Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Marketing: Mini-Cooper. It needs to be at least 2000 words. Demand in the United States, especially, has taken off, thanks to a marketing strategy designed to build mystique through stealth advertising and limited distribution”( Maynard)

Mini Cooper has attracted the world not only because of the unique features but because of the innovative marketing strategies as well. The manufacturer BMW has created waves of innovation in marketing and advertising strategies adopted for their car Mini Cooper which captured the attraction of worldwide people. This paper briefly analyses the features of Mini cooper and the marketing strategies adopted by BMW for marketing their product mini cooper in the international market.

“From the toggle switches for the windows and fog lights to the rocker buttons for the fan-speed controls, every switch and dial in the Mini feels of a piece with Mini and only the Mini. In truth, some of the components are gently massaged BMW parts, but thats not really obvious. And besides, BMW is a prestigious brand, so it’s not as if you’re getting second hand Daewoo stuff in your Mini”( Frank). Mini Cooper is not only attractive in appearance, but it is filled with a lot of useful features that other cars of the same type may not possess. Its hatch layout is well designed, with a low well for groceries and with seat uprights that flip forward 50/50. Mini Cooper excels in safety features also compared to its competitors. It has defeated its competitors in most of the road tests and also excelled in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash tests. Moreover, it comes with six airbags (front, side, headliner), while its competitors only have standard front airbags. For an additional $500, people can purchase a Mini Cooper with stability control that will help keep the car on track in an emergency situation.

‘A marvelous marriage of British character and German know-how, the 2009 Mini Cooper is stylish, fun to drive and remarkably good on gas. Stellar fuel economy, sharp handling, excellent all-around&nbsp.performance in S and John Cooper Works trims, endearing retro styling, etc are the major features of the 2009 model of Mini Cooper’ (2009 MINI Cooper Review).

I will pay for the following article Explicit Media Content and Behavior. The work is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Advance in information technology has further enhanced ways of distributing the content, even to the young children in spite of government enforcement of strict measures to restrict accessibility.

Objectionable and explicit media content is in different forms, including video games, music, television programs, and pornographic videos. These programs show objectionable and socially offending content including promiscuity, violence, drug abuse, and occultism among others. This paper examines the complaints that objectionable media content has generated, emphasizing on critical analysis of the linkage between the contents and the objections raised by the society.

Complaints to objectionable content

Various media contents have generated negative criticism from society. Some of the complaints originate from particular segments of the society while others elicit widespread criticism. In a research study investigating the reactions of the society to objectionable media content, Stephenson (2007) identified religion, race, and culture in addition to sexual orientation as the major factors determining how particular media content is received in the society. In American society, minority groups have been raising concerns about how their image is portrayed in the media. In the movie industry for instance Adler, et al(2007) noted that most African American males play violent and vulgar roles that portray them as hardcore criminals with an inclination to abusing hard drugs. In addition, many television programs focusing on black people portray the negative side such as poverty, crime, and chronic disease infection in addition to broken and unhappy families.

These programs have recently fallen under heavy criticism because they hardly show achievements or the positive side of the black people in the community. The negative media publicity of the minorities, especially in developed countries has been attributed by Bushman and Cantor (2003) as the leading cause of reinforcing crime, drug abuse, and other social problems, among the minority groups. In addition, they promote racial prejudice, where a particular race is regarded with scorn, suspicion, and mistrust. Besides the negative depiction of African Americans, the portrayal of people from East Asian countries such as Japan and China in the media is equally biased compared to white actors.

Complete 8 pages APA formatted article: Media Ethnography. There are many factors the content producers take into consideration while producing their text. They are audience engagement, audience expectations, audience fore-knowledge, audience identification, audience placement, and audience research. Though there are various methods adopted for media research, in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the use of ethnography as it is claimed by many that in order to understand a group, it is very important to live with them and to ‘become one among them’.

Theories on Media and Audience

According to the Frankfurt School (Cited in Hanes, 2000), media is like a hypodermic syringe. and this ‘Effects’ model envisions that media injects its contents into the thoughts of the audience, and the audience accepts the thoughts, opinions, attitudes, and beliefs expressed by the media without questions.

