Essays on Sway

Research Paper Outline: Hashtags’ Negative Effect on the English Language Online

Introduction A hashtag is an official word found in the OED which promotes ideas that are propagated in professional and academic institutions. Hashtags are mainly used in social media forums. One of the repercussions of the increased use of hashtags on the internet has been a deterioration in the quality of the English language (Biddle, 2011). As young people continually opt to use shortened tags instead of learning the proper spelling of words which are necessary for constructing grammatical discourses. Hashtags were pioneered several years ago by a Google employee. Linguists referred to hashtags as paralanguage which fall in ...

Research Paper Outline

Introduction The aim of this paper is to examine how the internet has impacted the English language with the use of hashtags. Thesis: The increased use of hashtags on the internet has negatively impacted the English language as young people utilize the shortened tags instead of learning the right spelling of the words as well as how to use proper grammar which they need for school. Hashtag is an official word which can be found in the OED thus promoting the idea it can be used in school and other professional situations.

Main Point #1: Hashtags are aesthetically displeasing “‘ ...

Horse-run carts portrayed the streetscape right up until the commencement of the previous century, but the arrival of the vehicle, which Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler created separately of one another in the year 1886, instituted a totally fresh combination of needs as compared to those connected with horse-run carts – particularly where the suspension was a concern: it was essential to handle superior pace, without jeopardizing road travelers. Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler assumed dissimilar approaches to this issue: while Benz chose the cycle as the initiating point for his Copyright Motor Car and employed a navigating head plus ...

Sociology

Prince’s Power of Fame Power is an abstract concept. Generally, people do not realize how prevalent the game of power is in the society. It is not limited to kings, queens or to the political realm. For instance, the household member that earns the most usually has the final say in many matters. The dynamics of power vary and as it is not a rigid concept. Money brings power as one can influence people by ‘buying’ them in whichever way they can be bought. Similarly, fame of authors, poets and musicians brings them power, and they wield it ...

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Conflicts are a part and parcel of our existence. It does not even require a second person to be in conflict with. We can have a conflict with our selves over goals, setbacks, aspirations etc. However, in organizations, a conflict can be energy sapping and un- productive, taking away a lot of valuable resolving time. Certain conflicts in a brain storming session can also be productive giving the debating members a lot of insight. Secondly, conflicts could be due to ones feelings or emotions, thoughts or perception and action or behavior. (Dane, 2001). Teams are the basic way in ...

One’s set of positive, personal values and morals guard against the negative influence of people surrounding him. This is one of the striking points made by this article that struck me the most. Regardless of one’s professional background and experience, we are all prone and susceptible to all kinds of influences surrounding us. If your values are not intact, the more susceptible you are of falling into the suggestions of people around you, the more you do not stand your ground. Leaders are not an exception to this. Being a leader means that you are able to ...

Communication on a bare skeleton analysis entails providing information to a second or third party. This information can influence the second or third party in any number of ways. In everyday life, people living in a society communicate and make decisions: positive – fostering understanding – or negative – bringing about conflict. Information is therefore key in communication. It can be presented in a specific way to manipulate the thought process or decision making of the consumer: this is called propaganda. Propaganda is a form of persuasive communication characterized by biasness to the intention of speaker. It has largely been used in ...

English 263: Holocaust Literature

Introduction The Holocaust experience remains something memorable in the world history as one of the worst events in the world. Various authors have come up with different literature pertaining to the Holocaust events and the experience. None of the literature can be deemed accurate compared to another. The experiences during this period by the Jews under the Nazi regime led by Adolf Hitler were extreme and in the modern civilized society, no person can subject to such torture and death without punishment. The Holocaust literature is thus an interesting topic for readers to study and understand. The two books ...

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The digital revolution that reached its peak in the second part of the 20th century pervades its influence on every facet of the global society. One of the effects of a society impacted by this evolution is the faster access to data and the availability of the global community to that information. Nonetheless, there is another instance that is changing the operation of contemporary society-extremism. Examining all of its contemporary features, extremism is posing a two-pronged threat; one, it impacts the global community and two, terrorism impacts the changes that society will undergo. It is only after ...

