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They call me a rifle, but I feel unneeded. I am so tired of my owner. She is always so rude and hands me off to all of her friends. Her friends then drop me. Without a doubt most of her friends toss me with no technique and always drop me. If they don’t know how to toss me then they shouldn’t. First of all, I find it so ironic people like throwing heavier, shorter equipment if they can’t even properly throw and catch a longer, lighter pole. They expect people to do better with me, but trust…

is formed, it is then oxidized to form its pyridine derivative. Alcohol or Acetic acid is then used as a refluxing solvent for this compound. This compound has been found to have many uses including the treatment of cardiovascular disease and Ca2+ channel blockers. These dihydropyridines are also powerful antioxidants. In this lab, 430 mg of ammonium acetate, 960 microliters of ethyl acetoacetate, and 36% wt. aqueous formaldehyde were added to a 10 mL round bottom flask and allowed to heat to…

Situational Assessment When an organization or business recognizes a crisis is occurring, the first step is to convene the Crisis Management Team (Crandall and Spillan, 2013). Once the team has been assembled, an overview of the situation must be obtained. The Crisis Management Team (CMT) has to review all the information, events, and knowledge regarding the crisis. This review and processing of information is considered the situational assessment. Through the situational assessment, the CMT…

Nifedipine Nifedipine is a common drug used to treat a variety of disorders from hypertension and angina to preventing premature labour in pregnancy (Aedla, N, et al. 2012). It originated in the early 1970’s from the works of Bayer, who developed the short-acting formulation that proved to be successful in controlling high blood pressure, however due to its side effects, was modified to a long-acting formula which produced fewer side effects and is commonly used in modern obstetric practice…

Imagine living in a society where the media skewed the accuracy of information only to manipulate the audience and boost ratings, now realize that the society described isn’t an imagination but rather a reality. Currently, the majority of individuals depend on news networks to further understand the happenings around the world. However, receiving news from one source feeds the viewer with biased ideas, intended to make the viewer think a certain way. The reason behind this lies on the ideologies…

If you've ever wondered how the Fox News Channel came to have such an outsize hold on huge segments of the American population, or when the media became less about informing the public than about pushing a political agenda, or even just how Rush Limbaugh became the de facto voice of the virulent right, you could read any number of books by well-informed, if wonkish, media scholars. But if you're curious about the human impact of the right-wing media, and the effects an outlet like Fox News can…

Fox News published an opinion piece titled Make America Mexico Again: Why Americans are fed up with illegals.” This news story discusses the issue of illegal immigration from Mexico. According to Britannica.co, Fox News was created by Robert Murdoch who “enlisted television producer and former Republican political consultant Roger Ailes to oversee the new network, and Ailes’s business acumen and political leanings became closely associated with its eventual success.” Fox News trademark slogan…

In 1976, Sidney Lumet directed the film Network that was about a news anchorman named Howard Beale, who had been in the same industry for eleven years working at The Union Broadcasting System (UBS). Beale was known for being “the mandarin of television” throughout the 1960s with outstanding ratings. However, his career soon came to a downfall in the late 1960s. In 1969, Beale’s ratings began to drop. Soon after that, he lost his wife and fell into a deep depression and started to drink…

2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch 's War on Journalism by filmmaker Robert Greenwald criticizes the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used…

On today’s CNN stories and daily broadcast, their top stories had to do with Ray Rice’s indefinite suspension in the NFL from the Baltimore Ravens compared to Fox’s top story of Obama’s foreign policy as the ISIS crisis is going on and his head military leader is getting involved by grounding troops after President Obama has vowed to not get into another ground war in Iraq. Both Fox news and CNN news have made it clear to specify and show who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are. To CNN Ray…