Public records Essays

  • expungement

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    American citizen has a record that shows in detail information about that individual. Records can contain any sort of information whether it is financial records, medical records, education, etc. When one is of age and decides to apply for a job, many employers ask for an individual’s record to see if they have been apart of any criminal activities. It is quite common for employers to conduct background checks when being interested in hiring someone. People who have a criminal record have the option to

  • Background/Character Investigation

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    Background/Character Investigation Any precinct or department may exclude from an examination any person because of: I. Dismissal of the application or eligible from the public service for good cause, or his resignation pending charges. II. Criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful or dissolute conduct, or bad character. III. The knowingly making of a false statement by any person in his application for examination, and every connivance by him at any false statement

  • The Open Public Records Act (OPRA)

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    party an unfair competitive advantage. Therefore, as to protect bidders, a determination must be made regarding what type of information can be redacted within the scope of OPRA. III. The plain language of OPRA: The Open Public Records Act guarantees the access to public records in the state of New Jersey. However, along

  • Michael Hugh Mirsky's Article Analysis

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    search for a permanent position is near impossible, Mirsky says, “even your lower-paying fast-food jobs are now doing background check... How can I pay child support if I can’t get a job (Appelbaum, 2015)?” His case is not unique, according the records presented

  • The Crucial Role of Record Keeping in Public Administration

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    World Bank Report (2008), record keeping is a fundamental activity of public administration. Without records especially financial records such as; Vouchers, Vote books and Cash books, there can be no rule of law and no accountability especially when it comes to the financial records such as the financial statements because they are essentially needed by the officials when making accountabilities for the goods or services undertaken. Ashbaugh-Skaife et al (2009), public servants must have information

  • Peer Grading Does Not Violate the Privacy Law in Schools

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    District because she claimed that her children were ridiculed when their grades were read out loud in class by classmates. Falvo says that when teachers have students grade each other's papers, the 1974 federal law protecting the privacy of educational records is violated. This is such a controversial subject that it has not been resolved as of today. This paper argues that peer grading does not violate the privacy law. One argument in favor of peer grading is that it offers a student feedback on minor

  • The Life of Ozzy and His Contribution to the Recording Industry

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    phonograph with the gramophone and in 1947 Goldmark introduced the LP, or Long-playing record(143-4). Working in the recording industry takes a lot of time, patience, and money. Starting with making records, to 8 tracks, to 4 track tapes, and now to CD’s, there have been many changes in bettering the production. There are five separate levels of responsibility the industry must go through before it reaches the public(148). One is the Artists and repertoire, which develop and coordinate talent. The

  • Eminems Controversial Lyrics

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    Mathers” he says “Boy girl groups make me sick, and I cant wait until I catch all you faggots in public, I’m a love it.” Most of the songs off his records he is bad mouthing homosexuals. This creates a ruckus in the media because the gay and lesbian parties protest outside of his concerts and award shows. These groups want Eminem to be either banned, have his records changed or a heavy censorship on his records. In response to these claims Eminem said “I am who I am, I don’t compromise my stuff for nobody

  • Sport Record

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    Sport Record The founding father of the Olympic Movement, Pierre de Coubertin, referred to the sport record as having the same function in the ideology of Olympism as the principle of gravity in Newtonian mechanics (Loland 1995). The record was, so to speak, the eternal axiom of sport. No doubt, Coubertin was right in many ways. The fascination for records is a key element in our fascination for sports. Records are the stuff of which legends and myths are made. Johnny Weissmuller's 1924 one

  • Music - The Power of Free-styling in Rap Culture

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    freestyle and are open about it. Since most rappers are driven by selling records and making money, they don't see any value in free styling. When a rapper releases a record commercially, they don't put freestyles on their record, they only release pre-written lyrics. So, most rappers see free styling as a waste of time and money. This theory of free styling being a waste most often comes from rappers who are signed to a record contract. The main reason free styling is seen by its fans as the

