... his grandfather and other older adults. He vividly remembers one of his grandfather's stories and says "to know Paw-Paw is to know his story" and believes that the key to really connecting with others in our families and other parts of our culture is to know the stories that ... with lively verbal exchanges. It is the story-teller that will win the respect and admiration of his or her captive audience. Boyett proposes that people take an inventory the next time one is at a barbeque or some such function to see what person is surrounded by the most people. He believes that ... , and ent...

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... on the natural environment at both the local and even the global level. Prior to the modern period, nature served as a fundamental touchstone for ethics. From Aristotle through Cicero to Thomas Aquinas, natural law ethics presented the ultimate human good as harmony with the whole, of which the human is no more than a part. However, the fundamental movement within modern ... within the technical community and its" ethics experts. (26) Reflecting public concern, especially about threats to privacy, computer professionals have developed codes of conduct that limit opportunities for unwarr...

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... on the natural environment at both the local and even the global level. Prior to the modern period, nature served as a fundamental touchstone for ethics. From Aristotle through Cicero to Thomas Aquinas, natural law ethics presented the ultimate human good as harmony with the whole, of which the human is no more than a part. However, the fundamental movement within modern ... within the technical community and its" ethics experts. (26) Reflecting public concern, especially about threats to privacy, computer professionals have developed codes of conduct that limit opportunities for unwarr...

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... in a universal sense. The politicians must mobilize against the enemy of ignorance with some tough legislation. Despite a statement made by Andrew Kantor's, senior editor of Internet World, that pornography represents less than one percent of the Internet (Lloyd 39), The Internet has a serious image problem with regards to pornography. It is generally accepted that pornography has psychological effects on ... the behavior of people. Last year, a University of Michigan student was arrested by the FBI for posting a story to the newsgroup, sex stories describing an "encounter" with a female...

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... Attorney General of the U.S. appealed this ruling. The U.S Supreme Court accepted this appeal and vacated the Court of Appeal's decision. In determining whether COPA violated the First Amendment, Justice Thomas recognized that "obscene speech has long been held to fall outside the purview of the First Amendment."" However, the Court of Appeals reasoned that Miller v. California's reliance on community standards ... unconstitutional. The petitioners posed the question whether jurors enforcing this law would use local community standards or disregard geographic location and just go by the ...

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... Attorney General of the U.S. appealed this ruling. The U.S Supreme Court accepted this appeal and vacated the Court of Appeal's decision. In determining whether COPA violated the First Amendment, Justice Thomas recognized that "obscene speech has long been held to fall outside the purview of the First Amendment."" However, the Court of Appeals reasoned that Miller v. California's reliance on community standards ... unconstitutional. The petitioners posed the question whether jurors enforcing this law would use local community standards or disregard geographic location and just go by the ...

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... engagement for many Americans. Some 60% of American adults use either social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter and a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that 66% of those social media users "or 39% of all American adults "have done at least one of eight civic or political activities with social media. The use ... of social media is becoming a feature of political and civic engagement for many Americans. Some 60% of American adults use either social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter and a new survey by the Pew Research Center ......

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... - Retail Business: DirectGroup Bertelsmann (clubs for books and music) and Bertelsmann eCommerce Group (BeCG) Gerd Schulte-Hillen is currently president of the company's supervisory board and Dr. Thomas Middelhoff acts as CEO. Its headquarter is based in Gutersloh, Germany. Bertelsmann is world leader in the area of clubs for music and books (about 41 million customers) and the ... divided into three different phases: The "Too-late-phase-, the phase of "catching-up and substantial activity- which was strongly fostered by the newly appointed CEO Thomas Middelhoff, and the phase of "disill...

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... on their behalf. However, in order to maintain the loyalty of fans to smaller "indie" bands, labels of small record companies were kept, despite having been bought out by major companies. Ultimately, the three major record companies marketed using a similar strategy of targeting all genres of music, diversifying their investments and securing valuable shelf-space, making it ... / (3.6 billion units/year * 10 songs/unit) + 1.095 billion songs per year = 2.93% Hence, Internet piracy constitutes about 2.93% of industry output $38.5 billion / (1-.0293) = $39.66 billion Retail value of sales...

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... evil is that children can readily receive things such as pornography. Not only is it easy to find, but often times children are bombarded by pornography. However, due to the design and regulation of the Internet, preventing minors from viewing pornography becomes a herculean task. Although it is ... report, "Pornography and Censorship," states, "I"m not convinced that a young person without sexual experience and some maturity of judgment can see pornography as pornography-(39). Kauffmann is trying to interpret that children, if they see pornography, do not realize that it is a bad or im...

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... for nearly three hours before the site was taken offline by the New York Times as a last resort (Penenberg 132). Another example of an elite network with a chink in its armor would be NASA (Vistica and Thomas 61). In 1997 after the space shuttle Atlantis docked at ... station, an anonymous hacker managed to shut down one of the uplinks to the ship, nearly causing the mission to be scraped (Vistica and Thomas 61). The computer network at the Pentagon is the most disturbing example of a network with a major Achilles" heal. In 1997, several ... to penetrate the command-and-control structure...

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... response reaction between the user and the hardware. NASA Scientists have developed a three-dimentional computer simulation of a human leg which surgeons can operate on by entering the computer world of virtual reality. These kinds of stimulus exist in many forms and mediums of our every day lifes and history. Mediums ... described their experiences with cyberspace through interaction with paintings and photographs. he states that whilst viewing the painting "Marius and the Gaul" by Jean Germain Drouais, Thomas Jefferson became so intrigued that he lost all sense of time in which he wrot...

