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Instant Messenger, 2004.
Questions whether instant messaging is a pop culture phenomenon or an evil plot for global domination.
4,100 words (approx. 16.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 78.95
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An exploration of AIM and how it affects college students, life in general, mass media, and an exploration of the addiction to instant messaging.
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"It is more addictive than nicotine, more prevalent than marijuana; it drives distracted students to the library and sends compulsive socialites home with failing grades, and its synonymous with college life. No, the culprit is not beer, it is not sex...this evildoer is Instant Messenger (IM). College students today live in a world where homework assignments often require Internet access, email messages replace phone calls to distant friends and family, and relationships sometimes start - and end- via instant messenger. Every morning, I begin my day not by brushing my teeth, or eating breakfast, but by checking my status on AOL Intsant Messanger (AIM) and posting a new away message. I use AIM to talk to my brother in Holland and to my housemate in the next room. I use it while procrastinating on homework, and to make dinner plans for the evening. I use it to flirt with my newest crush, and to stalk my ex-boyfriend. And, almost everyone else I know uses it."
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Instant Messenger, 2005.
A look at the use of instant messaging in the work environment.
787 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper takes a look at the way instant messaging has revolutionized the communication process in the work environment and then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of using this technology at work.
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"The use of instant messaging in work environment is rapidly growing. However, as with any element of technology, issues surround its adaptation in the work place. Some considers instant messengers as effective tool in the workplace, while others are skeptical considering it to decrease the work performance of employees because it can be a tool for gossips in the workplace as well as it can lead to chronic complaining among employees. So, the question is ?Will instance messenger services increase or decrease efficiency in the workplace??."
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Film: "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc", 2005.
This paper reviews Besson and Birkin's film "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc" (1999).
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, £ 62.95
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This paper explains that the 1999 film starring Mila Jovovich entitled "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc"is compelling at times. The author points out that the lack of historical knowledge exhibited by the director and writer compromises it in fatal ways. The paper relates that one noteworthy scene is made up and the protagonist Joan is made to perform hysterically throughout when her real temperament was, in all likelihood, substantially different.
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"Joan of Arc's story is an intriguing one. In recent years, with the rise of feminism and a with new emphasis upon the place of women in the historical fabric of Western European society, a bevy of articles, books and, not least of all, films have emerged trumpeting the heroics of a young fifteenth century French peasant girl named Joan of Arc. This paper looks at her story by discussing the peculiar confluence - or perhaps it is collision - of myth and historical fact as it pertains to the depiction of Joan of Arc on the Hollywood big screen."
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Use of Instant Messaging in Business, 2004.
This paper is a feasibility study for Clinical Study Applications, Inc. regarding the need and benefits of real-time, instant messaging communications for use between CSA?s offices in Arizona and Wisconsin.
2,115 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper explains that instant messaging (IM) is an Internet protocol (IP) based application that provides convenient communication between people using a variety of different device types. The author points out that the most familiar IM today is computer-to-computer instant text messaging; but IM also can work with mobile devices, such as digital cellular phones, and can incorporate voice or video. The paper recommends that Clinical Study Applications, Inc., incorporate AOL Instant Messenger into its suite of software so that its two offices can communicate freely and frequently, reducing business expenses such as phone bills and travel costs.
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Introduction
The Technology
Potential Security and Abuse Issues
Recommendation
Conclusion
Instant Messaging Companies
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"Instant messaging can greatly facilitate the ease and speed of communication between employees, whether they are sitting next to each other, or if their offices are half a world apart. Small questions can be answered in real time, without tying up phone lines, writing extensive emails or arranging and conducting meetings. For people who travel frequently, instant messaging allows for almost constant and up to date contact between offices. The practical functionality of IM allows a person to view whether a person is even at his desk and available. Making good use of IM programs allows others to know where you are, what you might be doing or when you will be back, simply by glancing at a computer screen."
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Instant Messaging, 2008.
This paper discusses the increased use of instant messaging among college students.
752 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 18.95
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The paper explores why instant messaging (IM) services offer an increasingly appropriate alternative for college students, both in terms of leisure and academic purposes. The paper shows how with less time on their hands and more time spent in front of a computer and on the Internet, the typical college student will revert to instant messaging to communicate with friends, teachers and librarians.
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"Instant messaging has become one of the fundamentals means of communication in the 21st century. Together with other forms of Internet communication (email, blogging etc.), instant messaging has helped created a virtual community in which individual interact with much more easiness and with increased speed. There's no category of age where this is as evident as in the college community, among college students. Whether for leisure or academic purpose, meeting with friends or discussing with the teacher the details of the course project or assignment, the instant messaging service is widely spread among college students."
