... about it. So it would be very true to say that my views on Academic Writing are still in the process of developing. The reason of this is simple: although I had some experience of writing in English before, it is certainly not enough to be able to form any stable ... We used to write only simple narratives or descriptions at our English lessons. Almost every year in September I was supposed to describe my summer holidays and in May - my holiday plans. From time to time I wrote "letters to a friend" or reported on my latest birthday party. That was, certainly, not enough and ... I think,...

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... the development of the hardware and software that handle this massive data accumulation and storage. As you see, it can be subdivided into dozens of various specialty fields, depending on the individual needs of a particular segment of industry or commerce. However, the majority of opportunities available in Information Technology include Programmers, Systems Analysts, Network Technology Specialists, and ... fields; Database administration, Web Design Specialists, and Networking Professionals. During my search for post-graduation employment, database administrator positions seemed to outn...

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... a powerful outstretched influence in developing and shaping a child's behavior. First of all, the use of destructive behavior is becoming ever more prevalent in children. According to Doctor Huesmann, "kids ages six to eleven are very delicate and influenced by the information present around them. Metaphorically, with the 60% of television programs containing at least one reference to violent material, children ... of violence as a way to solve their problems or achieve their goals. Using aggressive charisma and authoritarian control as a way to gain popularity is a major reason many chil...

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... promising and shopping at home has become a part of everyday life, as going to work or school. There are many differences between online vs. traditional shopping, but one extreme difference between the two is time management. Online shopping has truly changed the lives of many and become tremendously ... find online. So choosing a certain shoe or belt size, or returning an item would never be a problem because having the handiness to try on the items, and a sales associate would prevent purchasing the incorrect one. Secondly, online shopping has become so remarkably inexpensive that prac...

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... technology, anything's virtually promising and shopping at home has become apart of everyday life as going to work or school. Differences between online vs. traditional shopping exists between time management. Online shopping has truly changed the lives of many and become tremendously convenient to thousands. With online ... very difficult if at all to find online. Choosing a certain shoe or belt size? Returning an item would never be a problem because trying on the items, and a sales associate would prevent purchasing the incorrect item. Online shopping has become so remarkably inexpen...

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... and punishment work in past and modern society. Galloway describes it as a diagram and as a technology. The two authors have different perspectives on how the society is disciplined, however Galloway's and Foucault's account of discipline differ in their application; Foucault's is clearer while Galloway's ... how he sees the technology can influence the society. In the essay, "Panopticism," by Michel Foucault, he makes the argument that we live in a society of "surveillance". Meaning that our society is based on intermixture of "forces and bodies" all of which is ... controlled if there...

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... sites for quality. They point out the problem with the lack of distinction between various types of sources, and the large amount of low quality information that is easily available on the web. A large proportion of the data retrieved by even the best designed web-based search engine is irrelevant or even just plain wrong, creating the danger of leading you ... open for all to publish there, whether or not they know what they are talking about. There is no "peer review" process in place; so while much of the information on the Internet is timely, accurate, and well organized; much more ...

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... just used as a helper in communication but is now a substitution for boredom and a real social interaction. In Alan Greenblatt's "Impact of the Internet on Thinking: Is the Web Changing the Way We Think? " an UCLA psychiatrist suggests that: "'We have a generation of digital natives with very strong ... the Internet affects concentration, contemplation, and takes in the information as quickly as it is distributed (511). Another writer who writes a blog on social media and some of its negative effects- Scott Karp admits that he used to be an excessive reader and has recently stopped cravi...

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... on the internet has been widely debated in our country recently. It is an important issue because it concerns fundamental moral and ethical questions about the way we interpret free speech. A variety of different arguments have been put forward about this issue, especially, the issues of decency and morality. In this essay ... , I will consider arguments for having the right to free speech on the internet and point to some of the problems with these views. I will then state why laws ... so, our First Amendment rights are being violated. The Communications Decency Act is an organization cu...

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... or inevitably, pornography. The World Wide Web is the resource most people refer to as "The Internet". It is a method by which Internet users publish generally public information on Internet-connected computers. With around 31.4 million readers and 1.6 million sites in January 1997, the World Wide Web is easily the largest worldwide mass communications medium. With the medium ... to lesbianism, as well as cites containing the phrase "Don't buy Cybersitter". Organizations devoted to protecting children from online criminal abuse but still promoting free speech have a high on-line presence...

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... parents grow old and find themselves in a nursing home, they had better take a modem with them; emails are sure to follow. As time allows." I believe that the effects of technology on our society are even more serious than the parenting issues described by Etzioni. We are witnessing the slow regression of our society to one in which interpersonal and social skills ... that has become the standard for what defines "interesting" movies or television programs for young people today. The average young person will view an estimated 200,000 acts of violence on TV by the time they are just 18 ...

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... organizations, such as colleges and government agencies, have public information departments that work to strengthen the organization's image and credibility (World book Encyclopedia, 2003). Public relations focus on two main activities: research and communication. Research is vital to public relations because organizations need to know their publics' opinions about them. What people think and why they have ... opinions are important in helping management establish corporate and client policies and practices (World book Encyclopedia, 2003). Public relation uses many research methods to ...

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... from now lifestyles will be a lot different from what they are today. How positive these changes will be will depend on how effective privacy and security systems work on cyberspace. " the issue of security when using the internet as a communications channel must be addressed .The surgeon and patient ... concern to internet users like me in the future. That day will come when there will be a global authority to formulate guidelines and safeguards on how the internet can be self-regulating. The organization should provide a blend of integrity, value and authority to make global e-business...

