... anonymity that is given to you. No one has to know that you are even on this site unless you want to identify yourself. Secondly, I noticed that there is a drug quiz on this site that is composed of twenty-five questions. It tests your "Drug IQ" to see if you really know about drugs or if your prior knowledge of a substance ... is inaccurate. I took the quiz and found out that some things I had been told in the past were totally wrong. This implies to the individual that no one is totally flawless in his or her ... ...

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... will make consumers more loyal. Links to other web sites are limited. 3 www.ew.com/ew Latest review on movies, music, and also photo galleries. Also provides TV guides, pop quiz, contests and also advertising. TV guides are provided to certain areas only. 4 www.variety.com Latest news on entertainment, news, video premier. Offers free membership for a certain period to consumers ... updates as compared with other web sites. 6 www.thecelebritycafe.com The Celebrity Cafe has interviews, music reviews, travel stories, celebrity birthdays and new features added every month. Also provides tr...

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... education purposes. Televisions consisted of black and white programs and often the television boxes were small. Programs that were on first on television were show concentrated on comedies, perfect families, quiz show, and shows about heroes( where the good always defeated the bad). It wasn't until the 1960's when television really to off. Fifty million people had television sets in their ... ...

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... changed to where society wants to know everything the moment it happens. If you look in your mailbox, most likely you will not find a personal letter. People have started to use other forms of communication. The telephone is one form of communication that almost everyone uses to speak with friends, family ... people can make new friends and talk to many people across the world at the same time. The Internet has a great advantage over the letter in that it offers letter writing as well as the near real time communication of instant messaging. When sending letters, "You have to pay for it....

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... to use this as their main form of communication with other companies, but some seem to forget that email is an electronic letter, and they do not realize the need for etiquette. Kaitlin Duck Sherwood best explains the qualities email possesses; "email is cheaper and faster than ... speed and broadcasting ability. Also, because email has such a fast turnaround time, it is much more conversational than the average letter. Though, because of the fast turnaround time compared to a letter, email tends to be sloppier. This has to do with the fact that people are able to respond so quickly and ...

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... other people in the same city, and even others around the world so instead of actually taking the time to write a letter to a friend through the mail, one can send an e-mail that takes about three seconds opposed to three or more days. Of course ... such as presentations or vital statistical reports. This luxury has saved the business world countless dollars and man-hours. A primary advantage is speed of communication. A letter sent from Omaha to Tampa via regular mail takes three to five days for delivery, whereas you could send a message via e-mail to anyone else who ... , and other bus...

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... most rambling missive still takes only seconds or, at most, minutes to reach its destination. Obviously, the speed of the postal service isn't quite up to that of E-mail. A single letter can take two days to a few weeks depending on the location of the sender and the destination. The mail has to be taken to a main post office branch in the ... travel hundreds of miles to another town and back before finally reaching its destination. However, before the mail can reach the destination the sender must first prepare the message or letter to be sent and the ease of use is also a very large f...

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... circumstance permits us to make a correlation of the security shortcomings in the postal framework and the Internet. The most helpless spots of the postal base are at the endpoints: the letter boxes at the sender and beneficiary destinations. An illustration of misuse in the postal framework was accounted for in a Roanoke Times daily paper reproduction of a Los Angeles Times article ... that portrays a criminal taking postal mail from letter boxes [7]. The cheats were taking bills, paychecks and other buyer personality related mail from the exploited person's home letter boxes or from th...

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... so long been entrenched in the use of word processors that I scarcely write by hand now, especially if I am attempting to compose anything longer than a letter. Writing on a word processor allows me to write at a speed much more closely approximating that at which I think. By contrast, now when I write ... , p1) Despite his dependence upon the word processor, Pehme has some reservations about computers as a writer's tool. He feels that the art of letter writing has become almost extinct. "The letters of writers throughout history preserve times, events, characters, and sensibilities in a ...

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... . Another recurring feature is the letters to the editor. Most of the letters published are letters praising editors of Internet Week, although sometimes a letter like the one in the May 14, 2001 issue is different. The title of the letter is "M'SOFT Protection-. Ron Davis is replying to a column written by Wayne Rash ("Blacklist or IT Aid-). Rash's column covered the "Finer ... of WinXP-, Ron Davis says "Microsoft hasn't even demonstrated an ability to make its own programs run properly-. In the May 28, 2001 issue Wayne Kirkwood responds to Ron Davis's letter by saying "Microsoft can ef...

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... many years ago that in order to write to someone, paper, a pen, an envelope and a postage stamp were needed, then it took several days for the recipient to receive the letter; today's communication is instantaneous, but lacks the warmth of an old fashioned hand written note. In "Class Matters," Janny Scott and David Leonhardt say that "Americans of ... typed note. Messages and letters can be sent and received in mere seconds, but they are faceless and cold. Receiving an electronic note or letter that has been typed rather than handwritten is impersonal. When someone handwrites a letter ...

