...Mauritian or Nigerian for example) and has ultimately become the most dominant metanarrative in society today. In previous time other metanarratives mentioned above has become important as society developed. But during the period of enlightenment and in today's society many people have moved away from their faith based beliefs, ideologies and nationalities and are seeking the truth that have evidence and validity in its findings and thus in this case science provides these answers. This links into propers debate that science is an 'open' belief system where every scientist theory is open for scrutiny, criticism and testing by others. Science is ruled by the principle of ‘falsification’. This is whereby scientists set out to try and falsify existing theories and because of this is essentially creates the truth. For example; for centuries it was believed that the sun revolved around the earth until Copernicus demonstrated this was false. Merton agreed with Popper and believed that science has a set of norms that makes science more influential in society today; he calls them ‘CUDOS’ ( which stand for communism, universalism, disinterestedness and organized skepticism).These ‘CUDOS’ norms give science an advantage over other metanarratives as only truthful and factual theories are produced. To add to this, metanarratives such as religion may seem less influential in society today as it’s seen as a closed belief...
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... Having to attend conventions is just one part of being in the marketing field. At first I was hesitant to go because I thought it would be just another talk on how to make it in the big world. But when I saw the line-up of speakers I was motivated to attend because I know who they are and I thought maybe I could learn a thing or two from them. The thing that strikes me the most was Ramon Bautista’s speech on “How to be pogi” the title may seem a little bit shallow but in reality it has a lot more depth than you think. I actually see a lot of myself in him. He has that sunshine attitude that makes him see the good in everything and he’s also a joker. I adore people like him because he doesn’t go with the norms that labels us in the society. But simply he is just being himself. It may seem a little overrated but we actually need a lot of people like him in this hustle and bustle life we live in. But at some part of his speech although I remembered I was laughing the whole time he said that you’ve got to find something that you’re good at and work on it. And then I thought I could be more than just one thing. I want to do so much more in my life. In my mind I am a business student learning about the industry we are living in, but in my heart I am a writer a painter an artist searching for the same souls. Second is that we always have a choice. The thing that defines us are not the results of our doings rather than the choices that leads us to that. Third is that he told us that...
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...Canceling School In the article, For Mayor, Keeping Schools Open Brings Another Headache, Michael Grynbaum reported that the new Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio and the schools Chancellor, Carmen Farina made the decision last Wednesday to keep NYC schools open on Thursday in the wake of the impending snow storm. The decision to keep schools open set off a firestorm of criticism and the Mayor found himself being publically called out by Al Roker of the Today Show. (Grynbaum, 2013) NYC schools rarely close and have only done so on 11 occasions over the last 40 years. Mayor de Blasio defended himself saying, “It would be nice if we got a video the night before of what the next day looks like”. (Grynbaum, 2013) That remark was met with criticism from Al Roker who stated, “Mr. Mayor, I could never run NYC, but I know when it’s time to keep kids home from school.” (Grynbaum, 2013) The decision to close schools or keep them open during inclement weather is a question that many districts are facing across the country this winter. School districts throughout Indiana are trying to figure out how they will make up the lost school days to meet the 180 requirement. I understand Al Roker’s comments that the schools probably should have been closed. But, sometimes I think we lose sight of other consequences of closing schools. In my position, I worked with the NYC Department of Education for 6 years. Their student population is larger than the city of Indianapolis at 1,000...
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...Sofía Solano Mendoza James Denza Seminar Academic Inquiry 27/04/2011 SEXTING Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit photos via text messages, and is shockingly common among teens. According to Katie Couric of [Fox News], [Sexting] is “the new craze all over the country among 11 to 17 year-old adolescents.” A recent study by MSNBC found that 20% (1 in 5) of teens between the ages of 12 and 17 have sexted in their lives. Teens say “sexting” is one way to gain approval from peers or possible suitors. Teens in America are facing criminal charges of child pornography for sending and receiving nude pictures. These photos are often forwarded from friend-to-friend via cell phone and even around entire classes. With the availability of technology, young people are not aware that once they start cyber-swapping photos they are on the Internet to stay. If these photos get into the hands of the wrong people such as college admissions or future employers they could ruin the chance to fulfill a dream and there is nothing sexy about that. In fact, I see a relation with the movie of American Beauty, because in the entire movie Rick the neighbor of Jane is filming her with some erotic scenes. The media image of scantily dressed individuals is so common that teenagers don’t feel that it is wrong. It isn’t uncommon for teens to follow media and act like the people they see on the television everyday. In music videos it isn’t uncommon to see women...
