...contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Petracca, M., & Sorapure, M. (2007). Common culture: Reading and writing about American popular culture (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. All electronic materials are available on the student website. |Week One: Overview of Culture | | |Details |Due |Points | |Objectives |Describe the different types of culture. | |...
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...Ethics in Athletic Training Paper The purpose of this paper is to identify the situation in which a correct ethical decision must be made and the different outcomes of such decisions. In this essay, the main topics to be covered will be the appropriate approach to making an ethical decision, potential courses of action and their potential consequences. After reading this paper, the reader will have a more extensive knowledge in ethical decision-making and a stronger opinion in the case. In this case study, George and his partners who own and operate a chain of rehabilitation centers become minority owners of a hockey team. During one of the most important games of the season, the star player gets checked into the boards and sustains a head injury. After 15 minutes, the player’s mental status begins to improve. Although he still couldn’t remember the details of his injury or the time immediately preceding it, his motor coordination was better. George and the team physician decided to let the player return to the game under close observation. The ethical decision that must be made is this: Would the athlete be allowed to go back to play after sustaining a head injury? The types of ethical issues presented in the case are: Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Malfeasance and most importantly fidelity. Because these various stakeholders often have different interests and goals, health care professionals are often conflicted about the proper course of treatment for an injured athlete. Conflicts...
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...presented here I. Introduction Fan fiction also known as, fanfiction, fanfic, FF, or fic is a defined term for fan labor about stories of characters or simply fictional characters and settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or approved by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. Because of this, many fanfics written often contain a disclaimer stating that the creator of the fanfic owns none of the characters. Fan fiction, therefore, is defined by being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe and simultaneously existing outside the canon of that universe. Most fan fiction writers assume that their work is read primarily by other fans, and therefore tend to presume that their readers have knowledge of the canon universe (created by a professional writer) in which their works are based. Fan fiction, as the name suggests are works of fiction created by fans. Ranging from books to movies, eager aficionados re-create scenes and plots to fit their own fancy. While seemingly trite to some critics, the fan fiction community is a large and supportive arena which offers feedback and help for these persons who are yet unable to fly free. The cushion of already established characters and settings offers a sense of bravery as the groundwork for each story has already been started. Fan fiction can be classified as a novel...
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...is seen as a vital factor of sociology. Culture can be defined as common beliefs, behavior, objectives or characteristics formed within a group of people or society. People tend to define themselves with to a particular culture. In other words culture is a common set norms formed within a group of the society or a society to which people identify themselves to. This essay aims to explain in which ways culture is transmitted within the society and the effects this may have on individual members of a society. The essay will look at concepts of culture in terms of mass and folk culture. Furthermore it will take into consideration age, gender, social class and ethnicity, which will help to understand the interrelationship between self, identity and socialization. To understand culture in modern world better, the essay will aim to analyze the link between cultural consumption and identity in the modern society. Main body: According to Linton (1945) culture of a society is the way of life of its members; a collection of ideas and thoughts, which they learn and practiced. This is shared from one generation to another. There are different types of cultures for example high culture and low culture or popular culture. Popular culture or low culture is persuade by middle class people or working class people, whereas high culture is persuade by professionals or upper class people like sophisticated pursuits . These sophisticated pursuits enjoyed or shared by high...
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...guaranteed to be correct. There are no stipulations involved in putting information in the cloud. Anyone with the resources to do so can publish information. It is virtually impossible to authenticate and police this arena. Although there are groups that monitor sites that are deemed to be harmless to minors and others, these groups don’t have the ability to change the data, only make recommendations or provide filtering tools to protect against the innocent being exposed to it. There are currently no laws that govern what is acceptable for the web. Conversely, even if laws in our country were enacted, these laws would not stop the culprits from moving these operations to another country and continuing with business as usual. How can we identify when issues with information could exist? Why do we need to evaluate these things? The first major factor is lack of any formal structure. Popular sites like Wikipedia provide quick references to a vast number of topics. This site however usually has no reference to where the data came from. There are also no indications about what is acceptable as far as structure, content, or reading level. There are however other online encyclopedias, backed by their paper bound counterparts that provide structure and adhere to standards in place by the publisher. The next issue with online information is that it is not monitored. This simply means that there is not a group or law that sets determines what is acceptable. Although there have been...
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...INT401I/202/0/2013 Tutorial Letter 202/0/2013 Information and Technology Management IV INT401I Year module School of Computing This tutorial letter contains the model answers to assignment 1 & 2, and the Oct/Nov 2013 examination and Jan/Feb 2014 supplementary examination preparation notes. Bar code CONTENTS 1 TUTORIAL MATTER THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED TO DATE .................................. 3 Plagiarism ................................................................................................................................... 3 2 THE MODEL ANSWERS TO ASSIGNMENT 1 ........................................................................... 3 3 THE MODEL ANSWERS TO ASSIGNMENT 2 ........................................................................... 6 4 THE OCT/NOV 2013 EXAMINATION AND JAN/FEB 2014 SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION PREPARATION NOTES ............................................................................................................12 2 INT401I/202 1 TUTORIAL MATTER THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED TO DATE Title Description TUTORIAL LETTER 101/0/2013 Tutorial letter 101 contains important information about your module. VERY important information. TUTORIAL LETTER 201/0/2013 TUTORIAL LETTER 202/0/2013 Tutorial letter 202 contains the model answers to assignment 1 & 2, and the Oct/Nov 2013 examination and Jan/Feb 2014 supplementary examination preparation notes (this tutorial letter). Plagiarism NB: Plagiarism is the act of taking words...
