Essays on USA Today

Background

Successful modern business marketing lays emphasis on meeting the needs of the customers. This focus is a departure in the opposite direction from the traditional business whose major concern was selling its products or services. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one way of meeting not only the direct customers’ desires but also the needs and expectations of all the stakeholders of a business (Ortenblad 2016). Unethical profiteering practices of large companies and customer awareness due to free flow of information have forced many companies to make CSR a key strategic focus in their conduct of business. Besides enabling a ...

Abortion is a controversial issue. However, despite of vigorous criticism, it has positive sides. In some cases abortion is a necessary procedure to save mother’s health (or even life) or prevent a birth of a child with a severe form of disability. Medical conditions, which are dangerous for mother, include impending miscarriage and cancer. In the first case there is a high risk the pregnancy will end up with a miscarriage because of the weak womb (Barari). Cancer diagnose often makes mother to choose between child’s health and own treatment. Cancer therapies can be toxic and affect ...

The USA today is one of the oldest news sources in America. The paper operates as a flagship operation of its parent company Gannett Company. It was in late 1982 and is currently being printed at thirty-seven different site across the United States. The paper has five additional printing stations internationally where it prints its international papers. The paper has managed to stand out through the use of a dynamic design that stands out from other newspapers. USA Today uses concise reporting coupled with colourized images and graphics to pass its information to its readers. The newspaper combines America’ ...

The digital revolution has brought rapid changes in the news marketplace, forcing the media houses to change tact and strategies to remain relevant in the media Industry. In the new digital era, people are increasingly relying more on the internet and television than daily papers for news (Tushman & Roberts, 2005). The digital trend has seen a decline in the sales of USA TODAY newspapers, forcing the leadership team to take action to leverage the company’s content distribution through different channels (Tushman & Roberts, 2005). USA TODAY’s CEO, Tom Curly has had to effect changes in the company’s ...

In the past decades, USA Today has received recognition as the most successful organization in the corporate history of US in its role of newspaper delivery. At the point when daily papers were the first type of read news, USA Today accosted the business market in the national daily newspaper field. Other companies mushroomed as top dogs in the online news area, and further developed businesses that moved towards online news. In this case, the USA Today opted to take a different route. They were forced to stay ahead or move with the pace of the competition. The year ...

Analysis of the Showtime Series Shameless

Analysis of the Showtime Series Shameless Over the decades, there have been a lot of television shows that attempted to reveal the inner workings of American working-class families. Shows like All in the Family, Good Times, Roseanne, Malcolm in the Middle and many others have portrayed ordinary people (and mostly ordinary families) and their struggles just to get by. Virtually all of them have done this using comedic elements. A few years ago, a new series appeared on Showtime called Shameless. At first glance, Shameless appears to have a good deal in common with all of these other sitcoms ...

Jane Doe

Alaska, the state in which I reside currently does not allow for the death penalty. Two years prior to Alaska gaining statehood, the death penalty had already been abolished in 1957 (Death Penalty Information Center, 2016). Only seven individuals were executed in Alaska while under the miner’s court, which was in place prior to 1899; between the years of 1900-1957 an additional eight individuals were condemned to legal executions (Death Penalty Information Center, 2016). With a grand total of only 15 people killed as a result of murders committed, the state of Alaska clearly has not been a ...

Absolut vodka has developed into one of the largest spirit corporations in the world. The Swedish company’s campaign of “constant creativity” have caused it to perform strongly over the years. Absolut was founded in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith, and by the time he was in his twenties, Smith controlled one-third of the Swedish vodka production by improving the production process and using local products (Pernod Ricard). Distilling this fine liquor in a country where vodka was already a rich tradition, Smith invented the process of continuous distillation, where the liquor is continuously distilled through its production. This ...

Summary

A number of national policies are discussed and aired daily on mass media platforms and newspapers. The three national policy issues that I found interesting are sourced from these three newspaper articles:- The Associated Press. (2016, May 14). Reyes banned through May under MLB domestic violence policy. USA Today. Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/05/13/reyes-banned-thru-may-31-under-mlb-domestic-violence-policy/84344426/ Reuters. (2016, June 11). California Governor Signs Bill Letting Undocumented Immigrants Buy Insurance. New York Times [New York]. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/06/11/us/11reuters-california-insurance.html?_r=0 Shear, M. D., & Lichtblau, E. (2016, January 4). Obama to Expand Gun Background Checks and Tighten Enforcement. New York Times [New York]. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/us/politics/obama-says-he-will-act-on-gun-control-in-coming-days.html

Gun Violence Research Act

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Introduction

The article written by Auberbach for the USA Today gives a comprehensive description of the situation of domestic violence and sexual assault in American Football particularly within the elite players (Auberbach, 2015). The current problem that this sport faces, which includes university teams as a brand, coaches, and players, is the growing stigma that football players are violent and tend to beat and sexually assault women. Due to several cases of star players that were found guilty of these charges, increased the bad press of this sport. Furthermore, coaches are facing a potential job loss, and universities are being ...

