October 29‚ 2012 The Knights of Awesomeness (Elmo Martians) English 10H Ms. Boyderman 4B Friday Night Excerpt 1: The origins of “Frankenstein” “How I‚ then a young girl‚ came to think of‚ and to dilate upon‚ so very hideous an idea” 1.) During the rainy summer of 1816‚ the "Year Without a Summer"‚ the world was locked in a long cold volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. Mary Shelley‚ aged 18‚ and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ visited Lord
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In 1825 there were just over 100‚000 people living in New York City. Life for New Yorkers had been a steady‚ regular flow of every day life but the period between 1825 and 1860 was a time of truly unprecedented growth but a new era of modern lifestyle was about to emerge and take New York’s citizens by surprise. What used to be a very traditional way of life started becoming more modernised and by the end of the 1960s‚ the New York population had reason to that of one million people. There were
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Facebook 1) Facebook helps us to find new friends and also helps to find our old friends. I have heard stories of people who found their old classmates with the help of Facebook after some many afters. 2) Accessibility to chosen universities having a high level of security: Facebook provides a safe environment for university related data transferring. 3) It is easy and secure to use – Facebook has a clear and a simple template or theme. Which makes the user feel comfortable in using Facebook
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Facebook has come to be probably the most commonly used social networking site‚ nearly half of Facebook’s users view their profiles every day. Some of the users spend an unreasonable amount of their time on Facebook‚ whiling the hours away unnoticed‚ while chores to go unfinished‚ and even going to the extent of ignoring family and friends in the real world. Although a majority of the hundreds of millions of people use Facebook as a social networking device‚ it has several of negative impacts
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Positive and Negative Effects of Facebook The Positive Effects----Keeping in touch with family and friends- Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with your family and friends that live far away. With instant messaging and even video chat‚ Facebook is the perfect environment to stay connected. With the status updates‚ photos‚ and profile information‚ it can keep you up to date on the happenings of all of your close ones. Making new friends- Facebook makes meeting new people extremely easy due to
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Introduction As a human right‚ privacy has a long history. It is hard to give a clear definition of privacy since it is a broad idea. Sexual identity‚ lifestyle‚ credit information‚ medical records and communication data‚ etc. are all human right to be kept in privacy. But in recent years numerous cases of breach of confidence are presented in public‚ especially on business and political secrets and lives of prominent people. Since European Convention on Human Rights was effectively absorbed into
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really take notice was that in two years ” Facebook had reached a market audience of 50 million people”[1]. For me this represents what globalization and creativity is all about. Facebook is a social network website that allows people from all over the world to keep in contact with each other‚ you can chat‚ view pictures‚ leave comments and even play games. It doesn’t matter how old you are whether you’re male or female everyone is talking about Facebook and how many friends they have. When you
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public‚ it also exposes the personal privacy of those involved in the picture and their families. A picture then becomes a double-sided sword that needs to be used correctly. There is a line that sets the limit on how a picture can be used‚ a line created by morality. On the one hand repulsive images show the truth about the attackers and the world in general‚ on the other hand‚ they traumatize the victims’ families and invade their personal privacy. Personal privacy and public education
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Abstract The definition of privacy has evolved thru the years. With technological advancements‚ there has been a need to protect information of organizations and individuals. Laws tend to fall behind the times and not keep up with technologies of today. Laws vary from state to state. California enacted a legislation to require businesses to inform consumers when their personal information is to be sold for compensation or for marketing purposes. Utah forces businesses to provide written consent
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The amount of active worldwide Facebook users as of June 2012 is 955 million‚ accounting for approximately a seventh of the total population on Earth. With such a mass population of the world checked into Facebook‚ it sparks question as to what kind of effect this has. There is no doubt that Facebook itself is a fantastically engineered social media‚ connecting just about one billion of people in the world with the simple action of logging into a website. But with the rapid growth of this social
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