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In a video posted on July, 22 2016 comedian Mike Ward was fined $42,000 for using a disabled child as the butt of one of his jokes. ("Political Correctness Gone Too Far? - Canada.") While it is easy to agree that Ward deserved to be fined for what could be seen as an attack on a child and a disabled person. On the other side comedians argue that political correctness and thin skin have had a negative effect on doing their comedy. This is understandable as comedy has always been a way to look at the flaws of ...

Social Media Marketing

The emergence of social media technology has made it possible for an individual to communicate with a large number of people related to products and companies that offer them. It indicates the positive impact of consumer to consumer marketing in the diversified market. Social media is considered a hybrid tool for promotional activities. The main reason is that in the context of traditional advertising, it enables the companies to communicate with their customers and in the context to non-traditional advertising it enables customers to communicate with each other directly (Mangold & Faulds, 2009). Various companies use social media as the ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designers, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant today. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes derived from 1960s’ ...

Which organization do you believe used social media more effectively and why?

In my point of view, Planned Parenthood acted more professionally in organizing their social media policy. Besides, as their actions of the Internet were called ‘responsive and fast’, the reaction of their supporters was immediate too. What is more important, the social media policy of Planned Parenthood soon grew into a more conscious campaign with controlling the content, as well as the special apps to search the potential supporters (Lopatto & Edney, 2012). First of all, they were first to turn to the Internet as the free of charge resource to popularize their ideas. One of the examples of the ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of the art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant up to date. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes ...

Communication in Social Networks

Abstract Everything in world undergoes its continuous changes. Though unknown is always frightening, it also affirms the beginning of something new and thrilling. The same can be said about the invention of social networking. In the midst of social media revolution such social networks as Facebook, Twitter and Skype have opened before their users an amazing world of opportunities and unlimited online communication. Knowledge and information could now be shared among various groups of people and even between different nationalities. People got the possibility to connect with the whole world and highly improve their communication skills. Although social networks ...

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to explore the nature of digital marketing and the advantages that come with it. Speaker 1: Paul Sinclair, Head of Digital Strategy, Marketing, e-commerce and Product development with Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records is a renowned recording firm that manages among some of the world's top-rated artists such as Bruno Mars. Having been in the industry from as early as 2005, Paul Sinclair highlights three major points about digital marketing: Firstly, he explains how he grew up listening to music on cassettes which later developed into compact discs and now comfortably listens to music ...

Abstract

Jihad groups have made the internet a channel for their war, called Cyber Jihad. The Jihadists send messages, raise money, recruit members and spread propaganda via the internet and other social media. Through the use of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, jihadists communicate with one another and recruit new members. Cyber jihad, no only consists of communicating and radicalizing over the internet, jihadist groups use the internet to raise money to fund their fight. In addition, jihadist groups also publish online magazines for communication, recruitment and radicalizing. The use of the internet has allowed jihadist groups to gain global support ...

  Fashion can carry significant meanings about culture, tradition and the outlook of people around the world. Fashion not only encompasses many social issues but also individual backgrounds of people, and it can be a very useful tool in expressing one’s personal identity. According to Barber, "Fashion has also been used in reference to language usages, literature, food, dance music, recreation, indeed the whole range of social and culture elements" (Barber, 1993). Throughout history it has been evident that, fashion has revealed itself during the evolution and revolution of many aspects of issues, including but not limited to class ...

Introduction

There may be different views about the influence of social media on the people’s lives, but it is absolutely evident that in the contemporary world the types and modes of communication became sophisticated due to the rapid technological process. The launch of the social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Reddit might have been one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in the 2000s. In 2006, Time magazine recognized the importance of the social media and wrote the following phrase on the cover of the “Person of the Year” edition: ‘You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome ...

An African-American writer, Nikki Giovanni, wrote the poem under consideration. She was born on June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is important to note that she has won numerous awards for her work as a poet, writer, educator and activist. People refer to her as the new voice of African Americans (Nikki Giovanni). This particular poem represents a remarkable piece of writing due to several reasons: it clearly has no rhyme, it is quite long and it has an unusual structure. Visually, one perceives the lines of the poem as steps of some stairs. In terms of the ...

Introduction

Background information Apple Corporation is a Multinational technology company based in the In the United States. The company designs, produces and sells electrical consumer products around the world. Some of the products of the company are iPhone Smartphone, iPod, Macbook laptops, and consumer software such as the OS X and iOS and operating systems among others. The company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, as well as Ronald Wayne (Apple Info – Apple, 2016).  Link: http://www.apple.com/about/ Apple Corporation is the globally largest information technology company by revenue and total assets. In the last three years, the company ...

What is Social Networks or Social Media?

Even in the olden times, it’s the nature of humanity to communicate with one another. Back then, they use signs and then developed languages in order to understand each other. Just as the old saying goes, “No man is an island,” most people hate being alone or feeling alone. That is why the development of social media has left a huge impact on our daily lives. Nowadays, you can video call or chat with someone who is thousands of miles away from you with the power of social media. The most popular social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, ...

