...determined by fact. In my paper I provided information on cases where police used excessive force unlawfully such as the death of Eric Garner by Police Commissioner William from a coking or Dillon Taylor who was shot by a police officer in front of a 7-Eleven when trying to walk away from an officer. The purpose of this discussion was to inform that everyone can be a victim of police brutality. My audience, which is the Internal Affairs Unit are responsible for investigating and report such incidents to find that those guilty are prosecuted for their crimes. This course of action may result in the restoration of stability and professionalism within the police department. In my paper, I introduced current issues were police have used deadly force on unarmed suspects which court decisions resulted in no indictment. Next, I informed readers of the responsibilities law enforcement have and should obey if they choose to pursue a job as a law enforcer. For smaller departments, Internal Affairs Units should still be required to investigate misconduct within a police department if an incident involving one of its police officers occur, not the department chief. Then, I discussed the...
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...Unit 3 – Citizenship, Diversity and the Public Services Assignment 3 P7 - Report on three examples of current affairs that affect public services and citizens M4 - Analyse the effects on citizens and public services of the way that three examples of current affairs have been reported by the media. Current affairs in the UK that affect the Public Services and citizens of society are the student demonstrations, the increase of fuel prices and the cutbacks of the Public Services. These all have an effect on society and the affect it has depends on the way in which the media portrays the Public Services and citizens of society. Fuel Prices Increase - The recent fuel price increase sparked anger amongst motorists across the UK. A protest consisting of 1,000 vehicles travelling to the M56 and onto the M6 where the convoy extended by a further 500. The Police were informed of the protest and were there to patrol the protest to keep order. A statement to the press was made saying that the Police had turned back tractors and issued tickets to farmers. They also had dogs ready to release into the protesters if an outbreak occurred. This incident also gave a negative perspective of the Police Service as the media only published stories that portrayed the Police in a bad way and this affects citizens as they will not trust the Police if they act in an aggressive or ill-mannered behaviour towards those they have the duty to serve. Public Services Cutbacks - It is estimated that over...
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... Mindset: Changing Trends in the News Media Industry Al Jazeera, along with other traditional news broadcasters, is currently navigating through an industry being disrupted and redefined. Pew Research suggested that by 2018, the preferred medium for interfacing with news will be overwhelming digital in nature through social media, mobile, and web-‐based interaction with increased content personalization with TV-‐based consumption fadingi. Additionally, like its sister-‐industry, the Print News Media, Broadcast news is being challenged by non-‐traditional players in this space, what are being termed “digital natives”, including digital entrepreneurs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Ebay’s Pierre Omidyar and more traditional digital native news organizations such as Vice News, Huffington post, Vox, Buzzfeed and the like. The conclusion the industry in general, and Al Jazeera Media Network in particular, has arrived at...
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...Burch, L. M. (n.d.). Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Retrieved March 24, 2016, from http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hbem20#.VvS04RasIlI Introduction- In the critical analysis “Kissing in the Carnage: An Examination of Framing on Twitter During the Vancouver Riots” by Lauren M. Burch, Evan L. Frederick & Ann Pegoraro; it was certain that the biggest hockey game of the National Hockey League season had been occurring, but the riot it has spawned in Vancouver makes it look like something far more politically charged may be the cause. In the introduction of the text it states “On June 15, 2011, more than 150,000 fans assembled on the streets of Vancouver to watch game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins. Within minutes of the Canucks loss, a riot began. One aspect that made this event unique was that it was documented on Twitter” this would clearly indicate that there was a relationship between the fans knowledge of the current affair which was the hockey game and the Literary review-RQ- 1. Is there a relationship between social media use and KNOWLEDGE of current affairs? 2. What is the relationship between social media use and knowledge of stand your ground law? 3. What is the relationship between social media use and attitude toward stand your ground law? Methodology- In the text it is stated that Twitter is a fairly new medium within the sport communication scenery; a growing body of literature...
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...examine the idea that power is increasingly being exercised by individuals upon themselves, through forms of self-governance in the modern world. The roles of self-governance in relation to political and religious orders will be explored to demonstrate sociological theory and modern world societal development with focus on Western culture. Regardless of outside controls and guidelines, self-governance as a theory indicates the ability of individuals to manage their own thoughts and activities (Turnbull 1997, p. 11). Hence self-governance allows an individual to form their own identity. In post-modernity, power is increasingly exercised by individuals upon themselves. This rise in self-governance is largely due to the increase of social media and access...
