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Rhetoric And Framing: Influence On Public Opinion In The Martin/Zimmerman Case
Get PDFThis study seeks to analyze the importance of framing on public opinion. This analysis looks at the characteristics of communication and how they are conveyed. It also seeks to examine underlying themes in cases where public opinion was radically shifted and perceptions changed. This style of qualitative measurement is able to provide suggestions on why a media source would present a specific topic one way and then slant a similar topic in a different manner or format . Mass media is looked at in a critical manner with an attempt to hypothesize as to its purpose in use of framing. In addition, this study recommends further fields of study that could indicate larger effects from purposeful use of framing on population, government, and overall cultural morays
Professional Women And Cognitive Dissonance
Get PDFWomen and their work is a topic ofinterest in various fields ofacademia. Numerous research articles discuss a range oftopics as it relates to the unique experiences women endure to earn wage. However, the primary focus ofmost articles is grounded in the analysis ofhow women compare to men. This qualitative study utilizes the work experiences of women to help identify and define any sense ofcognitive dissonance of working women and whether or not the likelihood ofdissonance changes depending on their chosen career tracks. In this study the interview responses of working women are considered in conjunction with research articles to determine ifthe communication acts required ofwomen in the workplace differ from the beliefs women hold about the way they are expected to communicate creating a sense ofcognitive dissonance. The study results suggest that women in both traditional and entrepreneurial career tracks experience some level ofcognitive dissonance. Also, the aversion of in-depth relational communication practices in the traditional corporate atmosphere may result in higher levels of cognitive dissonance for women
The Impact Of Texting On Our Society: A Look Into The Utlization Of This Communication Conduit And The Possible Positive Or Negative Impact It Has On Drivers
Get PDFCommunication is an essential part of our everyday lives, without it we would have no way to form a community or societal structure that would allow us to effectively work and live amongst one another. Advances in technology, such as texting, have created a virtual forum for people to communicate within. Due to this change, other consequences, such as vehicle injuries and fatalities have become a recurring problem. To attempt to find potential positive or negative impacts that texting has on individuals while driving, 10 face-to-face interviews were conducted and 100 surveys were sent to a random sample of participants. Findings supported driver inattention causing lane deviations, speed variations and missing light changes which has contributed to an increased chance of incident by 23 times. The Theory of Planned Behavior and Cognitive Dissonance Theory are utilized to support the findings of this study and why people choose to text while driving
Is Peacemaking Unpatriotic?: The Function of Homophobia in the Discursive World
Get PDFSelf-doubt is not the custom in public debate. In adversarial speech performance, the voice of certainty carries weight. Probing, intersubjective, self-reflective conversation is odd. Yet if speech is a cornerstone of democracy, if developing better ways to live on this planet without destroying it is a prerequisite to our survival, we need to bring all the necessary ideas to the table. The First Amendment can save your life; the wrong idea can kill you. This is why I am concerned about the mechanisms by which speech is suppressed in daily life, and am searching to understand the ways in which Hate Studies tells us something about conversation ending
Evil Black Guns: Hate, Instrumentality, and the Neutrality of Firearms
Get PDFIn the wake of mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 moviegoers were killed and 70 injured; Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and 6 adult staff members were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School; and elsewhere, concerned citizens may question whether guns are neutral actors in the rage killings and rampage murders that have become increasingly familiar in U.S. society. Rather than revisit the well-worn aphorism “guns don’t kill people: people do,” this article considers a provocative counter thesis—that firearms may serve not only as mechanisms of violence in shooting rampages but also as catalysts. Can guns themselves cause violence, apart from the motivation and intent of those who wield them? What is the relationship of guns to the triumvirate of hate speech, hate groups, and hate crime? This paper seeks to explore these questions in depth to examine how guns and hate-fueled rhetoric may combine in American soci- ety with deadly effect
Identifying Disease Characteristics, Parent Experience and Coping Strategies when Predicting Pediatric Illness-Related Stress in Parents of Children with Mitochondrial Disease
Get PDFMitochondrial disease (mito) is a group of rare, inherited, chronic, life-limiting, incurable neurodegenerative disorders known to affect children early in life that result from failure of the mitochondria to turn food into energy. The diagnosis of mito is elusive and complex, with a variety of clinical manifestations, multisystem involvement and the lack of a reliable biological marker for screening and diagnosis. The unpredictable prognosis and erratic nature of this illness can be overwhelming to parents who bear the daily responsibilities of managing the child\u27s care. Little is known about the experience of parents caring for a child with mito.
Objective: This research explores the parent experience, disease-related challenges, coping strategies, and pediatric illness-related stress in parents of children with mito.
Methods: Internet sampling of 231 parents of children with mito included demographic information and three questionnaires: Parent Experience of Childhood Illness (PECI), Coping Inventory for Parents (CHIP) and Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP).
Results: Correlation analysis found significant relationships (ρ ≤ 0.01, ρ ≤ 0.05) in illness-related parenting stress associated with parent age, parent income, parent education, child age, child age at diagnosis, presence of developmental delays, frequency of hospitalizations and medical visits in the past year, number or organs involved, and number of specialists seen. Regression analysis found ten significant overall models (ρ ≤ 0.01, ρ ≤ 0.05), with the following significant predictors of pediatric-illness related stress: frequency of hospitalization over past year, parent income, number of medical visits per year, guilt & worry, emotional resources, sorrow & anger, long-term uncertainty, and understanding health care.
