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Canadian Immigration, 2008.
A look at the the economic and class basis of immigration policy and its legal regulation in Canada today.
3,570 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 70.95
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This paper explains that Canadian immigration policy is defined by a range of public and private actors, but is implemented and regulated by state institutions. The paper then argues, with reference to a comparative analysis of three recent articles on immigration and diversity from the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen, conflicting ideologies and representations of the objects of regulations in these publications reveal the economic and class basis of immigration policy and its legal regulation in Canada today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Media Actors and Representations
Critical Background: Immigration and the Concept of Diversity
Contemporary Representations of Immigration
From the Paper
"Some critics have argued that the history of the discourse on Canadian diversity has shifted over the course of the twentieth century - from the early years as described above to the present day - over which time the focus shifted from the "problem of immigration" and preventing more diversity from arriving, to the "naturalization problem" of coping with the existing diversity within Canadian borders. However, a critical analysis of the media representations of immigration and diversity within a short span of time - in three different publications in two Canadian metropolises - suggest that this argument may be flawed. From this perspective, the regulatory aspect of the "problem of immigration" remains a core element in the representation of this issue in Canadian media today."
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Television, Violence and Children, 2008.
This paper determines the most effective method of presenting a paper on television's harmful effects on children.
718 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, £ 18.95
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The paper discusses how writing about violence and its effect upon children should include different appeals with evidence, warrants, common ground and remaining questions. The paper suggests utilizing appeals based on logic or reason as well as appeals that are emotional in order to successfully convey that children are affected by watching violence and the primary people responsible are the parents.
Outline:
Evidence
Warrants
Common Ground
Questions
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"One appeal to the audience is logos based on reason that requires evidence showing that children who watch too much violence are harmed and can become violent or aggressive either as a child or as an adult. Elizabeth Smoots in her article shows that children watch almost six hours of television a day and they watch more than 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders before they reach the age of 18 (3). Another article has the title, "What did your children watch on TV last night? 1 in 4 parents can't answer this question" and this title shows the need for parents to control the types and amount of television children watch."
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Monitoring the Programs Children Watch on Television, 2008.
A look at the effects that watching violence on television can have on children.
1,401 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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This paper discusses how children are affected by watching violence on television and suggests that a study be carried out to define whether the responsibility rests with the media, Federal Communication Commission (FCC), or the parents. The paper includes results from various research studies as well as different arguments put forward claiming the educational value of television.
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"Research points the fact that observing violence on television can be related to them becoming aggressive or violent as a child and/or as an adult. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry has made a statement that they firmly believe that children who watch violence can become violent (Arvidson 494). Some people though believe that the violence children see on television is not enough to make children realize that they are watching fantasy and not reality. The violence they see in these shows do not show the heart break of the families nor does it show the fact that people who are murdered are dead. Mike Oppenheim argues that the violence on television is not enough because it is more fantasy than the horrors that happen in real life and it fails to teach children that violence is wrong (14). While this may be true in many ways, the fact is that children watching the violence often cannot determine the difference from fantasy and reality. "Characters get shot with double-barreled shotguns and they get back up. It sets in a humorous context with a laugh track, and communicates to preschoolers that violence is funny and it's OK to do" (Hurst 8). Children are shown violence in television shows, movies and even cartoons. The fact is that almost ten percent of violence can be related to television violence (Hurst 8). Whether it is television shows, cartoons, movies, or video games, children are influenced by what they see. The question is whether the media, FCC, or parents that should be blamed."
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Health Care Information Systems and Communication, 2008.
An analysis of the importance of wireless communication in the infrastructure of health care organizations.
3,923 words (approx. 15.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 75.95
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This paper discusses the importance of communication in the health care system. It particularly focuses on the role of information systems in communication within health care. The paper looks at three communication strategies that will help change a health organization's information system. The paper then focuses on the need for a deep penetration of wireless communication to be embedded into the infrastructure of health care organizations.
Table of Contents:
Current ICT status
Scope of Proposed Strategy
Objectives of Proposed Strategy
Technologies, Platforms and Systems
Process and Organizational Implications of Proposed Strategy
Implementation Plan
From the Paper
"Currently there is a definite lack of standards in the mobile and wireless technology industries. Wireless technology almost becomes obsolete as soon as it is implemented. This is the biggest barrier that health care organizations have when it comes to integrating wireless technology with existing work systems. There is no question that wireless technology is here and in our lives for good. What the question is, is just how long it will be before the needs of a wireless world are seen in a big picture. The need for health care organizations to exploit wireless technology while maintaining patient security is the most important view of the future of medicine (Merrill, 1991)."
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"Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies", 2008.
A review of Miki Makihara's article, "Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies: Transforming Sociolinguistic Hierarchy on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)."
772 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 19.95
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This paper discusses Miki Makihara's in-depth case study of the way in which diglossia has operated with respect to the Rapa Nui language on Easter Island. It discusses the content of the article, "Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies: Transforming Sociolinguistic Hierarchy on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)" and its importance. The paper then compares Makihara's article alongside Charles Ferguson's original article on diglossia, "Sociolinguistic Perspectives: Papers on Language in Society."
