Essays on Rumors

Introduction

The Salem Witch Trials is a broad name that describes a series of trials and persecutions of people accused of practicing witchcraft during British colonial rule of what is the United States today. These trials occurred between February 1692 and May 1693 in colonial Massachusetts. Prior to 1692, there had been rumors that some villages surrounding Salem. This created a level of suspicion. However in February 1692, the daughter and niece of a priest began to experience unusual situations and feelings in Salem. They complained about coming under some fits and confessed to being bewitched. Thus, three accused women ...

Technological advances have increased access to the Internet as a global computer network used as a communication facility. The access gives young people opportunities to communicate with others via social networking sites, instant messaging services, chat rooms, and emailing. With that aim, smartphones and tablets enable youngsters to publish text, post pictures and videos in an instant. Faucher et al. claim that involvement in online communication assists with social adjustment (1) as an important means to achieve balance in the social environment. Social space can be filled with negative emotional content which is likely to humiliate young users. Aggressive ...

Book Review: The Village of Cannibals, Rage and Murder in France

Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Introduction

Historian Alain Corbin explores the political and social significance of the killing of a young French nobleman in the remote village of Hautefaye in France. Corbin’s chronicle describes the gruesome event that happened in broad daylight involving the villagers accusing the young nobleman of shouting republican slogans that angered the villagers. What followed in the trail of events is the sparked indignation of the entire country. Rumors of cannibalism have circulated in the country and the author’s fascination of ...

The Constantly Changing Business Environment

The business environment is constantly evolving, and managers are struggling to make decisions that have a lasting impact. World's leading business entities have been lagging behind in sectors where they once dominated. It is hard for the status quo to be maintained in the business community (Morrison 2011, p. 58). It is essential for the managers to adopt strategies that allow the institutions to evolve and cope with the challenges caused by the dynamic world. The survival of any entity depends on the strategies employed by the management to adapt to the unanticipated challenges. The primary focus of this ...

Apple on Social Media

A company such as Apple has such an active persona on social platforms it’s easy to find examples of all six categories on any of their channels. Apple is strategic in their marketing research. Their insights can be seen as the company leverages trends of their audiences. Apple poked fun at the topic of truth in advertising as they joked about iPhone 7 rumors in a Facebook post. There are many rumors circulating the web about the next model of iPhone but the company is not ready to confirm its position (Apple Inc. 2016). On Apple’s Official ...

Assignment 4: Resistance and Communication

Introduction Yahoo has had a change in management, and since the takeover by Marissa Mayer as the CEO. It applied stack ranking performance review. The employees collude among themselves to gain proper assessment, thereby risking the loss of competent staff members. The horse trading needs to be eliminated by changing this tool and implementing a new method. The resistance to change leads to increased financial losses in an organization as well as to the demoralization of individuals to apply new ideas in the future of the company. The resistance to change poses the largest roadblock to the success of ...

In his book Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend sociologist Jeffrey S. Victor considers the issue connected with the panic in the American society connected with the existence of satanic cults. The author’s thesis is clear: he believes that satanic cults with all the terrors connected with them are non-existent: “None of these claims (is) supported by reliable evidence. My research suggests that they are baseless and misleading. Moreover, these claims exploit widespread fears, particularly the anxieties parents have about their children. The claims are significant, however, because they are themselves the symptoms of serious problems ...

Introduction

Following the discovery of the extremely toxic contamination of surrounding land, that is believed to have been caused by leakages of the underground storage tanks, ConsoE has decided to handle the case as a crisis. As such, the Office of Communications and Marketing has been tasked with the management of all the information during the crisis, the director will be the official spokesperson for ConsoE.

Crisis Situation

Contamination of land as a result of a leaking underground storage tank Possible adverse financial loss and negative publicity Objectives of the Communication Plan Convey accurate information to the public, employees, local community, and ...

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 ...

Intro

Emily Dickinson is an American poet, who is probably the most recognizable name in American poetry. Not much is known of her motivation regarding her poems as only 12 of the 1800 she had written were published during her life time and she left little in the way of explaining her thoughts regarding what she had written. What is known is that she did not think the majority of her poems were worth public consumption and had told her sister Lavinia (Vinnie) to dispose of them after her death. This was probably due to her poems being heavily altered ...

It is an interesting aspect of history and that prior to the 16th century Europe and its various nations were merely a barbaric and insignificant periphery on the world stage. Great Asian powers dominated most of the known world, both militarily and economically. Following Columbus’s voyage in 1492, Europe slowly shifted to become the geographic, economic and military center of the entire world. In no small part due to its superior ships and superior seamanship, Europe was able to use its newfound capabilities to tap into the riches to be gained from both the New World and Asia. ...

