...Social Media Social networking sites have been around for quite a while now. “A social networking service is an online service which provides a platform for building social network or social relations among people. Social Networking is growing rapidly all over the world” (Deepa, p.1). It all started with MySpace, moved to Facebook, and now everyone’s addicted to Twitter. These social networking cites have their downfalls, but most definitely have positives that follow. “The popularity of social networking sites such as Face book. MySpace, Twitter LinkedIn, and Classmates.com more than quadrupled from 2005 in 2009. We are focusing on how these social networking sites are center of attraction in this new era of 21stcentury” (Deepa, p.1). MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook all give someone individuality to be who they want in front of a computer screen. These sites help shy people potentially come out of their shell little by little. These sites also allow people to meet and socialize with new people and create new friends. Some things that none of these sites tell you is if the person is real or not. Regardless of the name, picture, or mutual friends, you truly never know who is behind a computer screen. Many people aren’t as careful as they should be with talking to the random people they meet through the Internet and through these social networking sites. Social media is very addicting and will continue to be addicting with all the new additions they keep adding to all...
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...Final Project: Business Writing Project XCOM285 Part 1 How to Use Social Media for Business The article is written for a business audience. The writers are addressing businesses or organizations by mentioning the benefits of social media. They address how social media can be used to find out what competitors are doing. The article mentions how businesses need to understand who their customers are. The purpose of the article is to inform the reader of the benefits and downfalls of social media. The benefits mentioned are how to build a company’s fan or customer base. The article informs the readers that social media is not a way to sell their fans but to understand what their fans or customer needs. The article serves a purpose to persuade. By addressing the benefits of social media they are forming a persuasive stance on social media and how it can help a business. The writer organizes the information in the article by providing topics of the do’s and don’ts. The writer first lists the don’ts of social media. She gives an explanation of what not to do with social media. She writes about the downfalls of what happens with fans or customers if a business does not pay attention to their social media account and to understand how to operate the account to benefit their business. The writer continues to list the benefits of social media by providing the understanding of how a social website can help a business grow their customer base. By understanding...
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...“We are free to choose our actions, but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions,” Stephen Covey said. Karma can be defined as destiny, fate, or an effect of a cause. Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology is a collection of epitaphs of people who lived in the town of Spoon River. The collections represent a small town of many people who have had very different lives. Many characters would be related to each other through work or religion, moreover, while some characters would be related to scandals. Some of the origins of the scandals would come from the secrets that people would die with. Butch Weldy is a character who is deeply affected by karma. Butch is a man who would take advantage of women, consequently one of them...
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...being an unbiased medium for the communication of information, the U.S. media plays an intricate role in shaping and controlling political opinions. Media is extremely powerful in the sense that without an adequately functioning media, it is virtually impossible for a sophisticated social structure like the U.S. Government to exist. All known sophisticated social structures have always been dependent upon the media’s ability to socialize. The U.S. government generally will exploit the media, often times manipulating the enormous power of the printed word. This exploitation ultimately empowers the U.S. government by strengthening it with the ability to determine and control the popular perception of reality. One way in which government achieves this objective is by misusing the media’s ability to set the agenda. Contrary to popular belief, the media is in fact an enormous power in society. Separate independent news organizations do not exist for the most part. Rather than creating an independent structured agenda of their own, smaller news organizations adapt to a prepared agenda, previously constructed by a higher medium. Based upon this information alone, it is quite apparent that media has the characteristics of a hierarchical rule. In order for the U.S. government to control and determine the public’s popular perception of reality, the government must shape and oversee the information that the media reports to the people. This particular process of democracy is known and...
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...their ideas out when they are against big corporations and wealthy CEOs. Corporations and Unions should not be able to buy media for political candidates for the public to view. Our government has the right to stop corruption, our people have the right to equal media and our first amendment right protects the individual, not the corporation. The case of Citizens United and the Federal Election Commission's (FEC) is a case that brought this topic into the public eye. Citizens United tried to broadcast an ad against Hillary Clinton; doing so would go against the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. Citizens United took on the law and sued the FEC. The case was taken to the supreme court where the ruling was in favor of Citizens United 5-4. The restriction on independent spending was considered unconstitutional and they said that the government should not be able to regulate the spending. This passed allowed corporations and unions to participate in election spending....
