connected to comparable ill-uses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social spam, television advertising and file sharing spam. It is named after Spam, a luncheon meat, which was shown in a Monty Python sketch and was included in every dish. The nourishment is characteristically detested/undesirable, so the word came to be
we come to realize that these rights have never been met for every citizen of this country. In fact, at the beginning of the 20th century, when the United States “rose as a world power and an industrial giant”, its domestic social policy was known to be oppressive and anti-democratic, especially towards minorities. Mexicans, whether born in the United States or in Mexico, were treated as “foreigners, aliens, or intruders”. These
The authority and legitimacy of modern nation states has come under a severe challenge as a result of rising trends in terrorism. Confronted with one of the most brutal forms of violence, a suitable or adequate response to terrorism is still to be framed, even as a proper context of evaluation and a sufficient understanding of its causation and methodology remain elusive. The uniqueness of terrorism lies in its complex inner dimensions, its continuous and rapid adaptations, and its wide variations
describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. The reason for which these