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Rumors and Gossip, 2005.
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of people engaging in rumors and gossip, especially in the work place.
2,492 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper investigates an important topic in organizational behavior: rumors and gossip. First, the communication models are defined and outlined which explain why people engage in gossip. It is then further discussed how there are advantages and disadvantages when people gossip and start rumors, especially in the work place. Finally, the paper explains how gossip and rumors can be controlled in the work place by the manager since they can cause a negative effect on the company's productivity.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Positive and Negative Gossip
Power, Advantage, Disadvantages of Positive and Negative Gossip
Ways for Managers to Control Gossip
Conclusion
References
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"While in an organizational environment, there are disadvantages in having gossip to start about the business. Rumors and gossip can be more debilitating than the truth. Sometimes when there are rumors about a layoff at work, employees become less motivated to continue production (How rumors start 44). When the employees are not motivated due to rumors and gossip, the company takes a loss in production and profit. This proves that rumors and any kind of gossip is negative because it causes a loss in a corporate environment."
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Rumors, 2005.
This paper describes four types of rumors, an assertion or set of assertions widely repeated though its truth is unconfirmed by facts or evidence.
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper explains that sociologists have established three main categories of rumors in social settings as pipe dream rumors, bogey or anxiety rumors and wedge-driving or divisive rumors and a fourth category known as home-stretches referring to anticipatory rumors. The author points out that pipe dreams rumors are the most positive form of rumors and often express the wishes and hopes of those who circulate the rumors but can be seen in a negative light such as some promises made by advertisers on the internet; bogey rumors reflect feared or anxiety-provoking outcomes, such as the 1974 Pop Rocks contamination rumor. The paper relates that wedge-driver rumors are a negative form of rumors intended to divide group loyalties or otherwise undermine interpersonal relations such as the rumor that Jews or Arabs had prior knowledge of the 9/11.
Table of Contents
Pipe Dream Rumors
Bogey Rumors
Wedge-Driver Rumors
Homestrechers
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"The image of Bill Gates towering over rival Steve Jobs served to create, in the words of one observer, an "Orwellian" image of dominance and power. The anticipatory rumors, from the point of view of many Apple staff, had envisaged the joint presence of the two company leaders on stage. This rumor was seen as being "bad enough" and a sign of defeat by those loyal to Apple. However, the virtual presence of Gates as a looming and larger than life presence went beyond even the anticipatory rumor."
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Gossip, 2002.
A discussion of the social role of gossip, its damages and how to stop it.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper presents a discussion on gossip, particularly why gossiping is so popular and how it affects people and society. Additionally, this paper addresses various ways to prevent gossip. The paper is based on the book by Rabbi Stephen Wylen's "The Power of the Word" and other scholars wishing to decrease the amount of gossip spoken. The paper looks at gossip as a social need yet also shows its damaging effects on society.
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"Dirt, mudslinging, hearsay and tittle-tattle are words synonymous with gossip. Encarta defines gossip as conversation about personal or intimate rumors or facts, especially when malicious; informal and chatty conversation or writing about recent and often personal events. Rumors are closely related to gossip in that rumors are usually gossip that is spread and repeated about a person?s intimate details. According Robin Dunbar author of Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, gossip is a natural part of the human species, as apes and monkeys, humanities closets kin used language to keep up to date on the happenings of friends and family, just as we do. Dunbar believes that we need conversation to stay in touch, and we need it in ways that will not be satisfied by teleconferencing, e-mail, or any other communication technology. From a religious perspective Rabbi Stephen Wylen suggests in his book The Power of the Word that ?idle gossip and malicious speech are the most frequent and pervasive sins of ordinary life? he believes people either consciously or unconsciously ?persist in patterns of speech that disrupt relationships, create unhappiness, and even endanger lives.? However one chooses to rationalize gossip it has become so imbedded into American culture that oftentimes we cannot decipher mere gossip from news."
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Gossip and Media, 2005.
