CIS 324 Professor Luis ACEVEDO March 15, 2012 Ethics in Cyberspace What is Cyberspace? Cyberspace is a global community of people using computers in networks. For ensured functionality, virtual communities with Internet support depend on rules of conduct, likewise with any other society. Business people like librarians and information technologists must have matured knowledge about ethical issues for their companies’ welfare and to protect and mentor other users
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1. The essay idea I currently have is around ADHD, I haven’t determined yet if the focus will be on ADHD in general, focused on children only or focused on ADHD in adults. I plan to address the perception that people have around stating ADHD isn’t really an illness. I am going for a persuasive rhetorical strategy addressing what ADHD is, explaining what someone feels like when they have ADHD and are not armed with tools to help, such as medication and the benefits gained when someone with ADHD
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Online Bullying In the 21st century, with the popularity of computer, Internet has become an integral part of people’s daily lives. A variety of online communities, such as Bulletin Board System and face book, have also risen. Those online communities are designed to provide a platform for users to exchange messages with each other. We benefit a lot from the convenience that brought by them. Through all kinds of online communities, we can help each other with our own experience, share our knowledge
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------------------------------------------------- Video Games and Children Video games was introduce goes far back in the early 1940s-1950s when researchers, scholars and entrepreneur began producing and designing simple games, simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of computer research programs and had become child hood leisure activities and even for adults. (Totilo, 2010) Video gaming didn’t reach
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significant periods in a person life are without a doubt their school years. Bullying has been an extreme issue all around the world for many years to present. Bullying is a serious problem in schools around the world, and bullying causes negative effects on the victim being bullied. In this essay, I will confirm the major types of bullying and the causes it has on the victim. Bullying causes the victim to have low self-esteem, depression, health problems, becoming anti-social people, and having broken
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entertainment often included acts like murder, robbery, rape, and other activities that were greatly frowned upon in society. Since comic books in particular show this acts in extreme detail and shown to children and teens, parents often expressed their concern for the possible deleterious effects upon these forms of entertainment, which could potentially lead to juvenile delinquency, to the House Subcommittee. The radio, television,
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technology to advance their education. Globalization has affected many areas of the human life, most importantly education. Many third world countries have witness a rise in the type education, whether a school was built, tele-video or via the internet to them, this has been greatly influenced by universities from the west. This gives those students an opportunity to increase not only their education but also skills. The use of technology in elementary and senior High School is an ongoing issue
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the past are nothing like what they are today; due in part to the continual pressure society places on the modern family. “The nuclear family (or traditional family) is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children.” (Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 2011) Society is constantly trying to put a label on individuals, spouses, and families, like the nuclear family. Because of these labels and a competitiveness between relatives and the rest of humanity – families
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What happened to childhood? “If children survived to age 7, their recognized life began, more or less as miniature adults. Childhood was already over.”(Postman, 383) During the middle ages, a young person was simply seen as a small adult. No distinction existed between adult and child, examples of this can be seen in paintings of the time were children were depicted the same as adults, just smaller versions. Then, with the invention of the printing press, came many changes to European society
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Almost every day today it seems as there are multitude of ways processed foods are introduced to the average American throughout the day. One would have to sit down at their house all day without going on the internet or T.V. to not be introduce to any type of processed foods via advertisements or products itself. Stephanie Soechtig wrote and produced the documentary film Fed Up in 2014 detail the affects of how the high-processed foods that people consumed contribute more to obesity than the lack
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