...In human history, terrorism is widely recognized as the world biggest threat to global peace. It is the cruellest of crimes against humanity. Only in 2013, 9700 terrorist attacks in 93 countries have taken place, where 18000 died and 33000 were injured. 2014 and 2015 showed an exponential growth of terrorism in the Western world. (Ezinearticles.com). Terrorism is not a traditional war between countries but between religions, ideologies, and faith. It is a minority group that tries to grow and gain power to achieve independence, spread religion, and change an existing system. Canada is not immune from terrorism. Terrorists engage in terrorism activities on Canadian soil, or support terrorism beyond Canada’s borders, hostile to Canada’s order,...
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...columnist for the BG News, observes, "As I walked down the hallway to a friend's dorm room, I couldn't help being distracted by a distinct, yet now common tone coming from almost every room in the hall.... Every day since I've been here, I hear the same tunes: . . . the sound of the very trendy AOL Instant Messenger service (Keys 4). According to a survey that I conducted among students at Bowling Green State University, 30 out of 46 respondents said that they spent as much or more time on conversations through Instant Messenger as through e-mail and/or phone. Twenty-one of these respondents reported that they typically spend more than an hour per day using Instant Messenger. (Survey). In a certain sense this is to be expected. Throughout history, old forms of communication have continually been replaced by new ones. Face-to-face conversations were the only way to communicate before the written word. Communication then advanced from letters to telephone conversations, to e-mail, and now on to Instant Messenger. There are many reasons for accepting this new form of communication. It is more convenient, it is popular, and it allows people to control the conversation and project any image they wish. However, the main reason that Instant Messenger is so widely used is that it is conducive to the kind of conversation that people in our culture today have grown to expect and enjoy. ------------------------------------------------- One of the most commonly accepted reasons for the...
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...Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane has been consistently ranked as one of the best films ever made. A masterpiece of technique and storytelling, the film helped to change Hollywood film-making and still exerts considerable influence today. However, at the time of its premiere in 1941, it was a commercial failure that spelled disaster for Welles' Hollywood career. Within the maze of its own aesthetic, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the debasement of the private personality of the public figure, and the second deals with the crushing weight of materialism. Taken together, these two themes comprise the bitter irony of an American success story that ends in futile nostalgia, loneliness, and death. The fact that the personal theme is developed verbally through the characters while the materialistic theme is developed visually, creating a distinctive stylistic counterpoint. It is against the counterpoint that the themes unfold within the structure of a mystery story. Its theme is told from several perspectives by several different characters and is thought provoking. Techniques such as single source lighting, creative use of shadows, montage, obscure camera angles, and deep focus photography make the film more enthralling visually, but also contributed to the narrative and many of the themes. The most defining stylistic element of Citizen Kane is the lighting. Welles meant for it to be a dark picture, unlike anything that had been filmed up to that...
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...as a second language to maintain a successful business in Argentina is a must. Learning Spanish will show Argentina businesses and their leaders that time was taken out to learn their language to communicate. Business leaders in Argentina depend on establishing and maintaining a great, personal relationship in order for businesses to compete and flourish in the economy. Just like a U.S. business, firms need good relationships with other business leaders or other firms to keep their own business flowing and producing goods or services. Argentine customs with holding business conversations are right in tune with U.S. business meetings or conversations. The greetings, handshakes, eye contact, punctuality, and the ability to maintain a non-business conversation can “make or break” any firm looking to do business here. There are two very important facts that this U.S. firm should know about Argentine conversations. The first is a title; way you address someone is extremely important. Argentinians may find it disrespectful if you don’t address elderly correctly, or people in their careers or professions in the...
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...Privacy. What does that mean? The dictionary definition says it is the condition of being free from being observed or bothered by others. Besides what privacy means, the real question is if we have it? Should we also give up the privacy we have now for greater good of society? In the book, 1984, it shows the readers a world where everyone is being watched and controlled all the time, a place with no privacy nor freedom. Our society should not have to give up certain aspects of privacy just for the safety of others, especially when it has not been proven that spying on us can prevent life threatening events.How much does our society have incommon with this Orwellian country? In 1984, basically every move you make is being watched, “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.”(Orwell, pg 4). This is...
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...Tragedy struck America on 9/11 when two hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center, a third in the pentagon, and a fourth in the fields of Pennsylvania. Several major events followed this: the war on terror began, intensive investigations involving terrorist organizations, and the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, or the TSA. Created by the Bush administration on November 19, 2001, the TSA’s goal is to prevent attacks like the ones on 9/11 or other threats to passengers, before they happen. While many see the TSA as noble, necessary, and effective, others see just the opposite. Those in favor of the TSA believe that it protects American citizens, which includes confiscating weapons or other items that could pose a threat to passengers and the flight crew. On the TSA’s blog, Bob...
