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her Mrs. Pouterson,” (Ansari 185). Present day media makes it so easy for people to cheat, something that was much more difficult 30 years ago. When people can hide behind a screen they feel less guilty about committing the act. For example, one reddit user said “He started an affair that he simply wouldn’t have had the gumption to start without Facebook. They worked together and were casual acquaintances. One day he looked her up on Facebook and sent her a message asking, “Would you like to…

John Ramsey was the president and chief executive officer of Access Graphics (a company that grossed over $1 Billion) and it is estimated that his net worth was $6.4 million as of May 1, 1996 (pedophileophobia.com, n.d.). This would have made John Ramsey and his family very attractive targets. An attractive target can be defined as “how appealing a potential target is to a criminally inclined person” (Karmen, 2013, p.491). When the community knows how much a family could be worth because of the…

In a world where technological advancements are endless, it is hard to imagine a society functioning without the use of specific outlets like social media. The usage rates of social media are rapidly escalating and have been for years now. As of 2016, 90% of young adults as well as two-thirds (65%) of adults are using social networking sites and more specifically, over 30% of the population get their news updates from sources like Facebook and Twitter (PewResearchCenter). First came AOL chat…

Think back on the big events of life, not just the experiences or the memories. Was the world following every part of your life and waiting for something exciting? Did people go out of their way to influence actions upon you? The producers within The Truman Show did just that, and then some. Truman Burbank was the center of attention, the rag doll of society in a staged TV show to live his life with boundaries for the enjoyment of others. The Truman Show is a metaphorical approach to better…

The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…

also has some characteristics resembling a stereotypical genie, and even dressed up as one for a movie marathon. While this explains how a general memory of this movie could've occurred, there's more behind a detailed account of the movie posted on reddit. Confabulation is cited by Aamodt for this. This concept explains how his fake movie memory may have been reinforced in the brain as it added false details. Finally, suggestibility would allow for this otherwise likely uncommon memory to…

Anthony, J, and I chose two still ads from the same cologne line, over a decade apart. The line is “Le Male” by Jean Paul Gaultier, and the two ads that we chose are pictured below. Our task was to analyze the “gayness” of the advertisement, and therefore to also analyze what wasn’t gay about it. To do this, we collectively did research about the history of the content of the ads, the brand and the creator of it, and the models used. Lastly, we analyzed the aesthetics of the ad to pull it all…

Richard Zheng Dr. Bruce Farcau POS 2041 18 November 2014 Net Neutrality: The Open Internet Since the very early days of the Internet, it had mostly been used for sending e-mails and basic communication online. However, as the years passed and the world wide web expanded further, more people began using the Internet for other services such as viewing informative and entertaining videos, enjoying their favorite music, playing unique games, and receiving countless sources of information. Because…

With the invention of the Internet has come with the creation of a whole new way people express their creativity. A common form of expression on the internet is through the use of fan made content, including things such as fan fiction and memes. In recent months, the 2007 animated film Bee Movie has received much attention on the internet through the use of this fan made content, in particular memes. Many of these memes are about making the film seem even more absurd through editing the film or…

IT-500 Project By Rishabh Ganger Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………..Page 3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………Page 4 The Program…………………………………………………………………………………….Page 5 Screenshots Source Code Conclusion References Abstract A text-based adventure game compiled and created using simple Python and additional modules from www.Pygame.com it is sort of inspired by early interactive…