HUM/176 MEDIA AND AMERICAN CULTURE Week 4 Discussion questions Week 4 DQ 1 The Week Four Tool wire Learnscape explores the effectiveness of using social media to bring attention to WhizBang Games. In general‚ do you think the benefits outweigh the problems of publicizing any business in this way? Why‚ or why not? Week 4 DQ 2 · Social media appears to add different benefits and values. What benefits do social media offer for your personal use? What type of negative experiences‚ if any
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The medium that is YouTube has been in existence for a mere eight years. In February 2005 Steve Hurley registered the name ‘YouTube’ and in May of 2005 Hurley‚ Steve Chen and a small group of employees launched the site www.youtube.com. In 2006 Google acquired YouTube for a reported two point two billion dollars (A brief history of YouTube) and in the same year a mash-up video of dance crazes over the last fifty years becomes the most watched video in YouTube history at the time with 131 million
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Airports have changed a lot in past decade and a half. The attacks on 9/11 had an impact on how we travel to different places. They have become more efficient and safer since. Following the attacks of 9/11‚ there have been drastic changes made to airport security‚ such as making stricter rules as to what you can and cannot bring on the plane‚ what it was like to go to the airport before and after 9/11‚ how security has changed‚ and how weapons are now frowned upon more than ever. Before the
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How Social media has a bad effect on society As we approach 2014 social media has been very advantageous communicating tool for people of all ages to use. However behind closed doors social media is strangling the life out of the younger generation. Now of course I do not mean this literally‚ and in many ways sites like Facebook and Twitter promote to teenagers about making friends and widening their friend circles which is excellent-in theory. This has in my opinion got out of hand and scientists
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choosing to do so. From Kumasi‚ Ghana‚ to the quiet neighborhood of Coon Rapids‚ Minnesota. I am an immigrant by heart‚ but an American by mind. I am a tug-of-war game‚ held together by what created me. Two countries‚ Ghana‚ and America pull hard at each other‚ battling one another for the complete claim of me. However‚ I remain stuck in between the two‚ not knowing which culture has conquered me. September 6th‚ 2006 was the day my brother‚ and I left our mother and home in Ghana to come to America. After
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Influence Today’s Media Has on Teens Every day teens watch TV and see movies that glamorize violent and inappropriate behavior. On the covers of magazines are spray-tanned‚ models or celebrities that teens idolize. Physical appearance is exaggerated by the media‚ and is seen by teens‚ as more important than intellectual abilities. Boys and girls between the ages of 13-18Teens feel that they need to be just as beautiful as the super models‚ or just as muscular as the professional athletes
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Manage Care and How It Has Affected and Changed Health Care Manage Care and how it has affected and changed Health Care “Managed care embodies an effort by employers‚ the insurance industry‚ and some elements of the medical profession to establish priorities and decide who gets what from the health care system.” (JAMA.2001; pg. 285:2622-2628). Manage Care is part of the Health Care system since 1973 is known as the system that finances and delivers health care to individuals enrolled under
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American Culture and Heroes American Culture and Heroes Heroes are not men with capes or super powers as they are portrayed in American culture today. Heroes are people who transform compassion (a personal virtue) into heroic action (a civic virtue). In doing so‚ they put their best selves forward in service to humanity. A hero is as an individual or a network of people that take action on behalf of others in need‚ or in defense of integrity or a moral cause. Heroes are people who transform
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better-quality goods embracing adaptability of production processes in harmony with the unpredictable nature of markets to meet customers’ satisfaction. The changes made in notion of improving the way things were done consequently changed organizations’ systems and how people are managed inorder to materialize efficiency. Among commonly nominated factors that rationalize the shift towards Post-Fordism‚ the economic recession after Second World War‚ change of customers’ taste‚ globalized competition
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life forever. In my personal example‚list of events and meeting with one person‚ incredibly ‚ changed my life. In 2011‚ i moved to Greece due to my erasmus program ‚ during this period of time I decided to change my carrier plans‚ since I did not know how to do it in a proper way so i need a person to help me with organizing my thoughts and to show me new opportunities . During my Erasmus I have changed a lot of apartments for different reasons. Once I moved to Place where I supposed to have two
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