Essays on Rumor

“A Rumor of War” is Philip Caputo’s memoir about his experience in the Vietnam War. This book is not merely an act of recording brutal and horrible act during the war, but also the account of how an adolescent comes to terms with his misdeeds taking part in the war in Indochina in 1965. In general, the book is just a story about war and a painful personal experience of a soldier. The author of the book was one of the first Americans to fight in Vietnam and one of the last to be evacuated from this country. ...

It is the year 1921; a race riot is plaguing the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Armed White American men are destroying the once thriving and vibrant community of African Americans. Looters enter the African American owned buildings and businesses and many homes and infrastructures are on fire. Large trucks roll down the road, carrying stolen household goods from African American houses. Buck Colbert Franklin, a black attorney, is watching all these commotion from outside his burning law office. It took only two days for the Tulsa Race riot to make over 10,000 black residents homeless, and destroy ...

Von Daniken’s Evidence of Extraterrestrials Visits to Earth

Von Daniken mentions the Tassili sphere where Henri Lhote found images underneath a semicircular rock. In the image, a woman is pulling a man and behind her is a sphere with concentric circles. On the upper side of the sphere, a hatch is open with a television aerial protruding from it. There are hands with outspread fingers on the right half of the sphere. There are also five floating figures wearing helmets with white and red dots accompanying the sphere. Von Daniken also uses a gigantic stone egg discovered in 1940 by an archeologist known as Professor Marcel Homet ( ...

An Annotated Bibliography

Berman, Russell. “Warren G. Harding's Terrible Tenure.” The Atlantic. (2015): 1. Web. < http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/warren-g-harding-nan-britton-affair/401288/>. Harding’s presidency has been recalled by many scholars and historians as a complete and total failure. However, recent letters have been released that shares that while the man’s political success may have been poor; he had a very active love-life. At least that is what is construed in Berman’s article detailing some “steamy live letters” between Harding and one of his mistresses. Granted this article does not speak to his presidency and the policies he did or did not pass. However, ...

In a system where all should by right be judged not by anything other than the acts they’ve committed, the idea that any injustice exists based upon discrimination is abhorrent to the concept of justice. No matter that it should not happen, the many opinions and facts that it does indeed occur have come to light through past generations in order to better shine a light upon the inequities of a system that has for too long leaned in a particular direction. There is no justice for those who are forced not only to pay for their true ...

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Describe the conflict process

Conflict is not good or bad, it is inevitable. The conflict process can be described as a process through which conflict takes place. There are five stages of the conflict process. These stages are as follows. 

a.    Incompatibility: this stage is also known as the potential opposition stage. In this stage, conflict tends to arise due to different situations or conditions, along with misunderstandings regarding communication, structure, or even personal variables. 

b.    Cognition & Personalization: a conflict is a form of perception, i.e., if there is potential opposition or incompatibility exists and both parties ...

Schlumberger Limited

Problem Solving Schlumberger Limited Schlumberger Limited is an American Company that operates in the oil industry. The company is the world's biggest oilfield services company that is present in over 85 countries across the globe. The company has principle offices in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Netherlands to coordinate its global operations. Schlumberger limited was started in 1926 by two French brothers who initially dealt with electrical related operations. However, the company has since diversified and has many interests in oil industry services whereby it mainly deals with seismic acquisition and processing, well ...

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Andrew Fisher’s “William Wallace” is a historical book on the life of William Wallace. The story contained in the book gives a symbolic and memorable portrayal of a man who led the Scottish against the British in a quest for freedom. Mel Gibson’s 1995 film “Braveheart” is a historical war film. It depicts the story of William Wallace, a 13th Century war leader who commanded the Scottish rally for independence against King Edward I of England. Even though the film tries to be historically accurate, some of the events and individuals depicted do not match ...

Investment Analysis

The Coca-Cola Company is widely established worldwide. It mainly deals with carbonated soft drinks. These drinks are distributed globally to restaurants, stores, and vending machines. The company has a registered trade mark of “Coca-Cola”, originating from the United Sates, on 27th March 1994. The coca cola company made an announcement in January 2013 that it had acquired the Bottling Coca-Cola company of Sacramento. This was a huge boost to this company because an extensive investment was pumped into the acquired company. The company increased its shares, and their market grew wider after extending to Sacramento. New investors were acquired and at ...