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...the planes were flown directly into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. A third plane then hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, DC, and the fourth and final plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Now referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive destruction, over 3000 merciless deaths in New York City and Washington, and triggered the driving force behind major US initiatives to combat terrorism. Also, may view this horrific event as a defining moment in the presidency of George W. Bush. The first strike was on the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Flight 11, a Boeing 747 carrying 76,000 pounds of jet fuel and 92 passengers, was overtaken by five Arabic passengers, that was later discovered to have worked directly with al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden to both plan and give life to this attack. At 7:40 am the flight departed from Boston as normal, the flight maintained its course for the first thirteen minutes. Following this, the crew was not acknowledging communications with the FAA. Several attempts were made to communicate with the crew but no reply was received, with the exception of the sound of static and was thought to be a scream. Connection was finally made at 8:18am to Cary, North Carolina to the American Airlines office stating that the plane was being hijacked. Initially, the call was grossly mishandled; transferred to a colleague who began recording the conversation, and taken to a supervisor who then passed the call to...
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... L a e t i t i a F o u r e u r INDEX Introduction 3 I. A. B. You are Being Watched in Popular Culture The Firm by John Grisham Surveillance in Other Works 3 3 4 II. A. B. C. Surveillance in Daily Lives History Different Kinds of Surveillance Regulation of The Surveillance 5 5 7 14 III. A. B. Reversal of The Situation: Everyone can Watch One Another Exhibitionism Voyeurism 17 17 19 Conclusion 21 SOURCES 22 2 Introduction: Our freedom is always under electronic surveillance. Computer technologies have increased; this is what specialists call "traceability". Our operations, our conversations, our tastes and interests leave traces in the multiple computer systems that manage our daily lives. All these data are collected, centralized and stored by public or private organizations that can know at any time the "profile" of each individual. Every day in so many ways we are being watched. We are told it is for our own good, our own protection, to make our lives better, but is it? Until recently all of this would have been considered as science fiction but now the evidence is all around us. There is no denying that we live in a surveillance society. No matter what we do, there is no turning back. I. A. You are Being Watched in Popular Culture The Firm by John Grisham In the book, Mitch is always...
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...From runners in Ancient Greece and trained carrier pigeons in the Middle Ages to the Pony Express of early America, fax machines of the 90s to today’s ever-present internet connection, humankind has relied on the technology of the times to communicate. When members of a society cannot communicate with one another, breakdowns occur and the society is at risk of collapse. The impact communication technology is having on the world at large can be felt at every level of society: from education to social activism, communication technology is making it possible for anyone anywhere in the world to make an impact. While technology has brought about great change and made the seemingly impossible possible; the role that technology plays in society has its detractors. Humanity does not always accept the novel. Change is always greeted with suspicion and society can be slow to shift its paradigm. Today, no one can deny the power of having a literate society. Literacy rates are at an all-time global high. Any student who went to school in the 20th century studied using tomes of paper bound together in the relic known as textbooks. Textbooks were not handwritten, as was the norm prior to the invention of the printing press. Rather, they were mass-produced so that anyone in the school system could have access to educational materials. Mass-produced printed material has allowed society to become more literate, which in turn has helped the global economy. However, when the printing press was...
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...prioritizes the 3-D’s—density, design and diversity. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is credited with ending government-sponsored inequality in the United States but “equality in transportation has been established in name only.” In urban areas in the United States, the best explanation for racial housing segregation is discrimination and prejudice against minorities.[1] Transit-Oriented Development aims to create lasting communities of mixed income, race and lifestyle and return populations to the city but must overcome discrimination and prejudice and sustain a variety of housing opportunities to avoid neighborhoods from relapsing into isolated poor enclaves scourging current cities. Lack of access to public and private transportation networks limits millions of people from growth civically, socially and economically. Today consumer housing demand is very different from post World War II America. Condo sales are booming, 37% of all households want dense “modest” homes and 71% of older households want to live within walking distance of transit.[2] Postwar migration to the suburbs was not wholly based on race: “many middle-class families became suburbanites because older cities lacked the dream houses at affordable prices in good neighborhoods with good schools. Others went to the suburbs to flee high city taxes and low city politics or to live nearer new, suburban-based jobs.”[3] People had not recognized the progress of their cities, as they were becoming cleaner, safer and healthier...