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...Background Since childhood, Becky Fuller has dreamed to work for the Today show as news producer. However, her effort to the job is off-putting to potential suitors and eventually being laid off from her job at the local Good Morning New Jersey. After this event, her mother advises her to stop her dream to make her life better; However, Becky perseveres, and continues her dream. She sends lots of résumés, and receives an opportunity from IBS for the national morning show, DayBreak. For the job interview with Jerry Barnes, it is not satisfactory. Then, Becky bumps into one of her heroes, veteran television journalist Mike Pomeroy in an elevator, and meets him. Finally, Barnes hires Becky to be DayBreak's executive producer. On her first day, Becky realizes that the show has many problems. She decides Pomeroy to replace her co-host Paul McVee as her new co-host. Pomeroy refuses to become Becky’s co-host because he wants to less workload. Becky uses Pomeroy’s contract to force him to accept her requirement eventually. However, Pomeroy is not contributed for his job due to many reasons, and the result is discouraging as ratings begin to drop; Becky is told that DayBreak may be canceled. Therefore, Becky decides to use radical approach in order to raise the ratings and save the show, but Barnes doesn’t believe Becky could success. During a staff meeting, Pomeroy shows interest in doing a story, and finally he breaks the story of racketeering on live television, and this help...
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...Values In Today’s Society February 16, 2014 Wallace told Whiskey Island, a literary magazine, in 1993, “This is the generation that has an inheritance of absolutely nothing as far as meaningful moral values.” The generation of today is a different generation than many of us have known. Many people these days just care about themselves and the good of them as individuals. It came up in my class’s discussion about success and how we are supposed to strive towards success. Granted this is true, there is a limit to how much we should be striving towards “success” though. Success to many people is good job, good money, and good car. Success is not measured by how much we obtain, but rather how we decide to use what has been given to us. When people are too focused on success in today’s society, there are rarely moral values because individuals are more focused on themselves versus what is important in life. There are too many people in the world today just looking for free handouts and, when you look at it that way, it really is all about them. Me, me, me is what our society focuses on way too often; what is going to help ME, what is going to make ME more money, what can I do to build ME up more, and you get the picture. As Williams put it in his article “Is Gen Y Becoming the New ‘Lost Generation’,” “it is clear that Generation Y has a very different set of values for work and life in general, compared to the Baby Boomers.” He said in his article that a professor named Paul...
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...As a society we value many qualities as a culture. Many things in today’s society are acceptable that would not have been acceptable not even ten years ago. Our values in what we find important change all the time with what we find acceptable or not. Throughout this age, many people have trumped the “norm” and excelled far from what society would allow over a decade ago. It’s through strong perseverance, tolerance & a level of ambition that most successful people are born with. When someone thinks about perseverance, most people would think about a person dying from a terminal illness and defeating the disease and living the rest of their life healthy and without defeat. There are people today in our society that share the same feat, but in many different conquering ways. Barack Obama, our 44th President of the United States is our first African American President. Decades ago, everyone would doubt that this day would come. African American’s have persevered through time and have fought for their rights in a society that has never accepted them. As different as some may perceive President Obama and his family, the only difference that remains constant, is the color of their skin. They’re not so different at all from anyone else. After years of fight and struggle, our society is conforming into a more acceptable race. If each and every person could share just a fraction of the desire President Obama lives with, imagine what the world may be like someday? Another...