An examination of the function of gossip and media in the works of Jessica Hagedorn.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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The paper examines the function of gossip and media in the works of Jessica Hagedorn. The paper focuses on how gossip among women represents an alternative avenue of definition of self and expression in an oppressive patriarchal culture.
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"The literature of Jessica Hagedorn, a Philippine American who emigrated to the US in ? at age twelve often illustrates the difficulty in forging individual identity in a culture whose mainstream images often disenfranchise, based on ethnicity, sex and sexuality. The media and other social institutions often provide an official definition or label of events, categories that seldom portray the whole story when pitted against reality."
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Oral Tradition, Gossip and Urban Legends, 1999.
This paper explores how human communication has changed over time.
3,329 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper is a comparative analysis of various types of story transmission; specifically oral tradition, gossip and urban legends. The paper offers discusses and offers definitions of oral history, gossip, folklore, oral tradition, rumors and urban legends. The paper describes how and why story transmission has changed over the centuries. The paper examines some of the pros and cons of the different types of human communication.
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"Languages are not static and lifeless, they are alive - sloughing off unnecessary waste even as they are growing, expanding and regenerating. This constant change and flexibility enables language to thrive and remain useful. As a language experiences metamorphoses, the methods of application flourish as well, increasing communication capabilities and consequently maximizing potential benefits as well as negative possibilities."
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A Technological Approach to Gossip in the Modern Workplace, 2002.
An in-depth look at an understudied but extremely pervasive and present part of our everyday workplace: gossip
5,210 words (approx. 20.8 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 129.95
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This paper examines the advanced method of communication available these days in most offices - e-mail, fax, teleconferences, chat programs, SMS, etc. It further examines how these forms of technology assist in the transferring of information in almost real time and the effect this has on "office gossip". The writer concludes that even with all these forms of communication available, the inter-personal conversation of relaying gossip is still a favorite.
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"Technology has vastly changed the means of communication over a relatively short period of time. Along with these changes in communication technology came new ways for employees to communicate within the workplace, which pose unique challenges. We continue to communicate as we used to, but now we are communicating through new and more technological mediums. As our communication methods progress at a rapid pace, the business world is forced to progress as well in order to be successful and competitive. Looking into the business culture, and how employees are communicating in this technological age is an important task of this paper. As workers in the business place, it is important for us to recognize that our modes of communication are changing. If we want to continue to communicate effectively, we must learn about how the new technological modes of communication can influence and alter our most basic interactions."
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A Rumor of War, 2002.
Examining the Vietnam war documentation novel by Philip Caputo called "A Rumor of War".
1,378 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper analyzes Caputo's novel which tells of his battle experience in the Vietnam War and how it changed him from an idealistic young man fresh out of officer's school, to a ruthless killer, to a disillusioned soldier. Four main themes are presented. First, "A Rumor of War" gives a firsthand account of the corrupting power of war and its ability to strip soldiers of their humanity. Secondly, it exposes the dark side present in even the best man's heart. The book also graphically documents the capacity of man to be inhumane to man. Finally, the novel serves as a testament to the senseless destruction of life and property in the war.
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"To document the ability of war to corrupt a man and steal his humanity, Caputo unflinchingly documents his own transformation from a young man eager for the test of war to a cold-hearted killer motivated solely by raising the enemy casualty count. As his relationship with Vietnam grows, it is revealed to the author as a place of corruption. "Everything rotted and corroded quickly over there: bodies, boot leather, canvas, metal, morals" (229). He tells of his own loss of morals, a result of the futile missions to eliminate elusive guerilla enemy, the days of uncomfortable waiting laced with momentary terrors of sniper attack, and the mounting pressure from his superiors to show something was being gained with the ever-increasing American losses. A turning point in the book is when Caputo allows the platoon under his command to burn a village to the ground with only marginal justification."
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"A Rumor of War", 2002.
A review of Philip Caputo's book "A Rumor of War", about his experiences in Vietnam.