Summary – “Rumor Has It”

In John Dooley and Helio Fred Garcia’s “Rumor Has It: Understanding and Managing Rumors,” the need to address and deal with the circulation of rumors is discussed. The authors note the challenging nature of addressing rumors due to their fluidity and momentum, making it hard to figure out where they started or what they started as. Psychological findings from Allport and Postman are used to support the assertion that rumors change as they are spread, leveling out details and assimilating them into the collective. The key to preventing rumors, according to the authors, is to recognize when clarification ...

The study of Bear Stearns abrupt fall and demise reveal the importance of credibility for a financial institution in a specific sense irrespective of its robustness. A business in general could fall if credibility and illiquidity become questionable. Bear Stearns is the first ever major investment bank to fail during the global financial crisis (Li and Mizrach, 2010). The 85 years old firm has survived a number of economic turmoil and recession, yet it fell when it was least expected to fall. A number of factors become apparent when studying the Bear Stearns demise, and these include the role of management, illiquidity, ...

"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars" (De vita Caesarum) is the main work of Roman historian Suetonius, written during his tenure as secretary of Emperor Hadrian. It is a collection of biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman princeps, from Augustus to Domitian. This work is one of the most important works of antiquity. It is written in simple language, and each biography of Emperors is written in a certain pattern. For example, Suetonius description always starts on the origin of of the each ruler, the early years of his life, his social activities, then proceeds to personal qualities ...

"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars" (De vita Caesarum) is the main work of Roman historian Suetonius, written during his tenure as secretary of Emperor Hadrian. It is a collection of biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman princeps, from Augustus to Domitian. This work is one of the most important works of antiquity. It is written in simple language, and each biography of Emperors is written in a certain pattern. For example, Suetonius description always starts on the origin of of the each ruler, the early years of his life, his social activities, then proceeds to personal qualities ...

Introduction

Modern information technology operations had made it easier for humans to become more involved in getting access to the newest and most interesting information about particular matters that affect them. In the field of marketing, information is an important element to take into account. Practically, people have become more interested in information that specifically responds to matters that reflect their values and their understanding of the society. Through determinable observation, it has been found out that even though human individuals from different cultures and different backgrounds have different interests, there is one thing that gets their attention altogether; and ...

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THE ISSUES BRIEFExecutive summaryThe National Gallery of Victoria has to make and implement an effective communication strategy so as to reduce the impact, if any, of the negative publicity in the media. It should take both the internal as well as the external stakeholders side by side so that it can influence the public at large. The communication should be honest and open. Grapevine and upward communication of employees should be used to fight this crisis. Moreover print and social media should be utilized as a more formal method. In the end, evaluation techniques such as the communication audit and ...

Over time, some people stand out from the rest and do something exceptional that others are fond of. They usually come from a background that does not tell the great future waiting ahead. In other words, they are people like everybody else, yet have a star on top of them. They use their potentials, talents and skills and come up with something innovative that answers people’s needs. Jan Koum is one of the most successful entrepreneurs nowadays. He is the co-founder and CEO of WhatsApp Messenger, a messaging network that allows users to send and receive messages in real time, ...

Today, Social media marketing is taking the front seat as far as the practice of marketing is concerned. Social media marketing is taken as the process of gaining web traffic and attention by means of social sites. Social media marketing campaigns concentrate on creating content that will draw the attention of readers who in turn share the information with friends and acquaintances (Zarrella). The corporate message stretches from a user to another and appear more convincing coming from a trusted acquaintance as opposed to when it comes directly from the company. This form of advertising is referred to as word of ...

The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 27 1973 between the United States (US) government, South Vietnam then politically known as the Republic of Vietnam, North Vietnam known officially as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the PRG or the Provisional Revolutionary Government which represented interests of revolutionary groups residing in South Vietnam. The purpose of the accord was to end the Vietnam War and bring peace to war-ravaged Vietnam. In particular, the accord was aimed to end direct involvement of American military in the war and stop the wars between South and North Vietnam (Griffith, 42). When ...

Has anyone ever noticed a lot of people around that don’t really register on the radar? They aren’t invisible, not exactly. But on the other hand they are more like ghosts than the real people in the city. When real people are rushing around to work sometimes there are flickers in and out of the crowds on the sidewalk. Or grayish shadows moving along the edges of the building even on a sunny day. Since there is no such thing as ghosts they must be people. Right? Probably people who are like that can do a lot of things real ...