From the Paper
"Makihara's article is, of course, very interesting alongside Charles Ferguson's original article on diglossia (Ferguson, 1996). In particular, Makihara's expansion on Ferguson's conceptualization of diglossia is instructive. Ferguson's concept showed how one language can co-exist with another in situations where, typically, one is resigned to being a more casual, personal and devalued one, while another is typically valued as being more beautiful, spiritual, intellectual etc. Although Ferguson showed that this situation does not necessarily result in the prior or devalued language facing extinction, Makihara shows how two languages can be diglossic together in one syncretic language, used across contexts, functions and speakers and can actually, and most importantly, serve to uphold and preserve the original language against the odds."
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The Effects of Violence on Children, 2008.
An investigation into whether violence on TV affects children.
939 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper examines whether or not television violence affects children, putting forward different arguments from different sources and presenting the results of research carried out in recent years.
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"The statement that violence on television causes violence in children is a political statement and not necessary the right way to describe the problem. While the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry produced a statement linking television shows as a link to violence and aggressive behavior; the author does not agree with this statement and believes it is a political statement (Arvidson, 12). Arvidson believes the issue of media and violence in children is more complicated than simply saying that the media causes violence in children. "... because not all children are exposed to media violence will act aggressively" (Hurst, 8). The fact is that just watching television or news does not necessary cause a person to go out and commit violence. In fact, thousands of viewers can watch the same television show and only one or two may express violence after the show. Some of the problems with the argument that media causes children to be violent is that it does not distinguish between different age groups or the time length in which the person saw the movie, news, or etc. (Arvidson, 14). However, this point of view about not children watching violence will become aggressive is true. One of the problems with violence and the media is that children often do not understand the difference between fantasy and reality."
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Terrorism and the Media, 2008.
This paper examines the media's negative portrayal of the Weather Underground anti-war group during the Vietnam War.
2,042 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 45.95
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The paper explains the media's direct or indirect role in spreading the message of revolutionaries. The paper discusses the Vietnam War era and focuses on the Weather Underground anti-war group that received indirect negative media coverage since they were seen as dangerous and irrational radicals. The paper shows how the Weather Underground's efforts to end the war tended to be counterproductive, because their radicalism discredited the entire anti-war movement at a time when it needed to gain support from average Americans, not alienate them.
From the Paper
"In order to recruit members and intensify pressure on the government, revolutionary movements need to spread their message of resistance to the public at large, either directly through the media, or indirectly, by taking action against the government so the media will be compelled to cover it in newspaper accounts or radio and television news broadcasts. During the Vietnam War era, the most prevalent approach adopted by anti-war organizations was indirect use of the media by staging huge demonstrations and rallies, which the media would be compelled to cover."
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Communication in Business, 2008.
An analysis of the theories of communication within the business context and a discussion of the writer's personal experience in the area.
2,610 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 55.95
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This paper discusses the importance of communication within the business context as well as the writer's personal experience in various business situations. The paper then discusses some of the theories of communication and suggests ways in which the writer has developed his own approach to communicating with others within a business setting.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Experience
Readings
Conclusion
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"Written communications may require some understanding as well, but usually written communications have more clarity in an organization, assuming that basic writing skills are used. When I receive a clear statement in writing from a superior, I know what he or she wants and also have a document to show if any doubt is raised. When the communication is verbal, misunderstanding is more possible, though I have found that care given to such communications as a listener can reduce such misunderstandings. My experience in my work often reminds me of how important communication is and how far astray we may go if we do not give this the attention it requires."
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"Myspace: Your Kids' Danger", 2008.
A rhetorical and semiotic analysis of a CBS news item, "Myspace: Your Kids' Danger: Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators," by Sandra Hughes.
3,101 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 64.95
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This paper presents a rhetorical analysis of Sandra Hughes' CBS news item, "MySpace: Your Kids' Danger? Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators." It aims to move beyond the implicit and relatively superficial review of the text to a fuller understanding of how the text creates meaning, how it helps the reader to construct knowledge and how it sways us to take action. The paper specifically looks at how the language of this article works.
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"Visually, the story is arranged as a headline, a smaller-font secondary headline, and then twenty-two paragraphs, this for a story containing not quite 650 words. Immediately below the headlines, half of the reading column is taken up by a graphical image showing a computer in silhouette with transparencies of several young children, mostly girls, and several of them using cellphones. Below the graphic is a quote, suggesting the danger the article warns of. The effect of the graphic, the quote, and the headlines is to draw readers to the story that follows, a story that opens with three suggestive vignettes about children being approached in a sexually explicit manner on the Internet. Two of the three teenage girls described in the opening vignettes were murdered."
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"Amusing Ourselves to Death", 2008.
A book review of Neil Postman's, "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
1,484 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 35.95
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The paper critically examines Postman's argument in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" that television is very bad for the cultivation of a thoughtful, rational public that can actually think on its own. The paper posits that, while a well-written text with many good ideas, it is also marred by over-zealousness and by a longing for the past that too often ignores how modern-day technology can actually benefit children whose style of learning may not be well-suited for the "traditional" pedagogical approach.
