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Prayer as Communication, 2009.
This paper looks at prayer as a type of communication and discusses its place in the religious life of a Christian.
2,965 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 113.95
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In this article, the writer notes that, stripped down to its essential meaning, prayer is a form of communication. The writer points out that prayer does not refer to communication between people, but between human beings and God. Prayer has its own diction, its own language. The writer discusses how prayer is portrayed in the Bible and notes that it is presented as a simple and straightforward practice. The writer maintains that prayer is absolutely essential to the Christian lifestyle because it establishes and maintains a personal communication with God, helps revive faith, and because it ensures right living. The writer concludes that prayer is an act of love and an expression of faith that is both extremely personal and integral to the whole of the Christian world.
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"Developing a personal communication with God is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Although some Christians believe that communication with God is mainly possible through intermediaries including saints and clergy, many Christians believe that God wants individuals to pray on their own. Church attendance is not sufficient to inspire the Soul toward God, to affirm religious faith, or to put Christian living principles into practice. Church may introduce individuals to Christian ideals and ideas through Bible readings and sermons. However, Christians need to dwell permanently with the Spirit. A few hours per week at Church are not enough to establish communication with God and to put faith into practice."
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Online Rhetoric, 2009.
A look at how the Internet has made new rhetoric possible.
1,085 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 48.95
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This paper looks at how online collaboration software, such as Cisco's Web Ex, Microsoft Office Live, Google documents and dimdim.com, are changing the nature of rhetoric. The paper specifically examines how online collaboration software has made rhetoric less formal, more universally accessible, and more egalitarian.
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"Traditional rhetorical tools must still be used, however, to communicate new ideas and persuade group members to adopt novel points of view. The decision-making process also depends on how well group members use and respond to rhetoric. Of the five canons of traditional rhetoric, the one most drastically affected by online collaboration software is delivery. Technology makes an infinite array of delivery options possible, including those that contain video or audio content."
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Media Plan For Steve and Barry's, 2009.
A case study analysis of the marketing strategy of the apparel store, Steve and Barry's.
1,236 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 55.95
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This paper presents a case study of the apparel store, Steve and Barry's. It provides a background and history of their business model and describes their goals and objectives. The paper then specifically discusses the marketing strategy that Steve and Barry's launched in 2006 and discusses how it was unique in the apparel industry.
Table of Contents:
Background and History of the Steve and Barry's Business Model
Goals and Specific Objectives
Audience
Message and Response Measurement
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"While the low-cost viral marketing type of approach to advertising has already proven itself successful with respect to young people, it may be that more traditional modes of advertising may be required to reach parents and older adults, provided the studies and focus groups suggest that the additional cost of separating the campaign that way is worthwhile. The success of campaign will be measured by revenue increases during the quarter immediately following any such changes in marketing efforts. Additionally, the success of the campaign will be measured by increased brand recognition as determined by electronic media such as Google trends and response rates to promotional initiatives designed to quantify apparent changes in brand awareness, Internet presence in social messaging sites and blogs."
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Diversity and Family, 2009.
A discussion on diversity's influence on conflict and decision-making in families.
1,333 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 57.95
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The paper explains that both conflict and decision-making are part of family behavior and they are both important in improving the communication within a family. The paper then discusses how diversity effects conflict in two ways; the conflict about the task at hand as well as the emotional conflict related to the task. The paper asserts that the goal is to get the right mix of ideas, attitudes and opinions so that individuals can agree to disagree but still go on to get the job done. The paper believes that involving all family members who are old enough and mature enough to think about and make decisions may increase conflict and diversity, but will also increase options.
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"Having diversity in a family can be a great thing or a bad thing, depending on what the diversity involves and how much of it there is. People should be encouraged to be themselves and to be different, but only if it does not come at the cost of the safety and well-being of others. Diversity plays a large role in conflict and decision making. Both conflict and decision making are part of family behavior, and they are both important. Decision making moves a family in a new direction. Hopefully, that direction will be forward, but sometimes bad decisions are made, so decision making is not always good. Conversely, conflict is not always bad. It can sometimes come about because of bad decisions, but this can turn out for the good when conflicts are brought to the table and resolved. Often, this improves the communication within a family and helps those who are in charge of making the decisions make better ones in the future, thus moving the family as a unit forward."
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Negotiating With Wal-Mart, 2009.