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...Pains of Airborne Conversation By Ernest S.Maximore In my airborne conversations, I have had the opportunity to talk on various issues and with personalities, some familiar relations and some temporary acquaintances. And our subject of discussions have often been turbulent fright , taste of the food served on board, establishing casual friendship, explaining some points from books read and sharing the fun from “Tom and Jerry” or “Mr. Beans” videos. To confess, the main intent of my airborne conversations is often to buy time on long distances and find shield from the torture of fear and trepidation that often hardly goes away from my air travel psyche. I travelled by air scores of times but I haven’t got use or immune to the torture of fear it unleashes. August 24 flight from Accra to Monrovia, however relatively short, remains memorable. A particular conversation between me and a Ghanaian, still gyrates in my mind and brings aching memories. I still feel the twinge of anger which, of course, I deliberately surprised least my fellow discussant, my Ghanaian friend, noticed an inkling of it. Pondering over the conversation today, I am happy that my anger was never displayed visibly. I would prove naïve and stupid to do so. Yes. I felt offended. I was bitter. His funny ridicule was irking. But I kept my posture. I kept my cool. I wonder why I was feeling shame; so imprudently carried away by a sense of patriotism, nationalism or whatever spirit that may have fueled me to feel...
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...“Dominga Philomen Laveau” Nikeisha S. Sandy COM360:Advanced Communications in Society(BCH1233A) Instructor: Gina Rollings September 17, 2012 Intercultural communication is defined as communications on face to face level between people of different cultures. “Intercultural communication involves the interaction of persons from cultural communities that are different”( Hinchcliff-Pelias, & Greer, 2004)). Intercultural communication can be extremely difficult at times as there are several barriers to communication. In order to understand the barriers of communication between different cultures, we have to look at the point of view of someone from a different culture. This paper is a narrative based on an interview I conducted of a woman born of one culture and living in a completely different culture. Dominga Philomen Laveau is like a second mother to me. In addition, she is my best friend. The thing that inspires me the most about Dominga is that she always has a new story to tell in regards to her many adventures in life. Dominga has dealt with a great amount of diversity and has been subject to many stereotypes. Born in Trinidad, and raised in Pascal, Venezuela, she migrated to the United States at the age of 17. To this day, she still faces many communication barriers as English is not her first language. The most common barrier Dominga has to deal with on a daily basis is anxiety. When dealing with people that are not familiar with her culture, background, and...
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...So, it was Day One of our trip and I felt quite nervous. I didn’t sleep the night before as my head was spinning with thoughts of spending the ensuing three weeks flying all the way from Phoenix, Arizona to Santiago, Chile in a small airplane. I couldn’t refrain from ruminating concerning how crazy we were, especially given the State Department warning against U.S. citizens visiting Mexico. Up until that point in time, I had never been out of the continental United States. I visited Puerto Rico when I was twelve years old, however, I don’t suppose that counts. For this to be my first true experience with international travel felt rather daunting, it was comparable to accelerating from zero to sixty miles per hour instantaneously. Invariably,...
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...Or something like that. I remember laughing, sine I could have thought of that too. She then explained that a life-defining moment was something you’d like to happen in the future no matter how far-off or crazy it might be. It was like a goal of some sort, but it’s just something conjured up to tickle the imagination. We didn’t dwell on that for long, for the conversation reverted to Harry Potter’s new adventures and the movie that were about to watch that afternoon. I totally forgot it, until a kabarkada now based in Seattle shared her own life-defining moment through e-groups, after that friend of mine (whom I watched the movie with) shared a brand-new one. They were all seeing themselves as successful IT Professionals in power suits rushing from their pad to their office in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. They were either carrying Loius Vitton bags or their slim Compaq notebooks, while talking with a client on their top-of-the-line mobile phones and the, most expensive Armani shades protecting their eyes from the glare of the sun. Another friend saw herself making her way through an airport to catch her direct flight to London and eventually being seated beside a terribly good-looking classmate back in Wharton Business School, their small talk eventually leading to dinner and an invitation to join him on a cruise in Bahamas. One saw herself managing her own café down Central Park, with...
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...Offerings and Keys to Success…….………….…………...…9 QUESTION 2 AND 3 – STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, THREATS (SWOT ANALYSIS) 2.0 Introduction: Organisation Background of Singapore Airlines Limited (SIA)…………………………………………………………....11 2.1 Strengths…………………………………………………………….……11-12 2.2 Weaknesses………………………………………………………………..…12 2.3 Opportunities……………………………………………………………..12-13 2.4 Threats……………………………………………………………………13-14 - CONTENT PAGE (CONTINUED) - APPENDICES 3.0 List of References…………………………………………………………….……...16 3.1 Internet Articles……...……….…………………………………….17 onwards 3.1.1 Article from Reuters ( “Singapore Air posts worse-than-expected Q2 loss” 3.1.2 Article from MSN Malaysia News ( “Singapore Airlines says losses narrow in Q2” 3.1.3 Article from Singapore Airlines Media Centre (...
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