...and like every “small step for a man, and one giant leap forward for mankind” there are repercussions(The Space Race). One of the things that changed with the evolution of technology from its primitive state to its more modern version is news; once only told by an unbiased, or at least strived to be, newscasters like Walter Cronkite(Cronkite) and people were forced to watch the whole thing until what they were really interested in came on has now turned into an extremely selective and biased way of reporting the news with outstandingly big downsides that has lead society to be harshly less informed about what is going on around them and more susceptible to having their opinion swayed with possible misclassification of news. By the end of 2010 more people claimed to be receiving their news intake from the internet than from newspapers(Featured in Social Media) and with the simplified access to articles relating to just about anything whether they are true or not has made it questionable whether the internet can be used for a reliable source to receive news. When stories could not be written they were passed down verbally from generation to generation and with every retelling a new version of the original came alive(Oral Tradition). Back in those days if a story was...
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...radio stations. We expect them to report the truth. However, current media outlets distort stories and certain new reports are getting too much attention. The most important stories are never seen on television or read in the newspaper, or heard on the radio stations, while minor and trivial stories get the most coverage. Hence celebrity engagements, divorce, entrance to rehab centers and DUI cases that are sold to the media. Americans are then left without valuable information contrary to what story is getting 24- hour news coverage. Media bias is a term used to describe prejudice in news and media reports, in which is perceived as an imbalance or unfair presentation of facts or selective reporting of which events or facts reported. The main point here is when biases in media distorts certain stories, and other stories are spoken about entirely too much it hurts the democracy in America. The media, in that case, fails to focus on real issues that underlie the American culture, it has one-sided opinions, favoring a liberal’s point of view, and it caters to the majority, favoring the wealthy. Media biases causes American people to become misinformed or too well informed, often due to the tendency of the media covering unimportant stories about celebrities, while overlooking issues like war, poverty, disease, violence, and education. The media content and new coverage rarely display the underlying issues that the American people face. Rather, it...
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...Propaganda and lies in American news outlets What is propaganda? How is propaganda perpetrated through the media and especially in media broadcasting American news? Propaganda is some sort of action based on communication that is made purposely for the intention of influencing opinion as well as the thinking of a specific community so that conflict or disagreements may arise. In most cases propaganda happens through media since it’s the most common place where individuals pay attention to and it normally end up influencing the opinions of so many people. A very good example is how the news outlets in America spread lies and propaganda based on some of the most crucial situations with the aim of protecting specific famous individuals (Fawcett 2007). This paper will show and analyze presence of propaganda in some of the major news outlets in America, the reasons they do this as well as what the opinion of the public. For so many years almost all the news outlets in America have been on the fore front spreading lies and propaganda. Some of the executives, senior producers and the executive producers know what the media is doing and it is under their consent that such this happens. They are involved in all the activities of the news outlets and because they tend to be biased, they use the media to spread lies and propaganda in the American news outlets. (endthelie.com) This has led to so many Americans questioning the integrity and reliability of these news outlets as much as they expected...
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...The Global News Stations Blue Ranney ReactionPaper-RanneyB-FA13 Middle East In the Middle East (Southwest, Asia) there has been a war going on for over hundreds of years and many people have lost their lives and some live on to tell their stories. It’s not every day that we hear about everything going on over in the Southwestern region, but there are all sorts of unfathomable crimes taking place as we speak today. I’ve seen on CNBC nightly news the war crimes taking place in Syria. There have been over 180 Syrians killed and over 200 women and children kept as hostages. This is a war crime led by rebels teamed with the government. If it wasn’t for CNBC news I wouldn’t have known about this story. There are numerous different ways to hear about what’s going on in the world today. You can read magazines, watch TV, and get information from the internet. I personally like to stay up with the world news using the internet. Three foundations that I would like to focus on are “Human Rights Watch, NPR, and Alternet”. My first thoughts of these sites, I drew a blank, and didn’t really know what to expect from them. The one similarity that I recognized is how they are funded foundations through charities and donations. The” Human Rights Watch” and “NPR” are both funded...
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...News of a Nation In the modern age of technology, the individual is able to receive news of around the nation or the world from various sources. Since stations; such as NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, are distinct broadcast stations, some may have different techniques of presenting their stories. Some broadcast stations, such as NBC, use the words “pierce” and “wail of sirens” to set the tone of the story to evoke emotions from viewers at home. Broadcast stations, like CBS, use visuals and interviews to give a clearer understanding of what happened and how it happened. However, some stations, like FOX tend to give viewers a goofy and simply non-serious report on events and incidents that occur in the nation. Then there are stations, like ABC, who simply deliver the news clearly and directly to viewers at home. News stations around the nation have different methods of delivering their news, although some of them are less beneficial than others. During NBC’s Nightly News, with Brian Williams, the Pentagon correspondant, Jim Miklaszewski, emphasizes the implications the Navy yard shooting had in the four mile radius of the incident. He states, “... nearby schools were locked down, highways shut down, the Capital closed and the Nationals game postponed.” The emphasis of these implications the shooting had on the public shows the intense and immediate fear that struck throughout Washington D.C. The emphasis constantly hits the reader with the consequences of the shooting and it allows...