A discussion on how the Bollingers should negotiate with Wal-Mart as a supplier.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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The paper defines the Bollingers' potential strategy for working with Wal-Mart and explains that if the Bollingers can communicate credibility to the Wal-Mart purchasing managers and gain their trust, in addition to getting them to see the value of WallPockett as a merchandising platform, they will have been successful. The paper explains how the Bollingers should use their half-hour presentation to Wal-Mart buyers and emphasizes the need for their high, medium and low levels of sales and pricing.
Outline:
Introduction
Bollinger's Strategy for Wal-Mart: Sell Experience and Value
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Half-Hour Session Recommendations
Conclusion
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"Wal-Mart is considered one of the most demanding customers of its suppliers globally, routinely asking for significant cost reductions of its sourced products in addition to special concessions to retain their business. Suppliers who don't manage negotiations with Wal-Mart have found themselves in the situation of having the majority of their production allocated to mass merchandisers at prices near their break-even point. Negotiating with Wal-Mart requires a thoroughly defined strategy to make sure the products being sold can retain their profitability over the long-term."
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Language Vs Animal Communication, 2009.
An exploration of the language systems of humans and primates.
1,456 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 63.95
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The paper provides a literature review on the evolution of language in humans and primates that explores why man is overtly superior to non-Homo sapiens. The paper reveals current findings that have demonstrated that chimpanzees can communicate verbally. The paper proposes a study that will identify brain activities occurring in chimpanzees and localize areas involved in the production of verbal language.
Outline:
Review of Related Literature
Objective of the Proposed Study
Study Design
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"Numerous studies have been conducted to further understand the unique ability of man to use language as a tool for communication. Common issues have been attempted to answer by developmental scientists and psychologist with regards to the evolution of language in humans and primates (Pinker and Jackendoff, 2004). One of these issues is to discern which components of language are learned from the environment, and which are innate in man and other species. The influence of one's external surroundings - education system, interaction with others, and ability to pick up a new language system - has been dissected. At the same time, the biological and neurological characteristics of man have been investigated to understand why man is overtly superior to non-Homo sapiens. These characteristics innate in man must be contributory to the development of a highly sophisticated language system."
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Schools and Families, 2009.
A brief presentation of strategies for schools to facilitate communication with families.
817 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 38.95
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This paper discusses strategies that schools can use to open up the lines of communication between families and schools. The first strategy relates that schools must strive to create a common community of shared values while showing respect for each family's culture. The second strategy addresses the need to create personal connections with families through involvement strategies and the third strategy deals with the need to solve purely logistical problems, such as difficulties with transportation and the English skills of the parents. The fourth strategy suggested is that parents can be helpful in creating school-business partnerships, for example, by funding school events.
Outline:
Step 1: Create a Common Culture but Show Respect for Family's Culture
Step 2: Create Personal Connections With Families Through Involvement Strategies
Step 3: Address Logistical Concerns
Step 4: Involve the Community
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"According to Chris Ferguson of the National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools, past reviews of research studies designed to assess the needs of schools and families suggest that schools must adopt a two-pronged strategy in opening up the lines of communication between families and schools (Ferguson 2005:1 ). Schools must strive to create a common community of shared values. But schools must also incorporate the different types of input provided by administrators, parents, and teachers in defining the school's mission. Staff members must become fluent in communicating with individuals of different cultures to communicate the school's own, core message of academic community and advancement."
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Communicating With Adolescents, 2009.
This paper explores the role of interpersonal communication in parent-adolescent relationships.
1,524 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 65.95
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The paper discusses the tendency of adolescents to engage in high-risk behaviors and explores the solution of improving the quality of parent-adolescent communication. The paper reveals that adolescents are likely to do away with high-risk behaviors if there is healthy family communication and a perceived sense of confidence from their parents about making decisions on their own. The paper explains how interpersonal communication is used to accomplish four main functions.
Outline:
Parent-Adolescent Relationships
Using Interpersonal Communication to Parent-Adolescent Relationships
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"Adolescence is the period where a child goes through profound biological, psychological, and social development changes (Kaplan and Sadock 42). They fight for their independence by pushing the boundaries of parent-imposed limitations. They form social cliques and classify themselves with groups they feel they are most affiliated to. The need for social acceptance, compounded by their natural impulsiveness, presence of clinical depression and self-esteem issues, may put them at risk to make wrong choices."
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Utterance Length in Children Versus Chimpanzees, 2009.
A comparison of the utterance length in children versus chimpanzees as measured by the mean length of utterance (MLU).
1,397 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 60.95
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This paper examines the mean length of utterance (MLU) which refers to the actual length of the sentence uttered in terms of words and morphemes within a particular sentence. The paper particularly compares the utterance length in children versus the abilities of chimpanzees as measured by the MLU. The paper then looks at verbal and nonverbal associations of language and all of its complexities among children and chimpanzees.