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...Capt. Patrick Bishop Capt. Casey Martin Capt. Michael Hoerber 1st Lt. Jennifer Menser Ms. Susan Leonard Public Affairs Guidance Exercise PAQC 020-13 / Section 1B 4 Feb 2013 UNCLASSIFIED Subject: Proposed Public Affairs Guidance (PAG) – Joint Task Force Wolverine (U). 1. References: Ref A, DOD Message R 211700 OCT 02, Subject: Supplementary guidance for proposed public affair guidance (PPAG). Ref B, Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction 5405.3 Development of Proposed Public Affairs Guidance (PPAG). Ref C, PAQC Phase 2 Overview 150930 SEP 12. Ref D, USCENTCOM Warning Order for JTF Wolverine OEF Rotation, DTG 310930 JAN 13 2. Background: IAW Ref D, As part of the ongoing support of the Afghan Government and in order to maintain effective troop levels in theater, Combined Joint Task Force – 1 (CJTF-1) will be redeployed to home station and replaced by selected elements of Joint Task Force (JTF) Wolverine. This transfer of authority involves several combat brigades, headquarters elements, combat support and combat service support units, approximately 46,000 service members. The scheduled rotation for these forces will begin within the next few months. This rotation marks a return to 2009 troop levels before the increase initiated by President Obama raised the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to over 100,000. Once this rotation is complete, about 68,000 troops will remain in the country. This level of commitment demonstrates continued U.S. support to the Islamic Republic...
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...Organizational Communication Analysis Part IV – Public Relations, Public Affairs, and Media COM 480 April 29, 2013 Organizational Communication Analysis Part IV – Public Relations, Public Affairs, and Media “By the time you hear the thunder, it’s too late to build the ark” (Patterson, 2004). One believes that we have already established that overcoming a critical event requries proper planning. For this portion of the assignment one will cover overcoming the budget cuts in the face of the media. A comparison of a simular crisis will be illustrated in order to demonstrate the expectations of the media handling the issue faced with the Kelsey Unified School District (KUSD). Likewise, the roles of public relations and questions concerning ethical concerns. Overall, the impact of the media during a crisis is exemplified. Projected Prospective Similar to the Kelsey Unified School District (KUSD), school districts throughout Texas are facing the same issues. Rumors of prospective budget cuts have been the topic throughout the state. The Arlington Independent School District (AISD) holds personal interest to one. A reduction in the budget within the AISD will directly impact one. The media has addressed the speculations by answering the typical questions surrounding budget cuts. A local television station, CBS 11 News, posted an article concerning the consideration of budget cuts. The article, “Arlington ISD Considering Deep Budget Cuts” shares details on...
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...Negative to Positive: African American Portrayal in Media As the day progresses into the late evening hour most of America sits in front of their televisions impatiently waiting to watch their favorite shows. From prime time television to viral videos on YouTube, media has become one of the most influential areas of life. The clothes we wear, slogans we say, and actions we portray are all influenced by media. For example, in 2012 “Ain’t nobody got time for that” became a popular slogan which transcended from a news interview that went viral. Although the slogan was catchy, it became famous more so for the way it was presented. The interviewee was an African American female who was a victim of a house fire. With the female being very passionate and animated while speaking in an urban accent, it provided for great entertainment. Sadly, that news interview lacked the appropriate representation of African Americans. The way media portrays a certain message “can have an inordinate influence on the public’s perception of blacks” (Holt 6). Audiences have been a witness to negative portrayal of African Americans since the days of “blackface”, where Caucasian American actors painted their faces black to depict African Americans. According to blog author Michelle Whalen, “now, more than ever, images of African Americans are transcending racial stereotypes and forging ahead into the fight for equality” (1). In the past two decades, media has been successful in providing positive progression...
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...significantly influential essay Encoding/Decoding; published in 1973 during the time of his position as director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University (Chandler 2001). Encoding/Decoding is a theoretical framework devised to critically examine how society or the hegemonic institutions in society, disseminate messages implanted or ‘encoded’ (Hall 2001, p.167) with meaning ‘through the operation of codes within the syntagmatic chain of a discourse’ (Hall 2001, p.166). Hall’s model examines the processes in which television texts are constructed with dominant codes or ‘preferred readings’ (Hall 2011, p.172), whilst signifying theoretical strategies from which audiences can deconstruct and consume such readings existing within texts in correspondence to cultural and social conditions. Hall’s model laid the foundations for much ethnographic research; it is upon this premise and its comprehensive influence, that in this essay the advantages and limitations of his model will be evaluated with focus on how effectively it functions within the indicated parameters of specific texts and discourses. Hall’s model which is fundamentally a mode of communication and audience reception theory, stems from early models of which proposed to analyse how audiences interpreted texts through the visual and aural discourse of television. Hall utilised and developed upon preceding and often problematic models such as the Effects and the Uses and Gratification models. Conversely...
