Monday, November 3, 2008

In-class research exercise

1) Pullman is listed as having 4 hate crimes for the year 2006. This seems fairly typical when compared to other cities in the states. Most have less than four reported hate crime and only a few cities have more. In 2007, the number of hate crimes rose by one. Most of the other moderate size cities still have four or less. The number is higher, generally, as the population of the cities increase.

The most common kind of hate crime was racially motivated and classified as single-bias incidents. This was the case for both 2006 and 2007. More than half of the reported hate crimes were racially motivated.

2) Dino Rossi received the highest political contributions in 2008. He received $7,587,579.

His highest industry contribution came from Health Professionals which gave $15, 330.

The highest industry contributions for Gregoire came from lawyers and lobbyists. This industry gave $55,110.

The Republican part received the most money from the forestry and forest products industry. Republicans also received the most money from the lobbyist and public relations industry.

3) Digital video recorder: http://www.google.com/patents?id=N7h1AAAAEBAJ&dq=%22digital+video+recorder%22

Social networking: http://www.google.com/patents?id=fVsGAAAAEBAJ&dq=%22social+networking%22

Automobile: http://www.google.com/patents?id=Kh9TAAAAEBAJ&dq=%22automobile%22

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