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- 1511: Computer Mediated Evnvironments
- ... efficient choices? Do they change their decision strategies from, say, brand-based to attribute-based? Do they become less/more price/promotion sensitive? Is less/more variety sought? Do brand names have more or less effect on purchase decisions? Second, during the intervention, behavior could change. People might use different decision strategies immediately after vs. some time after the intervention. Consumers might not change their decision strategies at the early stages ... consumers? While it is important for a manager to monitor community communications, traditional advertising may have a decreasing impact on member attitudes and behavior. Particularly influential and knowledgeable users may have a much more profound effect than when interested consumers were more geographically and temporally isolated from one another, and thus less powerful. Now Whyte’s (1954) “web of word of mouth” takes on a whole new meaning. CMEs may actually ...
- 1512: The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
- ... school" was a driving inspiration in his art. Lampman is regarded "as the most talented of The Confederation Poets"( W.J. Keith 18). It is amazing that this unspectacular man could have such a profound effect on the evolution of Canadian literary tradition. His upbringing was in a very conservative environment as Lampman descended from Loyalists on both sides of his family and his father was an Anglican clergyman. It seemed ... life allowed him plenty of leisure time to explore his surroundings and at the same time explore his literary work. It has been said of Lampman's work that "such strong imagery produces a powerful effect on the mind of the reader. It peoples woods and meadows for [them] with a life that is almost human, and interests [them] to fascination. It compels [the reader] to habits of close observation and ...
- 1513: Abstractions In Power-Writing
- ... Power in the Declaration of Independence flows from distinct bodies within society such as the King, the legislature, the military, and the colonists. The Oxford English Dictionary defines power as, "the ability to do or effect something or anything, or to act upon a person or thing" (OED 2536). Throughout the ages according to the dictionary the word power has connoted similar meanings. In 1470 the word power meant to have ... the ability to do something, "With all thair strang *poweir" (OED 2536) Nearly three hundred years later in 1785 the word power carried the same meaning of control, strength, and force, "power to produce an effect, supposes power not to produce it; otherwise it is not power but necessity" (OED 2536). This definition explains how the power government or social institutions rests in their ability to command people, rocks, colonies to ...
- 1514: A Comparison of Hamlet and McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- ... inmost part of you. Possibly their relationships with females in powerful positions reflects on their use of non-threatening girls as objects of sexual desire. Although there is a lack of absolute evidence to this effect, it surely deserves contemplation. The most uncanny resemblance between the two characters in question, I found was how each feigned insanity to avoid liability. Hamlet says to his close friends Marcellus and Horatio in the ... of me- this do swear Despite the school of thought that believes Hamlet is truly insane, I felt this passage, establishing premeditation, adequately proves he was only posing as a lunatic. Further proof to this effect is also how Hamlet only acts absurd in front of Polonius and Claudius. His conduct is otherwise rather sane. This is similar to the role McMurphy's assumes, although in One Flew Over the Cuckoo ...
- 1515: Domestic Violence
- ... Domestic Violence.) A Socio-Economic Crisis Domestic violence against women is not an individual or family problem. It is an important social issue. Using the Systems Theory as a theoretical framework helps show the resonating effect of such violence. The family unit is one of many sub-systems. Together, all these different sub-systems make up the one big system (i.e., society). The human body serves as a good example: when one organ (sub-system) is malfunctioning, all other organs are effected (other sub-systems). This will have an effect on the whole body itself (society). Although the family unit is only one among the many sub-systems, it is considered to be the most important of them all--the heart, if you will. Since ...
- 1516: Affirmative Action - History
- ... action" to increase the number of minorities that they employed. Thus affirmative action was born. However, when Kennedy and Johnson established affirmative action, they did not intend for it to have the perverted and distorted effect that it currently has today. Such perversions and distortions include the hiring of unqualified workers, the causing of problems for groups it originally set out to help, and reverse discrimination that results in unfair standards ... their gender. However, the United States has not reached that point yet. In order to reach this point we must devise an alternative to replace affirmative action, because as long as affirmative action is in effect there will always be racial tension. Such an alternative would be "the strengthening of the ‘intermediate' institutions, such as community associations, schools, media, and independent social agencies, which provide the organizational foundation for collective development ...
- 1517: Main Causes Of The Great Depre
- ... on February 26, 1926, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes dramatically11. Andrew Mellon, Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury, was the main force behind these and other tax cuts throughout the 1920's. In effect, he was able to lower federal taxes such that a man with a million-dollar annual income had his federal taxes reduced from $600,000 to $200,00012. Even the Supreme Court played a role ... the 1920's and early 1930's. Starting with the Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922 and ending with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930, the United States increased many tariffs by 100% or more34. The effect of these tariffs was that Europeans were unable to sell their own goods in the United States in reasonable quantities. In the 1920's the United States was trying "to be the world's banker ...
- 1518: The Aeneid
- Aeneid HLT November 4, 1999 It was an early summer mourning when the ship of Aeneas washed up on the shores of Carthage, an event that would effect the queen of Carthage forever. When a love affair breaks out between Aeneas and Queen Dido the great queen has an internal conflict between passion and responsibility. This is shown through guilt, lack of confidence ... Carthage. The people of Carthage feel like they don’t have a leader and are being left to fend for themselves. They feel Dido is not paying any attention to her city, only Aeneas. The effect of this is that the reader feels that Dido should stop goofing around and pay attention to her city. It makes the characters look down on the queen, and begin to loose faith in her ...
- 1519: Land Of Desire
- ... extensively goes into many of those things. There were many things that went into this ranging from specific poeple and incidents to outside places and things. Leach shows each individual ordeal and explains the personal effect that it had on the industry, as well as how society accepted, or in some cases condemned such things. All of this comes from his own education and understanding of the situation. He shows the ... this time concerning his manual on "the arts of decorating and display" (p56). This was really the chapter of advertisement's roots. One of the last chapters of this section is about fashion and the effect it had on the market. It also links the wants of the US consumers to the haves of the European consumers, specifically France. The first of many fashion shows begin arising here and the impact ...
- 1520: Emotional and Rational Appeals
- ... Using manipulations techniques, bad mood may result in a different interpretation of anything from a verbal argument to a literal message. Even though most studies indicate that good mood manipulations may not have that much effect on one's perception of a scenario, further investigation may do away with that theory. Persuasion in Response to Emotional and Rational Appeals Much research has been done to try and indicate that emotional appeals ... to this, responses to all manipulation check measures were entered into one of four separate groups between subjects analyses of variance (ANOVAs). When looking at the message type, the data had revealed the expected main effect for message type, F(1, 65) = 33.44. p
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