The poem “Home-Baked Brad” is about femininity and it deals with the writer’s feelings towards cooking. There is symbolism as well because the role of women is depicted by bread. This product baked by women represents the warmth that only women have. The author of this poem, Sally Croft is trying to make the readers visualize the feminine desire and the sense of power as well as tenderness. The woman in this poem embraces her role of the caretaker in a household. She is a traditional woman and is good at cooking which is a way for her ...

Food has become a way to distinguish different cultures from one another. One culture may be fond of using multiple spices in their dishes, while others may prefer a saltier taste to their food. Not only can food define cultures, it can reflect a person’s personality, lifestyle, as well as their socioeconomic standing depending on how and what they eat. Although America is a diverse country, there are many dishes that are a staple to being American only food. Many of these staple meals can be found in the cooking of people who live in the southern part ...

THE ‘PROBLEM’

While the transgendered community has received a significant increase in visibility and representation in television in recent years, the trend is only just beginning. To date, few trans characters are portrayed as “dynamic” in media, with most media having a cisgendered (skewing toward people whose biological gender matches their identity) bias (Conrad 1). There is an increasing population of trans people who wish to have greater representation in their media, and the outlook is currently positive given the greater tolerance of LGBT people in mainstream American culture (Wellborn 66). However, this process is merely beginning. According to Hart, the ...

A Case Study in General Electric

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Introduction

The rise of social media in the last decade has been quite phenomenal. Smith (2009) pointed that with more internet penetration across the world, social media platforms have the potential to occupy a dominant position as a medium of information exchange. Social media have now acquired a status where the news can spread at rapid fire and can either elevate or cause damage to any company’s reputation. Wright & Hinson (2008) pointed out that a world wide web has the power of enhancing the value of a brand instantaneously when the idea takes off. Hence, there is ...

The African Americans actors in the filmmarketing

During more than a century the Hollywood uses repetition as a mean of the influence on his audience, by showing in the film vile image of black people. Most of them draws blacks, by distorting every feature of what are the most of these men, women and children are. While gathering evidence for this essay, I was guided by the need to expose the systematic and intrusive injustice – the degrading and dehumanization of a whole nation in the filmmaking of the US. Up to now, Holywood retains the stereotype towards black actors because Hollywood is not yet ready to ...

Users of the internet and other social networking sites, voluntarily relinquish personal information to millions of other users and businesses. Unbeknownst to many, these businesses collect user information for marketing purposes. These businesses are not responsible for the overt use of the internet and sharing of information by users, and the government is not liable either. Online users are solely responsible for the lack of user privacy on social networking sites. Privacy is “the right of people to control what details about their lives stay inside their own homes and what leaks to the outside” (Barnes). Social media includes ...

It is simply amazing how our lives have been greatly revolutionized by the advent of the social media platforms as one of the core areas through which information can be relayed from a single point to another with very minimal effort involved therein (Powlen and Michael). It is evidently clear that social media has in a great way helped human beings close up the communication gap that existed before its invention. By way of definition, since this platform is composed of persons in the society interacting with one other in a social manner, it can therefore be described as ...

Introduction

Part 1 Social media is composed of Internet-based applications that allow people to create and share User Generated Content on the application (Barczyk, Casimir, & Duncan 99). Prominent social networking sites include: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, and Snapchat. These popular applications have changed the way humans communicate. Each social network differs slightly in purpose but all allow for user generated content. For example, LinkedIn is a popular site for business professionals looking to connect with colleagues, interest groups, and organizations. YouTube allows users to upload and view videos from others around the world. Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter are ...

Response to the Movie “We are Wizards”

The movie “We are Wizards” is a documentary film that portrays how the renowned Harry Potter series influenced the American youth. It shows that the franchise of J.K. Rowling’s movie has spawned movies and books, but also a lot of genres of creativity such as musical bands. The fans of the series have grown in their creative genres as Harry Potter grows up in his magical world in the movie. Young people, particularly women, were inspired to produce Harry Potter-related blogs, images, and other forms of art. Although the novel has great impact upon the American society and yields ...

What is the most important for a successful business blog? Valuable content, an intuitive competent design and, most importantly, the result - satisfied customers. Tumblr gives a great opportunity to develop your business blog through the main social network and maintain it easily in very user-friendly environment. Firstly, you create your personal account simply clicking on the button “Sign Up”. After you mention your personal information you will be forwarded to the page, where you need to choose 5 preferred blog to subscribe in order to finally start to develop your own blog. Obviously, Tumblr gives an opportunity to create a ...

In today’s fast-paced social media based world, it is important for corporate brands to establish a web presence. However, for some corporate brands, there is less of a need to do this, primarily because they are the web presence. Take, for example, Apple Inc. As a titan of the technological and World Wide Web industry, they have had little need to join the social media maelstrom, as other brands have felt the needs to. Other companies establish a web presence because that is a better way to be known, while Apple Inc. allows there to be a web presence at all, creating an almost ...