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Instant Messaging and Interpersonal Relationships, 2008.
This paper examines the impact of instant messaging on interpersonal relationships.
2,843 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 13 sources, APA, £ 59.95
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In this article, the writer focuses on the way in which instant messaging has affected and is possibly changing the nature of interpersonal relationships in the contemporary communications environment. The study focuses on the 18-25 age groups as this is the demographic that has grown up with modern technology as an endemic part of their lives and who are most at home with the technology - and most directly affected by it. The paper also points out that there is a close correlation between the topic of interpersonal relationships in instant messaging and aspects of interpersonal communications. The writer notes that the fact that digital communications and interpersonal connections are closely bound in the modern world makes it difficult to discuss these two aspects separately. Therefore, this study also focuses on both interpersonal relationships and modes of communication and their points of intersection.
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Introduction
IM, Interpersonal Relationships and Communication
Conclusion
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"In other words, the assertion is that while instant massaging facilitates more extensive modes of communications, at the same time it impacts on important aspects of interpersonal behavior that are seen to be detrimental to healthy and positive relationship formation.
"This is a view that may be seen to be somewhat extreme but it does have an element of truth that is reiterated to a certain extent in a number of modern studies. This view also states that there is a certain risk to interpersonal relationships in IM. This refers to the view that we are losing the importance of face-to-face contact and the intimacy that result from conventional interrelationships."
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Instant Messaging, 2004.
An examination on the effects of instant messaging in the workplace.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 16.95
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This paper examines the effect of instant messaging on efficiency in the workplace. It concludes that instant messaging can be an effective communication tool that also has the potential to be disruptive in the workplace.
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"Once the purview of teenagers staying up late into the night to converse with their friends instant messaging has found its way into the workplace. Like e-mail, the fax and the telephone, instant messaging ..."
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Instant Messaging, 2008.
An examination of how technology-mediated modes of communication de-centre face-to-face communication' and impact language use and structure.
1,761 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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The paper discusses how the widespread use of networked computers that comprise the Internet have fundamentally transformed how people communicate and the language structures through which this communication is achieved. In particular, it argues the thesis that the technology known as instant messaging (IM) is transforming language and the social networks that are dependent upon language for maintenance and growth. The argument is made that while this new mode of communication represents a distinct language use and de-centres face-to-face communications, it remains a highly efficient mode of communication for its users who have made a range of innovations in language structure to meet the design of this new medium.
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"It is interesting to note, however, that the popularity of IM does not immediately translate into other forms of text-based communications such as text-messaging via cell phones. Indeed, only one-third of American teens have ever used a cell phone for sending a text message (Bryant et al. 580). This high level of difference suggests that IM is somehow structurally more attractive for its users. In understanding language use and structure in IM it is necessary to therefore see how this form of text-based communication is similar to text messaging and email, and how it is different. Clearly, technologically sophisticated users have radically different perspectives of these different vehicles for communication."
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Career-Planning Websites, 2004.
This paper discusses career-planning websites.
1,560 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper explains that career assessment, important to determining the correct career path, can be attained through many sources including online websites. The author evaluates two sites and finds them defective: Maryland?s CareerNet and a website by the Arizona State University Career Services. The paper suggests that an improved career-planning site includes an online interactive quiz to give people an idea of careers of which they might be interested, links to available jobs in their area, capability to post resumes and to review information about the employer, and has counselors available by telephone and Instant Messenger.
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"The first CareerNet link I followed was to the ?My Future? website (http://www.myfuture.com). The first note about this site is that it is extremely pro-military, while trying to hide behind the facade of a non-biased website, and this not-very-subtle propaganda is undeniably in poor taste. The Career Toolbox section of this site includes assistance with resume and cover letter writing, interview preparation, more military propaganda, and quizzes. The Work Interest Quiz is the main career assessment activity. These 60 statements each have a check box next to them, and if any of these activities line up with the interests of the quiz-taker, they are to be marked."
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Timothy Sermon, 2007.
This paper analyzes 2 Timothy 4:2 from the King James Bible.
1,024 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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In this article, the writer notes that 2 Tim 4:2 teaches us how to live in this world. The writer maintains that it is a proactive passage, one that focuses on the footwork we must do to help create God's kingdom on earth. The writer points out that we are urged to speak with and from our heart of hearts the good news of the gospel. Further, the writer suggest that to be instant suggests spontaneity: the joy that derives from expressing the instantaneous glory of God. Moreover, the writer claims that we become instantly available as reliable messengers. In addition, the writer believes that the people around us respond when we come from the heart and thus we help spread the gospel.