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... mood modification, tolerance, conflict (intrapersonal and intrapsychic), withdrawal, and relapse. After the results have been collected, the answers will be organized by the individuals and their responses with algorithmic software that is designed to calculate percentages, averages, and other items needed to complete the study. ... of the survey gathered specific information about the respondent and their relationship with the previously mentioned social media websites. The results will be organized by demographic information, general social media use, self-perception, and behavioral ad...

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... and therefore, a threat to privacy on the Internet. The Internets leading advertising company, DoubleClick, Inc. compiled thorough information on the browsing routine of millions of users. They accomplished this by implementing cookie files onto computer hard drives. These cookies enable Web sites and advertising networks to observe peoples on-line activities with great precision. Cookies also include the search vocabulary ... in an attempt to protect our privacy, should we have to? "At the present time, there is no comprehensive federal, state, or local approach to the regulation of da...

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... disparity in access and use for such groups is known as the "digital divide" and is the consequence of "information poverty" between, for example, the developed and developing world (Meredyth & Thomas, 2002). However, this divide exists also within countries and communities, potentially obstructing a full inclusion within the society. 1.0 Social Advantage / ICT Inequality / ICT Diffusion Digital inequality has developed in ... programs have generally been aimed at the access issue, attempting to make the Internet affordable to both individuals and schools. However, market forces have pl...

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... 's is proven to be true. Discussion Disinhibition, as mentioned before, is a common affect of people communicating on the internet. This is shown by individuals performing activities that they would usually avoid outside of the virtual medium. Disinhibition plays a major role in online relationships mainly due to the ... someone that they originally met online is less inclined to lie to someone online about personal information. Of all of the individuals surveyed, 39.71% stated that they had lied about personal information online and 44.12% of individuals stated that they had met an indiv...

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... engage parents too. A challenge may be that no matter how much parents try to avoid the behavior, the issue still remains. However, parents too can enforce better social networking regulations by limiting the time that is used on the Internet, and observing their child's account to monitor the behaviors of what his or her child may encounter. With that being said ... websites from school computers. Also schools should engage students with more group activities, and teach them to talk openly about things instead of bullying. Behind every statistic and incident stands a story that is sad ...

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... what the president of the US says, what the vice-president says, what the Pentagon says, what Tony Blair says, and every once in a while newspapers run an op-ed by an anti-war critic, or hire a token columnist who can be relied on to present dissenting views, but day after day Bush and Tony Blair and Donald Rumsfeld and Colin ... Powell know they can get their side of the story across, and people like Chomksy and Scott Ritter and anyone else who question those views isn't going to get the same coverage, if indeed they get any coverage at all ... ...

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... States, a new world order has emerged. This system, called globalization, has revolutionized the way society thinks, moves, communicates, and functions. As defined in Lexus and the Olive Tree by international business connoisseur Thomas Friedman, globalization is, "the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the ... 35 percent more than the legal minimum wage [in the Philippines] it is a first step to bringing a whole new generation of Filipinos into the Fast ...

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... that a reputable, recognizable organization is willing to attest to that (Martinez). Certified individuals also earn more than their non-certified counterparts, according to several studies. A 1998 survey by Lotus Development Corporation showed that 64% of Certified Lotus Professionals saw an average 30% salary increase within six months of their certification. A more recent Microsoft Corp. study, Financial ... Benefits to Supporters of Microsoft Certification, reported that companies pay 12% more to certified workers. In each of those studies, as well as another by Novell Corp., employ...

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... that are enforced, norms being established rules of behavior. Many of the crimes committed on computers often times go unpunished. As stated by David Pitchford in the London journal Focus when writing on pornography on the Internet, the only way illegal pornographers can be caught is ... access to information. They have formed their own subcultures and hold many different beliefs about the information that is stored in personal computers. Said best by J. Thomas McEwen in the article Computer Ethics many hackers believe that computerized data [is] free and should be accessible to anyone ...

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... investment because it provides fast and inexpensive access to a large number of their customers. In some areas, businesses may reduce the cost of going online by leasing the use of a dedicated line from a local access provider for their World Wide Web site. Some providers now make this service available with a ... Internet sites provide users with a variety of multimedia materials, including SoundBits, video clips, allowing access to detailed product information. The virtual storefront is used by 12 percent of the corporate WWW pages. It makes use of the same features as the interactive ...

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... to explore the histories, politics, economics and societies of the most inaccessible regions. It allows outsiders to discover more about cultural, religious and historical traditions without the distortion caused by the traditional media (Chase-Dunn 113). Anyone with access to this technology can gain information concerning any part of the globe. Cultural globalization causes infinite possibilities for individuals to make ... We are no longer forced into a certain homogeneity of lifestyle, belief, or social knowledge, but we are also no longer forced to work through issues with our neigh...

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... both fun and for gaining access to information. They have formed their own subcultures and hold many different beliefs about the information that is stored in personal computers. Said best by J. Thomas McEwen in the article Computer Ethics many hackers believe that "computerized data [is] free and should be accessible to anyone (McEwen 1991; 8-11). A subculture is a group a group of people ... after his second arrest that he stopped offences. Besides the interactionist, perspective on computer crime is the conflict theory. "The conflict theory states that people in power maintain their ...

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... feedback and a sense of being heard and appreciated for example, many online storytellers specifically ask for the audience's thoughts and reactions to a story. The impact of all these different elements is supposedly leading to a new form of writing and reading, based on the oral traditions of ... writing, the most influential to date being interactive CD-ROM games. Such games as defined by Corey Hitchcock, allow the user to interact and affect either the path or the outcome of the story (Hitchcock, 1997). The user has the option of taking the many-layered journey at ... her own pace,...

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