Social media can be useful in many ways. For example, information is spread a lot faster than any other media. News outlets are able to quickly post breaking news stories and redirect users to their own websites. It’s easy for anybody to post something and watch it spread like wildfire. For instance, “the first person to break the news on the American force’s raid on Osama Bin Laden
Cody Janowski 12/2/10 English Comp Assignment 4 The Internet has undoubtedly changed the way people live their lives. Any information we could possibly want- and more- is at our disposal, and has made life for us incredibly convenient and easy; some, however, might say too easy. One of these people is Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” featured in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic. Carr argues that the Net seems to be slowly demolishing our abilities to concentrate on one subject, as well as contemplate information, based on the ease of access to everything the Internet provides today. I agree with Carr to an extent; however I would say that his theory most certainly does not apply to everyone.
Research Paper Word Count: 1274 How successful can a company become before it is an economic danger for our country? That is the question a lot of Americans have begun to ask about the massive super store Wal-Mart. In a struggling American economy Wal-Mart thrives while smaller companies struggle and some even go bankrupt. There is always going to be companies that make it while others don’t, but when do American citizens need to step in and draw the line when one mega company like Wal-Mart becomes too powerful? With Wal-Mart using materials from other countries while its growing and expanding everyday it knocks out smaller businesses everywhere, which in turn hurts the economy and is literally a growing Monopoly in America, which we cannot
In this society, we are often associated with a certain group of people; the group one belongs to, due to one's status. As participants in the culture, we are continuously exposed to messages about the status. This happens for example through television commercials, internet and newspaper advertisements, and simply seeing people on the street. One particular newspaper section that is destined to wealthy and educated upper class people is the Business Travel section in Thursday's The New York Times paper. When you look at this section you can mostly see elegant white women with glasses of champagne and ipads.
Organizations of all kinds are using marketing’s role in achieving goals from colleges and universities, charities, museums, and orchestras. The worldwide web has revolutionized every aspect of life. Consumers have a vast array of information, products, entertainment, or anything one can imagine anytime they want it. Marketers have the ability to reach consumers worldwide and can offer product information, they can categorize products, offer wish lists, gift cards, and feedback on their products from consumers. The internet offers competitive pricing, easy access and convenience, customers can personalize services.
Though the Internet is the main subject of his argument, Carr provides insight on other developments as well. By touching on the inventions of such inventions as the map and the clock, he explains that both “changed the way we saw ourselves and the way we thought” (55) and provides example of his idea that the modernization of technology changes our thought process. He illustrates through historical references, the progression of how we read and write. Such examples include: writing on stones and wood, upgraded to papyrus, to tablets, to paper, to typewriters, to computers. Growing up in a time that was predominately print rather than computer, Carr is quick to favor print reading.
Marche discusses multiple ways to acquire information such as newspaper, magazines and books that can be located on the internet. In today’s society the fast the information received the better. Marche also discusses how the internet potentially has an unlimited viewpoint on anything. He gives us the example of September 11 and how there isn’t an iconic image of the event but rather an imitated experience gained from the countless photos and videos taken from the even more countless and different vantage points. Marche also continues to state how the pace at which we receive information of events is becoming more immediate and from almost anywhere.
The Internet has helped reading to evolve. Who would want to wait around for a newspaper or a magazine to come out when clicking on just one link brings the latest news up with in seconds for reading pleasure. Carr says, “It was Hungry” (Carr16).What he is trying to say is that after using the internet his brain is constantly searching for new information. The more he used the internet to gain information or to read, the more his brain wanted new
<BR> Although many people think that drug testing is a nuscience, it is essentialto improve the workplace. Seventy-four percent of all drug users are employed,and one out of every six has a serious drug problem! Would you want them working for you? Plus, the financial impact on business is severely staggering because of drug using employees (Psychemedics, 1). <br> According to federal experts, ten to twenty-three percent of Americans <br>have used or currently using dangerous drugs while on the job, and forty-four <br>percent of drug users even admit to selling drugs on the job.
Articles and information regarding the negative effect of incarceration are constant in the media. However, information pertaining to the increasing amount of business owners that profit from the growth of prison population is scarce and widely publicized. “No private stakeholder has had a larger interest in the growth of the American prison system than the world’s largest prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).” (Heri Vel, 2007, p.11) Earning around two billion this enterprise runs the fifth largest penal system that stretches throughout nineteen states. From the beginning, the CCA has engaged in political endeavors with public officials and boldly made two attempts gain control of the entire Tennessee prison system. The private prison franchise was established publicly in 1984 when the CCA was awarded its first contract in Tennessee.