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"Therefore, further studies need to focus on furthering the understanding of chimpanzee sign language as a true form of language. Furthering on Dwyer's 1986 research study, a new study should focus on the concept of comparing normal children's verbal language skills with chimpanzee's non-verbal language communication skills. The level of proficiency of both normal human children needs to be matched to young non-verbal communications of chimpanzees. However, since previous studies have already shown that there is a certain point where children rise above the levels of chimpanzee language skills, these future studies need to focus on finding the particular average age in which this further development takes place. This means an ANOVA data analysis study based on a weekly transgression of language development of a relatively large population of growing kids and chimpanzees. With a larger portion being studies on a much more constant basis, researchers should be able to get a more concrete age range of when human children begin to significantly rise above the language skills of chimpanzees based on the complexity of utterances and sentences. This would provide the psychological world a better idea of exactly what age range we branch of from our ape ancestors."
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The Future of Print Media, 2009.
An overview of the future of print media vs. online media.
1,106 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 50.95
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The paper discusses how and why today's print media faces cutthroat and devastating competition from the printed word on the Internet. The paper does note several problems with online media but explains that blogs, opinionated posts and hastily constructed, user-generated content may generate more interest from an opinionated public. The paper concludes therefore that, in the future, the old advertising model and the ideal of professionally-produced and written newspapers, magazines, books, and even movies and television shows may come to an end.
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"Is print media dying? Although the printed word in book, magazine, and newspaper form has not yet gone the way of the 8-track, there can be no doubt that today's print media faces cutthroat and devastating competition from the printed word on the Internet. E-zines, spanning everything from television and music fan E-zines to serious news publications such as Slate, "have virtually no traditional paper, printing, or distribution costs, and are better versed in new media interactivity" (Walsh 2008). In other words, not only do readers not have to pay for the content, but these Internet publications without real-world counterparts also cost less money to produce. Furthermore, Internet readers on all types of print media sites have the added excitement of being able to interact with other people on message boards, as well as look at related video content on the sites, luxuries they do not have when reading print."
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Deafness and Hearing Impairment, 2009.
This paper explores how the deaf and hearing impaired face limitations in their employment.
1,930 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 14 sources, APA, AU$ 79.95
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The paper discusses the incidence of deafness and its classification as a disability. The paper then reveals statistics on the increasing unemployment rate for the deaf that shows how, although European countries have passed laws and policies to ensure equal opportunities, discrimination against the hearing impaired is still rampant. The paper discusses a solution that is being popularly advocated, that would allow the deaf to use sign language in the workplace. The paper concludes that, providing employment, which generates income and self-respect, is the key issue for the full integration of all people with disabilities, particularly the deaf.
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"According to the World Health Organization, deafness is defined as the complete loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears (WHO, 2008). An individual may have primarily been born with this disability, being unable to hear sound ever since he was born. Factors that may affect a person's development in the prenatal or postnatal stages may affect hearing. While the fetus grows in the mother's womb, a malformation may occur in the auditory apparatus (Online Encyclopedia, 2008). A mother who acquires measles during the time of pregnancy may result in a permanent disability of the child. Postnatally, deafness may result from an event that may likewise permanently damage the ears. Deafness may be caused by complications such as acquiring an infectious disease, intake of ototoxic drugs, or exposure to noise that is beyond tolerance. Hearing impairment is the partial loss of hearing ability from one or both ears."
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Advertising Ethics, 2009.
A discussion on the ethical issues involved in deceptive marketing practices.
1,061 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 48.95
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The paper outlines the background and history of advertising regulations and discusses deceptive advertising and marketing practices today. The paper attempts to illustrate how contemporary laws and ethical standards still focus too narrowly on the literal truth instead of the truthfulness of the message under the totality of its circumstances. The paper provides examples of the intentional transmission of an untruthful perception through the creative use of words that are truthful only in the most literal sense and contends that this is hardly less deceptive than lying outright to generate sales.
Outline:
Background and History of the Issue
Deceptive Advertising and Marketing Practices
Conclusion - Toward Greater Honesty in Advertising
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"Regulation of products evolved slowly and standards defining deception in advertising permitted numerous advertising campaigns and messages that are shocking in light of contemporary ethical standards and legal obligations. Subliminal messaging (which was never actually proven to work as intended) was prohibited relatively early on, but many other forms of creative advertising copy took tremendous liberties with the spirit of honesty by carefully complying with the literal truth (Howard 2005). For example, the famous Trident sugarless chewing gum commercial of the 1960s reassured TV viewers that "Four out of five dentists recommend Trident for their patients who chew gum.""
