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Marcus Gladwell in his article “Small change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” speaks about the role of social media in activism and how historically activism has been done since the Civil Right’s Movement. In general Gladwell tends to disagree with the importance of social media in strong risk activism that in which you’ll see in Greensboro, Iran, Tehran, or Germany during the fall of the Berlin wall. Authority, social ties, hierarchy, participation and strategy are the topics in which…

Effects of Advertising Olivia Carrera HUM/186 Monday, August 8, 2017 Allyson Wells Effects of Advertising There have been many changes with the evolution of the Internet. It has grown, changed, and advanced many of the things we have in American culture. One of the things it has changed is in News. I want to discuss information media does and then does not have a social responsibility in regards to the news, as well as a role of the information and news media in the shaping of political…

While reading a New York Times article written by David Brooks called, "Building Attention Span", I was reminded of my childhood. David Brooks argues in his article that because of the increase in technology and quick stimulations, our attention spans are growing shorter and our long-term memory is deteriorating. I agree with Brooks view because I have experienced this in my own life. I didn’t have much interaction with technology when I was younger, but the more technology grew the more I was…

What do you think when you hear the word hacking and hackers? Despite what people may think, hacking isn’t always a problem. In the two articles I have read, the difference between good hackers and bad hackers is explained. “Hacking and Hackers” (Article 1) and “Good Hackers, Bad Hackers. What’s the Difference?:The Difference between Destruction and Protection” (Article 2) differentiate between length, the sources, and the examples each article provides, yet are similar in that they to the same…

QUESTION 3: Of the four competing values, Adhocracy, Clan, Hierarchy, and Market, Amazon seems to be strong in three out of the four (Lavine, 2014) . Adhocracy, due to their focus on innovation, Hierarchy, due to their focus on employee control in the company, and Market, due to their strong focus on being competitive in the online market (Lavine, 2014). Though they arguably are strong in all three, the company as a whole seems to most strongly align with the Market value. The main components…

Meetings are unavoidable in all social structures no matter profitable or non-profitable. Meeting is defined as an act or process of coming together as an assembly for a common purpose (Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2010)). Meetings can be categorized into two: formal and informal. Formal meetings means, meetings involving persons that representing a formal entities such as business entities, government entities, and NGO. Informal meetings are family meetings and friends meetings. Meeting and…

swarm intelligence MARIAPPAN J Ramesh G.J National engineering college, kovilpatti National engineering college, kovilpatti 3rd year CSE 3rd year CSE mariappanjeyachandran@gmail.com rameshram.gj@gmail.com +91 8056575142 +91 9500985506 Introduction: A swarm is a large number of homogenous, simple agents interacting locally among themselves, and their environment, with no central control to allow a global…

COMPETITION News: India’s multi-billion dollar e-commerce battle heats up The battle between Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal is rapidly heating up with multi-billion-dollar investments, trolling on Twitter and squabbling over exclusive selling rights http://www.livemint.com/Industry/TcIzL21LIfBUpodcpCPugK/Indias-multibillion-dollar-ecommerce-battle-heats-up.html Market Challenger’s Attacking Strategies: There are five attack strategies generally used by market challangers: 1) FRONTAL ATTACK: It is…

time, [their] comfort level goes up over time, and it’s only going to grow” (Abced). Companies also are aware of this trend. As we can see, countless famous physical store such as Zara, HM, Topshop, Uniqlo and so on, expand their businesses to the Internet and make their…

Over the centuries science has progressed rapidly. Since the beginning of time, humans have used science in everything. Today science plays a major factor in our lives. We are able to cure more illnesses than we could have centuries ago. Humans now can go to the moon or have organ transplants. A major revolution of science for instance would be the variety of medicines that we have now that help with many illnesses that people could not have cured ages ago. Science plays a huge part in life as…