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    Bias in News Media

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    choose to follow. There is a great amount of bias in journalism today‚ and not just on a level of the individual writer. The fact that entire news media outlets have a political bias one direction or another has become common knowledge‚ with no significant impact upon their credibility or popularity in the eyes of the consumer. This is an example of the low standards today’s populace holds the industry accountable for‚ and begs the question: How did bias become so integrated in an industry founded

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    Networking Devices

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    1. Introduction to Network Devices All networks are made up of basic hardware building blocks to interconnect network nodes‚ such as Network Interface Cards (NICs)‚ Bridges‚ Hubs‚ Switches‚ and Routers. In addition‚ some method of connecting these building blocks is required‚ usually in the form of galvanic cable (most commonly Category 5 cable). Less common are microwave links (as in IEEE 802.12) or optical cable ("optical fiber"). An ethernet card may also be required. Network interface cards

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    Literary Devices

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    Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning

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    Appeal to Pity As Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments states‚ writers use logical fallacies to gain audience approval‚ but all the statements are false (Faigley). One type of logical fallacy is the appeal to pity fallacy. For this fallacy‚ the arguer appeals to the audience’s emotional side to gain support on a claim that should be decided on more relevant or objective terms. Examples of this fallacy can be seen on commercials‚ campaigns‚ and various methods of advertising. The given examples

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    In his essay “The Fallacy of Success‚” G. K. Chesterton disavow self-help books that claim to teach the secret to getting rich. Chesterton seems to think that there are only two ways of succeeding‚ “One is by doing very good work‚ the other is by cheating.” He also refine the fact that these articles or books are just a “mysticism of money.” People write books to make money even if they have no idea what they are writing about. In the end‚ Chesterton leaves the reader with the massage of being success

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    peripheral devices

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    PERIPHERAL DEVICES Peripheral devices can be attached by cable or wireless technology to the computer to perform specific functions. Peripherals are plugged into special sockets (ports) using cables. INPUT DEVICES Keyboard - Consist of typewriter-like keys that enable users to enter information into a computer. Mouse - Control the movement of a cursor or pointer on a display screen. The most common pointing device is the mouse. Scanner - Copies a picture

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    One of the main rhetorical devices that King uses is pathos for whites to understand what happens to the oppressed. For instance‚ to show the clergymen are wrong for saying his actions are “unwise and untimely‚”he uses sombre diction such as “victims‚ broken‚ shadow‚ and deep disappointment” to indicate that his community has already waited and were brought to a dead end. The sentences are used to make the reader feel guilty with pity for their hopes that were shattered. Another example that represents

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    Media Bias In America

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    In America‚ there is media bias because ratings tend to increase when the attention span is more focused on the issues at hand. For instance‚ people would much rather documentaries or visuals involving chaos and violence rather than a humanly interview. Therefore‚ media becomes biased because the chosen headliners and stories are consumed with drama which draws larger audiences. On the other hand‚ political views as portrayed in the news are more likely to be liberal than conservative. Although there

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    Essay On Racial Bias

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    Racial Bias has always been an epidemic across the United States even generations back and modern society. The traces of hostility and biased mistreatment towards specific races continue on existing today‚ although many people attempt to fight for change. An article‚ by Morland‚ J. K (1987)‚ which focuses on the development of racial bias in children‚ clearly suggests how racial bias was viewed earlier in history while saying how a darker skin complexion is associated with evil and children learn

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    Bias and Decision Making

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    decision maker may response differently with same problem. Why does this happen? Because of bias. Bias is a subjective ideas or thought. Sometimes it is injustice to receivers who got the outcome from the decision makers. There is a kind of division got from the internet: class‚ racism‚ culture‚ media‚gender‚linguistic‚ politice‚religion‚statistical number(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias Aug‚ 9 2008)‚ which is based on external environment around. Under circumstance‚ decision maker

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