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...athletes, who are here to merely entertain us, get paid higher wages than those that save our lives and teach us such as medical doctors and teachers. Professional athletes do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals. It is my claim that professional baseball players are paid more than they are worth. Economics is the key to understanding why these athletes earn such tremendous salaries; still, it fails to explain why they actually do deserve it. Giving athlete’s high wages doesn’t only distort them, but also bring downfall to clubs and the country’s economy. The growth and the development of a sport may be reflected from the wages of the athletes and that is all it does. In conclusion, Team owners pay more to keep athletes on the team to be on a winning streak, but whether the drive to win is justifiable remains in doubt. The economic system involving sports, corporate America, and the media is an interdependent one. Athletes make huge sums of money paid to them by owners who make even larger sums of money. Agents, free agency, and other phenomena keep athlete salaries rising. So, too, does increased ticket sales to games, increased TV viewership, enormous media contracts, TV advertising, and corporate sponsorship and endorsement deals. The economic rewards in the sports industry are so enormous that corporate America, the media, and sports franchises are driven to earn a larger slice of the profit pie. Mergers...
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...Qualitative Study on two Case Studies I. Disney makes a Comeback II. The Downfall of Uptown Letter of Transmittal 23 April, 2015 Ms. Rumana Ferdous Course instructor, Introduction to Business, Green Business School, Subject: Submission of Term Paper Dear Ma’am, With a great pleasure and interest here, we submit our report, which you have assigned us to prepare by today as a term paper. This report is focused on “Marketing strategy of Disney and Uptown cigarettes and their impacts”. Here we analyzed marketing strategy of those companies according to what we’ve learned through the whole term. Though we are in learning curve, this report has enabled us to gain insight into the core fact of marketing factors. It has been a unique experience to carry out such a research work. The contents provided in this report are all our own, though some information and references have been taken from different sources to facilitate our report. However, we will be glad to clarify any discrepancy that may arise. Finally, we would love to express our gratitude for your supportive thoughts and kind consideration in and outside the class. Yours Sincerely Md. Abdullah Al Noman - 151006021 Md. Kamrul Hasan - 151006011 Jewel Rana - 151006007 Rubana Islam Piya - 151006094 Acknowledgement We would like to use this opportunity to express our gratitude to everyone who supported us throughout the project of this BBA program...
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...Balance of Media Media is a huge part of politics. Without the mass communication systems we have in the US today, there would be an even bigger knowledge gap in our population. The percentage of people who are actually up to date on current politics and issues is astounding when you look at all the media coverage these areas have. The media serves as a politician’s biggest survivor tool and worst enemy; although some like to say any media is good media, when dealing with politics it can be a detriment, not only to a politician but to the entire political system. Having freedom of press leaves unlimited opportunities to convey whatever news there may be in whatever way best suits that source. How the media influence has changed people’s mind about politics can be seen as good and bad. With an already considerably low number of citizens active in their knowledge of politics, the media is a huge reliant. Without television broadcast, and radio stations there would be millions of more people clueless as to what is going on in our government. So for their general purpose of simply informing the public, the media overflow is a good thing and has positive influence on people. There are also media outlets that stand on either side of the spectrum, so people can see the difference and get the correct information for both sides. And even better there are some less popular channels that convey both sides equally without bias toward either party or view, making an excellent source...
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...n our world today, ignorance is a fluent trait in our population. People live through their lives in an ignorant bliss because they do not take time to look into reasoning beyond a normal perspective. Ignorance doesn’t necessarily refer to one’s knowledge in an academic sense but more so is one’s understanding of our surroundings and the world. It cannot be seen with a blind eye, but when looked at on a large scale, our population’s ignorance from our entertainment, inaccurate beliefs, and media will be the downfall of our misunderstood world. Ignorance often defines and influences our morals and social dramatic instances. We let our ego control our actions by only doing things if will be amusing or influential to our piers. This kind of thinking causes us to avoid seeing as things as they really are, instead we just agree with the majority’s view. The reason we think in this sense is because of our fear of the unknown. It is a fear that is not necessarily scary and normally we don’t even realize its existence, but when our ignorance begins to fade, we see how corrupt and self-centered our world is becoming. Ignorance mainly grows from our media that often solely influences our minds. For example, what we consider entertainment is drama, comedy, and reality shows on television. The drama people see usually effects how they think and how they look at others, though most people never take time to realize that all television drama is staged and made out to be the...
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...Media Convergence Worksheet Write brief 250- to 300-word answers to each of the following: Questions Answers What is meant by the term media convergence with regard to technology, and how has it affected everyday life? Media convergence means that the different kinds of media are becoming one. I believe that even though we have many forms of media it all is still merging into the main form that we us these days: technology. This has made a big effect on our everyday life simply because we now use technology for everything. Most of us no longer go get newspapers and things as such like we use to. Now everything is available for us online or through our smart phones. They even have apps on our smart phones for the online sites that have the information from the newspaper. This makes things easier in a sense. It also helps us get information without going through so many different kinds of sources and media’s. We use technology so much more these days; everything is slowly but surely becoming electronic or being able to be done/reached through technology. Traditional media is still here but it is not as effective as it used to be. Technology is the big hit of the century. We use technology more than we can imagine and it has become so much more advanced than I ever imagined. I believe it will only continue to advance and blow our minds knows where things will be in another century. I do believe that if technology keeps advancing like this that in the future traditional media...
