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engaging with voters through a Q&A on the social website Reddit. Some users of the site were supporters and undecided voters who wanted to know his thoughts on the Patriot Act and student loan debt. Obama’s Reddit Q&A also allowed voters to see his personality, for instance, one person asked, “What’s the recipe for the Whit House’s beer?” and he responded by saying “It will be out soon! I can tell from first-hand experience, it is tasty.” Reddit allowed Obama to engage with voters, persuade…

B, soul, gospel, and blues. Hozier wrote the song Take Me To Church about his frustration with the Catholic church and their stance on homosexuallity. His hit single Take Me To Church released in the september of 2013 and went viral on youtube and reddit. Hozier got an international audience for that 1 song. The song reached #1 on the Irish iTunes singles chart. Hozier has always liked blues the best and learned about when he was very young from his dad. He performed…

Starcraft 2. In fact, the world championship game just played over the weekend with the winning 5 man team being awarded one million dollars. Inside of just playing the game there is a large online community based primarily through a thread on the website Reddit. The posting board is made up of information concerning the professional teams who are watched religiously, as well as fan made content. On this board the information is ranked by the popularity of its content by the community. By…

talk to one another. One average, The Oxford Dictionary adds approximately 1,000 new entries each year, some of these words stem from the use of internet and social media. However, some words that are used everyday on the internet on websites such as Reddit and Imgur are not added to the dictionary, but are used often. These words…

Suicide is a subjective and complex phenomenon with a low base rate. Data on suicide is usually collected from healthcare organizations, large-scale studies, or self reporting Crosby et al. (2011); Horowitz and Ballard (2009). These sources are often limited by sociocultural barriers, such as stigma and shame Crosby et al. (2011). Many researchers focus on research related to associating risk factors and suicidaility without considering theoretical models Nock et al. (2008). The know risk…

In London, England, by the Thames River, where women were found dead, not just any women, prostitutes. What made these murders peculiar? They were all strangled, by forceful-throat penetration, stripped of their clothes left in the night for the next pedestrian to find the cold lifeless body. Not just in the river or near the river but in the town as well. There were eight possible victims, only six confirmed by the killer nicknamed "Jack the Stripper", four possible suspects, with Mungo Ireland…

Henry Jenkins refers to poaching as a “raid on the literary preserve that takes away only those things that seem useful or pleasurable to the reader” (Jenkins 471). Jenkins is not talking about hunting animals, but rather fans of texts or media. In other words, he is saying that fans use texts to create new meanings for themselves that they find more appealing than the original text that is the object of their fanship. Fans, instead of animals, are rather taking parts of a text for their own…

In the article “How Trolls Are Running the Internet” that was published in the cover of Time magazine on August 19th, 2016, Joel Stein starts with a subtitle that introduces his opinion about trolls that they are a negative aspect to the society and they affect people. Stein warns us to be aware of the trolls and at the same time emphasizes that not to keep thinking about how trolls can control you. They are gonna take much more time from you than you need. You are gonna end up not using it.…

Just thirty years ago, April 26th, 1986, one of the world’s largest nuclear meltdowns occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine. The workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were running a system test on reactor four and there was a sudden, unexpected power surge. When the workers attempted to conduct an emergency shut off even more power was produced. This caused the reactor vessel to crack and allow air into the core. The core ignited and the fire sent a large plume of highly radioactive smoke. For the…

Gordon 19 Rethink), education (Carlisle), and policy (PEI Dept. of Environment, Labour and Justice ), efficiently work to stymie localized bullying. The globality of CB, although, the intersections of national, cultural, and social values, either negates the technology, lacks the educational resources, or purposely circumvents legal protocol. Such tips—(blocking, ignoring, protecting passwords)—lack the immediacy in ameliorating the harm after the fact. The most effective way of enriching…