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The Internet: A Link to the World Imagine talking about the latest elections with someone three thousand miles away without receiving a large phone bill; or sending a letter to a friend or relative and having it arrive one second later. How would it feel to know that any source of information is at your fingertips at the press of a ... . One piece of e-mail may pass through 1000 computers bouncing off each one before it reaches its destination. This process takes place all in a matter of seconds, depending on the letter's length and if a file is attached. New forms of e-mail have been develop...

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... so that we as senders and receivers are not offended, or misunderstood when we send or receive messages. If you write a letter without proper punctuation, exclamation or without the correct grammar, your reader will not know how to respond to your letter or message and may misunderstand the meaning. This form of online "do's and don'ts" of communication is readily used ... be yelling at them or if you send a message without any form of grammar to it a person could take that as a very impersonal message and think that as a businessperson the letter you sent was unprofessional. You are re...

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... causes the horses get sick, then the mail would have been signficantly delayed if delivered at all. With our current-day mail, we have the existence of the "registered letter." With a registered letter, you cannot get delay. It must arrive swiftly and safely and will be tracked as it makes its way to the recipient. This kind of a service was simply not ... ...

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... printers. The ink-jet is the less expensive than a laser printer, and creates the image on the paper by spraying small dots. Most ink-jet printers will print with near letter or letter quality printing at speeds of 200 - 300 characters per second. Ink-jet printers will usually print in both color, and black and white. Most will employ a 4-color CMYK (Cyan ... ...

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... does it concern the American people whether or not Kathleen Willey is "proud of the President's performance?" (No pun intended) and I'm sure we can deal with the use of a four letter word if we can deal with the fact that President Clinton had oral sex with his 21 year old intern. The Clinton-Lewinsky story may have set off an unprecedented ... . It is never too late to break a story on the Internet. For example people can post their opinions on certain issues so others can read them and reply. Like this letter posted by a woman in response to an editorial article on the Internet concern...

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... they are abroad or within the same country. The internet has electronic mail which allows them to access the letters easily, rather than sending them through air-mail where the letter can be lost or can be received within two to three weeks after it has been mailed. Hence, with the e-mail, you can receive your ... letter in a matter of seconds. As the internet advances over the years, a wide variety of new technological advancement is added. These include instant messaging and chat programs which allow you to ... ...

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... internet. Now a days everyone seems to be busy, and you can easily lose contact with friends and family. You can write a thank you letter to your family and friends or reassure them that you love them. Writing a letter may take a couple of days, but writing an e-mail, it only takes seconds. That way you can also keep in touch with long distance ... ...

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... after getting my TRS-80, my parents had to literally pry me away from it. I liked the way the keyboard made a funny clicking sound when you depressed a letter on the keyboard, and seeing that letter represented on the monitor, not on paper as with a typewriter. Of course, by today's standards, the TRS-80 can't hold a light to the computer chip in my ... ...

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... the conflict can be resolved. Ways of Communicating There are many different ways to communicate in today's society. You can send a letter via the postal service and have it arrive in a couple of days or you can electronically deliver a letter and have it arrive within minutes. You can also chat on the telephone or send a facsimile to another person via the telephone ... ...

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... Chi Square Test. ANOVA revealed no significant effect of text format on reading times. While not significant, participants who received questions to read emails using all capital letters or capital letter emphasis were slower than those who did not receive instructions. ANOVA also revealed no significant effects of text format on accuracy of responses. While not significant, spacing emphasis improved the ... ...

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... are transferring to different schools in different regions, social network is the best tool to keep in touch with them. There's other ways to communicate with them such as sending a letter. However, isn't that too complicated and take too much work? Moreover, sending messages by social networks is completely free! Also, throughout the networks teenagers can also know what is happening ... ...

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... if it would be necessary. "Sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ allow employers to get a glimpse of who you are outside the confines of a résumé, cover letter, or interview-while they offer job seekers the opportunity to learn about companies they're interested in; connect with current and former employees; and hear about job openings instantaneously, among ... ...

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... . According to Goldwasser in her article instead of write letters teenagers are sharing their feelings online. For example, write a post on Facebook is much easier than get a paper to writing a letter and send it to a friend. However, the exposition of their thoughts on a public place such as Social networking websites are making them lose the control about what they are sharing ... ...

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... such thing as Internet Addiction - getting pleasure out of a computer is not the same as getting pleasure from cocaine or any other drug. In his column in Harvard Mental Health Letter, Dr. Michael Craig Miller proves that there is an argument about defining Twitter addiction as a new mental disorder. According to him, "the presence of other mental disorders among potential addicts ... ...

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