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...The Driving Force Behind Consumer Choice Choice is determined through thought, from direct influences verbally, physically, and visually. So, by means of these three ways, a person could be guided in a direction where other people use these ways to direct a decision to an individual. Consumers fall prey to the market tricks of the corporate world. This essay will examine the phenomenon on what exactly triggers the motive to consume. Later, an examination of the strategies used by companies will give a detailed image of what the driving force is in consumer choice. The public argues that they make decisions for themselves with no outside thought, this paper argues against that and how companies use action to change a response in their favor. Factors such as product quality, people sponsorships, brand recognition, and the media are the most significant methods on consumer purchasing habits. The overall argument that will be demonstrated through this paper is what exactly creates the idea in a person’s mind to purchase a product or service. Throughout the course of this literary discussion, there will be points made for and against for each of the previously stated tactics, but to clearly define this topic is an art of its own. One of the major contributors towards consumer decision is that of sponsorships. An endorsement can bring brand value and brand recognition to a company. With increased attention, there is more incentive in any regular people to recollect that information...
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...crisis plans. Social media provides a way for organizations to do these things on a scale not known in earlier times when messages had to first bypass the filter of the media "gatekeepers". As stated by Rupert Murdoch, "Technology is shifting the power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, and the media elite. Now it's the people who are in control" (p. 1). Social media as defined by Wikipedia is "an umbrella term for the various activities that integrate technology, and social interaction" (p. 1). This includes internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures, and videos. Forrester, The Growth of Social Technology Adoption estimated in 2008, that 3 out of 4 Americans use social technology. It is this type of growth that makes it an inevitable, essential tool in creating a survivable existence. In the world of public relations,...
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...FA ND OM UNB OUND —-1 —0 —+1 561-47344_ch00_1P.indd i 7/27/11 6:21 PM -1— 0— +1— 561-47344_ch00_1P.indd ii 7/27/11 6:21 PM FAN DO M U N BOUND Otaku Culture in a Connected World Edited by MIZUKO ITO DAISUKE OKABE IZUMI TSUJI —-1 —0 —+1 New Haven & London 561-47344_ch00_1P.indd iii 7/27/11 6:21 PM Published with assistance from Copyright © 2012 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Subject to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http:www.itofisher.com/mito. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail sales.press @ yale.edu (U.S. office) or sales @ yaleup.co.uk (U.K. office). Designed by James J. Johnson Set in Janson Roman and Helvetica type by Westchester Book Group, Danbury, CT Printed in the United States of America [[CIP info to come]] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence...
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...1. Executive Summary In this group assignment, we will study Nissin Foods (NF) which is a long history brand and the largest manufacturer of instant noodles. We will analyze brand elements and identify the product, pricing and channel strategies of Nissin in Hong Kong market. Based on our evaluation, we will study the areas of improvement and give recommendation for the marketing plan so as to enhance the brand equity. 2. Background Nissin Foods Holdings Co Limited is a global company that makes instant noodles. It was established in 1958 by Mr. Momofuku Ando in Japan. The company has offices and factories all over the world including Hong Kong (since 1985) and China (since 1995). Nissin is the first brand that makes instant noodles and cup noodles. Its product categories include instant noodles, frozen foods, confectionery, chilled foods and drinks. Cup Noodles and Demae Iccho (DI) are the most popular brands in Hong Kong. 3. Brand Elements 4.1 Brand Name: Nissin Nissin is the transliteration of the Japanese word ’日清’ which means “to make pure and rich taste every day”. It is easy to pronounce and remember. Most importantly, it is likely for consumers to have association with its origin because the word “日” keeps customer remember Nissin is a Japanese brand and consumers perceived everything produced in Japan are in good quality. The jingle can help to increase the perceive quality of its products. 4.2 URLS URLs specify locations of pages of the web and...
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...(www.exampleessays.com essay) This paper is about the things needed to make a paper airplane fly. There are many things that contribute to a planes ability to fly. Some such things are weight, velocity, lift, and drag. Weight is relevant because the weight is directly related to gravity. In order to make the plane fly better it stands to reason that it needs to be lighter so that the pull of gravity will not be as great. Velocity is the initial push the plane gets when it is released. The greater push it is given the longer it will stay in flight. Velocity is directly affected by drag, which is the friction in the air that it is flying through. The lift is what keeps the plane flying and is created when flow is present. Flow is a current of air that is either flowing with or against the airplane, and this direction affects how far the airplane will fly (www.exampleessays.com, 2012). This paper is relevant to my experiment because in order to create a proper testing area, it is important to know what effects the environment will have on the plane. In addition to that it puts the question as to would it really matter what kind of paper was used for the plane? Would that slight difference in weight of varying types of paper really make a difference in a controlled environment on how far the paper airplane would fly? My hope is to find an answer to that question with my experiment. b. Physics of Paper Airplanes (www.123helpme.com essay) This paper also covers...
