on all levels, discover the medium and lurch at it passionate... ...f the Net by academe and business - are narrowing. Already there are more women than men users and English is the language of less than half of all ... ...or corporate-controlled publishing today. But, as readership expanded (women and the poor became increasingly literate), market forces reacted. T... ...e of the states have picked up the slack. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland,... ...nownst to it. It is characterized by enhanced activities of legislation. Legislators, on all levels, discover the medium and lurch at it passionate...

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...North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by ... ...erica: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ity of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue, New York Avenue, Vermont Avenue, and Connecticut Avenue do the same at what is generally called President’s Squa... ...sidents I found none who spoke of their city with affec- tion. The men and women of Boston think that the sun shines nowhere else; and Boston Common i... ...ut of 1500 men, one-half had gone to fight the Southern battles! Among the women of Alexandria seces- sion would have found but few opponents. It was ... ...’ wishes—carrying up petitions to the chair, bringing water to long-winded legislators, delivering and carrying 32 North America V ol. 2 out letters,... ...great interest; but it may perhaps be the case that there are no dishonest legislators in the house of Representatives. According to a list which I ob...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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...ocracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes... ...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...is de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...evolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the ... ...e those situated to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- s... ...ve to many of them.” The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children. Their object was to plant a colony on the shores of... ...code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650.** The legislators of Connecticut*** begin with the penal laws, and, strange to sa... ..., and never more rarely enforced towards the guilty. The chief care of the legislators, in this body of penal laws, was the maintenance of orderly con...

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...MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by He... ...Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation’s final day. And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only b... ...he chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, ma... ...ad any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which f... ...to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’s frolic o...

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... STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Whole History of Grandfat... ...y, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...is certainly no method by which the shadowy out lines of departed men and women can be made to assume the hues of life more effectually than by conne... ...r it was for New England to have such settlers. They were the best men and women of their day. Among the passengers was John Winthrop, who had sold th... ...r. Hooker and Mr. Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congrega tion ... ...rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting eac... ...ng medium were a source of endless plague and perplexity to the rulers and legislators, not only in Governor Belcher’s days, but for many years before...

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...North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by ... ...erica: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ............................................ 277 CHAPTER XVIII: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN ........................................................................ ...f burdened with much nervous anxi- ety at my first introduction to men and women in Boston. I knew what the feeling there was with reference to En- gl... ... parties if the whole State could be swal- lowed up by Massachusetts or by Connecticut, either of 34 North America V ol. 1 which lie conveniently for... ...re. I may perhaps be allowed to hope that the discomfiture of these worthy legislators may lead to some improvement in the thor- oughfare. I had on a ... ... held in that very State to which they belong. If we are to judge of these legislators from the opinion expressed by Gover- nor Hicks, they could hard...

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...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Gra... ...Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...r, Massachu- setts, in May, 1630. In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years... ...from Monterey. Both this place and Cerralvo were nearly deserted, and men, women and children were seen running and scat- tered over the hills as we a... ... that that particular institution was not safe in the hands of any body of legislators but themselves. Meanwhile the Administration of President Bucha... ...ld the senators, representatives in Congress, ax-gov- ernors and the State legislators were nearly all at the State capital. The only acquaintance I m... ...ver after saw such consternation depicted on the faces of the people. Men, women and chil- dren came out of their doors looking pale and frightened at...

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...Y INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature an... ...f the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ... and is generally exhausted by two or three. Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station. Luxury, in ... ...e men-servants, who leave their masters, become independent labourers. The women return to their parents, and commonly spin, in order to make clothes ... ... most impor- tant improvements. The proprietors of land were anciently the legislators of every part of Europe. The laws relating to land, there- fore... ...18;000 a-year; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of New York and Pennsylvania, £4500 each; that of ... ...dually to be restored, we must leave to the wisdom of future statesmen and legislators to determine. Five different events, unforeseen and unthought o...