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...Behavior 1. Introduction A. Target demographics/ Target markets I. Attract customers 18 – 25 year olds B. Market analysis I. Competitors, in-depth consumer behavior study 2. SWOT analysis – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats A. Environmental scan B. Internal analysis I. Strengths II. Weaknesses C. External analysis I. Opportunities II. Threats D. SWOT matrix 3. Research on flavor cigarettes products A. Current products in market B. Current competition C. Current locations flavored cigarettes are sold D. Volume of sales of flavored cigarettes by location E. Consumer perception on flavored cigarettes I. Likes / Dislikes II. Within demographics/ market segment F. Current top selling flavors G. Consumer affect/ cognition H. Consumer behavior I. Consumer environments 4. Project definition – marketing strategies A. Stimuli I. Products II. Brands III. Packaging IV. Advertising V. Coupons VI. Smells of product VII. Health concerns – electronic cigarettes/ e-cigarettes 5. Marketing Objectives A. Market share I. Total II. By segments III. By channel ...
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...blessings to complete this study. Thank You answering our prayers and guiding us throughout the semester. To our families, thank you so much for all the encouragement and love despite our shortcomings. To all those that participated in study, thank you all for patiently answering our survey, for without you the data used in this study would not have been available. Lastly, would like to acknowledge and thank our patient and ever-supportive instructor, Ms. Dayenne Sipaco, for being understanding with us and helping us during each step of the writing process of this paper. ABSTRACT SAMPLE LANG ‘TO PLEASE EDIT! Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester-long experimental study to determine if using Twitter – the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue – for educationally relevant purposes can impact college student engagement and grades. A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student...
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...promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans” (About Us). Governed and Staffed The Peace Corps is a national organization that is governed and staffed by people who are dedicated leaders. The leadership involves not only a director and deputy director, but also is staffed globally by three different individuals which are regional directors in Africa, Asia, and Inter-America and the Pacific (“Peace Corps”, 2010). Although the Peace Corps is a national organization the U.S Government is part of the executive branch because this is a federal agency. The person that selects the directors is the President, and then the confirmation comes from the Senate. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign affairs are in charge of the programs and activities (“Peace Corps”, 2009). The role of the Inspector General is to ensure the organization is effective and efficient. He or she is also responsible for ensuring there are not any fraudulent, abusive, or...
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...The Adolescent Development Analysis This comprehensive document defines the differences and similarities of young males and females reactions to the age of puberty. The most fascinating aspects of adolescence defined as the challenges of growing into adulthood. Researchers consider puberty as the development marker with important implications. These implications include the transition of the young male or female travels before adulthood. This document details the knowledge of self-learning, and group, or peer learning within the cultural mixing pot of today’s world. Early Gender Differences Early gender differences should not cause young males or females any difficulties, or harmful reactions from this transition. Most young people going through the transitions normally show no ill effects from the change. This transition does show first beginning of a range of psychosocial problems; early maturity, sub-cultural, peer pressures, and emotional reflections. For the young culture of this world, this first stage into adulthood signals the birth of significant, rapid changes for most young males and females. Significant associations define these changes through the biological differences in sleep patterns, hormonal, and body influences. The psychological differences define traumatic shifts in identification crisis, body, and mental relationships with self, parents, and peers (Blondell, Foster, & Kamlesh, 1999). Early Maturity Differences Researchers studying the beginnings of...
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...month. Quek Zhen Hao was branded a “road bully” by netizens after two videos showing him driving recklessly went viral. Thanks to the videos, the police arrested the 24-year-old and investigations are still going out. In regards to this trend, the Traffic Police remains supportive, and encourages citizens to submit video evidences. I feel that social media, being an efficient platform, is the main reason behind this trend. With a click, everyone in the world has access to what you posted in an instant. In recent 2 years, there have been many videos taken by in-car vehicles circulating online, drawing in public’s attention. For example, a video taken by an in-vehicle camera of the crash between Ferrari and Taxi instantly went viral online within hours last year, and the news drew in overwhelming attention. If the in-vehicle camera did not capture the footage, the video would not go viral and the news might not have received such an overwhelming response. These examples show the importance of in-vehicle cameras in nabbing the lawbreakers while raising public awareness. More people are now keeping update of current affairs...
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