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"Out of season we become willing to swim against the tide, delivering the word of God even when it seems no one is listening or even that no one cares. In the current day and age, the moral and spiritual climate may appear out of season. It is in times like these that our work is most important. Being instant in this case signifies swiftness of spirit: the willingness to jump at any available opportunity to offer aid or assistance in the name of Christ. Though the gospel may be out of season, out of fashion, or out of place, the word of God still resonates within you. Therefore, preaching the word and being instant in season and out of season entails both inner and outer work. In the world, we take these words literally by speaking frankly about the gospel of Christ. For ourselves, we read, we re-read, and we re-apply the principles of the gospel in everything we do, say, and think. Even when you do not preach formally you can still be a role model that proves how God works through mankind."
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Galileo and Patricia M. King, 2002.
This paper compares Galileo's "The Starry Messenger" and Patricia M. King's "How do we know? Why do we Believe?"
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 31.95
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This paper analyzes the theme of personal empowerment through empirical knowledge as represented in Galileo's "The Starry Messenger" and Patricia M. King's "How do we know? Why do we Believe?"
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Moses, 2003.
An overview of the historical life of Moses, as well as his role in the exodus and as God's human messenger to the people of Israel.
1,749 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 39.95
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This paper examines the story of Moses as told in the book of Exodus in the Old Testament. It looks at how Moses was the predominant Israelite in Exodus and the most influential and important of all Israelites at the time. It shows how through God's command, Moses persuaded the Israelites to follow God and in return, God would deliver them from slavery and a life of suffering. It tells the story of Moses from his birth into slavery in Egypt in the Palace of the Pharaoh until he received God's covenant on Mount Sinai.
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"Moses used his miracles to convince the influential Israelites that God had indeed sent him, and with the success of making believers out of the elders, Moses attempted to do the same with the Pharaoh; however, when Moses ordered the Pharaoh to let his people go, the Pharaoh responded with ignorance claiming that he knew no such Lord and would not let the people go because they were his servants. Moses became dismayed and asks the Lord why he continues to let the Israelites suffer; God assured Moses that he will drive them out of the Pharaoh?s land. Even when Aaron performed a miracle by turning his staff into a snake, the Pharaoh was not convinced."
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Influences of Cellular Technology on Generation Y, 2003.
The questionable effects of cell phones, pagers and text messengers on teenagers, plus informative statistics on the devices themselves.
1,780 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 12 sources, APA, £ 40.95
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Teenagers, or millenials as they are often referred to, are one of the largest markets to which cellular technology corporations market and sell their products. These products include pagers, handheld text messengers and the cellular phone. The paper shows that while many teens themselves view these gadgets as handy devices with which to keep in constant touch with the world, research shows that many negative issues are associated with irresponsible teenage use of these products. Academics, basic communication skills, credit, responsibility issues and even safety are all being affected by the rising trend in teenage ownership of cellular products. The paper argues that teens themselves do not even seem to really understand the problems and dangers and are oblivious to the true impact cellular technology has on their daily lives.
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"In a time where ?the towering infrastructure of modern media?the antennas, satellite dishes, cells, and such?spire towards the heavens? in rapid succession, one should take a look at how this evolving technology is affecting some of the nation?s youngest consumers: teenagers (Smith & Clurman, 1997, p. 163). Often referred to by many names (Generation Y, Generation Next, and Generation XX), these ?millenials, born in or after 1982,? are quickly becoming the most enthusiastic marketing target of cellular technology manufacturers everywhere, and for good reason (Howe & Strauss, 2000, p. 4). Author and social critic Lucy Rollin makes this point very clear in her 1999 novel about teen culture: Keeping in touch with friends and family has become easier. Portable phones have become practically standard issue for teens everywhere that are going off to college or on a car trip, and teens use them in the malls, at concerts, and on the streets as well as in the car?pagers?as well (p. 318). According to surveys by Wireless World Forum, teen ownership of mobile phones in particular has risen five times from 15% in 1998 to over 75% in 2000 and beyond, suggesting a steady progression of the importance and impact of cellular technology (mobile phones, pagers, and text messengers) in and on the average teenager?s fast-paced life."
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Human Resources Management, 2002.
This paper details a particular problem in HR management and applies current strategies to its hypothetical occurrence in the offices of an imaginary arts magazine (Instant!).
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 43.95
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This paper is written from the perspective of an outside consultant on the issue of performance management. It recommends an internal re-evaluation process as the best way to improve performance management and solve deadline crisis problems. The author reveals why this is an important HR consideration.
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