INTRODUCTION

The American criminal justice system is a very complex entity that most people hope to have little interaction with. Most people will tell you that it can also be incredibly confusing. People become most invested in court proceedings when they are high profile cases that garner a great deal of media attention; some that many are familiar with include Amy Fisher, Casey Anthony and, certainly, the O.J. Simpson trial. Another case that became the center of media attention is the trial of Jodi Arias. Jodi Arias is a 32-year-old woman who is currently serving a life sentence, without the ...

Technology exists as a creation of people, produced through the various ideas to help make the lives of people easier and more productive. However, technology has become too deeply integrated in people’s lives that they start being overly dependent on it, even to the point of stating that they are not able to live without it. Such an idea, significantly evident in today’s society is the thematic background of E.M Forster’s The Machine Stops, serving as a prescient warning of its implications. The isolation and shunning of human nature and a worship of technology will eventually ...

Social stratification is a description of social inequality in society, its division into social strata of income, presence or absence of privilege, lifestyle.       In the case of a primitive society that inequality was not as significant, and therefore the phenomenon of stratification was almost absent (Smelser, Wilson & Mitchell, 2001). With that as a society developed - inequality began to grow. Nowadays American society, as well as many others, divided the people by level of race, gender, education, income, and power. Racism in the United States has existed since the founding of the country. U.S. racial politics has deep historical ...

Communication

The New York Times has more international news items than the USA Today and Washington Post. The local newspapers are all operating in a period of war on terror in the Middle East and aggressive Russia. The countries covered include Russia, U.K., and the Middle Eastern countries. They have employees who are coordinating to deliver rapid and quality news on varied international issues. The Washington Post and USA Today provide minimal coverage of international news issues because they focus more on American issues. However, certain international news items feature in all the papers. For the past few days, they ...

This paper will cover oil price dynamics for the period starting from 2005 until the present moment of time. Exact price dynamics will be considered as well as a variety of factors influencing the oil price through the above mentioned period of time. The chart showing the dynamics of crude oil barrel price since 2001 is presented in fig. 1. Figure 1. Dynamics of crude oil price per barrel for the period between January 1, 2001 and April 19, 2016 (Trading Economics, 2016). Before the period, which is the subject of this paper, the oil price had been nearly ...

American presidents are limited to run for two terms in office. A large number of presidential candidates compete for nominations in republican and democratic nominations. The United States of America and five other nation agreed to an outline for Iranian nuclear deal in April 2015 where President Obama concentrated on convincing the Congress and the American citizens that this deal was to make the world especially America, and its allies a safer place. The nuclear deal was implemented in January 2016 after it was confirmed that Iran was in compliance with the provision of joint comprehensive plan action by ...

One of the most controversial pieces of American legislation in recent years has been the Dream Act, or the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The purpose of this law is to allow families to stay together in the United States, rather than deporting some on the basis of citizenship and splitting up families, and to give immigrants the right to the same tuition standards as their citizen peers. This law did not pass on the federal level but is in existence in some form in 20 states (USA Today 2015). Indeed some universities have decided to ...

Sony is an electronics and entertainment large size organization based out of Japan. There have been two major hacks against Sony. The first one was in 2011where an unknown user hacked the play station network accounts and accessed all the user IDs and passwords. This was a very big risk for the users as there was a threat of access to other personal information like credit cards, email and physical address, telephone numbers etc. Second was according to a published work by Biddle, (2014), there is a very famous and big hacking ‘tragedy’ with this company. In the year ...

The Lord of Death, in the Indian epic of Mahabharata, asked his son about the most astounding aspect of the present world. The boy responded, “It is that all around us people can be dying and we don’t believe it can happen to us” (Halifax 6). Such typical refusal to accept death’s inevitability is particularly common in the modern Western society. Generally, the mainstream philosophers shunt any interest in paranormal matters like spirit possession, extra-sensory perceptions, spirit mediumship, reincarnation, and out-of-body experiences into the dark corners of their profession (Hales 335). Eminent philosophers like Antony Flew and ...

A minimum wage is the minimum amount of remuneration which may legally be paid to workers. In other words, it is the minimum price below which people are not willing to sell their labor as it will be illegal. In the USA the minimum wage is determined by a body of laws stated in federal, state, and local statutes. Such legislation is introduced nowadays in almost 90 % of all countries. Other countries, which have no minimum wage law, such as Denmark, Sweden, Austria etc., rely on binding collective bargaining regarding this issue. The minimum wage has an impact on ...

Sony Play station has been one of the most successful products of the century. Since the release of the first Play Station in December 1993, Sony has released three subsequent Play Stations with great success. Sony released the original play station in December 1993, and sold more than 70 million play stations worldwide by the time Play Station 2 was released in 2000 (USA Today, 2014). Play Station 2 sold more than 155 million by the time it was discontinued in December 2012 (USA Today, 2014). Sony released Play Station 3 in 2006, and had sold 80 million units ...

The origin of the term abortion is from the Latin abortio, meaning to abort, miscarry or deliver prematurely. An abortion can occur due to a problematic pregnancy, health issues or conditions of the mother or several other situational circumstances, but normally the word applies to simply medically terminating the pregnancy. There two types of abortions: therapeutic, to spare the health of the mother and elective which applies to the procedure when it is performed for any other reason.

Although Roe v. Ward legally affirmed the right for women to terminate their pregnancies in 1973, this medical procedure has been hotly ...