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Essays

This article examines the American court system through a review of two books and two journal articles that detail how the system works. In the review of two books examining how the Supreme Court operates the importance of that institution is explained. Two journal article are also reviewed. One explaining the importance of stare decisis and the other reviewing the present status of the death penalty in America and the world.

General Motors is one of the major companies that have played an integral role in the global automotive industry for over 100 years. This article analyzes the history of this company in relation to its growth and development to the point of becoming a major player in the auto industry and market. The analysis examines the important periods of the firm's history in period before 2007 and during and after 2007. The paper also includes a brief analysis of the importance of communicating, collaborating, and organizing as they apply to the consumer, marketing/positioning, and the internal organization.

The traditional processes and roles of journalism are going through disruptive economic, social and political change as a result of the pervasive influence and impact of the Internet and social media. The nature of journalism itself is changing fast as the accumulated effects of the Internet reorder the economics of this industry (Thiel, 2005). With the rapid shifts in the underlying technologies increasing the speed of reporting, there is a corresponding shift in how news is produced and published (Nancy, 2000). With the accelerating speed of reporting there however have been continual challenges surrounding accountability and ethics (Overholser, 2009). Balancing the convenience and speed of the Internet as a publishing platform and the unique, highly targeted nature of social media for reaching multiple audiences into journalism continues to revolutionize the reader experience (Murdoch, 2010). The intent of this analysis is to provide a historical context as to how the Internet is changing journalism today, what the key technologies are that are impacting journalism, and assess the impact of social media on the journalism profession. Historical Analysis of Journalism in the Internet Age The Internet has swiftly progressed from a news-gathering platform to a publishing medium (Loop, 1999) This transition has drastically re-ordered the economics of news reporting and analysis, and also has led to entirely unforeseen ethical, legal and regulatory implications of journalistic practices and integrity (Nancy, 2000). Amidst all of these shifts in the industry structure and potential for profitability has been the rise of independent journalists who are often given equal or even greater attention and readership from the public. Rupert Murdoch sees the growth of the Internet as inexorable and completely capable of re-defining the economics of traditional news gathering, analysis, reporting and syndication (Murdoch, 2010). The fact that many bloggers have more loyal audiences that even the most well-known journalists is a case in point. The inflexion point for the journalism industry began when the Internet and its rapid publishing platforms including blogs, Wikis, video blogs and podcasts collectively created a foundation of trusted content faster and with greater candidness than traditional journalists could (Picard, 2009). Paralleling this shift in trust from the traditional journalists to the blogger community was increasing scrutiny of just how unbiased traditional journalists were. During election years as 2012 has been in the United States there is also the question of just how unbiased the traditional journalists are with regard to reporting the policies and platforms of presidential candidates (Picard, 2009). What's emerging from this analysis of traditional versus online media is the question of accuracy, authenticity, and trustworthiness of each type of media. Traditional media outlets that veer in the far left and right of political views as Fox News has been known to do for example illustrate this dichotomy.

This is a research on the various types of Network Design in IT. The specific one looked at here are the Top-Down Network Design in comparison and contrast to the Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, Optimize (PDIOO). The characteristics that make them different are highlighted as well as the similarities therein and the advantages that each has.

Since the past decade, the reach of television and other mass media to the younger customers in the developed world has seen a decline. With traditional advertisement methods slowly losing their capability to tap target…

During the past few years, spirituality and its affects on health have received a great deal of attention. The media often reports stories concerning prayer and meditation practices that appear to have positive results…

This essay examines three films about the hippie movement in order to determine how they subvert or uphold social norms. Two of the films, Head and Skidoo, subvert norms somewhat by challenging accepted notions of genre, but the third, Psych-Out, does not. Furthermore, the way in which each film treats drug use reveals its position on the hippie movement as a whole.

This paper derives corporate audience analysis and communications strategies for times of crisis from academic best practice and applies those to the 2010 Chilean mine collapse. Theory supports application in a preliminary discussion of representative literature which then justifies two notional sample communications from corporate C-suite to families of the miners trapped below and their peer workers sent to continued operations.

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My focus will be the ways in which societal institutions have influenced human sexuality, and the ways and reasons in which these have changed or stayed the same. I find the topic both interesting and important, since…