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Out of all the disorders that affect a child’s schooling and life, nothing has a greater impact than Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. As of 2011, 11% of children (ages 4-17) have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, roughly about 6.4 million. This number has slowly risen over the years, 4% in the last 8 years alone. What is this disorder? Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is defined by the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine as “a disorder characterized…

EVALUATION Heuristic #1 The use of synchronous modes of CMC like text-chat and instant messaging are not requirements but merely suggestions made in Baker, et. al. 2002. All four RVCS do not offer these types of synchronous modes within their environments. Hence, synchronous CMC must be done out of band. However, all four RVCS do require the group member to provide comments as to what edits and changes were made and their rationale upon checking the artifact back into the repository following…

1. Textual analysis and netnography Firstly, textual analysis is a way for researchers to interpret people’s sense-making practices in particular cultures at particular times from materials such as books, films, television programs and magazines (Mckee 2003). He argues that texts might be “the only empirical evidence we have of how other people make sense of the world” (Mckee 2003, p.15). In fact, textual analysis is widely used in slash fanfic studies. For example, through analyzing Star…

Globalization. The only word that can describe what society are affected the most. Globalization lies in every corner in our lives. Make this world seems tiny as if we know everything in limitless area. Yet it tighten the countries of the world as if it becoming one single country. A Country of Globalization. Whether consciously aware or not, this globalization is affected by the rapid stream of Technology of Information and Communication. Every day in our world, the technology development…

send instant communication to acquaintances, rather than meeting them face to face. We fail to acknowledge that twenty text messages can never be the same as spending an hour chatting with friends over a cup of coffee (Harkema, 2000). Sending cute emoticons or emoji’s is never the same as sharing huge grin or seeing the smiling faces of our siblings. There is a new term that has been introduced known as sensory dynamism which is closely related to our perception. Previously when we look at our…

Day in the life of me. An alarm is heard going off at first it’s a calm running music gradually building to the the loud sounds of a running waterfall set to gently wake you up. There are four large lumps in the room.The lumps looks as though they were oversized transverse sand dunes on three different what looks to be a lot like tables with sheets over them. No movement is made as the alarm plays on getting loud enough to be heard outside the room. All ranging from the ages 18 to 13yrs of age.…

Globalization can be defined by many interpretations such as in political, communities and cultural because globalization is not a single concept that can be defined and encompassed within a set time frame, nor is it a process that can be defined clearly with a beginning and an end. The debates about the meaning of this word has been presented by the variety of viewpoints or opinions by the scholars, economists and others. Several significant factors would affect the interpretations of a person…

hateful opinions in this manner because communication via the internet is, at it’s core, uniquely impersonal. Of course, humans, being social creatures, have implemented countless methods of making this type of communication more personal: creating emoticons, intentional misspellings, spatial arrays, and ALL CAPITAL LETTERS to convey yelling. Lisa Flaherty, a neurologist, defines this phenomenon as electronic paralanguage in her investigation of the differing factors between face to face and…

Because I was afraid to initiate face-to-face communication, I used the synchronous channel of text messaging, employing the use of emoticons, which DeVito claims can be “very effectively substitute for the nonverbals that normally occur during face-to-face interaction,” (DeVito, 155). I was scared of having intercultural communication and not being able to understand her views completely…

When it comes to taking a leathering from you, I equally know that I'm being leathered by the hardest leathering man on the planet, who can deliver monumental levels of pain, as he leathers my backside properly. I don't have these thoughts in the same position (I used to have them when I was a lad), nowadays I am supremely confident that I can take it because no man is hard enough to tan my backside at such a level that I will not be hard enough a man to take whatever he lays on with his belt.…