The class consisted of correspondences in shorthand, a style of writing used to increase speed by using symbols or abbreviations for words or phrases, sent back and forth through the postal service between students and professors. ... In Pitman's class, students copied sections of the Bible in shorthand and sent the assignments back to Pitman through the mail, much like Phillips course. However, the limitations of teaching through the postal service were soon realized and new, innovative forms of distance education were conceived with the aid of emerging technologies. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Internet provides three major services to its users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). E-mail is the transfer of information from one user to another in an essentially private communication that has much in common with standard postal services. ... His story was a "violent narrative of rape and torture" and he later e-mailed his friend that "just thinking about it his fantasies doesn't do the trick anymore. ...

• Word Count: 2413
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The culture change driven by social, economic and politics has lead to the increasing amount of information, in succession of rising innovations in the methods of handling it in information systems (IS). This paved the way for our world to move into the information age carrying forward a new wave of...

• Word Count: 1811
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Campaign Finance Reform With the recent Presidential race, the issue of campaign finance reform has once again been brought to the forefront of political debate. The issue has been addressed on many occasions, but not until recent Presidential elections the have the laws designed to prevent corruption been so flagrantly abused. "Politicians and their benefactors are forever finding holes in an already loophole-laden campaign finance system that, at one time, aimed to curb the impact of big money and assure public disclosure of those trying to influence elections" (Foerstel). Hard money...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate