As readers, we produce our own meaning from the texts before us. ... However, the interpretation of these texts depends also upon our shared experiences as a community. ... The production of meanings are after all "the property neither of fixed and stable texts nor of free and independent readers but of interpretive communities that are responsible both for the shape of a reader's activities and for the texts those activities produce". (Fish, Pg 322) Hence, by producing our own meanings from the links available to us on screen, we each have our own individual interpretation of a text. ...

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The sight, http://www.tetrabrazil.com/history_of_soccer.htm is a sight that I would classify as barely a good site, although the text alone seems very adequate, although a bit short, the page does not offer a bibliography or any information about the specific author, however there are many reasons to combat the prior negative ones. First of all, the text is put out by a very well known and respected soccer academy, and although this presents problem with the question of whether or not the site is an advertisement, I"m sure it is not simply because there was no reference of the academy througho...

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There are minimum text and diagrams provided, not overloading with information or causing the audience confusion. ... There are other effects incorporated, such as links (leading you to another web site/page and scrolling texts (known as marquee), giving the finished product an impression of professionalism. ... The message may be made up exclusively of plain text, or it may be formatted with special characteristics such as bold, italic, underlining or graphics. ...

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The speed of loading a page depends greatly on the type of equipment, software, how much memory you have, your connection speed, plus a lot of other factors, but web page designers should make more text and less graphics, animation, and video because text takes a lot less time to load. ... It was first developed for E-mail (electronic mail) and transferring text files, but web page designers want their pages to look the best so that people or for in the case of business, potential customers, visit their site and are impressed by it so they come back in the future and tell others about the site...

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This software enable computers using various carriers such as telephone line, cable TV and satellite channels to send different form of data like text messages, sound file or an image to each specific computer (Lee, B, 1999). ... The development of World Wide Web allow a range of information combined with text, sound and images. According to Flew, T, it (World Wide Web) allowed for the display of colourful pictures, music and audio as well as data and text, and introduced multimedia capability to the Internet (2002, pp.14). ... The development of the Mosaic in 1993, the first web browser, con...

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10 years ago who would have known that visually impaired individuals would be using the Internet to access information? The Internet is a phenomenal source of information. With the help of Braille displays and screen reader programs visually impaired individuals are able to go online and access emai...

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Since text is the standard form of communication on the Internet it becomes difficult to determine the identity and age of a specific person. ... Two people could be talking to one another, but all that they see is text. ...

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We usually think that Internet is what gives is the capability to view documents on our computer from another part of the world, but that is not entirely true. It is true that the internet connects all the computers around the world in a form of a network and gives us the capability to view these do...

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The purpose of writing this essay is to gain points from the Stadium General module to pass my first year program. Storytelling has been going on for generations, first by word of mouth, then by written narratives. We as people have always needed written narrative starting from birth what we hea...

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It can actually cost lives when drivers focused on texting or social media lose control of their vehicle and have major accidents. ... How about those sappy text messages with your boy or girlfriend? ...

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This style of communication is fast, but it is very impersonal, especially considering the fact that phones aren't only for talking anymore; many people prefer to send a quick text. ... With today's telephones having texting capabilities there is no need to even listen to the other person; only to read the typed note. ...

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Technology in today's world plays a big role in many peoples lives in the high tech world we live in today. Making lives easier and more convenient, high technologic inventions are created or invented to better people's lives. High tech researchers are always finding ways to improve daily activities...

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Text 1 from the Stimulus booklet "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, emphasises the positive side of change. ... The article talks about how teenagers spend all day together at school, then ring each other on their mobile phones when they get home or send a stream of text messages to each other while their parents pay the bills for this continuous contact. ...

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Censorship Is Needed Pornography has been around for a long time; although, recently it seems to be more prominent in our society. Adults can use pornography to relieve stress, enhance their sex lives, or simply as a means of entertainment. One of the easiest and most popular ways of obtaining p...

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They may be some negative like receiving a lot of junk mail; also the text messages may often include sexually explicit images, violence, gambling, abusive languages, virus. ... Another negative aspect dealt in this article is the use of text in e-mail messaging and chatting. ...

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Sometimes teenagers do not wish their parents to read their texts and the private contents because it might be embarrassing and aberrant. Imagine when the individual is always being stare while texting, wouldn't it be uncomfortable? ...

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While statistics on how much of the Internet community is committing sexual harassment is as difficult to compile as the amount of harassment occurring, a quick browse on the Internet shows that abusive language, threats, misogynistic texts, and pornography are all plentiful on the Internet. ... To sexualize the relationship between a man and a woman communicating on the Internet is to shatter to the egalitarian illusion that the Internet is merely a sharing of texts. While some women hope that the text based and faceless communication on the Internet will free their communications from sexist...

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Another computer-based technology that helps the greatest is the "E-text", "Jaws" and "Books on Tape". How this technology helps is that people who cannot read and write they just scan the pages of the text they want to get information from and then the computer reads out loud the pages of the text or any other material that is needed. ...

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As defined by The American Heritage College Dictionary, the term plagiarize means "to use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own; to appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another)." Plagiarism is an issue facing schools worldwide, especially since the Int...

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From New Delhi to New York City, in nearly every corner of the world, one cannot walk down the street or enter a store without seeing someone on their cell phones texting, talking, or on the Internet. ...

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The possible advantages of implementing the Internet in the classroom are as diverse as the services and tools offered by the network. The Internet offers many resources that are not usually available in any geographic location. In addition to these resources, the Internet also enhances various sk...

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I am not sure who developed the notion to do this and the ability to do this, but "encrypting" a program or text on your computer is something that most computers with an up-to-date version of Windows can do. Encryption on computers just takes the information when viewed as text or as a program, and it changes a few things that are used to access that particular information. ...

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These days Intranets are becoming more and more popular throughout the business world and other types of organizations. Many companies and organizations are already making this change and many more are considering it. The advantages offered by Intranets when compared to other types of networks are...

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This document will focus on the 5 main services which constitute the internet. These are: WORLD WIDE WEB FTP (File Transfer Protocol) E-MAIL NEWSGROUPS CHAT WORLD WIDE WEB The main purpose of the World Wide Web is a way of accessing information over the Internet. It is an inf...

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Features include autonomous citation indexing, autonomous document location, citation context extraction, full-text indexing, awareness and tracking, related document retrieval, similar document identification, citation graph analysis, and query-sensitive document. ... Each headline links to the full text of the article within the IndustryWatch page. ... A message containing the full text is delivered within minutes. ...

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