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The Failure of Technology to Induce Gender Equality., 2008.
A discussion on how gender can be defined in terms of technology.
2,554 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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This paper discusses how, rather than than serving as a force of gender equalization, technology seems to feature gender distinctions, and can be applied too, to reinforcing further distinctions of the kind. The paper relates that, if the technology of a society helps to reveal some of its principal activities and shines light on social values, beliefs and activities, one comes to see much in post-industrial North American society that does point to differences in women's expected concerns, activities and abilities, what they need that men do not need so often, and how time is spent. The paper concludes that women still have not received gender equity by way of technology.
Outline:
Introduction
Observations of Gender & Technology in a 24-Hour Period
An 'Archaeological' Reflection
Discussion
Gender as a Social Construction
Concluding Remarks
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"If technology is understood as a machine replacing or easing human An effort, as in different kinds of mechanization, one assumes gender neutrality, but in an urban North American environment, everyday technology can seem gender specific. The following examples were encountered in one day.
"A supermarket revealed an entrance geared to persons in wheelchairs or 'mothers' with prams, the symbol of a sign indicating this wider entrance referring to a female with pram and children who would obviously use this convenience. In a hairdresser's supply shop, no fewer than twelve electric appliances were counted in a few minutes, all promoted in ways to show different curling irons, crimping irons, rollers and particular blow-dryers, as products used by women. A mechanic then noted that the car I drove had a standard transmission, commenting that many women preferred automatic transmissions. He seemed to believe that the latter had been invented for women. At a computer supply shop, a salesman took time to understand that I wished to know about software for architectural drawings. The packaging of two products happened to feature male models as though architectural drawing was not a female interest. An apartment building's power-assisted entrance was used by disabled persons and women, though there might just as easily have been two entrances featuring power-assisted doors. Similarly, a business that sold vacuum cleaners stressed light-weight canister vacuum cleaners on sale that were said to appeal to many woman customers. Lastly, two people with whom I spoke complained that female members of their households spent "hours yacking on the Internet" in reference to Email or MSN communication."
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"Myspace: Your Kids' Danger", 2008.
A rhetorical and semiotic analysis of a CBS news item, "Myspace: Your Kids' Danger: Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators," by Sandra Hughes.
3,101 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper presents a rhetorical analysis of Sandra Hughes' CBS news item, "MySpace: Your Kids' Danger? Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators." It aims to move beyond the implicit and relatively superficial review of the text to a fuller understanding of how the text creates meaning, how it helps the reader to construct knowledge and how it sways us to take action. The paper specifically looks at how the language of this article works.
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"Visually, the story is arranged as a headline, a smaller-font secondary headline, and then twenty-two paragraphs, this for a story containing not quite 650 words. Immediately below the headlines, half of the reading column is taken up by a graphical image showing a computer in silhouette with transparencies of several young children, mostly girls, and several of them using cellphones. Below the graphic is a quote, suggesting the danger the article warns of. The effect of the graphic, the quote, and the headlines is to draw readers to the story that follows, a story that opens with three suggestive vignettes about children being approached in a sexually explicit manner on the Internet. Two of the three teenage girls described in the opening vignettes were murdered."
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How Data Is Managed In a Digital Computer, 2008.
This paper is an overview of computer data structure and the systems that enable the computer user to effectively manage the information within it.
1,755 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper describes that data structure is a way of storing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently. The paper then goes on to describe how computers store the said data in terms of binary data presentations using Boolean logic. Furthermore, the paper describes data in the form of bits, along with converting binary data into decimals. Lastly, the paper talks about a computer's physical memory, which is based on one of two systems: (1) Random access memory (RAM), or (2) Read-only memory (ROM), and goes on to talk specifically about different coding systems.
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"Data directly supported by CPU are called primary data type or machine data type computers. CPUs also process complex data type such as string, array, text files, databases, and image data such as MP3, jpeg, and mpeg. However, 64-bit and the 128-bit use different math functions in order to maintain portability. In each case, there is a signed and unsigned integer type associated with each. Excess notation is a format that is used to represent a signed integer and represents numbers in order and at the transition point; the high-order bit is set at zero. This represents the excess number. Positive numbers are above in order, negative below (Burd 78). Zero represents the excess identifier therefore; the excess 16 notation shows the value for zero is the bit pattern for 16 that is 10000."
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Gender and Technology Theory, 2008.
An essay arguing that modern technology is not contributing towards closing the gender gap between men and women and that it is the social constructs that encourage gender specific technology that must be changed.
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 34.95
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This paper argues that, rather than being gender neutral, modern technology is actually quite gender specific. The paper then sites several examples of technology that support this contention and suggests that the technology also seems to imply that women are less competent or less able to operate technology as well as men and need adapted technology. The paper concludes that technology has not 'liberated' women in that technology remains a gendered subject and that, if we want to advance the prospects of women, we must first create cultural change, as technological advances do not automatically promote gender inequality .
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"The creation of gendered technology has continued at a strong pace, no longer a domain of household gadgets or curling irons but a realm that includes reproductive technologies serving women, as technology supporting child-bearing women. Women are unwittingly helping a new technology sector from which males profit in the growing numbers to have children later in life, to engage in sex selection, or to demand children through relatively to very high risk cases. This technological enterprise can perhaps be seen as post-industrial child-bearing as a new industry carrying on from the industrial era. In sum, technology has not 'liberated' women in that technology remains a gendered subject. Those who expected something different are advised to trace the much longer history of gender as a socially constructed phenomenon. Cultural change must be created to alter ideas of gender, as opposed to hoping that technological advances will progress the prospects of women."