Outline:
Introduction
Synopsis of the book
Analysis
Conclusion
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"Postman begins his book by arguing that, in an increasingly commercialized and visual society, people are now shaped by the strength of their artifice (their appearance) and not by the strength of their ideas (7). The medium that was dominating America in the 1980s - and is even more dominant today, more than 20 years after Postman penned his work - is now a visual, visceral one involving images and iconography instead of words (9). Simply put, our culture no longer privileges the written word but privileges fleeting, evanescent images that come to us through (in most instances) the medium of television."
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Donald Trump: A Representation of Capitalism, 2008.
This paper utilizes pop cultural figure Donald Trump as a case study in which to contrast capitalism and communism.
1,155 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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The paper applies the ideological framework of the theory of communism, specifically as expounded by Karl Marx in "The Communist Manifesto" to the contemporary pop cultural figure of Donald Trump. The paper focuses on Trump's appearances in the television series "The Apprentice" and also includes relevant background on Trump himself. The paper then shows how Trump, with his wealth of private property and his interests advanced with the willing aid of the mass media, best exemplifies some of the most prominent and popular qualities of capitalism in both its positive and negative aspects.
From the Paper
"Probably no single individual best personifies the capitalist frame of reference as does billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump. He came into the public light in the 1980s, and became one of the first celebrity businessmen of recent times, working in a field in which most businessmen preferred to keep a low profile and stay out of the public eye as much as possible. The mass media willingly accepted Trump's self-promotions and played him up as the archetypal capitalist and "self-made man." From the standpoint of Marx, a relevant critique would begin by noting that despite the myth of individual achievement contained in this persona, Trump in fact came from a very successful family, his father having already been a multi-millionaire real estate developer in New York City (Slater 44.)"
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American Business Culture in Japan, 2008.
A look at the professional and work related customs and practices relevant to an American working in Japan.
1,556 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 36.95
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The paper discusses workplace and organizational culture as it would be experienced by an American company operating in Japan. The paper also examines the unique experiences to which an American employee working in Japan would be exposed to vis-a-vis workplace culture and practices. The paper recommends the acquisition of some deeper cross-cultural communication skills that extend beyond the workplace.
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Abstract
Introduction
Negotiation & Culture
Physical Space & Time in the Workplace
Conclusion
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"For an American firm operating in Japan there are many considerations that must be made beyond the operational level. Perhaps the most important are at the organizational level where customs, culture, and host-national considerations must be made. This is because the subject of intercultural communication has become not just a politically correct topic in today's increasingly diverse societies, but a matter of necessity given the spread of the global economy and the degree of economic integration which finds companies now moving into foreign countries such as Japan where the Asian culture and work ethic becomes a vital consideration."
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Canadian Telecommunications: Customer Profile Analysis, 2008.
This paper provides a straight forward customer profile analysis that includes target market, product usage and purchasing motivation for the three Canadian-based telecommunication companies of Telus, Rogers and Bell.
785 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 19.95
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This paper shows a customer profile analysis for the Canadian based telecommunication companies of Telus, Rogers and Bell. The paper compares the market strategies of the three companies within a shared target and space, and determines that each of the companies rely heavily on phone communication as a necessity, for building their businesses. The paper also shows the slight differences in strategies: Telus as a growing global performer, Rogers as offering a host of commercial solutions and Bell as being the leader due to its long-standing presence in the market, its recognized brand, and its array of bundled services.
Telus
Target Market
Product Usage
Purchasing Motivation
Rogers
Target Market
Product Usage
Purchasing Motivation
Bell
Target Market
Product Usage
Purchasing Motivation
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"The motivation for Rogers' wireless solutions is centered on the company's target market's desire to remain connected with both peers and family. Increasingly, wireless phones are being employed as the sole means of communication between family members as well as peer groups. The residential and business phone accounts are subscribed to out necessity since many customers and certainly most businesses still rely on the traditional phone line as their main form of communication. Likewise, Rogers' cable television service is purchase more for its entertainment value than for any form of communication method even when packaged with Internet services."
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Case Study: Organizational Communication, 2008.
Presents a case study on organizational communication, looking at the communication problem at a small political activist organization.
770 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 19.95
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This paper examines an organizational communication problem encountered at the small political activists' organization for which the author of the paper once volunteered. The paper explains that there was an organizational communication problem because the volunteer supervisor did not have projects ready during the scheduled volunteer time slots and that, despite a thorough interview process to determine skill-need matches and to discover prior verbal scheduling of volunteer times, this problem persisted for months. The paper then relates that the consequence of the communication problem was a diminished enthusiasm for the cause and growing level of frustration causing the author to cease volunteering despite having a true belief in its mission. The author analyzes the situation and proposes that a communication plan should have been written and a communication vehicle defined.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Knowledge
Sensitivity
Skills
Values
Alternative Solutions
Proposed Solutions
From the Paper
"This paper does acknowledge that as with many political activists' organizations, things happen on the spot, and there is a great deal of crisis management, and not a lot of pre-planning. Additionally the communication focus for this organization was external, not internal. This organizational culture spilled over into the communication methods of this writer's volunteer work, and was a cause of a great deal of frustration."
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