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involved in such and such a controversy but get a clever way of removing them from such infamous controversies. All content on Wikipedia should be properly cited and referenced to avoid plagiarism. With references, not all are valid. Using personal blogs and press releases written by the company PR department might will not be classified as good references. However, mentions on popular newspapers and educational journals are valid references. Once you are done writing your article, proofread it…

Once upon a time, in the year 2013, on the island of Oahu, there was a student who was going to start the beginning of 7th grade in Waipahu Intermediate School. That student was a boy named Jarren Calizo. In Elementary, Jarren was a very determined academic student who always strived for ME (meets exceeds) grades, the elementary version of an A, and ended up achieving perfect grades every time. He worked independently a lot of times and helped confused classmates. During the summer of 2013,…

Instagram Tips 1. Know your style, and be yourself It is important for you to channel your personality through your posts, whether it be photography or videography, what you post should represent who you are. It is okay to be dynamic and change your style now and then, people change and so does their interests! When your personal style change, the pictures that you take will change as well and that is completely fine, it’ll be fun to go through your Instagram account a few years later and see…

Wikipedia: Content and Accuracy What is Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a public website for people to write or search useful information. New information is updated on this site every hour. Anyone can contribute and edit information on this website. It is encouraged and designed for them to do so. To make sure that every fact added to the site is resourceful, Wikipedia has administrators and a judicial committee. These special groups keep track of poor information. Wikipedia is primarily based off of…

Social standards of women’s body images are presented in all types of media, constricting our own depiction of women and replacing it with the unofficial rules of society—women must be thin, attractive, have flawless skin, perfectly whitened teeth, act as sexual objects, and must be portrayed as such. Not only does this affect society’s views of women as a whole, but it also enforces internalization of these thoughts by women themselves. Mass media’s use of unrealistic models sends a message to…

Gate-keeping and community Community media outlets make a gate-keeping decision each time a determination is made whether or not to publish UGC either online or in print. Media gatekeeping relates to the decisions made by journalists about what to publish, without consideration of why those decisions were made (Bass, 1969; White, 1997; Shoemaker & Vos, 2009). However, community media have traditionally made the decision to publish UGC, at least in print (Byerly, 1961; Lauterer, 2006). Community…

Throughout this semester, my favorite essay that I have written has been about Twitter. In this assignment, we were instructed to use one, or all of the articles that we were discussing in class and analyze it, linking it to a website of our choice. In the beginning, the idea of writing an essay about Twitter seemed a bit ridiculous, especially when it was required to link it to an academic article. However, through brainstorming I was able to come up with the question: “Does Twitter make us…

Ted Cruz is a Senator of Texas born from Cuban immigrant parents. His stance on the issue of immigration can be summed up in the terms that he believes immigration is good if only done by legal means. His quote “There’s seven billion people on the face of the planet, and an awful lot of them would like to come here. Now if they want to come here legally and follow the law, great,” he added. “You and I both come from immigrant families who followed the law.” shows his stance of allowing more…

I am overjoyed that I decided to read Agile Selling by Jill Konrath. It’s not the kind of book I would go out and read myself, but it may be now that I’ve read it. While Agile Selling is a fantastic book for salespeople and marketers, it also provides fantastic tips that anyone can easily retool to use in their own unrelated careers. The primary goal of Jill Konrath’s book is to teach you how to learn new things and learn them fast. Oftentimes we aren’t given much time to learn new topics or…

Learning how to speak Spanish online is a great way to start learning the basics of the Spanish language, without having to commit time, money and energy to regular Spanish classes. There are plenty of benefits to learning the language in this way, but how do you know which of the numerous different online Spanish courses to go for? Firstly, you should ask yourself a couple of questions: Why am I learning Spanish? This is important because some Spanish courses are more suited to…