Snapchat was created by three students who were on their second year of university. Their names were Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, who were students at Stanford University. They used programming applications to develop the snapchat app. The programming they used were Python, iOS, Cocoa Touch, and PHP. For clouding, they used AWS, which is a very popular clouding in the IT industry. They also used NoSQL to access the database they created.The three students launched the app on ...
Essays on Sociology
“Reality is distorted. If you live in a fictional world, then the fictional world becomes your reality.” - Emanuel Tanay.This statement encapsulates why media violence would play such a big part in our society these days. According to Nielsen Company, the average watch time on videos is approximately 5 hour for an typical American every day. Nearly two thirds of TV contains some form of physical violence and most self-involving game will contain violence even for those meant for ...
“The idea of ageing as a burden on society stigmatizes older people as well as the services they receive, both of which become devalued and associated with negative dependency”. +This essay seeks to explore the extent to which people of different age groups experience conditions of social exclusion. It begins with an overview of the concept of ‘social exclusion’. It then moves on to describe how older adults are more vulnerable to social exclusion as a result of age-related changes including ...
This documentation includes a reflective representation of mine on the above-mentioned video. It represents the importance of the demography subject and the evolution of the demographic features of the world along with the time. It also highlights the correlated problems and potential solution that can be implemented by humankind. This reflection emphasizes the fact that difference between rich and poor worlds when it comes to demographical matters and how the world should face them.I would ...
Established in 2000, Bollywood Veggies is a plot of rural land settlement in the Kranji suppling regional pesticide-free staples and the home of 'Poison Ivy', they also have a centre for cooking and an exhibition of all their produce. Guided homestead visits aside, you can likewise take an interest in different recreational pursuit, for example, identifying plants, rice cultivating and gardening classes. The Initial idea of Owners Ivy Singh and Lim Ho Seng was to spend their retirement on a ...
Language revolves all around us, whether it's just talking to your teacher or talking on the phone with a friend. But language is not just talking, it's more than that. It is how we understand each other by using our own speech and actions. However, not everyone shares a common language, there are thousands of languages around the world; therefore, thousands of ways to assign meaning to a message. Although in the article by Edge, Lera Boroditsky stated, “How does our language shape the way we ...
Social media, two words that accompany wealth, pain, and confusion all in one bubble can either lead to progression or depression in somebody’s personal life. Who knew that 20-25 years ago that the internet would exists? Who knew that in 2029 there are iPhone 10 and 11 versions would be out? All of these forms a fiery connection and in order to understand the research that has been done in these two articles, one must know the definition of narcissism. Narcissism is the excessive interest or ...
Every settlement in the world changes. Some change in a good way and some change in a bad way. A settlement changes in a good way when it has a big population and a lot of people enjoy living in the said settlement but a settlement changes in a bad way when it loses population and people who live in it does not enjoy living there. Another way a settlement changes is when it’s main purpose changes, for example; A settlement changes from being an industrial settlement to a retail settlement ...
The taste that only satisfies our tongue, and no good for our health, is always poisoning us. Fast food is a toxin that slowly affects our body's innermost parts. We might call it is like a slow poison. It tends to make our life span shorter. The vast majority of those who eat fast food these days are mostly modern people, children and youngsters who eat junk food blindly. Burgers, pizza, fricasseed food and so on for example. Because of the superior taste it turned out so well- known is. ...
Being born an identical twin makes you a doppelganger. On one hand, you get someone who is almost always similar to you in every way, a best friend for life. If identical twins are raised together, they look to each other as an influence for how to grow up. This leads to them developing complementary thought processes, which is how my brother and I turned out. Furthermore, identical twins enhance each other when they work together, their ideas boosting the ideas of the other twin in sync; it ...
Reading the article written by Thomas Page Mcbee helps me understand the transgender issues from a trans point of view better, thus allowing me to reflect my life and thoughts about them more precisely. There are three issues that I would love to emphasize based on my reading.The first issue that I found in the article is about the trend among TV producers and authors often use to gain popularity and rating which is by including trans character in their works. As a person who never met a ...
As I walked out of the nursing station I noticed Waker sitting alone at the corner of the hallway just peering out the window to the courtyard, he noticed the nursing students entering the common area and waived us over. My fear and anxiety of psychiatric patients debilitated me, it allowed all of the prior stigma and biased opinions of these patients to embody me and my judgment. I am not proud of that, however it allowed me to see that by just taking the time out to sit with a person such as ...
Fake news is not already new today it has become a rampant topic since 2017. According to Stroud, fake news or also known as hoax news, refers to the false information or propaganda published that were disguised of being authentic news. It is the spread of misinformation to the public in a specific reason of the publisher but what are the reasons behind and how this fake news affects the thinking of each? How to protect yourself from fake news?There are a lot of reasons why there is fake news. ...
In today's day and age, information is spreading quicker than ever and lasting as long as ever too. So with as much research as we have it can be extremely difficult to decipher the differences between real and fake news. As a college student myself, citing accurate information within papers is a critical part to my career as a learner. An effective way of identifying real news at any age is to first understand what a reliable source is. Social media sites are not often supported sources of ...
The kind of society that we live in every other person, diplomat and country preaches about human rights, equality, unity and social justice among people and states but still we witness and go through numerous headlines and articles almost every day which talks about racism, communal attacks, sexism, terrorism, police brutality etc. We aren’t yet done solving, accepting and getting over with issues like such and the bitter truth is that the surely exist even after we have made several ...
