Cable TV vs Telephone Companies

The questions
5. In the coming years Cable TV will face very real competition from the telephone companies for customers. Give the competitive advantages of each industry and the efforts both have made in Congress and at the FCC to deal with perceived inequities in the competitive landscape.
Comprehensive Examination Question #5
Andrea P. Fuller
I. Cable Industry
A. Competitive [...]

Children, Obesity, and the Media

Questions
#7

I.                   Obesity
a.       What contributes to childhood obesity
                                                              i.      Media influence on eating habits
1.      Product Placement
2.      Commercials (Preoperational Stage- not being able to tell the difference between a commercial and the program; don’t understand the advertiser’s intent)
3.      Endorsements (e.g. Spongebob cereal)
                                                            ii.      Eating between meals, convenience meals
                                                          iii.      Sedentary lifestyle (being lazy)
                                                          iv.      Genetics
                                                            v.      Parenting [...]

Happy Election

Well this is it, the all important, all-consuming election of the century. Just everybody vote in your own best interest and we should be fine

Political Virtue

This argument comes from the conflicting claims to authority in the city.
 
The politician’s job is to create the regime that will best promote the good life within the city.
 
In order to do this he must give the authority of the city to the ruler or rulers that would best promote virtue within the citizens.
 
However all [...]

Recap of Blunders and Gaffs

Totalitarianism–2000

Hardness

The characteristics of a Totalitarian system that make it possible for large groups of people to be first dehumanized and consequently slaughtered are the ones that replace a persons individual morality with the state’s. The first thing to note is how much the state could influence the individual’s personal ideas and beliefs. [...]

Something to keep in mind.

I don’t advocate the dissolving of our government.  The government should, however, remember that the people have the option.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal [...]

Katrina

                                Limited Protection       
Months after Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast of the United States, almost every aspect of Federal aid and assistance is still being debated on both the local and federal level.  There is, however, a sense of priority with respect to aid in that the victims are considered first, the levees second, [...]