Indescribable charm of the Rolling Stones is closely linked with a bright and multi-layered personality of Mick Jagger. Its importance for the group, so long staying on top of glory, not only limited to the fact that Mick almost single-handedly generates the energy that spurts from the stage during concerts the Stones, sings, writes lyrics and has been actively involved in the creation of new compositions. Surprisingly multifaceted and somewhat contradictory nature allows Jagger to perform at least significant duties and in the background. Rolling Stones do not use the services of the manager - because they have Mick ...

Employment Application and Background Check Critique:

Solarworld Solarworld is a German-based company that has taken root in America as one of the foremost providers of solar panels. For a little over the past decade they have existed as one of the swiftest rising companies in the industry and have pushed forward in leaps and bounds to become one of the most influential businesses within the field of photovoltaic’s. Their employment policies are sound for the most part though there have been periods during which they have experienced a high rate of turnover in personnel. Much of this can be attributed to the fact that ...

Executive summary

Cases of negative experiences on Facebook are on the rise hence the need to research on effects of such events with regards to gender. Cyber bullying is an online epidemic for both males and females with the teens being the worst affected since they are the ones who spend a lot of time interacting on Facebook. However, females are prone to incident of cyber bullying more than their male counterparts since the latter engage more in peer harassment. Among the acts that expose ladies to incidences of cyber bullying on Facebook include spreading rumors about someone online, distributing unflattering ...

Mergers across departments are one of the major organizational changes that might witness a high employee resistance. In the same vein, the decision to merge Savannah and Chatham County police officials in 2015 raised some skepticism and fear among employees. In fact, the merger decision opened a debate between the city and county officials. While sharing the costs was one of the reasons of disagreements, supervision also created a rift. In the city's response to the county, it was agreed that both managers will work independently to review the chief's performance.Succinctly, the merger case between police departments tends to ...

Introduction

The paper will review contemporary management practice involving a case study of one UK’s power and energy Services Company named Energy Co. One topic from HRO 383 curriculum that is related to the contents of the case is the company structure. The thing that relates this topic to the content of the case is the company’s leadership hierarchy that the case discusses. Therefore, the mentioned issue of staff resistance towards change results from the way the leadership of this company approaches the change process. The case study indicated the Energy Co. has been through a process of ...

Cyberbullying is the act of bullying and harassing a person with the use of electronic technology. These electronic technological devices include the use of the internet, and gadgets like cell phones, computers and laptops and tablets, etc. Over the internet, cyber bullying takes place through social media websites, emails, online chat rooms, text messages and various other websites. Cyberbullying can take place in the form of stalking someone over a period of time, harassing them through text messages and emails, spreading rumors about them and posting inappropriate and personal information about a person on social media websites. The reason ...

Women are not only limited in number in their fields, but they are also limited as to the fields they can fill. Most militaries still limit the occupations that allow women to occupy. For the most part, women are excluded from all combat and some combat-related fields. Traditional observation on women assumes that they do not want to be involved in combat, nor are they in a position to handle such occupations. Most people believe that men are more physically and emotionally suited for roles in combat. Suggestions of women participation in combat fields have variation cross-culturally, and have ...

ENVIRO-WEAR has followed the differentiation competitive strategy to stay ahead of its competition. Differentiation involves the production of high quality products that attract the customers (QMBA, 2016). These products are developed in such a way that they are different from those of other companies in the same industry. Product differentiation adds some attractive qualities to the products so as to attract a large customer base. Product differentiation can be carried out on several aspects of the products. These aspects include functionality; support; durability; brand image; and features (Arline, 2015). The company can adjust these aspects so that they suit ...

In the summer of 1947, something in the sky crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico. Several locals claimed that there were horrific thunderstorms that summer, and when they were out in the location of the crash, they found metal debris strewn across a wide area approximately three-quarters of a mile long. One of the men, Mack Brazel, took some of metal pieces back to his house and he and the neighbors examined the material. Brazel and his neighbors, the Proctors speculated that the metal could be from a crashed spacecraft. That summer over New Mexico there had been quite a ...

The history of Chinese immigration in the United States has always been complicated. As the USA used to be very attractive country for immigration, Chinese immigrants’ influx reached a high number by the middle of the XIX century. Despite the growing number of immigrants of different ethnicities, racial issue was still critical in the relations between white Americans and Asian immigrants. Racial intolerance often fueled by economic and social problems in the country led to violent actions and tragic consequences. One of such events, named later as the Rock Springs massacre of 1885, has become the result of both ...

Contrasts

Georgia gold rush, which took place in the early nineteenth century, had various attributes, which governed the way the gold enterprise took place. Among the different aspects included labor, social, political and economic characteristics, which were vital for the stability of mining.in this regard, this paper will compare and contrast political and economic attributes that gold miners in Georgia experienced mining and trading in gold merchandise(Bryan 398). Apparently, political associations were formed by the natives who occupied the gold belts and held the land as their ancestral land. Natives were known as Cherokees.in contrast to economic forces that ...