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... in households and society in general in the mid-1990's, the Internet has become a major competitor in the mass media market. The speed of transmission and variety of information available on the Internet are major advantages to choosing it as a media source. Even when normal newspaper readers go looking for things that newspapers do provide (like classifieds, movie times, and entertainment ... refresh itself immediately. Television journalism also has the ability to transmit news live, as it is happening - something a newspaper obviously cannot do. People can also flip through hundreds ...

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... successful Internet retailers have one thing in common: they are connected with their customers and have built a values-based relationship with their customers that resonate on an emotional level. He believes that humans have a simple hierarchy of needs that must be met. At the top are the human needs for ... service are the ones that are successful. The article explains the importance of building a Web strategy that is focused on selling customer process and not products. King ascertains that there are no products currently in the market that can not be bought somewhere else. ... wallet...

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... is Enough, a Virginia-based anti-pornography organization. She supported the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a law that was passed in 1996 to ban the transmission of obscene or indecent material on the Internet. A number of civil rights and computer groups challenged the constitutionality of the provisions of the CDA under First Amendment grounds in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, the first ... Supreme Court case about the freedom of speech on the Internet. The group of 20 plaintiffs that challenged the law included the American Civil Liberties Union, companies such as Microsof...

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... relating to the closure of an 'E-Company' or the breakdown in security of a major Internet corporation. High profile examples include the report last March on Amazon.com, "Intruders had access to customer credit details for four months at site owned by world's biggest e-tailer". These kinds of reports have ... safety to customers and businesses. Click here for a more complex guide to SSL Encryption is currently largely used in conjunction with credit card transactions on the WWW, however as some of the examples given show, the current standard of encryption being used is not high enough ...

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... Internal Revenue Service, check the local weather, consult a pregnancy planner to determine ovulation dates, conduct election polls, register for a conference, search for old friends, and the list goes on. It is only natural that the Web's functionality, popularity, and ubiquity have made it the seemingly ideal platform for conducting electronic commerce. People can now go online to buy CDs ... , clothing, concert tickets, and stocks. Several companies, such as Digicash, Cybercash, CarParts.com, and First Virtual, have sprung up to provide mechanisms for conducting business on the Web. Th...

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... mistakenly come across a world of pornographically pictures. Pornography is inappropriate for children and because of it's freely distribution over the Internet it should be regulated. Children can easily access pornography on the Internet, which is legally restricted to adults. Also, children can easily access obscene materials, which are illegal, even for adults in the United States. Children can be exposed ... children. Parents have been struggling with the fight to keep pornography off their children's computers. There have been many incidents with people being caught with a number o...

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... continues to transform education and training but usually in ways unforeseen by its inventors. Who would have predicted the effects of the printing press, the telephone or the computer on the way we transmit knowledge and organize schools? Yet, unlike other periods, where any thought of educational applications lagged well behind other technologies, today an explicit set of expectations ... mission-impacting development projects to reduce costs and improve productivity. More than ever before, new technologies are demonstrating their potential for transforming society. Transitions to new...

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... not achieve it if tried to do everything itself (Hutley et al, 2003). In addition, instituting new management methods that empower employees and place less emphasis on efficiency and more on creativity and innovation enables Cisco to be more efficient, and much more effective at reacting quickly to competitive and technological change (Dessler 2001). Globalization Globalization is ... The Internet provides an information infrastructure that relentlessly grows in functionality and bandwidth. The Internet's most important effect is that of lowering transaction costs, allowing companies to ...

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... and GNOME, both are X Windows desktop for Linux. 5. Embraced mostly by globally distributed developer communities, collaborating primarily through internet voluntarily. There are estimated around 750,000 developers working on Linux-related projects (referred Appendix C for some Linux vendors). Same as most other OSS product, Linux has an interesting development environment called the "Bazaar Model" (Raymond, E.S., ... Radical dichotomy Linux is radical towards closed source rival especially Microsoft Windows platforms, but incremental towards hardware and services companies such as IBM a...

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... when transferring songs over the Internet. Although MP3 technology seems extremely new, the idea started in the mid-1980s at the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen, Germany. The institute began working on a high quality, low file size audio code. Dieter Seitzer, a professor at the University of Erlangen, was instrumental in the development of this audio code. In 1989, Fraunhofer was granted a ... ;forces them to reevaluate their business strategy. Instead of lowering record prices and offering new services to stay competitive in the new market, the commercial music industry spends consumer...

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... common usage, the term "mass" denotes not that a given number of individuals receives the products, but rather that the products are available in principle to a plurality of recipients. Mass Media vs. Local Media Mass media is distinguished from local media by the notion that whilst the former aims to reach a very large market such as the entire population of a country, the ... example of mass media, as we use the term today. This form of media started in Europe in the Middle Ages. Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press allowed the mass production of books to sweep the nat...

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... used to actually spend time with their friends and associated themselves in activity related activities" (Stout). Reports show that students who attended middle school, high school and even college who check Facebook or another social networking site during a 15 minute study period attained lesser grades. Having ... Violence has become a big problem throughout the world, especially with the rising technology in video games. Children watch violent shows, play violent games on the Internet and other devices, which could one day lead to an aggressive personality. If aggression does not aris...

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