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    Facebook in a Crowd by Hal Niedzviecki In the article, titled “Facebook in a Crowd” Hal Niedzviecki discusses his experience with Facebook. Niedzviecki started his account and quickly had about 700 on-line “friends.” In his own words, he was “absurdly proud of how many cyberpals, connections, acquaintances, and even strangers I’d managed to sign up.” (Niedzviecki, 958) But he also had a 2-year-old at home, was a workaholic, and liked being left alone. He had very few real friends. So he decided

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    In a society where everyone is competing with each other, you would assume someone with good intentions and logical views is more powerful than a crowd of thoughtless people. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, this hypothesis was put to the test when Atticus Finch, a logical, unbiased lawyer, was given the task of testifying for an alleged rape case to a young girl named Mayella Ewell that was committed by a hard-working black man named Tom Robinson. As a novel set in the early 1930s, most people

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    The influence of crowd noise and skill upon decision making and selections in soccer has several queries on the impaction upon the sport . The article shows growing proof that crowd noise might show a vital half within the game. Several quantities studies were undertaken to indicate and examine the influence of the group noise upon referring the choices which will go with soccer. Investigations transpire to indicate whether or not the presence or absents of the group noise would possibly influence

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    August Wilson’s “Fences” and “A Face in the Crowd” two significantly underrated masterpieces. The stories are completely different but the main protagonists are very alike. When Lonesome was at the top of the world he felt as if he was indestructible. Before everyone found out who he really was he said “I'm not just an entertainer I'm an influence, a wielder of opinion, a force... a force!”(A Face in the Crowd). Troy Wilson was the same, he said “Death is nothing but a fastball on the outside corner”(Fences)

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    Rowdy Crowd The welcome back bash at Jackson State Community College, is the greeting of all students and staffs. It is very entertaining with limitless activities and things to do. The welcome back bash, is a gathering where you can meet new people, learn about the abundant amount of clubs you can join, and enjoy yourself. You also have an opportunity to stuff yourself with an abundant amounts of free food. As I walked toward the campus of Jackson State Community College, I could hear booming

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    For my artistic interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar I chose the scene where Mark Anthony lifts Caesar’s mantle to the crowd. I chose this scene because it marks the climax of the play and also marks when the crowd stops supporting Brutus’s claims of justice and instead supports Antony claims of injustice against Caesar. The mantle has dark red - purple lines emanating from the tears in the fabric, this symbolizes dried blood and the conspirators clothing has red splotches of fresh

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    What does it mean to be friends? According to google, it is “a bond of mutual affection”, but that’s a pretty lousy definition. Being friends is much more than that, a friend is someone with whom you can show your true colors, someone that you call when you’re in trouble, someone that you hang out with and crack jokes. As we stand on the edge of the 4th technological revolution (digital revolution), which is “blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres” (weforum.org)

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    Working the Crowd and Room Arrangement "Either you work the crowd, or the crowd works you." This is repeated over and over by Jones. He leads into the video with a section on proximity and working the crowd. He compared classrooms to a stoplight. Red is the fews feet around you, where the least amount of issues are bound to creep up, yellow is a few feet beyond that, where the middle ground is and students may be off task, and the green is the section where off task behavior will start. He stressed

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    Crowd funding is to get financing/sponsors for a new project by attracting the investors by sharing about his/her project ideas through web. Crowd funding is to collect small amount of money from large no of people (i.e. crowd) by sponsoring money to encourage new people for developing project with creative ideas. There are many platforms to sponsor people for new projects such as Kickstarter which provides funding for creative projects. To get funds for the project from these platforms, Project

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    CROWD SAFETY (STADIUMS) Occupiers Liability Act (1957) is the fundamental act of spectator safety at sporting events. This act is that an occupier of a premises owes a common duty of care to their visitors. Occupier is in charge of premises. Visitor is some that is invited or permitted to be at the premises. Disabled visitors covered by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Cunningham v Reading FC 1992- stadium crumbling. Lump of concrete thrown by fans, hit police man on the head. Was foreseeable

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