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...News: Emotionless Entertainment Nobody would argue that the use of technology has dramatically increased over the past decade, let alone over the past century. Technology has impacted and changed every aspect of our lives. One piece of technology in particular transformed people’s lives: the television. Less than a century ago, people lived without the use of this revolutionary technological item. Now the vast majority of households in America has one if not numerous televisions. People own televisions for a variety of purposes. Some people watch college sporting events, teenagers may drown out the voice of their mom, and others watch news programs. Even though the television serves a multitude of different functions, these functions often...
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...Calendar: Nyenrode New Business School 2012 / 2013 Version 30-08-2012 WEEK Monday - Friday YEAR 1 Introduction Week start modules period 1 YEAR 2 Introduction Week start modules period 1 YEAR 3 Introduction Week start modules period 1 YEAR 3 (Jan Cohort) Introduction Week start modules period 1 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 27-aug 3-Sep 10-Sep 17-Sep 24-Sep 1-Oct 8-Oct 15-Oct 22-Oct 29-Oct 5-Nov 31-aug 7-Sep 14-Sep 21-Sep 28-Sep 5-Oct 12-Oct 19-Oct 26-Oct 2-Nov 9-Nov 42 Assignment deadlines period 1 modules of Yr 1 / Y2 / Y3 43 44 45 Exams period 1 Ethiopia trip NNBS Week Start modules period 2 21 Nov deadline re-sit assignments period 1 re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) Exams period 1 India trip NNBS Week Start modules period 2 22 Nov deadline re-sit assignments period 1 re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) Exams period 1 work on re-sit assignments week NNBS Week start modules period 2 23 Nov deadline re-sit assignments period 1 re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) Exams period 1 of Y1 / Y2 / Y3 India trip work on re-sit assignments week start modules period 2 / 15 November deadline resit assignments period 3&4 modules Y1 / Y2 / Y3 deadline re-sit assignments period 1 re-sit exams period 1 (evening hours) re-sit...
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...probability sample or simple random sample selection to gather data to test the hypothesis. (C) What statistical test should you use to accept or reject this hypothesis using the data you will collect? The test that I would use to accept or reject the null hypothesis is the t-test: two sample assuming equal variances since we have two independent samples. 2. Your love of golf has brought you back to the range as the new product manager for UniDun's Straight Flight (SF) line of golf balls. The company's research and development group has been experimenting with dimple patterns that promote straight flight and feel they have achieved some degree of success. You, however, are worried about the effect that the new pattern might have on driving distance. The Golf Ball Distances document in the Updates and Handouts section contains test results that compare the driving distances for the two different kinds of balls: 40 balls of the new SF type, and 40 of the old UniDun type. Your job is to determine if the old UniDun balls can be driven further than the new SF balls. To resolve this...
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...Robert Frost is one of the most famous poet’s, winning four Pulitzers Prizes, and even reciting one of his poems at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. Frost was born in San Francisco, but spent most of his life in New England, as a teacher and farmer, in rural New Hampshire. Frost often uses natural elements in his poetry, especially New England landscapes. He uses seasons, flowers, fields, stars, and time of day to set a logical sequence of events to paint a psychological feeling inside the reader’s mind. Two of Robert Frost’s poems, “Desert Places” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, take readers through a New England winter setting, reflecting the beautiful scenery through his descriptive imagery. However, even though these two poems are set in a wintry backdrop, they convey very different tones. One has a feeling of loneliness, and the other a welcoming feeling of solitude. In this paper, I intend to illustrate how two very similar natural settings are written to express two very different themes of loneliness. The poems “Desert Places” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” have quite a few similarities. For instance, they both share the same rhythmic scheme; A,A,B,A. They both are set in a snowy, evening where darkness is taking over quickly. In both poems there is a man traveling alone, where no other souls are around. There is a sense that both travelers are stepping away from life for a brief moment in time. The contrast of darkness and whiteness...
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...Poem: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening William R. Spicer, Jr. ENGL 102 Composition and Literature April 23, 2012 Examining Robert Frost’s Poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening has been my favorite poem since the fourth grade. Mrs. Brown, my English teacher, discussed the poem during the week before Christmas break. The entire school was buzzing with excitement at the upcoming holiday and when she introduced the poem, it seemed like everyone and everything slowed and we were transformed to a quite snow-covered forest. The question I chose to answer is about the symbolism in the setting of this poem. In our text a symbol is defined as a person place or thing in a narrative that suggests meaning beyond its literal sense. The simplistic setting represents the author’s need for peace, rejuvenation and a reminder of home, before he starts out again on his journey. Few places can be considered as comforting and peaceful and lovely as a familiar forest covered in snow. Since the writer was not afraid of being alone I believe he must be very familiar with the forest and probably grew up near it. The wood behind my house was a very special place for me. In the summertime it was a place to build forts and have adventures with my friends. On cool summer nights, it’s where my friends and I would pitch a tent and tell scary stories by flashlight. My family and I would go on hikes and discover a new place to pick wild blueberries for...
