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    Cyberbullying. How often do we hear that word? Pretty often you would think considering how serious of an issue it is now a days. But no. Our society now does not emphasize enough how critical bullying has now become. Throughout the past several years many kids have been bullied. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year, and it’s sad to say that 1 in 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying. Even if the statistics might be low it still doesn’t mean that it is

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    If one touches a laptop, he or she would assumably believe that the keyboard has the most bacteria, because it is touched the most throughout the day. Wouldn’t that be many people’s idea? According to a study done by the University of Cambridge, laptop keyboards can hold dangerous germs. The article states that computers are most likely to be contaminated with potentially pathogenic microorganisms in healthcare settings (Rutala, W. A., White, M. S., Gergen, M. F., & Weber, D. J. 2016, June 21). In

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    Due to the immense progress in growth of the internet, massive quantities of data are constantly produced. This exponential increase is correlated with the arrival of modern technology in various sectors such as healthcare, banking and finance, engineering, and energy. There is a noticeable surge in volume of information being shared on platforms such as Google, Twitter and Stack Overflow. Given the tremendous amount of data, it is essential to draw meaningful results from this dataset. The aim of

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    Talk to nearly anyone who has ever owned a website and you’ll quickly find at least one web hosting horror story. One of the most important things about your online presence as a business owner or entrepreneur is your website. Most site visitors want responsive, intuitive, fast loading pages. 1. Page Loading Speeds About 30% of web visitors said they’d wait 6-10 seconds for a page to load, but many others gave shorter time spans, with 3% saying they’d only wait one second before abandoning a page

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    There are many different writing techniques one can utilize when content writing for a webpage. Marketing products online is vastly different than the writing you would see in a novel. Visitors to a web page typically spend less than 30 seconds on that page before moving to the next one, so you have to make your content snappy and to the point! The more time they have to waste searching for the information they need the less chance you have of selling your products. Webpage design and content are

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    Have you ever pondered over wanting to travel to an alternate world? Many people have, but have they thought of how that might affect their worlds? Well, the worlds and the characters of Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder and Gloria Skurzynski's Nethergrave were impacted by the alternate worlds. There are many similarities in the stories A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave. Both main character in both stories don't know exactly what they are getting themselves into. They both think it's just another

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    Video Summary: At TEDxBroadway Ellen Isaacs discusses ethnography. She starts off engaging her audience with an example of old and new computer technology. Where new technology is more visual and easier to use and that people often take it for granted. That computer scientist such as Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay and other influential people wanted to make technology more easier and accessible to use. The evolution of the original giant and heavy computers to the smaller and more conviene computers

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    Wikipedia first off is an online encyclopedia where you can get useful information. It is known as a special type of website that is really designed to make it easy for a person to research information. This website is sometimes reliable but may not be as reliable as people claim it to be. When you’re in the younger grades such as sixth or seventh grade they make sure that your sources on papers should not use Wikipedia because some of the stuff they put on their website can be false information

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    future of the internet holds or could hold, so I’ll use my imagination. I also don’t know how to make this into a “story” rather than a “brain-storming session” if trying to follow my interpretation of the instructions. The WWW (World Wide Web) is composed of a vast array of vehicles and ideas for those vehicles. There are things I haven’t seen that I am sure exist, and things I assume exist, but do not. One thing I enjoy is the idea that the internet could one day truly be free. An internet free as

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    Ethical Tele Therapy

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    The use of the internet has become a way of life for most Americans. According to the Pew Research Center, only “13 percent of U.S. adults do not use the internet.” The number of non-internet use has dropped significantly since 2000, when forty percent of American adults did not utilize the internet. With the growing use of the internet and the convenience it provides, there was a natural evolution for providing therapy in an online format. The progression of internet usage in therapy, created subsequent

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