...Social Medias Impact on Consumer Behavior With today’s technology the use of social media has taken the world by storm, with millions of people able to rate, review and share opinions on products at the palm of their hands. The high usage of social media sites is creating a new medium for companies to communicate with consumers on a personal level they were not able to years ago. With the usage of smartphones sky rocketing consumers are now able give their “two cents” about products or services the second they experience them. This is an essential element for companies and consumers because social media allows them to view reactions about new products, whether they are negative or positive. Where would you like to eat tonight? Be daring and try the new bistro that just opened down the street or play it safe and go to Applebee’s? This could be one of the most daunting decisions someone may have to make throughout their day. When it comes to where one would like to spend their hard earned dollar on a meal 45% of consumers turn to leading social media sites like Yelp for recommendations (Pann). 57% of consumers rely on the reviews from these sites on restaurants to determine where they will dine that night (Pann). But how reliable are these reviews that consumers are putting such high importance when it comes to their dining experiences? When it comes to the reviews on websites such as Yelp, a recent study by Gartner a tech research company has determined by 2014 that 10%...
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...Bias in the Media Bias in the media still exists today and many sources have them. You might not catch the fake news but it is still out there. Many sources take each article differently whether it is bias or true. The information is key to these articles to spot the bias in them. We must be careful on what sources you choose to hear from because you might just be completely lied to. I brought up one topic that took many bias turns. Trump declaring Jerusalem as Israel's article is very bias in many different sources. ABC News was straight into the facts however CNN took some turns and had bias views. CNN showed me less of the topic at hand and kept arguing that one side is mores superior than another. I see why CNN is at the bottom because...
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...The news media has caused a great controversy over the last past six months. People have criticized the media for misleading the public for giving unsupported facts. The truth is, the media do give precise information to the public. It's the type of sources where the news come from. The news media are essentials of mass media that emphasis on distributing news to the public. Newspapers, broadcast news, social media, are different types of media. These mass media have influenced the lives in America. The news has played an important part in America since the 19th century and has served a purpose of providing news on local, national, and international events. Television news is most views than any other media, according to Pew Research Center....
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...Have you ever wondered why not only one citizen, but a mass, becomes effortlessly fooled into believing fake news and pseudo-events? The current United States society enables the ability to avoid trickery in presuming untruths and pseudoscience by analyzing news, researching a plethora of information, and looking in depth to a topic. The articles “‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy Theorist Who Shot Up DC. Restaurant Sentenced To 4 Years” by Ryan J. Reilly, Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret Past Chapter 21: A Flood of Pseudo-events by Daniel J. Boorstin, Unspun finding facts in a world of disinformation by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “Everyday Survival” by Laurence Gonzales, and “Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization”...
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...difference when parents want their child to complete in a pageant show, because there is competition and sportsmanship their also. Beauty pageants stated in the U.S. in 1921, with the introduction of Miss America pageant. Child beauty pageants did not start until the 1961 in New Jersey. The first was started at amusement park in Bergen County. It was intended for 13-17 year olds, but got more participants and they started to split the contestants by age. The little Miss American pageant was...
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...Central Idea/Theme/Thesis 1. Social media websites unite the criminal and victim in an easy way. iv. Preview 1. Criminals get the fastest and easiest touch with victims in social media. 2. The plans that traffickers do to make victims fall in their dirty hands. 3. How it affects the victim’s communication towards his or her loved ones. To begin with, The internet can be use for good and new discoveries but, the trafficker now a days use it too. II. Body A. How the criminals get in touch with the victim through out the social media. i. Now that traffickers are able to use the Internet in their vicious and naughty ways, it makes it easier for them to reach for their victims. ii. Long ago traffickers needed to go outside their houses to find their victims, but now traffickers can seat down with their computer, find a dark spot and search for their victim through out the social media. iii. Now that traffickers can use the Internet to make their jobs easier, we need to be alert on what we see in the Internet or what we press or apply for. You never know who is in the other side of the computer. (Dixon, Judge.1) Moreover, they’re several ways traffickers use the...
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...THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. The spread of technology that makes office work easier can make white-collar crimes almost laughably simple. Laser printers can forge documents with breathtaking fidelity, and color copiers can reproduce them. Imagine a dishonest executive boarding a plane and carrying a laptop computer with a modem. Using the on- board telephone, he hooks up to the mainframe at headquarters and transfers $50 million to his Swiss bank account -- as he jets toward Rio. Such new opportunities, plus the spirit of an age that encourages rather than represses the natural lust for wealth, are greatly intensifying the allure of ripping off one's employer. The amounts being stolen from companies appear to be growing dramatically. In the past several weeks a former General Electric Capital manager, allegedly in cahoots with a bank vice president, was charged with taking $30,000 in kickbacks as part of a scheme that resulted in $4.5 million of fraudulent loans. A Continental Illinois vice president went on trial charged with approving $1 billion of bad loans in exchange for $585,000 in kickbacks, loans that allegedly cost the Chicago bank $800 million and helped trigger its 1984 collapse. FDIC investigators say internal fraud was the major cause of one-third of all bank failures over the past two years. To some extent the victims have themselves to blame. A company with shoddy financial controls or badly trained internal auditors practically begs employees...