The short story, “A Rock Trying to be a Stone”, written by Sergio Troncoso in 1999, and the poem, “What’s it Like being a Black Girl”, written Patricia Smith in 1991, each shows their cultural environment with their respective tensions and conflicts. In the case of Troncoso’s short story, the conflicts originate from the misdemeanors perpetrated by the three teenage friends which accidentally led to the death of their neighbor kidnap victim; while for Smith the conflicts revolve around the personal and social struggles of a pre-teen African American female who is slowly realizing the actual cultural implications of being a ...

A strategy is an action or plan that is made to achieve an aim or goal. Overstock.com came to be in the year 1999. It is an online shopping company that serves a certain niche of clientele. Its brands are very affordable. The aim of the company is to become the premier company selling excess inventory through the internet. The company has grown to become an online shopping company that is a force to reckon with in the market. Though the company has received major competition from other online shopping companies like EBay and Amazon, it still remains the most popular ...

During the pre-historic age, human civilization lived in caves and in the wilderness. Now that we are in the information age, human civilization has moved from caves to the Internet. People are now able to ‘live’ online; but the most popular aspect of living that people, especially the younger generation, have been doing online is socializing (Kriescher, 2009). And they do this with the help of social networking sites. Like many things, social networking sites have both their advantages and disadvantages; and it is important for people to be able to determine these things in order to properly handle ...

Do you think the Institutions of the ‘old’ Diplomacy Have Any Contemporary Relevance?

Tracing origins of diplomacy is a difficult task and different people have different opinion on this issue. Some find diplomacy existing since time immemorial while others relate it with ancient Greece and many other believe that diplomacy emerged in Italy where embassies were established first of all. However diplomacy has evolved over a period of time and it has been changed substantially since its earliest forms. There were diplomatic institutions in the earlier times, and like earlier times these institutions exist in recent times. Some people divide diplomacy into old and new diplomacy and while doing so they forget that the ...

[Author] [University] Despite the advancement of women and feminist movements all over the world, some things are hard to change. Sexism for example is seen in all form of media. It even proliferated because of the advancement of technology. Gender insensitive comments now go viral in the internet causing damages against women and other gender orientations. The feminist movements however are not silent on the attacks as they are using the technology to critique insensitive statements and comments. Despite the set-back of internet against the women’s movement, it also favoured the movement in advancing its campaigns ...

Background

Bulgari is a leading Italian brand of jewelry. Headquartered in Rome, Bulgari was founded in 1884 as a single jewelry shop by the silversmith SotirioBulgari. Over the years, the company has diversified its product range by carefully entering into the product lines of luxury bags, skincare, fragrances, watches, accessories,and even hotels. In 2011, the company has been bought by the number 1 luxury group of the world LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (LVMH). In 2011, Bulgari reported a turnover of more than 1 billion Euros (Rathore, 2013). Bulgari has 295 stores worldwide. 45% of its revenue comes from Asia, ...

‘Freshman 15,' an idiom that every college student is familiar with has recently become somewhat of a cliché. This does not however imply that the connotation of the phrase is in any way diminishing. Students are forewarned before starting college of this inevitable problem, and many find it true, although the 15 pounds estimate is somewhat of a stretch. According to the New York Times, the average student adds up to 2.5 and 3.5 pounds during the first year of college . So, the weight gain problem in freshmen is genuine, but the gain isn’t as big as our fears. ...

Problem Statement:

Why companies should advertise their products on the Facebook? Not all organizations use Facebook in same way and all have different types of target market. However, all organizations are required to promote their products, and to bring them closer to the end consumers. Organizations dealing in business to business or business to consumers can get a good platform at Facebook that they can utilize in increasing brand awareness and sales. Organizations often fear that getting on to the Facebook might create negative publicity as all people can talk openly and conversations can be watched by anyone. Companies also avoid using ...

Introduction: What are Social Networking Sites?

Before moving into the actual description of social networking sites, perhaps into would be wise to explain what exactly social networking sites are. In simple terms, social networking sites refer to websites that essentially provide a virtual community particularly for individual’s interested in a similar subject or subjects. A social networking site also provides a platform for people to hang out together, interact, share ideas and opinions and update each other about their on goings. A social networking site can be compared to a virtual clubhouse where when one becomes a member and later creates an official profile, one has the ability to ...

Every living entity most certainly has to die at some point or the other and yet there is very little we know about death, our soul, and what will happen to it after we die. The spiritual writings of almost every religion teach the followers about to how to prepare for death. The continuity of the soul is the underlying philosophy of these spiritual writings, and the inform human beings of which actions, behaviors, and deeds may lead their soul to heaven or hell after they die. In all the Eastern Indian religions, especially Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, this ...

Te Pehi Kupe's "Self Portrait."

The two portraits of Te Pehi Kupe present a sharp contrast on how different cultures view an individual. When first viewed they seem very different. However, when the aspects of context come into play the similarities are abundant. By examining each of the aspects of context one by one these similarities can be brought into sharp focus. Both portraits were completed in about the same year, at the same place and of the same subject. Both portraits may even have been created at the request of the same individual. The differences arise from how the artist portrayed the subject. The ...