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Sunday, 25 July 2010

Internet by BBG Communications

Through history there have been many new ideas that have come to light in the world. One of the most important ideas is the Internet. The Internet is an immense database for information. It is an anthology of knowledge. A person can go online and research anything he or she chooses. The Internet is also a collection of web sites and webpages. People now can start their own web sites and webpages for the world to view.

In this new high-speed generation, the Internet only makes the world move faster. In seconds a person can do anything they choose online. Tasks that would usually take a while to do have been decreased to few seconds. A person is able to pay bills, trade stocks and bonds, listen to music or apply for college, all through the Internet, and all in a few seconds. The Internet also connects the world. Through this worldly connection, government officials can discuss important executive matters with other diplomats via the Internet. In mere seconds someone in China can talk to someone in Venezuela.

The Internet has influenced my actions when I do research. Now, instead of having to go to the library and search through rows upon rows of books, all I have to do is type my topic in a search engine, and I can easily find out information regarding that topic. Also via the Internet I am able to talk to many of my friends at one time through chats and instant messaging. This comes to be useful whenever there is a need for a study group. Instead of getting mixed up with phone numbers and 3-way calling, all I have to do is type in a person’s personal ID.

Thursday, 24 June 2010

BBG Communications and the Communication Revolution

Many people inquire about the history of the communications industry. While this is tough to cover in its entirety, it is relatively easy to understand the stages of development.

During our history, technology has progressed and has made brand new forms of and ideas about communications. According to BBG Communications, the newer advancements include media and communications psychology. Media psychology is an emerging field to study. This type of tech advancement has revolutionized the process of communications. Researchers have divided how communication was transformed into three revolutionary stages:

In the First Information Revolution, BBG Communications notes that the very first written communication began with pictographs. These were made on stone, which were way to heavy to transfer. During this era, written communication was not mobile, yet it was still around.

In the next Communication Revolution, writing began to appear on paper, papyrus, clay, and wax.

In the 3rd Revolution in Communication Information, information was now transferred via controlled waves and electronic signals.
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Over the years, technology has progressed and has created new forms of and ideas about the communications industry. According to BBG Communications, the newer advances include media and communications psychology. Media psychology is an emerging field that you can study in college. Technological advancement like these have revolutionized the way the communications industry runs. Most researches have split up the development of communications into three distinct stages:

In the 1st Information Communication Revolution, BBG Communications notes that the first written communication began with pictographs. These were made on stone, which, at the time, were much to heavy to transfer. During this era, written communication was not mobile, but nonetheless existed.

In the very next Communication Revolution, writing started to appear on paper, papyrus, clay, and wax.

According to BBG, in the Third Revolution in Communication Information, information was now transferred via controlled waves and electronic signals.

Friday, 05 June 2009

INTRODUCING PRIVATE SECTOR: WHO WINS AND WHEN?

Recent ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada on the controversial Chaoulli and Zeliotis vs. Quebec case will surely have an influence on the way health care is delivered in Canada. As a student entering the medical profession I am concerned about the impact that it may have on the services public receives.

On one hand, unreasonably long waits for the surgical and diagnostic procedures compromise health and wellbeing of the patients. Shortage of funding prevents hospitals from opening sufficient operating room times, while frustrated physicians move to the south. Nurses are trying to sustain standards of care, while managing up to 30 patients at a time. It is clear that the current way in which the health care is delivered to Canadians is unsustainable and the demands must be placed on the provincial and federal governments to act quickly in order to solve this mounting problem. The Supreme Court Justice stated in his ruling that an access to the waiting lists is not access to the health care. But, will an introduction of the two-tier system help to improve access to the services?

It has been argued that by allowing private clinics to take care of the patients will shorten the waiting lists. It would be a reasonable argument if the waiting lists were the only problem. There is however, additional major predicament - shortage of physicians. Who is going to work in the private clinics? Physicians already work very long hours and unlikely to pick up an occasional overtime in a private clinic down the street. So the private sector would have to attract physicians, most likely by higher salaries and better schedules. What does it mean for the public sector? Can it afford to loose experienced workers?

It also been said that private sector will introduce a competition that will encourage hospitals to improve working conditions. This means shorter shifts and more sleep for me. Although, it is very tempting, I know that this will impose even greater financial demands on the system. In very short period of time we will be facing waiting lists just as long or longer because there are no funds and no doctors left in the public sector. The only difference would be that patients waiting are of the lower socio-economic class. Ironically these are the people who need the care most.

So what is the solution? It seems to me that before we think about introducing private sector we need to solve the “physicians problem”. Increasing number of seats in medical schools was the first step. I believe that increasing the number of qualified physicians is the only way that privatization of the Health Care System can avoid to have negative impact on the services public receives. In the light of the recent developments in the medical legal field, we will certainly see big changes in the near future. Hopefully, these transformations will be thoughtful and inclusive of all people of this great big country.

Tuesday, 02 June 2009

THE AMERICAN MUSE

The United States of America consists of various eminent and influential individuals. Yet, when broadly examined, its people are of a single breed, a collective mentality; are of an ardor that burns with a luminosity nonpareil in the world. In relativity, Americans outshine the sun. It is inherent in our spirit for most American citizens are ancestors of the revolutionary breed; it is in our faces; our department stores; our ambitions; our labors. The proponents that led to the establishment of this country and also these thinkers’ muses would claim that this mode of being is universally innate in each person. Therefore, this high spirit does work its influence into the American media. Chiefly, it is the overbearing will of perfection; the most competitive esprit de corps in the history of all the great civilizations in the world; and now it is intertwined in the illimitability of the information age. As this spirit endows itself in all that is American, it is inserted deeply through the inner workings and intricacies of the media. I am not fain to say that it has a direct influence that is not only ubiquitous in American society, but, controlling, manipulating, and of a caliber of power that is nearly impossible to silence in our acts, beliefs, attitudes, opinions, and most wholly, in our persons. I reject all attempts to make a falsified claim that the media does not have a role in the decisions I make; it does, and probably to an unending extent. Such is the pervasive nature that the media has acquired today, and more and more at this very second, that to completely evade its influence would be possible only if one resigned all responsibility, care for American ideology, and endeavor to converse, learn, and be susceptible to influence from most Americans. The long arm of the law would be much more proper if applied to the media. The information age and the enhanced ability of people to communicate has not only effaced the old conduct of business, but has maximized the way the media can assert its dominance over the American psyche, even over myself. In short, American citizens are at the whim, nay, the maxim of the Law of Accelerating Returns; a mathematical statement that tells of the exponential growth of technology, supported by Moore’s law (i.e., the exponential shrinking of transistor sizes on an integrated circuit). Propelling this law is the fact that as it increases exponentially the population the media now influences will grow, not only as human numbers rise, but with the sole factor of time. I state this under the recognition that with the increase in technology and information accessibility will come more advertisements, more businesses and reasons for them, more media power. The effect of one is direct unto another. The media is a medium and is the alembic through which our conception of reality and understanding is transcended.