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...This year, Mercedes Benz is offering a new four-door sedan known as the CLA. They released commercials targeted for Super Bowl audiences that really caught my attention. Neither commercial is about the car's performance, ride comfort, or its gas mileage. Initially, I could not understand my attraction to the first commercial but then it hit me… nostalgia. It was hard to put my finger on because that nostalgia lay wrapped in a superficial layer of modernity. I found it entertaining and found that it conveyed a message to me. As for the second commercial, I was left a little confused and not very impressed. For the advertisers to hit the mark so clearly on one commercial but miss the mark so widely on the second, did not make sense. The commercial titled "Soul" begins in the timeworn French Quarter café, The Napoleon House, which according to their website got its name when, "Nicholas Girod, was mayor of New Orleans from 1812 to 1815. He offered his residence to Napoleon in 1821 as a refuge during his exile." just before his death in 1821, "Napoleon never made it, but the name stuck"(Unknown 2013). The dining room is filled with the primitive, Candomblé rhythm of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil", pouring in torrents from the early 1950s Seeburg Select-O-Matic jukebox, as the actor peers out a window admiring a billboard of the new Mercedes Benz CLA. Even though the main actor in the first commercial is a young man, I believe that it becomes part of the...
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...designed by chemists, they don’t appear on the Federal list of banned substances and therefore are being marketed as safe and legal. Sources: Gray, E. (2014, April 10). The Rise of Fake Pot. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from http://time.com/57167/rise-of-fake-pot/ Becker, O. (2014, May 20). UN Warns of Unprecedented Surge in Synthetic Drug Use Worldwide. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from https://news.vice.com/article/un-warns-of-unprecedented-surge-in-synthetic-drug-use-worldwide State, J. (2012, December 4). Synthetic Marijuana Sent 11,000 People to Emergency Rooms in 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/synthetic-marijuana-sent-11000-people-to-emergency-rooms-in-2010/ Organization(s)/Indivdual(s) Involved: DEA, Congress, Various Chemistry Companies Background and Current Status: Roughly 5 years ago, synthetic drugs were, for the most part, greatly unheard of but now the industry is growing and providing dangerous highs to customers at an unprecedented rate. These synthetic substances are being classified as New Psychoactive Substances and they have quickly taken over the drug market according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Total amphetamine-type stimulant seizures have skyrocketed 80 percent globally from 2010 to 2012 because of the new legal supply chain. A report released by the UN on May 20th identified 348 synthetic drugs in 90 countries over the past five years, none of which are under international regulation...
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...Cori Stuckey English III / Period 5 Mrs. Wegner 25 September 2015 How to Spot a Shopaholic The term “shopaholic” can be used to describe someone that is a compulsive shopper. A shopaholic may be stereotyped as a blonde girl in her early twenties, spending all of her parent’s money. Some may think that shopaholics can only be girls, but they definitely can be guys too. Unopened or tagged items It is best to start your investigation by looking in the suspect’s usually gigantic closet. You will notice that there are unopened shoe boxes. There may also be clothing that still has tags – shirts, shorts, sweaters, pants – who knows! Look for clothes in the bottom of the closet that they have maybe forgot about. Ask the suspected shopaholic if they remember buying these items, and if they hesitate or lie, their favorite things in their closet will start to disappear. Isolation Another good way to spot a shopaholic is to isolate them. Put them in a house for a few days, where they are unable to leave and go shopping. Normal people would usually be fine, but shopaholics get anxious. You have to send them a fake text saying that there is a huge sale at their favorite store. If they are a shopaholic, they will beg to go there and get even more anxious. Social Media Check Everyone knows that shopaholics like to show off the many things they purchase. Social media is a clue to whether a person is actually a shopaholic or not. Look at their Instagram. They usually use captions...
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...home- Dragons Den, Jersey Shore, Survivor and Big Brother. Now, what do all these shows have in common besides all being reality TV shows? They all have normal everyday people, real reactions and the people who watch these shows can relate to them. Yes some people may argue that some shows are over-done and the actor’s reactions are fake but the truth behind the matter is that everybody has a different opinion on what over-doing a reaction is. If reality shows didn’t reflect our lives, then nobody would watch the shows. We watch reality shows because they are entertaining, and they put people like us in situations where their actions are being watched 24/7. If you were offered a role in a reality TV show such as Big Brother, at first you’d be careful of what actions you make on camera knowing the world is watching. But how long can you really keep acting fake? The real you, the real reactions when you are put in a hard situation will come out. This is why reality shows such as Big Brother reflect real life because it’s based on real reactions of normal people like you and I. The opposition may argue that the editing if what makes reality TV look fake but remember that the camera doesn't lie. No matter how much editing is done to compress and provide a story line to the hundreds of hours of video footage, it is extremely difficult to edit clear statements made in the "privacy" of the individuals. It is even harder to misrepresent actions caught on camera. And, it is all but impossible...