Evidently, this model has its birth based on the German fascist use of media for propaganda which was later followed by the American capitalist society. However, theorists were sure that the media does not have such a direct influence on the minds of people. According to some, media only has a weaker influence on people. Other more prominent influences will be factors like religion and personal contacts. As Gunter (2000, pp. 10-11) opines, the ‘Effects’ model failed mainly because it did not take audiences as individuals with their own beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.

Another new approach to the relation between media and audience was the ‘Uses and Gratification’ model. This model does not look into how media affects the audience, but how the audience uses the media. According to the new concept, audiences have various needs, and for the fulfillment of these needs, they turn to media for the consumption of information. This model acknowledges that the audience has a choice of texts to choose from. The Uses and Gratification model assumes that the audiences’ wish for satisfaction results in the media providing output to fulfill their desires. So, this is against the Effects model that claims that audiences are made to enjoy whatever is produced by the media.

I need some assistance with these assignment. modern day attacks against firewalls and vpns Thank you in advance for the help! The uses of VPNs help companies to access the internet at the time of travel. It is also used by the individual internet operator to secure the wireless connection. VPN is an important technological advancement for remote workers as well as organizations to share the data privately. The security issues surrounding VPNs are cracking of offline passwords, deficiency of account lockout, poor default formation, and VPN thumbprint among others (Hills, 2005). In a similar context, firewalls are the security system used to secure the flow of information between the two networks. Firewalls place a bottleneck between the networks which ensures the privacy and confidentiality of the data shared between the two networks. There are two types of firewalls as ‘packet filtering firewall’ and ‘stateful inspection firewall’. The common threats pertaining to firewalls include attacks from malicious codes such as viruses, worms, and information theft among others (Rao et al., 2011).

The technology of firewalls was first established in 1980 and since then it has undergone several modifications and alternations. Firewalls are integrated security systems designed to secure networks from unauthorized access. Firewalls are also useful for protecting the outside fire. Firewalls are also considered as a system of network security that controls the flow of traffic over the network created by a set of protocols (Brown University, n. d.). Firewalls act as a ‘software solution’ and ‘hardware appliance’. Firewalls can also be defined as security measures, which protect the local systems as well as network systems from potential threats. The two types of firewalls are packet filtering and stateful inspection firewall. A packet-filtering firewall allows the flow of packets that meets certain specific criteria.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on submarine volcanoes.

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“Much like volcanoes on dry land, an underwater volcano is a fissure on the earth’s surface where lava is produced and can erupt.” (Raine, 2010)

The causes of a volcanic eruption cannot be analyzed without an understanding of the earth’s structure. The core of the planet is boiling and contains a reservoir of molten rock called magma. This magma is bounded by more relaxed layers of rock that form the earth’s crust, including both the ocean floor and land, which increases the internal pressure caused by heat. However, when the crust releases the tension from any opening or when the internal pressure can overcome the external force, the magma breaks through the earth’s surface. It erupts, releasing the magma in the form of molten lava and ash.&nbsp.(Raine, 2010)

The essential characteristics of submarine volcanoes are that the eruptions from the volcanoes are affected by the pressure and temperature of the water around them. (Topinka, 2003)

“…the volcanic phenomena take place very much in the same manner from the bottom of the sea as from the open surface of a continent, subject only to modifications produced by the lower temperature of the surrounding medium, and the greater external pressure, caused by the weight of the overlying column of water, which in this case becomes one of the elements of the repressive force.” (Scrope, 1862)

In shallow waters, this lava is cooled so rapidly that it transforms into ‘black sand’ or volcanic debris almost instantaneously or forms volcanic glass. (Palande, 2011)This debris is either piled-up around the volcanic vent or settles down along the seafloor. (Topinka, 2003) Eventually, the piling up emerges above the ocean’s surface in the form of volcanic islands, some of which can be seen in the south Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans. (Tufty, 1969.) (Crouse, 2012).

In the deeper part of the ocean, volcanic activity resembles the volcanoes on land in terms of shape and flows&nbsp.(Topinka, 2003). They are seen to be slightly steeper as the water speeds up the hardening.&nbsp.(Rafferty, 2011.