Monthly Archives: April 2013

Does TodaysTechnology Help Long Distance Relationships in an Online Sense

In today’s society online dating is as common as face to face or in person dating. Personally, I think that online dating is far more complicated though than living in the same town as your significant other. When I had …

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The War in the Shadows: Cyberwarfare and Hacker Armies

When the Internet was first created I doubt many of us considered just how powerful of a medium for social change it could be and the impact it would have on global communications and globalization. I know I didn’t, because …

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“The Importance of Music in Religion”

A lot of people have much to say about religion today, but most of it is concerned and thought of with the description of religious experience or the makeup of the religious consciousness. In my opinion, I believe that music …

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Relationships Brought to the Online Community

In Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society, Arnold Brown begins to describe several ways that the Internet has changed and shaped our lives today.  Whether it be socially or physically, the Internet has had an impact …

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Collaborative Learning beyond the Education System

The saying “two heads are better than one” has served as the support for every student’s argument behind a test, quiz, paper, or any kind of assignment. While it is important to develop the skills of individual thinking, the use …

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Online Exam Taking – When sharing becomes cheating, thank you Google

In today’s digital age, when files are sent at the click of a button, pictures of tests are texted around the room in seconds and screen shots of text books are readily available. Where is the line between sharing information …

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Examining the Belief That Future Generations are Smarter That Past Ones

I do not know how some people got the idea that every generation is smarter that the precedent generation. There is not such thing as a generation being smarter than another; there have been always smarter people in every generation, …

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The Difference Between Borrowing Material and Plagiarism in the World of Journalism

Today in my Electronic Journalism class we talked about journalist borrowing material from other journalist and what are the do’s and don’t of borrowing information.

It is true that most journalists do borrow stories from one another all the time …

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Without electricity, we have nothing.

There are seven billion people on earth who use energy each day. Without energy one would not be able to do even the most simplest of tasks like cooking, washing clothes or even having light inside of our homes. The …

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Mike Rice is an Asshole. Now What?

Rutgers men’s basketball has parted ways with head coach Mike Rice for swearing, slurring, and hurling basketballs at his players.

Only, they already suspended him in December for the same thing. What changed?

ESPN released the video.

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