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This study seeks to examine the relationship between famous athletes in television commercials and consumer behavior. The research topic is significant since celebrity endorsements are common techniques used to market products by companies. Many local and multinational brands utilize celebrities in advertising. The main reasons for this is that celebrities have large followings of fans that greatly associate with the celebrity. Therefore, the celebrity can easily sway this target market towards purchasing a specific product. Brands pay celebrities to become brand managers, brand ambassadors, brand characters, offer expert advice, and as role models of a desirable brand quality. The ...

The film Runaway Jury presented ethical dilemmas among the main characters Dustin Hoffman (Wendall Rohr), Gene Hackman (Rankin Fitch) and John Cusack (Nick Easter). In the movie Celeste Wood sought the help of Wendall Rohr, a lawyer to represent her and file a case against Vicksburg Firearms, a gun manufacturing company, for the death of her husband Jacob Wood, who was one of the victims in the massacre that took place in a brokerage office. Gun manufacturer and owner Garland Jankle, played by Stanley Anderson hired the services of a brilliant jury consultant Rankin Fitch to help him win ...

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This study looks at the glass ceiling by examining three specific research questions. The questions look at the definition of the glass ceiling, its effects as well as how it can be broken. This part of the research contains a comprehensive literature review of some of the sources to be used. The literature review only includes sources from current peer-reviewed journal articles. The literature review reveals the fact that the glass ceiling is still in place in the current workplace and has various effects. The effects stem from factors such as unequal pay for the same job and lack ...

ANALYZE THE TROPE OF VIOLENCE IN ‘ANOTHER COUNTRY’

The story of an unsuccessful musician and his death is a knowingly violent one. The features of violence shape the general image of “Another Country”, revealing the deepest secrets of its characters and leading the plot to unexpected fields. The trope of violence, present in “Another Country” starts before Rufus’s death and is directly connected to him. As the story develops, violence starts to come out in other characters’ relationships. The violence, which takes place in Rufus’s life, is mainly focused around his affair with Leona and Eric. In fact, the origins of heterosexual relations are rooted ...

Using the text, “survival in Auschwitz" by Primo Levi and the text, Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. This are two text are tales of personal experience in the death camp. In the text “survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi the author narrates his experiences of his ten months’ incarceration in the infamous death camp. The text is harrowing sad story of systematic cruelty and the miraculous endurance of the various forms of torture. The text is lasting testament to the unbreakable human spirit (Levi p 3). The text Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque ...

The origins of Western culture are actually near the border of what we now consider the edge of the region where its tenets and practices hold sway. In the sands of the Mediterranean Sea, where the ancient Greek and, later, Roman civilizations emerged, many of the basic values in Western civilization came into being. Using reason and logic as its bases, Western culture has developed into a corpus of knowledge that has grown into a small but consistent group of tenets, such as the placement of a high value on scientific progress, an attempt to permit free markets, and the ascendancy of ...

Legacies of the French Revolution

The French Revolution was seen as a bourgeoise revolution in the two decades after it ocurred due the fact that it was now the middle classes who held sway in post Revolution France. Naturally this was not an ideal situation but in his book, Hobsbawn argues that the leftist tendencies of the original revolutionaries vanished by the 1820’s as the middle classes attempted to hold sway in all that was ocurring in France (Hobsawn 1991). One also has to observe the social context in the 1820’s in France as this was now beginning to come to terms ...

ENTHYMEME: Power can be equated with money, as those who have money possess power over others, and those in power have the ability to accumulate money.

In the face of pecuniary emulation, it is clear that power can be equated with money, and this power can manifest itself in many ways. Control is most certainly one of them – the ability to hold sway over other human beings and groups. Ownership is a very strong indicator of a leisure class. At first, ownership was defined by men owning women, females being a very strong, prevalent commodity in the community. “the earliest form of ownership is ...