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Social Networking, 2009.
An examination of the benefits and limitations of social networking.
2,892 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 110.95
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This paper debates the benefits and limitations of social networking, both from a personal as well as an organizational perspective. It defines social networking and discusses how social networking exemplifies the capabilities of the Internet's development, collaboration and publishing technologies in the development of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other sites that are at the epicenter of social networking today. The paper contains tables and figures.
Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
Putting Social Networking into Context
Benefits of Social Networking
Assessing the Limitations of Social Networking
Ethical Issues of Social Networking
Summary
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"Instead of fighting and resisting the major change that social networking brings to communicating, collaborating, sharing and learning, organizations must throw off their preconceptions and pilot these technologies. The life forces in any organization aren't physical assets, its knowledge and the ability to learn as an organization. Social networking is the catalyst, the nurturing agent of this change. Its effects permeate and can improve communications skills between individuals and departments, organizations and even divisions scattered across the globe. To ignore the growth of social networking and its potential contributions to personal, professional and organizational goal attainment is to become myopic and miss the opportunity to be transformed by greater insight and knowledge shared with and gained from others."
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Culture and Class, 2009.
An exploration of the cultural hierarchy of Western culture.
1,412 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 61.95
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The paper explains Marx's belief that it is the dominant class which formulates the ideology of any particular society. The paper goes on to explain how the dominant groups effectively negotiate with the lower classes in order to keep them from rebelling and how this system of hegemonic control is firmly established through the various facets of the culture industry. The paper also relates that the mass media is one of the most pervasive elements of this hegemonic system aimed at keeping a grip on the general consensus of a society.
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""We make, and are made by culture," (Storey, 61); the culture of any society represents the prevailing attitudes and values of that world. However, these values do not always represent the interests of the working and lower classes of that society. The ideas of Culture represent the interests of the dominant upper classes which own the means of production. Yet, they are forever engrained within a society compiled mainly of proletariat working class members through the Culture Industry which represents the hegemony use to bridge the gap between the upper and lower classes in order to avoid complete revolution and destruction."
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The New Terrorism, 2009.
A brief discussion on the motives and sophisticated forms of terrorism today.
816 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 38.95
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The paper refers to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to show how the terrorism today is characterized by increased sophistication, mainly in terms of technology and communications. The paper then discusses the counterterrorism process that likewise must involve communications and communications-related technologies as well as human resources. The paper emphasizes that by understanding the political and ideological motives behind terrorist groups and their methods, Americans can be prepared to address possible solutions and their efficacy in a wide range of scenarios.
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"Terrorism reached a new low the morning of September 11, 2001 when perpetrators used three hijacked commercial jets as weapons of mass destruction. Yet terrorists had been plotting against the United States and its allies long before that date and continue to plague freedom-loving citizens of the world. What the events of September 11 marked was the beginning of a new war on terror, a new definition of warfare that would rely less on traditional battlefronts and more and more on technology and advanced intelligence-gathering. The terrorist attacks of September 11 also brought to attention the severity of the threat that fundamentalist Islam had been posing for decades. Until September 11, 2001 that threat had been underestimated or at least it had been in the mainstream media. The new terrorism is characterized by increased sophistication, mainly in terms of technology and communications."
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Crew Resource Management (CRM), 2009.
An exploration of the function of crew resource management (CRM) in the cockpit environment.
1,302 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 56.95
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The paper focuses on situation awareness, communication skills, teamwork, task allocation and decision-making based upon a comprehensive knowledge of standard operating procedures upon which crew resource management (CRM) is based. The paper points out that, because of the human factor in flying, CRM training often includes error management too. The paper therefore shows how crew resource management implies a non-judgmental environment in the cockpit that eliminates clashes of ego that are based on power hierarchies.
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"Crew resource management reflects basic principles of human communications but applied directly within the unique cockpit environment. Cockpit mismanagement and conflict are major culprits in aviation accidents: "failures of interpersonal communications, decision making, and leadership" are responsible for most errors (Helmreich, Merritt, & Wilhelm 1999). Interpersonal strife, miscommunication, and errors in judgment are some of the areas crew resource management can address. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) workshop introduced the importance of crew resource management (CRM) in 1979 and since then CRM has helped avert a "significant" number of aviation accidents (American Psychological Association, 2004). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA 2004) calls CRM an "integral part of training and operations.""
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