Online Relationships in Theory
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A 7 page paper assessing online interpersonal relationships according to Uses and Gratifications Theory. The paper presents the story of three individuals who knew each other through an online game chat room and then came together face-to-face after having known of each other for five years. The face-to-face relationships were disastrous, but the three can return to the online chat room at any time without any apparent ill effects of the face-to-face relationships. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KScomTheoStud.rtf

Persuasion Narrative of the AFL-CIO
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A 10 page paper discussing the AFL-CIO's web pages supporting and arguing for increase in the minimum wage. The paper includes discussion of economic concepts of supply and demand and what can be expected to happen after raising minimum wage. The AFL-CIO site combines questionable numbers with statements that violate all of the laws of economics on every page. The organization does so with calmness and reserve, and overall, the effort can be quite effective with one unfamiliar of the laws of supply and demand. This appears to be the effect that the organization seeks. The site uses tools of persuasion quite well, but it is unable to escape being plain wrong and intimating the true nature of its interest in increasing minimum wage. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KScommPersMinW.rtf

Plagiarism and Copyright Law:
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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts copyright law and plagiarism restrictions. This paper provides insightful examples to illustrate the differences between these two infringments. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: GSCopylw.rtf

Plato and Theatetus: Wax On-Wax Off
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(5 pp) In Theatetus (lines 188-196) ,Plato attempts to explain how we can arrive at false decisions, he labels these false thinking strategies as "false judgments." But before we know, which judgments are false, or faulty, we first need to know how we determine whether things are true or not. It is not that one bit of knowledge is impossible without the other, but it is usually the style of Greek philosophers to lead us, to answer our own question, in a logical, and sequential manner. Thus, before something is determined as false, we will have to look at how we know that something is true. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: BBplatfj.doc

Poststructuralism and Modernism
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This 5 page paper evaluates poststructuralism and compares it to modernism. Poststructuralism theory is critically examined in respect to modernism. Examples of how these theories are applied within academic writing on the media are provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA320med.rtf

Pragma-Dialectic Approach To Argument
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11 pages in length. The art of argument ranges from formal debates through careful scholarly discussion to heated encounters, fierce arguments and quarrels. What likelihood is there that the enormous range of argumentation can be served, identified, or modeled by one theory. Do the extremes -- or even the edges – of the center have enough in common to be considered together? Not likely, inasmuch as the form of argument can differ just as significantly as the people involved. Discord among human beings is a normal, daily event at all stages of life; however, it is the manner in which such antagonism is addressed that determines how effective the outcome will ultimately be. The writer discusses argumentation as it relates to van Eemeren and Grootendorst's pragma-dialectic theory. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: TLCargue.wps

Process Model of Communication
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A 4 page paper discussing and evaluating the process (or transmission) model of communication. This model is one that seeks to explain mechanisms by which linear communication occurs and is received by the listener. “The listener” in the process model often is not an individual, but rather an entire audience, generally without respect to demographic characteristics of that audience and certainly without regard for individual characteristics such as gender and class. This lack of distinction severely limits the process model’s ability to describe or predict any audience response. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KScommGen.rtf

Questions and Answers in Communication Theory
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This 6 page paper evaluates communication theory with a focus on Expectancy Violations Theory. Questions are answered and the final portion contains a short essay regarding what would happen if the public owned the media. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA544com.rtf