objective by itself is fairly easy; to accomplish both takes skill. Writing indirect messages entails understanding the rationale behind the indirect approach. NEGATIVE MESSAGES The pattern for transmitting negative messages has four steps: (1) a delaying opening‚ (2) the reasons for the upcoming bad news‚ (3) the bad news itself‚ and (4) a positive ending. Opening sentences and paragraph carry high impact‚ and so does the ending of a message. Using the principle of place emphasis‚ bad news most often
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CHAPTER VI PENAL PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION AMONG PUBLIC SERVANTS General 1.1. The Prevention of Corruption Act‚ 1988 (No.49 of 1988) has been enacted to consolidate and amend the law relating to the prevention of corruption and for matters connected therewith. It received the assent of the President on 9th September‚ 1988 and has come into force from that date in terms of Section 5 of the General Clauses Act‚ 1897. The new Act repeals the Prevention of Corruption Act
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consumers’ data to offer personalized product information‚ the personalization–privacy paradox. To better understand this paradox‚ we build on the theoretical lenses of uses and gratification theory and information boundary theory to conceptualize the extent to which privacy impacts the process and content gratifications derived from personalization‚ and how an IT solution can be designed to alleviate privacy concerns. 1 Set in the context of personalized advertising applications for smartphones
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P.O‚ senators and judge‚ I stand as Senator Ortega to keep start times the same for the sake of everyone . School start times will cause a burden in many situations. Moving school start times later will result in increased costs to school systems and unacceptable disruption to many families. Advocates — and editorial boards — may choose to minimize or ignore these impacts‚ but local school boards cannot. School boards are responsible for balancing competing priorities in the face of limited resources
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these disorder. There are eight major types of Paraphilia. These types include exhibitionism‚ voyeurism‚ sexual masochism‚ fetishism‚ frotteurism‚ sexual sadism‚ transvestic fetishism‚ and pedophilia. Exhibitionism is when someone gains sexual gratification from exposing their genitals in public. Voyeurism is when an individual
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Reasons of Social Networking Use: A Uses & Gratifications and Media Dependency Theory Approach Remaflor D. Malacura Polytechnic University of the Philippines ABSTRACT Social Networking Sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ and Instagram are very “in” to people especially teenagers nowadays. Social networking sites are web services that allow users to create profile and build relationships with other users of the same site. Due to the popularity of these sites‚ many questions are raised and one
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the proper time‚ when the examination comes‚ you are at sea‚ you will be unable to cope with the situation. A crack in the embankment of river will widen to let in flood waters to cause disaster if it is not plugged and repaired in time. Causes of delaying action are born of feeling of complaisance too and much dependence on luck. Hence‚ we should make up our mind to act promptly to strike at once. "Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today"‚ was the motto of Benjamin Franklin. We must at all
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strategies are intended to minimize the operating cash balance requirement. The basic strategies that can be employed to effectively manage cash are: 1. Delaying and stretching Accounts Payables 2. Speeding up collection of Accounts Receivables 3. Efficient Inventory-Production Management and 4. Combined cash management strategies. 1. Delaying and stretching Accounts Payables The firm should pay its accounts payable as late as possible without damaging its credit standing. This is one of the
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& SOCIETY‚ 2000‚ 3(1)‚ 3–37 Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century Thomas E. Ruggiero Communications Department University of Texas at El Paso Some mass communications scholars have contended that uses and gratifications is not a rigorous social science theory. In this article‚ I argue just the opposite‚ and any attempt to speculate on the future direction of mass communication theory must seriously include the uses and gratifications approach. In this article‚ I assert that
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Brave New World contains examples of self-gratification and self-sacrifice that occur in the New World society. Huxley’s novel describes a society in which people have pills to wash their problems away‚ Henry Ford is their god‚ and humans are created in a lab rather than naturally. The savage part of the story is filled with self-flagellation. These two societies are plotted as polar opposites. Throughout his novel‚ Huxley plots the pursuit of self-gratification against the pursuit of self-sacrifice
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