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...Introduction The event selected in order to complete this piece of work is the recently attended by the author Danish culture and music festival Roskilde. Roskilde Festival is the largest North European festival and has existed since 1971. It is a non-profit organization consisting of about 50 full-time employees and thousands of volunteers every year. Before going in to further detail of the event it is important to gain better understanding of the main concepts identified for this essay, namely events and experience. Within this body of work the author is attempting to explore the reasoning behind the classification of the chosen event as an experience. For this reason a closer look into the concepts of experience and experience economy is provided in the context of events. The various dimensions and levels of experience, as well as event experiences and the meanings attached to them are discussed in the literature review. The selected event is analyzed with the help of the discussed literature in order to establish its classification as an experience with final conclusions drawn at the end. Literature review In order to explore why a specific event is classified as an experience, the following literature review discussing the identified concepts of events and experience is provided. These concepts are explained with the help of various authors’ work, and the definitions and further aspects they describe are discussed. Experience Experiences are defined by Pine & Gilmore...
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...in class, media usage over the past decade has grown exponentially. People consume different types of media over a myriad of platforms and devices. Shows that were once only available at a certain time on singular networks can now be viewed at the consumers leisure with services such as Video On Demand (VOD), HULU, Netflix, and thousands of different websites and file sharing services. With all the freedom of watching programs whenever you desire, many companies send media messages that can control and dictate the way we, the consumers, view the world. Different movies and TV shows can make us see the world in ways that can sometimes be far from the truth; thinking that the father is always the bread winner or that a woman’s role is to take care of the children and the household are common themes that many programs make us believe are universal truths. Media messages can also make us feel a certain way about the characters of a particular program; those feelings can sometimes even be transferred from the screen to our psyche and can make us react in certain ways. But how do we know this? How can we observe these things and use them to combat the messages different providers send our way? Today, I will be discussing how two media theories, Uses and Gratification and Excitation Transfer, can be explained using a popular ABC program Once Upon A Time. Next, I will compare and contrast theses different media theories. Finally, I will explain how policy maker, media sources, and we as...
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...CONTENT TITLE | PAGE | | | Introduction | 3 | Functionalist View on Football * Latent Function * Dysfunction | 4-567-8 | Conflict Theory * Conflict Theory on Football | 910-11 | Interactionisnt Perspective | 12-13 | The Reasons That We Choose Functionalist Perspective | 14 | Conclusion | 15 | Reference | 16 | Introduction The topic of our report is sports and football. The reasons why we choose this topic because football is the world’s most popular sports and also is the one of most influential sports. People call football as ‘world movement’. Besides that, football has many football stars as we know such as David Beckham and Ronaldo Luiz Nazario De Lima. Football is an ancient sport. In the middle ages, the ancient Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games and some which include the use of the feet. Until early19th century, football is quite popular in Europe and some Latin or American countries especially in British. In 1848, ‘Cambridge Rules’ was born and it record all the rules of playing football. In 1863, the British Football Association was established and began the football league. In that time, football has become more professional in the world. As the sports developed rapidly around the world, the International Football was established in 1904.In 1908, football this sport was officially included in the Olympic Games projects. Where is the origin of football? Someone say the...
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...Principles of Microeconomics Solutions to Sample Final Examination Part A: Multiple Choice Questions 1. E 2. C - There is insufficient information to determine which choice she should make, but an optimal choice should include the opportunity cost of the $75,000 salary offer if the management position is the best alternative to her current position. 3. A - We must give up something in order to get more of another. Note that increasing opportunity costs tells us the shape of the curve, not why we have a negative slope. 4. A 5. C 6. B - Set 6 = 10 –2×Q, solve for Q = 2. Thus ε =(1/-2)×(6/2) = |-1.5|. 7. A - Set 5 = 20 –5×Q, solve for Q = 3. Thus, TR = P×Q = 5×3 = 15. 8. C - Since a perfectly competitive firm has no control over the market price, the only decision to make is how much to produce. 9. C 10. E 11. C; that is, inelastic demand. 12. A 13. C 14. C 15. B 16. A 17. E 18. E 19. C 20. C 21. D 22. E 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. C 27. D 28. C 29. D 30. B Part B: Short-Answer Questions B1. Rational Spending Rule David has two leisure activities – riding his new Triumph “Bonneville” motorcycle and growing award-winning orchids. David estimates that an hour’s worth of riding his motorcycle costs him $15 while an hour’s worth of orchid growing costs him $5. a) Assume David spends $100.00 per month on these two activities, “consuming”...
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