Gossip: An Analytical Research Paper

Psychologist Daniel Goleman explains in his article “Anatomy of a Rumor: It Flies on Fear” that anxiety is the driving factor for the spread of rumors, and that people who fall victim to them should use contrary evidence to disprove the rumor. There are too many examples of rumors to list, but Goleman selects a few to demonstrate the ample variety in which rumors come. Goleman explains that “rumors are a kind of opportunistic information virus” (487), which spread because of the anxiety they evoke in people. Rumors hold some level of emotional value and can help people feel more in control of an otherwise tumultuous situation. It is common to want an answer to something unknown, and rumors can offer a proposed explanation.

“I swear, I don’t know. I’ll tell you everything she told me, but she didn’t tell me where she was going.”

She bit down on the stolen Pink Lady she got from my house and started to talk with a full mouth. “He’ll learn who Tiamara Moore is. One way or another. And why are you talking to him? I told you to stay away from him.”

“Not until you tell me what happened,” June then demanded, digging in her heels like she’s done ever since we were children. “I want to know what’s going on.”

“I can only hope. But I’m not through with her. I’m going to find out as much as possible about this relationship.”

Webberton said, taking her bags and turning to leave. “I just hope she doesn’t frighten easy.”

“Sorry I distracted you.” Sandra confessed, “I was going to tell you that he was talking to you.”

“Holy Shit. It wasn’t a dream.” The words came out as a whisper, even though they screamed through her head.

"She did?" The detective asked surprised. When she remember the not so comfortable conversations with her, she tried to ignore the warmth she felt in her cheeks. "What did she.. uhm say exactly?"

“That too! I’m just curious because last I had heard he was going to propose to her, maybe that’s why they aren’t together. Maybe he was moving too fast for her liking.”

Depending on the magnitude of the disease outbreak and especially in the event of Hanscom effects being largely disproportionate to those in the general regional population, media interest alone would likely consume the resources of Hanscom's Public Affairs staff. In such an event, the large scope of responsibilities related to informing the base populace of ongoing developments would likely become more of an Emergency Management/Command Post function, with PA involvement limited to review, and in some cases development, of materials used. The concept of physically staffing a Rumor Control Center would also have to be examined. With the wealth of media - internet, intranet, social media pages, email alerts and pop-ups, etc., - available

"He’s totally lost it, calling her every name under the sun and yelling at her for breaking

"I take it that this-" Sarah gestured to the situation in the hallway, "means you haven't told him yet."

1.For the Science Gossip Citizen Science Project, the theme was that of looking at pages from scientific journals for illustrations with the objective of deciphering them for historians to use. we classified if there were illustrations including diagrams, drawings, tables, charts, photographs and maps. Then we needed to select it and add information about the species. Then lastly, we were asked to give the keywords for the illustration.

I didn't pick a theme for my anthology because I couldn't choose between the different ideas I had. One of my ideas for a theme was sports. I put a lot about sports in my anthology because they make me happy. My other theme I wanted to pick was feminism. I have two articles in my anthology that relate to it. I think women don't get as much respect as men do just because we are women. Men don't think we are as capable as them and it makes me so angry I want to cry. I am definitely a feminist. I really couldn't decide between the two so I just put both of them in my anthology along with other stuff I like. These are some of the reasons I picked the things I did.