America – the huge “Social Experiment?” Early Exploration of the Americas ➢ The Native Americans – 40‚000 BC ➢ Influence of some early explorers: Leif Erickson (1000)‚ Marco Polo (1295)‚ Columbus (1492)‚ Amerigo Vespucci (1507) ➢ The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Factors for European Exploration ➢ Desire for East Asian products & a trade route (Northwest Passage) ➢ Religious Competition ➢ Improved Science & Technology ➢ The “Renaissance Spirit” What factors spurred
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Rachel-Ellen Combs Mrs. Julie Pasterchick English Language AP-Gifted 23 January 2013 Paradoxes in Social Media One generality about users of social networking sites is that we are an outgoing‚ social people hiding behind our computer screens rather than enjoying the company of others. We love to be in touch with the world and catch up on what everyone else is up to‚ yet we choose to stay locked in our rooms doing so. We have thousands of Facebook friends‚ but have never met most of them
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"Is Social Networking a distraction or a valuable tool that can facilitate an improved quality of life?" Right off the bat‚ any help that one can get from taking the globalised world to our fingers tips would only serve to benefit Social Bad: Sexting and perverts at our doorsteps Good: The Skype program in teens in Brazil speak with English pensioners. Education Widens the geographical area of what can be defined as a classroom Personal experience I’ve asked that instead of buying the book
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Rationale A lot of criticism has been leveled at social networking sites and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information‚ as well as how distracting it can be. However‚ social networking sites offer plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity‚ and if you take a moment to think about it‚ it’s not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. As younger generations use such technology in the classroom‚ they remake the educational landscape. Students
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Social network analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the theoretical concept. For social networking sites‚ see social networking service. A social network diagram displaying friendship ties between a set of Facebook users. Social network analysis (SNA) is the methodical analysis of social networks. Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of network theory‚ consisting of nodes (representing individual actors within the network) and ties (which
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then we’ll walk you through actually making it! In this course‚ you’ll be creating your own social networking profile. Check out our profile for King Kong in index.html and the Result tab to the right. You have the power! Have you ever seen your page on a social networking site load really slowly‚ then come through with only the HTML skeleton? (If not‚ it looks like this . Crazy‚ right?) Under its fancy skin‚ a social networking profile is just a list of text‚ images‚ and links. And you know all about those
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It was only a matter of time before social networking had gained so much attention that we would evolve this tool into a goldmine for businesses and entrepreneurs to grow their passions. Social networking clearly has an array of benefits; some would argue that social networks should be for individuals only‚ but users like me find that including businesses in social networking is an outstanding tool for judging reputation‚ finding out about new products and services‚ and giving free branding and advertising
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Social networking sites are a new revolution that deserves our attention‚ as we ourselves are part of this revolution. Social networking is an umbrella term that refers to the various activities that integrate technology‚ social interaction‚ and construction of words‚ pictures‚ audio and videos. Simply put‚ social networking is about the million of conversations that take place all over the world on social networking sites‚ which includes Facebook‚ MySpace‚ Twitter‚ online forums‚ etc. Proponents
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Social Networking and Its Dangers Just when I was about to pick up my pen to finally start on my assignment‚ the Facebook chat buzzer went off yet again. It was Ivan‚ a friend I just met at the beach this afternoon playing beach volleyball. We chatted for about twenty minutes before he started asking me a series of personal questions and finally my sexual orientation. I was naïve then and didn’t know what sexual orientation meant‚ looking back I realized that Ivan was gay wanted to know if I
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Social Networking and Life According to Joanna Brenner from Pew Internet‚ 67% of Americans have some sort of social network. The mixed blessing of social networking has grown so much over the years‚ from having basic email to instant messaging‚ MySpace and now Facebook‚ Instagram Twitter and another hundred more. Some see social networking as a way to keep in touch with long lost friends or family members‚ others to kill time‚ and entertain themselves for a short amount of time. Social networking
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