American History 7 March 2013 The Positive Effects of Social Media In the winter of 2004‚ a networking site based out of Harvard University known as Facebook‚ launched. Drawing from its predecessors‚ such as MySpace‚ the site made social media relevant to the masses. This began the era of Social Media. Two years later‚ another social networking site‚ Twitter‚ came onto the virtual scene‚ bringing with it more than 500 million users in just over five years. With social media phenomena gaining
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With many flaws in this new revolution‚ does however‚ also come some positive impacts. Our time is a time of evolving‚ learning new things to share with the world‚ which the industrial revolution allows. We are learning from clocks that the spinning wheel could make cotton fibers. We use the water wheel to produce energy and as long as we have a supply of cotton our factories could grow bigger. We look at the dark side of things but in the time of the bad we have goods like making a social progress
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the opposite of peaceful protesting‚ but instead causing abusive riots and violence against the black community. Though it may seem like this pandemonium is causing the clashes of the black and white communities‚ it is actually achieving the desired effect. When one wants to win an argument‚ they emphasize the good qualities of their side‚ while making the other side look inferior.
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The positive effects of open sourcing Gavin Hoffman In recent years open sourcing has begun to attract the attention of many economists and social scientists for two main reasons: the growing importance of the open source movement in the software industry and some of the features of open source development appear quite paradoxical to traditional economic reasoning or intellectual property rights. But what is the open source movement and how is it impacting on the software industry? How does
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The Cause and Effect of a Great Marriage Your Name Instructor: English Composition I April 31‚ 2013 The Cause and Effect of Getting Married
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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns that were fueled by religious views and the need for power by rivaling kingdoms. They were necessary for the political and cultural survival of Western Europe due to the positive consequences it had on education. The spread of knowledge from kingdom to kingdom due to societies working together for a common cause‚ and being introduced to it while in the invaded kingdoms‚ lead to the advancement of technology and medicine. New trade routes and crusaders
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Business opportunities for companies Businesses in New South Wales won A$1bn worth of contracts from the Sydney games and an additional A$300mn was generated by local business. Over 55‚000 people received employment related training. If London hosted the Olympic games‚ thousands of UK firms could be involved in supplying everything from construction to manufacturing‚ catering to merchandise. (http://www.sportengland.org/2012_uk.htm) Boost to tourism The tourist industry won’t just boom during the
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century in England allowed for mass production of many things that would improve the manufacturing of many products. This revolution soon spread to the United States and throughout Western Europe. Even though the Industrial Revolution brought about positive advances through the invention of technology‚ communication‚ and transportation‚ William Blake also laments the harm it brought to humanity. Before the Industrial Revolution had begun‚ England’s economy was mainly based on the cotton industry. Workers
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According to the 2010 Census of India‚ there are 236‚772‚617 females married. 40 percent of these women are in ages between 25 and 29. And‚ 85 percent of these marriages are arranged. In arranged marriage there is no dating‚ premarital sex‚ living together‚ or even physical interaction. Sheela‚ J. an expert for the United Nations writes that “according to the Hindu Dharma sutras‚ the father should give away his daughter while she still nagnika (naked)”.” This means that as soon as the parents
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The effects of child based commercialization does not become as prevalent until the child reaches school. In my time‚ a child would be able to escape the need to drastically conform until around the sixth grade; after that you are expected to wear certain clothing
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