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...Emmy-winning TV makeup artist. She created her first foundation and concealer products seven years ago while working for Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira, and the rest of the hosts on “The View.” 2. Contributions and Uniqueness With sales growth slower than desired, Eve Pearl, the founder, is considering pitching her high-end cosmetic products — priced well above department store levels — to a broad audience by appearing on ShopNBC, a 24-hour TV shopping channel in the mode of QVC. While working on “The View,” Ms. Pearl started selling her brush-on products from her New York apartment. By 2008, she had become Ms. Vieira’s personal makeup specialist. She followed the broadcaster backstage on the sets of “Today” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” appeared on “Today” herself, and basked in the glow of a ribbon-cutting. She was flanked by morning show stars — Ms. Vieira, Ann Curry, Hoda Kotb and Natalie Morales — at the grand opening of her stylish 700-square-foot Upper East Side boutique. A YouTube posting of that celebrity-filled debut attracted tens of thousands of viewers and encouraged Ms. Pearl to start posting promotional videos demonstrating her techniques and products. That proved to be a good thing, with Internet orders soon outstripping her boutique business and her wholesale deliveries to makeup professionals. By 2011, Ms. Pearl had more than 100 products — some with prices as high as $98 — and more than $1 million in revenue. Her online sales were accounting...
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...CLOUD COMPUTING: Cloud computing is a type of computing that relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications.In cloud computing, the word cloud (also phrased as "the cloud") is used as a metaphor for "the Internet," so the phrase cloud computing means "a type of Internet-based computing," where different services -- such as servers, storage and applications -- are delivered to an organization's computers and devices through the Internet. Cloud computing is comparable to grid computing, a type of computing where unused processing cycles of all computers in a network are harnesses to solve problems too intensive for any stand-alone machine. HOW CLOUD COMPUTING WORKS: The goal of cloud computing is to apply traditional supercomputing, or high-performance computing power, normally used by military and research facilities, to perform tens of trillions of computations per second, in consumer-oriented applications such as financial portfolios, to deliver personalized information, to provide data storage or to power large, immersive computer games. To do this, cloud computing uses networks of large groups of servers typically running low-cost consumer PC technology with specialized connections to spread data-processing chores across them. This shared IT infrastructure contains large pools of systems that are linked together,Often, virtualization techniques are used...
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...1. What is a social problem? Using a social problem as an example, define and explain the four parts of the definition. (You will find a discussion of this in the week one lecture). a. A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. For example, murders and DWI’s mean most people would agree that these are a social problem. Such as another example when you see teenagers play loud music in a public part. Most adults will find it rather annoying vs. a teen who is enjoying the music. i. The four parts of a social problem is Emergence, Coalescence, Bureaucratization, and decline. Stage one emergence within this stage, social movements are preliminary and there is little to no organization. An example of this, is the Civil Rights Movement in 1950’s. Stage two Coalescence, which considers itself more as an obstacle with many, can’t overcome. Often though, these social problems usually pass without and actual problems or organizing of any kind. An example of this would be people in a community can complain to each other about other people’s injustice but they don’t ever come together and actually solve the problem. We can also call this Gossip. Stage three is Bureaucratization which is characterized by way higher levels of organizations. In this situation, some movements usually have success and raise awareness to a problem to such a degree that it can be strategized and handled properly. The final stage is decline;...
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...Terror in Today’s Society Joel Miller ENG 122 Instr. Carolyn Karas July 22, 2013 Terrorists have a huge impact on society and have for many years and even though terrorists are winning by putting continual fear into citizens, trying to disrupt the economy, with continuing advances in our technology and security we hopefully prevail. Terrorists use explosive devices to create fear in people and the people cannot go about their daily life they normally would. These catastrophic events have forced military medical and physiological experts to re-evaluate their understanding of mass casualty terrorism. The primary goal of terrorism is to disrupt society by provoking intense fear and shattering all sense of personal and community safety. When a terror attack occurs in the USA the impact from the attack is felt economically. Whether the attack be nuclear or biological. From the point of view of threatened governments there has been two tasks: first, to try to prevent the terrorist event from taking place and second, if prevention fails, to deal with the after-effects or consequences, (Heymann, Philip 2001) including the remarkably large political effect of acts of terrorism. Although terrorists plan is to spread as much fear into citizens of the United States of America, our security continues to strengthen and we become stronger as a nation. Through advances in technology and the use of special resources, hopefully one day we can stop all terrorist...
