European crisis: Germany and the role of the trade unions Germany is usually presented in the mainstream media as having successfully weathered Europe’s vast economic crisis while German Chancellor Angel Merkel from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has gained enormous influence on the European political and financial scene. By contrast‚ in protests across Greece‚ Spain and other countries hit hardest by the crisis references about Germany as the “Fourth Reich” are increasingly being voiced
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2B: Change Agenda From the creative and imaginative brainstorm‚ the helper may want to ask questions that check the “reality” and the ideas that have discussed earlier. Forrest (2009) suggests that the helper discusses with clients of the pros and cons of different possible options and challenges any “gap” to assist clients to identify what is significant to them. The helper engages clients to explore the “good” and “not so good” about change. The helper assists clients to set the agenda to focus discussion
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Chapter 7 The Mass Media and the Political Agenda Multiple-Choice Questions 1) High-tech politics refers to A) a politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers is shaped by technology. B) a proposal for direct democracy through the use of telephone voting. C) a futuristic society in which politics is controlled by computers‚ freeing people for more honorable pursuits. D) the use of cable television to broadcast the workings of the government. E) the ability of government to
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severe‚ economy crisis which has occured in 1998 has effected many countries badly. These included the industrial countries such as US‚ RUSSIA‚ and JAPAN. After the incident‚ our country‚ Malaysia took a long time to stabilize the economy. Despite these problems‚ students in malaysia nowadays are not aware of the effects when they tend to spend money without helitating. These has caused many financial problem to occur among students. Due to culture shock‚ students become more excited about the new
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Agenda Setting Patricia Wigington Grand Canyon University COM 126 Introduction The mass media today‚ no longer reports public opinion‚ it drives it. This paper discusses how mass media sets the agenda‚ and what impact this had on the issues that emerged during the 2008 presidential election. According to Donald Shaw and Maxwell Combs‚ agenda is a theory to describe now the news media can have a considerable impact on shaping the publics opinion of a social reality‚ on influencing what
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Agenda-Setting and the Presidential Election The agenda-setting function of mass media has largely been influenced by news coverage and the public’s view about the significance and the truthfulness of the stories covered by mass media. Some theorists have stated that news editors and anchors have a significant impact on determining the public’s views of social reality. Mass media has a huge influence on how people think and their perception of what they are reading or listening to . One of
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Strategic Planning: The Managerial Agenda If asked what strategic planning is one could interpret it as simply a road map that can guide the organization in the right direction. It is very unlikely that an organization would know which direction to take without a sense of direction. Managers are faced every day with decisions that have a major impact on the direction the organization must take‚ therefore‚ strategic planning can play an important role in guiding managers in the right direction
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fix at the current moment. This is where agenda setting comes into play. Agenda setting is a “list of subjects or problems to which governmental officials‚ and people outside of government closely associated with those officials‚ are paying some serious attention at any given time” (Kingdon‚ 2011‚ 2). When collective action occurs‚ the public comes together to augment their community and accomplish
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The three models of agenda building consist of an outside initiative‚ inside initiative‚ and mobilization. Outside initiative usually occurs with more popular public issues. It goes from the outer circle of the community into the inner circle of the government. A good example of an outside initiative would be gay rights. Many people from the community brought the issue into government. Based on the actions of the community‚ the government were forced to make it apart of the agenda-setting. There too
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Clear academic agenda can seem tough to acknowledge in what form of matter it should be organized in. The whole agenda must be organized in a specific way that would allow the student to manage the time for whatever reason they need it. The first approach in doing so is by managing academic time. As Lucier states in her article‚“When looking at the schedule for the week‚ figure out what the academic commitments look like” (Lucier 1). When the student figures out the first priorities‚ it then helps
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