1. Social media enables the spread of unreliable and false information. 49.1% of people have heard false news via social media. On Sep. 5‚ 2012 false rumors of fires‚ shootouts‚ and caravans of gunmen in a Mexico City suburb spread via Twitter and Facebook caused panic‚ flooded the local police department with over 3‚000 phone calls‚ and temporarily closed schools. Shashank Tripathi‚ tweeting as @ComfortablySmug‚ spread false information in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy by posting on Twitter that
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Habitat for Humanity is a fundraising group that builds houses for the poor. Poverty is one of the greatest issues in today’s society. Habitat for humanity uses small donations for the better cause of creating houses that are cheaper and more affordable. Almost half the world’s population‚ or 3 billion people live on 3.50$ or less a day. 80% of the world’s population lives off of less than 10$ a day. And that’s not including the average citizen who still somewhat struggles. The top 62 richest people
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IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) e-ISSN : 2279-0837‚ p-ISSN : 2279-0845 PP 34-36 www.iosrjournals.org Socio cultural factors in the play of Wole Soyinka’s the Lion and the Jewel and Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: a Comparative Study K. Saravanan‚ PhD Research Scholar‚ Government Arts College‚ Coimbatore I. Introduction The word ―culture‖ itself is so difficult to pin down; ―cultural studies‖ is hard to define. According to Elaine Showalter ―cultural is a model of feminine
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internet as a threat to old media Introduction Just a few clicks on the mouse and a whole world of information are available for free. The internet‚ whilst largely contributing to declining newspaper‚ magazines and books sales‚ decreasing the percentage of advertising on TV and radio‚ increasing of internet piracy and illegal downloading of films and music. Internet can at least provide a huge resource for journalist‚ authors‚ musicians‚ photographers‚ producers‚ editors‚ directors and all
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2nd Draft There are many threats to global food supplies. Explain the problem‚ identity possible solutions‚ and assess the implications of implementing these solutions. Because of the increasing world population and the growth of the environmental problems such as global warming and acid rain‚ global food supplies meet great challenges to feed so many people especially those in economically richer areas wasting foods. A series of problems following food
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Rhetorical Analysis: “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers” Froma Harrop is a frequent writer for the Providence Journal‚ who is also known for her progressive views on current issues. Her essay titled “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers” was published in the Seattle Times in 2007 in which she is persuading American skilled workers to put a stop to the H-1B program‚ or else they might be left jobless. Due to the fact that she is liberal in her views‚ it is clear why she is enforcing a strong opinion
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Hybrid threat adaptation is the ability to find a way to defeat or at a minimum negate the effectiveness of the hybrid threat. This adaptation process can occur in one of two ways‚ it can occur as a natural adaptation or as a directed adaptation. A natural adaptation occurs when the government or group of personnel facing the hybrid threat have the ability to adapt their equipment‚ personnel‚ or TTPs proactively to the threat using their political‚ economic‚ military or informational capabilities
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In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ a book full of humanity. Humanity ivan be used or described in many way with many reason. Human are different from animals in some many ways‚ therefore humanity is all about Language and actions. Language can be in English‚ Korean‚ or even Hmong. Languages is what defines us as human based on the fact that us human are the only one that can speak and used letter as a sound and word to communicate with each other. In the book Frankenstein‚ the creature that
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Cannon Few Mr. Bowen English III H 14 October 2013 The Reflection of Humanity in the Eyes of a Degenerate The monster depicted in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has many qualities that make it somewhat of a reflection of humanity. Throughout the course of the monster’s life‚ we‚ as readers‚ can witness the growth and education of the monster from the time Victor Frankenstein struck the spark of life within him‚ to the final moment of his diminutive time on Earth as he floats away into the
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Cloud Computing Security Threats and Responses Farzad Sabahi Faculty of Computer Engineering Azad University Iran fsabahi@ieee.org Abstract-Cloud Hybrid clouds. A public cloud is standard model which providers make several resources‚ such as applications and storage‚ available to the public. Public cloud services may be free or not. In public clouds which they are running applications externally by large service providers and offers some benefits over private clouds. Private Cloud
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