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...Today’s Society In the essay “For Better, For Worse: Marriage Means Something Different Now” Coontz describes on how she played a character on a show that abandoned the values of a traditional family and encouraged young Americans to abandon marriage (Avins 171). She also begins to talk about the pros and cons of marriage. Also, by giving data “As late as the 1960’s, two-thirds of college women in the United States said they would marry a man they didn’t fall in live if he met all their other, often economic, criteria” (Avins 172). In most cases being married is a personal goal, but it can also affect families. Americans have their own opinions about marriage. It all comes down to the individual and how they look at the aspect of marriage. Some people like idea of being single and live their life by the way they think life should be lived. Then there is the other idea of the traditional marriage, which is being married to a partner that you would want to live the rest of your life with. There are pros and cons for each way and how they affect society. Living the single life has its ups and downs. Men and women tend to fine on their own and are able to find a stable job. Single women tend to marry a man they do not love even though they fit into their criteria economically. Men are also the same way and feel obligated to marry if the woman fits his criteria just because. Single mothers have played their part and have proven themselves they are able to do well in society. Women...
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...FINAL ESSAY PT. 1 As the news director of local television station if I had to decide between a local story such as the city council closing three city parks to save money, or a major celebrities death for the lead story for our local nightly broadcast I would choose to make the city council closing three city parks to save money the lead story. I would make this story the lead story because as the news director for the local television station I have a responsibility to the local public to keep them informed of news stories involving their town. Unlike the big networks, or the 24 hour all news stations who serve a worldwide audience, My local television station serves a local public who may depend on me to stay informed of any significant news stories that involve their town. Chances are the celebrity death story has already been broadcast on the big news networks as well as other forms of media like radio, and internet. So, as the news director in charge of the local news I would run the city parks closing story as the lead because not only is it my responsibility to run stories that involve the local population of my viewing area but it is my social responsibility as a journalist to report stories that are relevant to the viewers. I believe a city losing its parks would be more important to the local viewers then a celebrity death. I also believe the ratings would still be better because I would still cover the story about the celebrity death I just would not...
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...Erica Garmendez Research Paper Loneliness in our Society Today The study of Sociology covers everything that deals with human behavior, including loneliness. Some people experience loneliness in different aspects. Some of these people can be in a crowd full of people and still feel alone. There are other people that can literally be alone, but not feel like they are. This feeling of loneliness affects how people interact with each other and their behavior. I will be researching how the feeling of loneliness drives people to use the internet more often within a group of 10 people. I will focus primarily on social media usage, such as Facebook. I predict that the more social media an individual uses, the lonelier they feel. One way of thinking about loneliness is as a difference between one's desired and achieved levels of social interaction, while solitude is simply the lack of contact with people. There is clearly a difference in the two. Loneliness is more of the way a person feels; if a person thinks they are lonely, and then they are lonely. People can be lonely while in solitude, or in the middle of a crowd. A person is lonely when they want more social interaction than what is currently available. This is why somebody can be alone and not feel lonely. If a person gets too little or too much social interaction, this could lead to feelings of loneliness or over-stimulation. One study found that although time spent alone tended to depress a person's mood and increase...
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...Revolution, defined as an, “overthrow or repudiation, and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.” For the moment, let’s change “government or political system” to “form of entertainment” and “the people governed” to “its’ viewers.” The Digital Revolution, more commonly known as the Information Age, is defined as an overthrow or repudiation, and the thorough replacement of an established form of entertainment by its’ viewers. The Information Age, beginning around 1975, was “characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and the rise of information-based industries.” The 1970’s were a time of pivotal change in United States history and a time where people, women, African-Americans and the youth especially, became more active and generally busier. This Digital Revolution did not come to transform our lives, but was simply developed out of the understanding that our lives were changing already and that there was a need for constant contact and immediate information. Here in 2013, we have yet to reach the peak of the Information Age, however it has surely made a substantial impact on lives across the world. The rise of the World Wide Web has caused the decline of television. The days where families would gather around the TV screen has been replaced by individuals with separate schedules, who catch up on their favorite shows online at their leisure. Television...
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