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...Period While music and art from the Classical period was based on reason, order and rules, music and other art from the Romantic period was based on emotion, adventure and imagination. The Romantic period was a time of political revolution and new ways of looking at the world. Instead of working for wealthy bosses, composers were for the first time able to work for themselves. They composed music to express what they were thinking and feeling- unlike during earlier days, when they were only allowed to compose exactly what their employer wanted. During the Romantic period, there was a new appreciation of the artist as an individual- someone who had feelings, which were expressed through their creations. Romanticism was a form of rebellion against restrictions on artistic expression. The artists or the writers should express their innermost feelings in any form they chose. Romanticism had a new set of values: the innermost emotions should be fully expressed. Art should please the senses. Imagination was more important than reason. After the Napoleonic wars became a memory, French fashion was dominated by a new wave of Anglomania. The British writings of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron helped popularize a thirst for a more romantic image. There was a snobbish attraction on the continent for all things English, cultivated and refined. Beau Brummell had codified many of the attitudes toward the ‘Art Of Dress’...
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...process could take me over an hour if I did not figure out ways to do thing more time effective and with better planning. There are also occurrences that I can not control that could also cause my morning to be frustrating and time consuming making me late for work and other problems as mentioned above. During week, one I noticed there were processes that were taking more time than needed the directed affected my time usage in the morning like showering in the morning. We have four people in our home who get up within 10 minutes of each and each one of us needs to get into the bathroom to shower, brush our teeth and prepare for the day. I feel if everyone was willing to shower in the evening that would shave at least 15 to 20 minutes off of our time, because I shower in the evening then I can wash up quickly in the morning and get dressed as well as my son. I found that another process that I could control is it takes me at least 10 to 15 minutes to fix lunches for my husband, my son, and I in the morning for lunch. I have found that if I fix our lunches at night that would save me more time in the morning to focus on getting my son ready for school. My son is responsible for taking the dogs out for their morning walk and bathroom break as well as feeding them this process can often take thirty...
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...hypothesis (u1) with higher prices to be accepted. Identify the most appropriate sample section technique to gather data for testing the hypothesis. Use a probability sample or simple random sample technique for both companies; generating random sample purchase dates and various ammunition purchases. What statistical test should you use to accept or reject this hypothesis using the data you will collect? If the standard deviation is unknown, we assume the t-test will work wince we have two independent samples. We could also use a t-test or z-test because they have equal value and both tests could be used if the independent sample size is large enough. Scenario #2 Your love of golf has brought you back to the range as the new product manager for UniDun's Straight Flight (SF) line of golf balls. The company's research and development group has been experimenting with dimple patterns that promote straight flight and feel they have achieved some degree of success. You, however, are worried about the effect that...
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...Frost, Where the Road Brings Us #201337029 English 1080 Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both portray similarities in themes of the weight of realities, while taken place in a setting of nature. Each are about experiences in life in “The Road Not Taken” the speaker is youthful, making the decision to last a lifetime metaphorically portrayed by an autumn forest. He must overcome his mentality to succumb from the more beaten path in a road, showing his uniqueness to take the other. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” where as Frost uses an older speaker, more grizzled and experienced in life. The speaker also experiencing a choice, seeking a life without struggle in isolation he then reflects upon his responsibility towards the society. In the poem “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker stumbles upon a choice that will effect him forever. The poems talk of the speaker coming to a fork in his path, whereas now he has to choose one way or the other. This intersection in the road is a metaphor to all the decisions we have to make in life, and how easily it could alter with just by starting down a new path. The speaker thinks about his choices and feels that whatever path he takes; he will have to take for good. The speaker feels strongly that he must think really hard upon what path to take, so he doesn’t end up regretting his choice. “And looked down the road as far as I could...
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...Saving the Blob fish Documentation The spreadsheet model- Saving the Blob fish has been constructed for the use by employees of FoGAFiDE and Mr. Angus Dei. Created on September 30, 2012 by Neha Bedi Blob fishes are currently facing extinction due to deep sea fishing and the motive of FoGAFiDE is to support a bill to restrict deep sea fishing. Thus, to get this message circulated through public, mass media approach was considered. The purpose of this spreadsheet model is to allocate funds of $158000 to different advertising alternatives in a way that will maximise the impact achieved. This particular model can be used for determining how much funds should be allocated, considering the constraints, to each advertising medium in order to optimise average impact. It also helps in finding out the total and individual costs of advertisements. Layout of model (in blocks): 1) Requirements- minimum and maximum amount of ads required can be entered in this block for each advertising medium. The Cost per unit of each medium is also entered in the requirements area. 2) Resources available- This is the funds available section and would act as a constraint so the advertisements price doesn’t increase the funds available. 3) Calculation area- when solver is run this part of spreadsheet shows the number unit of advertisements that should be bought and their total cost price 4) Report area that tells the impact of each advertisement and the average impact. Instructions: ...
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