  • The History of Computers in Education

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    were only used by large universities for clerical work such as accounting, payroll, and for storing student records. Computers began to emerge more and more in the 1950, but it was still uncommon to see computers in schools. Today, one will find that quite the opposite exists. Since 1977 there has been a rapid growth in the use of computers throughout schools. Today the average public elementary school has 110 computers and 98% of these schools have access to the Internet. The ratio of students

  • Ancient Calendars

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    Babylon, and Greece relied upon the apparent motion of these bodies through the sky to record and determine seasons, months, and years. We know little about the details of timekeeping in prehistoric eras. However, records and artifacts usually uncover that in every culture, people were preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time. Stonehenge, built over 4000 years ago in England has no written records, but its alignments show its purposes apparently included the determination of seasonal

  • William Shakespeare

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    born in April 1596 and entered in the baptismal record as “Gulielmus filius Johannis Shakspere.” Even his actual date of birth is somewhat of a mystery. While we do know that he was baptized on April 26th, 1564, there is no existing record of his birth date. We can assume that he was born on April 23rd judging by the customary three-day period that most families waited before baptizing their children, but this is only speculation. Since the records of the Stratford grammar school have not survived

  • Selena Perez: Queen of Tejano Music

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    1983 she made her recording debut after appearing on the popular radio show of L. A. deejay Johnnie Canales. Her first records were recorded in Spanish and she sang the words phonetically.2 After her music began to catch on, she began learning Spanish formally and by the time of her death, she was fluent in the language. Selena started her career in 1984 by recording two records for a small independent label. One of the albums was released and later re-released in 1995. The other album was sold to

  • Investigate how PH Affects the Ability of Raw Meat to Absorb Water

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    you increase the PH up to the optimum and then decrease the PH as the PH increases past the optimum. · Dependent Variable The dependent variable for this experiment is the amount of water absorbed by the diced steak by process of osmosis. I will record this by recording the mass before and the mass after marination. From these results I can calculate the percentage change in mass so that I can compare the different results with each other. I will calculate the percentage change by : Change x 100

  • Led Zeppelin

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    produced their first record in thirty hours to complete their deal with the old Yardbirds. They toured Scandinavia for awhile also to complete their obligations to the Yardbirds. When they first came to the United States they supported Vanilla Fudge. They also played in clubs to start their American popularity. After they played in the clubs they got their first headlining tour and toured again that. They were playing their fifth tour by the March of 1970. Led Zeppelin the record was released by the

  • Lakatos and MacIntyre on Incommensurability and the Rationality of Theory-change

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    areas of disagreement; the most important are the relevance of the historical record and the presence of decision criteria that are common to rival programs. I show that Lakatos' rejection of the incommensurability thesis and dismissal of actual history are motivated by the belief that neither are compatible with the rationality of theory-change. If MacIntyre can deny the necessity of dispensing with the historical record, and show that incommensurability and the consequent absence of shared decision

  • Free College Essays - Character Analysis in The Portable Phonograph

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    entertaining each other. The older man has a record player that he brings out once a week for the listening pleasure of the group. He is very proud of this treasure. It has sustained through these hard times just as he has and he limits his use of it to make it last. He owns only three steel needles and he gets one out to use because on this particular occasion, their is a musician visitor with them. The other men act as excited as children. They listen to the record and then leave the doctor's house. Doctor

  • Opium and Dreams in the Romantic Period

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    are so intertwined in both Coleridge and De Quincey I feel it is appropriate to consider the two subjects alongside each other. In Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, dreams and opium are considered simultaneously because he records the largest effect of his opium-eating to have been on his dreams. He first became aware of the effects by a re-awakening of a faculty generally found in childhood: I know not whether my reader is aware that many children, perhaps most, have a power

  • The Birth of Social Media

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    Social media: (noun pl but singular or pl in constr) forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content. Social media has developed to allow for information to be shared instantaneously: image and video sharing, spontaneous group get-togethers, and worldwide, real time news announcements are sent through time and space with the click of a button