Category Archives: Education

Is Google Destroying The Financial Success Of Literature?

Google can easily be stated as the most successful and used website search engine in the entire world. In retrospect, it is the “engine” that makes the entire internet run. Although this seems like nothing but a positive invention for … Continue reading

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Social Media Puts Greek Life on Hold At UCF

Today the Student Development and Enrollment Services sent an email that changed the face of Greek Life at UCF for the rest of the semester, and maybe the rest of the year. As of today all social fraternities and sororities … Continue reading

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School in the digital age: A challenge to the tradition

It seems logical that online courses are on the rise throughout the United States. As technology improves, so do the methods of teaching and learning. As a student who has two jobs, is deeply involved in church and is a … Continue reading

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What Will Change In The Next Fifty Years?

Technology has shaped the world in many ways. We have the ability to talk to a person thousands of miles away through a telephone, send pictures through air, and watch television shows through a screen in the living room. With … Continue reading

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Virtualization: ” The Optimal Solution For Today’s Environment “

     Technology influences just about every aspect of life.  Gone are the days of using super computers solely for government or business purposes.  Today we have personal computers, smart phones, iPods, GPS devices, and a host of other gadgets … Continue reading

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Does Mother Always Know Best?

I, like many of my peers  am a first generation college student.  My father was an Ethiopian immigrant and my mother never got an opportunity to finish school, therefor education was and still is of extreme importance in my household. … Continue reading

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LEARNING ON THE GO

With technology growing more and more each day, it’s hard to keep up with all of the trends. But one trend that is being invested more and more in our lives is the ability to “learn on the go.” Even … Continue reading

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The Six Steps to a Better Communications System

Throughout Newton N. Minow’s article “A Vaster Wasteland”, I continually found myself nodding my head and agreeing with his six steps to transform the immense wasteland our media has become. His six steps in summary were to expand freedom, use … Continue reading

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Profit over good quality news

   In the article learning to love the new media, old journalism seems to be losing to our new technology ways. Every day it becomes less serious and about important stories and more about the now. As a nation we … Continue reading

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How do you Google?

In Peter Osnos article What’s a Fair Share in the Age of Google? He pointed out within five years of Google’s introduction to the world, “Google was a verb”. I didn’t really put much though into how much I used Google or … Continue reading

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