The various social media tools that have risen from Web 2.0 technologies are arguably some of the most powerful new tools of the century. Social media allows an unprecedented amount of connection between individuals, companies, groups, and any combination thereof. One of the major things that social media offers the individual is immediate access to information regarding nearly any subject; anything that happens in the world is immediately posted on social media outlets. Indeed, news can even be found more readily on social media sites than from traditional news outlets in some cases. However, there are drawbacks to ...

Introduction

Since the sinking of one of White Stars Line’s most famous luxury ship, 100 years ago, there have been many films, books, speculations and myths about the Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage which cost the lives of over 1,500 people including women and children. The reasons of why the infamous ship sank is varies, some being factual accurate, others hypothesis that made sense and some that are just plain stories that have no place in history or science. These stories are what this paper will look at; claims that cannot be supported by scientific evidence, myths propagated ...

- Scope of the problem Poliomyelitis which is also referred to as polio or infantile paralysis is an infectious disease that mostly affects children. It is caused by poliovirus. It affects the nervous system resulting in paralysis and in some instances death within a couple of hours. Polio mostly affects children who are under the age of 5 years but it can affect individuals of any age. In poor countries, polio is transmitted via the faecal oral route while in rich countries it is transmitted via the oral- oral route. The symptoms of polio are often evident in less ...

Incidents of dramatic irony in Act I and Act II:

- Everyone believes the king died as a result of a snake bite when in reality he had been poisoned. Ironic because Claudius had spread the rumor of the snakebite while he was really the killer. Characters: Ghost, Hamlet, Claudius. Sympathy for Hamlet, because he learned that the king was murdered. Antipathy for Claudius because we learn he is a murderer. Evidence: The testimony of the ghost. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, “With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts— / O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power / So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust / The ...

Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front effectively eulogizes the sacrifice of Old World values and sensibilities on the killing fields of France and Belgium. Traditional European notions of chivalry, honor and patriotism were obliterated by industrialized, mechanized war and the trivializing of human life. Remarque’s story is, among other things, a scathing indictment of nationalism and the manipulation of human emotion. Fired by nationalist fervor, Paul Baumer, the story’s main protagonist, goes to war expecting glory and victory but is soon disillusioned by the horror of trench warfare and the aimlessness of ...

Research Question

What are the effects of the internet and social networks on Cyber bullying and to what extent has Cyber bullying been experienced among the youths?

Thesis Statement

Bullying is not a new terminology, and especially among the youths. It is a vice that has been in existence for long but one that is manifesting itself on new platforms with the advancement in technology. Some forms of bullying like nicknaming and stereotyping have stood ignored by adults; however, reality reveals that though mere, such bullying is as phoney as the physical bullying. It is never clear where third parties like parents or even legal ...

The high price of oil is making daily life and getting to work and school difficult for a lot of people. The news media plays many shocking and frightening stories about the effects the high price of oil has on countries around the world. Sometimes it seems that most of the news reports are based only on rumor. Some journalists and financial analysts do their research though and base their reports on solid research. Learning to understand which reports are based on rumor and which are based on fact is the best way to understand what is happening in world ...

Shakespeare’s Protests against Institutional Racism in Elizabethan England

Othello is not the only play in the Shakespearean canon that features racism, and it certainly is not the only play that challenges social mores. Whether it’s the feisty Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing, turning social convention on its head, in the sense that women were supposed to be prim and proper in Elizabethan England, when she wows Benedick with her powerful desire to save Hero, or whether it’s the Jew Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, endowed with many of the physical characteristics associated with the worst stereotypes associated with members of his religion but ...

These four very different stories share much more than a common culture, a common language and a common geographical setting. They all explore the past – the distant past of Latin America, roughly at the time when it was breaking away from Spain. Borges’ ‘The Aleph’ is the exception to this because it explores the personal past of the author, but all four stories possess what I would call a narrative instability (even the Borges), because ...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo was first published in 1977 and was immediately acclaimed in many reviews as a superbly written account of one man’s experience of the Vietnam War. It will be seen that not only was the Vietnam War, because of a unique set of circumstances, very different in many respects from earlier wars, but also that it had a life-changing effect on Caputo: he departed for the war keen and eager for battle, but returned as a total opponent of the war.

According to Caputo, how was the Vietnam War different from earlier wars, such as World War II?

The Vietnam War, according to Caputo, differed in six major ways from the earlier wars, ...