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper reviews Caputo's "A Rumor of War", which describes his first-hand experiences in the Vietnam battle fields. The paper explains how the Vietnam War is one of the most problematic wars to relate in a literary fashion because of the many controversies which surround it, but discusses how Caputo manages to capture the reader's attention due to the personal details of his account.
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"Vietnam war is one of the most talked about conflicts events in American history. Not only because of the 11 year long conflict that existed between the two countries but mainly because of the bitterness and casualties that it left behind. It is still not easy for many war veterans to talk about the most horrible experience of their lives. While it is true that most war veterans think they were lucky to serve their country but they also admit that they wee not prepared for what they experienced and saw during the war. It has been one of the most terrible examples of war crimes and today most war veterans associate war with bitterness and disillusionment instead of patriotism or service. One such story of disillusionment appeared in Philip Caputo?s A Rumor of War, which a war memoir that depicts Caputo?s experience during Vietnam conflict."
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"A Rumor Of War", 2002.
This paper describes Philip Caputo?s autobiographical narrative of his involvement in the Vietnam War, "A Rumor of War" (1977), in its Cold War context.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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The author argues that Caputo?s preoccupation with seemingly universal attributes of (male) human nature and essential moral qualities is inconsistent with the few passages in which he acknowledges the specific political context of the conflict. The conclusion is that Caputo was so successfully indoctrinated by the Cold War ideological system that even his disillusionment with the war did not allow him to depict the functioning of that system in his own life.
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"From the foundation of the Soviet Union in 1917 through until the Gorbachev era, America?s elites were frankly obsessed with the specter of communism. What was essentially at issue during the Cold War was the possibility of an alternative social and economic order to capitalism emerging and proving it viable. What communists promised to create was a social and economic order that offered its people as much in material terms as capitalism, if not more, but without the latter?s exploitation of the working classes and its vulnerability to periodic busts and depressions."
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"A Rumor of War", 2002.
Examining reasons why Philip Caputo wrote the war book "A Rumor of War".
3,104 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper examines the several reasons why Caputo chose to write such a book about the military conflicts of this century. The paper first explains that Caputo wrote in order to illustrate how war is both repulsive and compelling. He also wished to explain the similarity of impulse that lies behind going to war and writing about it. It then shows how Caputo explains the ways in which war is inevitable regardless of historical circumstance; and why the specifics of the war were inevitable given the emotional, cultural and political aftermath of WWII. Other reasons mentioned are the need to explain to those who have not been soldiers how powerless armed soldiers can feel and to celebrate the stories of working-class American men.
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"Philip Caputo?s novel about his own experiences in Vietnam -- A Rumor of War ? is one of the finest books written about the military conflicts in this century, for he combines the ability to glorify personal bravery while disparaging the real results and effects of war. He can make us see the reality of a soldier?s life in the fundamentally simple terms of everyday survival and also show us how this meshes with the complexities of global politics. After reading his books, one almost believes that if all the world?s leaders had to sit down and read A Rumor of War once a year, then perhaps we, as a species, could get beyond this stage of periodic carnage in the name of justice and the Fatherland and the virtues of Democracy. This is one of the reasons that Caputo seems to return again and again in his writing to the subject of war ? to force the rest of us to take a much more critical look at this human activity and to consider alternatives ? but his reasons for writing are much more complex than this, having roots deep within his upbringing, the culture of his times, his own personality, and the changing nature of war in the second half of the 20th century. This paper examines the reasons that Caputo wrote this book."
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?A Rumor of War?, 2002.
Analyzes Philip Caputo's novel on the Vietnam War.
931 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, $ 33.95
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In his memoir of the Vietnam War entitled "A Rumor of War", Phillip Caputo his experience as an ordinary soldier in Vietnam in explicit and vivid terms. He does so without any romanticism or any sense of higher purpose about the United States' goals in the conflict. The paper shows that, rather, Caputo writes to deflate those who might feel such romanticism about war. The paper discusses his use of dividing the book into three sections to portray his evolvement from naive, idealistic soldier to one who returns home feeling as if he has aged sixteen years.