Conclusions: The ability to identify disease-related challenges, coping strategies, and parent experiences in assessing psychosocial stressors in parents of children with mitochondrial disease can assist health care professionals to provide disease-sensitive, family-focused care
An Economist\u27s View of the Commerce Clause
Get PDFIn the course of this lecture, I will review how the courts have interpreted the commerce clause. I will also express an opinion – what might be called a “strict interpretation” – about how the commerce clause ought to be interpreted from a legal standpoint, although as an economist I have no professional expertise to do so. However, as an economist I do have expertise in analyzing what economists refer to as “market failures,” situations in which free markets may fail to achieve a theoretical ideal allocation of resources and government intervention may lead to a better outcome. Economists have also developed a theory of “public choice,” analyzing how the political process works in ways which further “special interests” at the expense of the “public interest.” (There are problems with defining the “public interest,” but I shall nevertheless use this phrase to describe policies that many people would consider preferable to policies favoring narrow special interests.) As I proceed through the historical review of particular cases involving the commerce clause, after discussing the legal arguments, I will ask from an economic standpoint has the commerce clause empowered the federal government to intervene when intervention would further the “public interest,” allowed government intervention that does not serve the “public interest,” prohibited undesirable government intervention, or prohibited government intervention that would be desirable
Teaching Corporate Governance in MBA Programs: The Servant-Leadership Test
Get PDFDespite the fact that it has been ten years since scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia, accountability and ethical leadership issues in business organizations continue to occur. Legislative and regulatory compliance mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley have not stemmed some of these ethical breaches. Recent examples include the Madoff, Rothstein, and Stanford Ponzi schemes and the mortgage-backed securities perpetration that has rocked world markets. As a result, corporations are under renewed pressure from regulators, stockholders, and stakeholders to demonstrate that they have a moral conscience. In response to this pressure, some companies, whether they have been caught cheating, lying, or making bribes, have turned to hiring a compliance or ethics chief, what some call an integrity tsar, to assure stockholders and stakeholders that the company has recovered its moral compass (Clegg 2011 ). An interesting set of statistics, supporting the view that society as a whole is calling for principle-based leadership instead of rule-based strategies is published each year at the World Economic Forum\u27s annual meeting. According to this report, Edelman\u27s Trust Barometer Findings, which has been produced for the last thirteen years, United States business leaders have descended into the distrusted category (Edelman 2011/2012). Edelman, a public relations firm, conducts survey research that assesses the level of trust that stakeholders have in an organization, an industry, and a leader. The 2013 report identifies the source of the greatest percentage of distrust in a business organization is based upon the perception of business organizations as corrupt and fraudulent; furthermore, the percentage of distrust in the business was found to be thirty-two points greater than trust in the business leaders to be truthful (2013). This research pinpoints that the most valuable asset an organization and its leaders can possess is the trust of those they serve, identifying the attributes of trust as: engagement, integrity, products and services, purpose, and operations (2013). The pressure for businesses to reset their moral compass has also been directed at business schools. After every accounting scandal, business schools are called upon to teach potential future business leaders and employees not only quantitative skills of finance and economics but also critical reasoning and ethical decision making (Adler 2002; Felton and Sims 2005; Jacobs 2009). In response to this pressure, there has been an increase, in the last ten years, in the number of top global business schools who have added an ethics training component to their curricula. In addition, the teaching of ethical standards and learning outcomes is required by business school accrediting bodies. However, the recent ethical breaches raise the question as to whether business schools, specifically through their MBA curricula, have done enough to instill a moral and ethical compass in these future business leaders. Moreover, some critics of MBA curricula believe that business schools are detrimental to society, by fostering selfcentered behavior (Aspen Institute 2006; Jacobs 2009; Podolny 2009). This article aims to explore this criticism of MBA curricula by addressing the following questions: (I) Have business schools failed to teach corporate governance? (2) What are the principles of corporate governance and the role of trustees in the increasingly complex business landscape? (3) How do business educators introduce the topic of corporate governance and the role corporate board members and trustees play in society into MBA curricula? (4) What value do the insights of Robert K. Greenleaf regarding trusteeship and servant-leadership lend to an MBA curriculum? and (5) How does John Carver\u27s Policy Governance Model inform teaching corporate governance
The Organizational Impacts of Community on Retention and Satisfaction: A Sociological Approach to Servant-Leadership
Get PDFThe theme of community has been extensively researched in the sociological field; for many years sociologists have studied how community impacts various factors of the human experience. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the elements of community materialize within, and carry an influence throughout, the arena of leadership. By focusing on the potential that servant-leaders have for establishing community within organizations, it will be seen that the powerful effects thereof can be identified and understood on a scale much smaller than the town, city, or society-entities often the focus of the sociological study. The elements of community can be identified on a smaller scale up to and including the workplace, the volunteer organization, and the family, for example
Finding the Way Home: The Emergence of a Servant-Leader through the Power of Forgiveness
Get PDFSitting at a corner table in a small cafe in the Plaka neighborhood of Athens, Greece...Afghanistan seemed to be a million miles away and yet it had followed me there. Like an unseen vapor Afghanistan permeated my every thought, causing words to catch in my throat and my body to be in constant motion. Even then, more than three months after I completed an almost-four year-posting, I could not seem to shake Afghanistan. The result was an awkward silence, and fractured thoughts. My wife sat across from me, the look on her face belying her frustration. She did not know what to do for me...after all this time apart when she had subjugated her needs and desires to become my lifeline to the rest of the world...she had run out of answers. I was lost and for the first time in twenty-one years of marriage, she could not help me find the way home. As raindrops dripped slowly down the window panes, I began to ask myself how things had come to this