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GIS Implementation Plan: New Jersey Treasury, 2008.
An analysis of the necessary aspects for the successful implementation of a geographic information system (GIS) project intended for the New Jersey Department of the Treasury.
1,863 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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This paper outlines a geographic information system (GIS) implementation project intended for the New Jersey Department of the Treasury. The paper discusses the project's purpose, as well as the costs that would be involved in its implementation. It discusses the personnel that would be needed, as well as the hardware, software and infrastructure that would be necessary.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Needs Assessment
GIS Solution
Overview
Data
Personnel
Hardware
Software
Infrastructure
Financial Plan
Cost Factors
Project Budget
Implementation Timeline
Summary
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"The information and technology (IT) infrastructure used to support the GIS application consists of all of the existing IT components. These components consist of computer hardware, the communications networks currently in place, the relational databases which each division maintains to support their own data sets and the various software applications which the staff utilizes in its daily tasks. The GIS application and hardware will be added onto the existing IT infrastructure and integrated according to need."
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Health Care Informatics, 2008.
Compares the benefits and disadvantages in the area of health informatics in health care, especially regarding nursing.
1,707 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper explains that the term informatics refers to the management and processing of data and knowledge in a particular discipline such as nursing. The paper then points out that informatics interact with every organizational structure and practice so that, ideally, organization, training, development of innovative approaches, and other tasks become very efficient. The paper also explains that informatics in health care must respond to specific needs and to the various costs and challenges associated with consumer-directed plans. In addition, the paper contendss that effective informatics depends on careful choice and implementation of information systems so that they are correlated with the needs of the organization and of all staff members.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Overview: Impacts of Informatics in Health Care
Current State of Informatics in Health Care
Relevance to Nursing
Personal View
Recommendations for Future Directions and Strategies
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"The capabilities of informatics are extensive and soon will be greatly expanded. Information processing is continually becoming more rapid and will be enhanced since innovations are being developed. For instance, many schools of nursing currently make use of the Internet for distance learning programs, teleconferencing classes, or online courses. The practice of nursing will inevitably be transformed as a result of wireless technology.
"The most basic or crucial point related to informatics is that technology and systems can never determine outcomes."
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Online Dating, 2008.
This paper discusses how online dating has changed the nature of social interaction.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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In this article, the writer asserts that online dating has drastically changed the nature of social interaction in our modern society. Specifically, the writer notes that online dating has made it easier than in the past to lie about oneself, just as it has made it easier to find someone from someplace far away - albeit these kinds of relationships can bring their own problems. Proceeding further, the writer maintains that online dating has empowered socially dysfunctional types, has made the cultivation of traditional social skills less needed than in the past and it has brought young people into closer proximity with predators. All in all, the writer concludes that the Internet has brought many benefits to many people - but, like many innovations, its legacy is not a wholly happy one.
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"One of the key impacts of technology - chiefly communication technology - in the last century has been that the world has been brought closer together. Television, the arrival of the mobile phone, the advent of the fax machine and, of course, the internet - all of these items have given people in different, remote geographic locations the ability to interact with others. In the particular case of online dating, the "pool" of potential mates is much larger than ever before. To wit, where once someone might be mostly confined to the local community when it came to seeking out a desirable partner, now an internet-savvy individual can, quite literally, scour the globe. Suffice it to say, this probably means, in the end, more "mixed" relationships between people of different races and ethnicities, and it also means more cross-cultural tensions; after all, different cultures have different expectations for men and women, and the clash between these opposing viewpoints can debilitate a fledgling marriage or partnership. Ultimately, new technologies - like online dating - gives people more options, but it also means they are confronted with challenges that their parents and grandparents really did not have to deal with."
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Supply Chain Efficiency, 2008.
This paper discusses the matter of supply chain efficiency, while looking at the companies Office Depot and Wal-Mart.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the supply chain issues and solutions of several industry competitors in the retail environment. The writer first looks at industry competitor Office Depot, which has leveraged technology applications to integrate its sales floor and sales staff into its supply chain solutions. The second industry competitor discussed is Wal-Mart which has used technology applications to make its supply chain more efficient and responsive which reduces or eliminates the need for inventories at all.
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Abstract
Office Depot
Wal-Mart
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"These and other technological innovations have allowed Office Depot to complete integrate its retail environment into its supply chain which has led to the union of all its relative sales channels: fixed locations, e-commerce, and catalogue/mail order, into one seamless sales environment for its customers. This seamless environment is carried over to the sales floor of Office Depot locations where its sales people have real-time access to stock and inventory levels as well as order and deliver status data which also implies that its sales associates are also part of the supply chain. Such an integrated environment not only increases the productivity and the effectiveness of employees but it elevates the overall experience of the customer as well and in this fashion Office Depot has responded not only efficiently but appropriately to its supply chain challenges."
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Date, 2008.
A creative story about dating in the high tech future.
975 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 34.95
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This paper is a fantasy about a conversation arranging an old fashion date while preparing for the day's work and driving a car, all supported by robotic features. The author underscores that it is so easy to forget things without the aid of high-tech devices.
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"Skimming the news on the monitor on the metallic elevator door as she waited for it: SUNNY WITH SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON, SCIENTISTS HAVE CLONED THE GRAY BAT OUT OF EXTINCTION. How marvelous.
"Hello", his voice was strong and husky in her head, like he'd just woken up. She quickly switched to visual and his image shone on the contact lens in her eye."
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