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"During the second section, however, Caputo says he did try feeling some dignity in what he did, but a philosophical intelligence had intruded upon his consciousness that caused him to question things, even while he was committing misjudgments. "Whatever the rights and wrongs of the war, nothing can diminish the rightness of what you tried to do,? he reminded himself after his friend died. However, the gross reality of the battlefield inevitably intruded."
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Business Communication, 1972.
This paper discusses problems in employee-employer relations on all levels and suggests specific improvements to counter rumors and other misinformational channels.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 5 sources, $ 103.95
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"This research pertains to the area of upward communication in a business organization as from subordinates to management and from management on up to executives.
A desirable state in industry is that of interpersonal competence. This has general reference to ideal relationships existing among people in the organization with compatible personal and organizational goals. This has been sought by forms of various degrees of formality, ranging from a military chain of command type to one of informal organization with minimal reliance upon organization charts. Formal relationships are the basis naturally of many less formal ones on the social or professional society level, but many can form quite independently of these. Quite frequently they will socialize in less formal groups because they work in proximity of each other."
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Cell Phones and Driving, 2000.
An examination of the dangers of cell phone use while driving includes history of cell phone use, statistics, rumors, other driving distractions, effects on driver attention and safety recommendations.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 20 sources, $ 119.95
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"Literature Review
Introduction
This literature review concerning cellular phone use during motor vehicle operation and its affect on traffic accidents, will address the following areas relevant to this study: history of cellular phone use; relevant statistics; rumors regarding cellular phone hazards; other internal motor vehicle distractions; effects on attention; safety issue recommendations; and conclusion.
History of Cellular Phone Use
A review of the history of cellular phone use will demonstrate that while early focus on cell phones regarded growth in wireless communication, more recent focus includes a concern..."
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Jerry Springer, the Digital Man, 2008.
Looks at talk show host Jerry Springer, who brings sexual problems, gossip and aggressiveness to the American public.
765 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper explains, using the article "The Eroded Self" by Jeffrey Rosen, that Jerry Springer can be called the digital man because he understands the American digital public who wants to see and hear people's sexual problems. The author points out that, historically, gossip usually was shared with a few people and sometimes strangers, but now gossip goes "live" through the television with the digital man, Jerry Springer bringing news that often can destroy lives. The paper reports that the digital man, Jerry Springer, begins by having people post these secrets and gossip on their web site all in the pretense of using them in future shows.
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"In the past, people hid these secrets and hoped that they would never be revealed. Now, people do not care if they hurt others by revealing their secrets and the digital public wants to see and hear it. The talk show often discusses the secret someone is hiding about his or her life, the affair a person is having, cheating, a friend who steals her friend's boyfriend, or any other type of family drama. No gossip is too much for the talk show. Why? "
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Journeys of War, 2002.
A comparison of the journey taken by the heroes in the Vietnam novels, "A Rumor of War" by Philip Caputo and "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason.
2,343 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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The two novels, "A Rumor of War" by Philip Caputo and "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason, both concern the Vietnam War and its devastating effects on individual lives. The paper describes how, in these novels, the main characters, Caputo ("A Rumor of War") and Sam ("In Country") both undergo a journey towards greater understanding of the war and their lives. The journey of a hero in is described in three basic steps. The first is the ?departure?, followed by the ?initiation? and ending with the ?return?. When returning, the ?hero? is furnished with greater insight about the adventure and about life as a whole. The two characters, Caputo and Sam, are discussed in this paper in these terms. The author of the paper then gives a personal view of what these journeys can teach us.
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"After reflecting in this manner for ten years, Caputo?s return comes to a conclusion with his published work, A Rumor of War (1977). He has had a chance to think about his experiences, what they mean and how they affect his life in the present. He has come to a deeper understanding of what a hero is. Thus he provides for the world an in-depth and detailed view of what it was to fight in the Vietnam war. In this way he has served not only his contemporaries, but also future generations who are curious about the war. He has used his knowledge and his journey to create something of value upon his return."
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