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...Is Pro Wrestling fake or real? EN1320 Comp1 Research Paper IIT-Tech As long time avid fan of pro wrestling I always get ask is pro wrestling is fake? Sure pro wrestling is a male oriented soap opera, that storylines and matches do have predetermined outcome. Predetermined meaning the refs, wrestlers and bookers know who is going to win or lose a match before the actual match starts. Yes the hazards can be real inside the squared circle because if a wrestler receives or takes a “bump” the wrong way. It could be a career ending injury that wrestler might not even wrestle again. That being said every pro wrestler trains day in and day out to insure nobody gets hurt in the squared circle. For the untrained eye or people who don’t follow wrestling do not factor that in. Now the question that is always topic of debate about pro wrestling is it a sport or entertainment? Pro wrestling is part entertainment part sport because Greco Roman wrestling style it uses. The moves preformed like headlocks, suplexs and slams come from the Greco Roman wrestling style. Pro wrestling uses “Gimmicks” meaning the persona, usually artificially created; one has in order to draw fan interest. Here is where the entertainment comes into play for pro wrestling. Without the entertainment aspect of it, pro wrestling would boring, stale and not really fun to watch. Who wouldn’t want to watch a guy named “Dude Love” an overweight guy wearing tie dye, sunglasses and talking like a throwback 1960's hippie...
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...bottom of the totem pole and he really isn't good at what he does. I also told him that he's stagnant and doesn't work hard to better himself. I then went on to tell him that he's a coward and is afraid to try new things because he's afraid of failing. He's afraid of what other people will think if they see him fail. I told him that I'm never going to think anything more of him than that in which he thought of himself (hope I structured that correctly). Thennnnnn I told him lets take a step back from his dark world of hopelessness and pessimism and take a look at things from my perspective. I told him that I see a ton of great things in him and listed off tons of areas where he excels. I told him that he needs to get his life together and stop whining about what he can't do and sharpen his current set of tools, then add to the arsenal. Told him that he doesn't get better because he has already set a limit to his potential and in his eyes growth isn't possible. He said he's at the bottom and can only go down. Quick story... He watched me spot a double full back in the day and went crazy because he had never seen anyone spot one before. He asked me how I did it and I showed him what to spot for. That was ages ago and last night I told him that was my first time to ever spot a double and he was like no way....he asked if I was nervous and what if I dropped her and she broke her leg. I don't think like that at all and I mentioned how that wasn't even a feasible outcome. I told him...
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...Dialectical Journal #2 Quote: “She looks around to if anybody else is about to interrupt her, smiling as her head turns in her collar” Response: In this passage the Big Nurse, Nurse Ratched, excerpts her authority amongst her patients by demoralizing them without speaking or using force. I have been put in a situation in which a teacher was able to keep her cool and command authority by showing power even when the students were being difficult. This power allowed the teacher to control her class without showing a sign of weakness. Nurse Ratched uses this technique to subdue her patients into making them believe that she’s all powerful Quote: “He had come to life for may be a minute to try and tell us something, something none of us cared to or tried to understand, and the effect had drained him dry.” Response: A patient in the hospital had a panic attack and tried to tell his colleagues something but was unable to and passed out according to this passage. Many times our feeling and emotions make sense to us but we can’t always explain them to the people that surround us. I have often felt a need to express my ideas with family and friends but occasionally I do not express myself correctly. The effort needed to explain something only you can feel can drain your energy. Quote: “This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.” Response: The passage...
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...Is Pro Wrestling fake or real? (07/31/2015) EN1320 Comp1 Research Paper IIT-Tech As long time avid fan of pro wrestling I always get ask is pro wrestling is fake? Sure pro wrestling is a male oriented soap opera, that storylines and matches do have predetermined outcome. Predetermined meaning the refs, wrestlers and bookers know who is going to win or lose a match before the actual match starts. Yes the hazards can be real inside the squared circle because if a wrestler receives or takes a “bump” the wrong way. It could be a career ending injury that wrestler might not even wrestle again. That being said every pro wrestler trains day in and day out to insure nobody gets hurt in the squared circle. For the untrained eye or people who don’t follow wrestling do not factor that in. Now the question that is always topic of debate about pro wrestling is it a sport or entertainment? Pro wrestling is part entertainment part sport because Greco Roman wrestling style it uses. The moves preformed like headlocks, suplexs and slams come from the Greco Roman wrestling style. Pro wrestling uses “Gimmicks” meaning the persona, usually artificially created; one has in order to draw fan interest. Here is where the entertainment comes into play for pro wrestling. Without the entertainment aspect of it, pro wrestling would boring, stale and not really fun to watch. Who wouldn’t want to watch a guy named “Dude Love” an overweight guy wearing tie dye, sunglasses and talking like a throwback...
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