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...who are here to merely entertain us, get paid higher wages than those that save our lives and teach us such as medical doctors and teachers. Professional athletes do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals. It is my claim that professional baseball players are paid more than they are worth. Economics is the key to understanding why these athletes earn such tremendous salaries; still, it fails to explain why they actually do deserve it. Giving athlete’s high wages doesn’t only distort them, but also bring downfall to clubs and the country’s economy. The growth and the development of a sport may be reflected from the wages of the athletes and that is all it does. In conclusion, Team owners pay more to keep athletes on the team to be on a winning streak, but whether the drive to win is justifiable remains in doubt. The economic system involving sports, corporate America, and the media is an interdependent one. Athletes make huge sums of money paid to them by owners who make even larger sums of money. Agents, free agency, and other phenomena keep athlete salaries rising. So, too, does increased ticket sales to games, increased TV viewership, enormous media contracts, TV advertising, and corporate sponsorship and endorsement deals. The economic rewards in the sports industry are so enormous that corporate America, the media, and sports franchises are driven to earn a larger slice of the profit pie. Mergers...
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...As Generations Evolve, So Does Our Media In today’s day in age we are constantly flooded with information and news that is being almost shoved at us from all different angles. From radio, newspapers, television, magazines and the Internet we are always engaged in some sort of media. As technology has progressed we have also been able to access news and information anywhere in the world. With our tablets, laptops, and smartphones media is at the tips of our fingers and always available for us, which is much different then how it used to be. From the censorship of the media to the constant use of new media, the differences from the media in America’s history and today’s are vast. Every generation has to adjust to the media type that is current for their time, however with the constant progression of technology we are affected by the content of the media as well and the delivery system. Conferring with someone from an older generation helps fully understand how the media has changed and the different perspectives about it. My mother, Ellen Ferretti, was born on July 15, 1956 and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, right across river from New York City. Even though she was born in the 50’s she still has a reference of information about the media during her childhood and teen years. Growing up she recalled always having newspapers, magazines, and the radio as a source of media. Her parents read the newspaper as a source of information and current events, locally...
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...Changing the Narrative * An Analysis and discussion of “My Happy Detroit” Ruined streets, echoing car alarms and dilapidated buildings all combine to provide the perfect scenery for a post-apocalyptic film. However, there is nothing dramatized about this image - It is the concerning reality of modern day Detroit. At least, that has been the narrative in the media since the latter part of the sixties. Carolyn Edgar, who spent her childhood in Detroit, tells another story. Carolyn Edgar graduated with a bachelor degree in English with high distinction, giving her opinion academic reliability. Her work consists mostly of writing for internet blogs. She has worked consistently for the progressive, liberal magazine Salon for the last three years. She was raised in Detroit, and she mostly has fond memories of the city. This is why she wants to dismantle the message in the media. Edgar appeals to pathos by telling anecdotes of her childhood, in order to rebut the common narrative of the media. She begins by painting an idyllic scene: Children playing at a barbecue. “While the ribs were on the grill, we would play Motown hits on the record player another cousin brought over for the occasion”(ll. 7-8). This image immediately creates empathy and identification with the reader, and dismantles the image that the common person has of Detroit as a dilapidated city. By anchoring the reader with an emotional standpoint right from the beginning, Carolyn establishes a bond of trust...
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... he interprets in his own way. From the beginning of the book you can tell he finds technology a double edged sword. Postman states "In the United States, where television has taken hold more deeply than anywhere else, many people find it a blessing, not least those have achieved high-paying, gratifying careers in television as executives, technicians, newscasters, and entertainers"(Postman, 1992, Pg.8). This is the benefit he sees. He then follows with the downfall of "On the other hand and in the long run, television may bring a gradual end to the careers of school teachers,.." (Postman, 1992, Pg.10). Where is his proof. Maybe there are not a lot of teaching positions, but is that solely to blame on technology? According to forbes.com, "are contending with budget cuts and the threat of layoffs, but people in the field expect them to start hiring again, and heavily..."(Weiss, 2009, Pg.1). Not because of technology, but because of a deficiency in educational spending. He makes a point that technology is redirecting our understanding of language and meaning. That...
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...How important is our world, our country for us? Our country is a like our individual homes. The only difference is that is much bigger and has a lot of family members. Everythings that will happen in our country will absolutely affect us. America is known to be one of the best countries in the whole world because of its economy, military, laws, and rights. However, its gloriousness is on the edge of falling down because of us. We the Americans is considered a threat because of our doing. Destroying our environment and being divided can cause our country’s downfall. We must do everything we can to protect and not destroy because we are the ones who will be affected by it eventually. Protect our nature and being altruistic will save and continue...
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