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Cultural Isolates and Memeology
 Cultural isolates are cultures surrounded by different cultures. An example could be the Pennsylvania Dutch in reference to other Pennsylvanians located in the Northeastern United States. |
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The Power of the Web
As free agents performing service-oriented goals on the World Wide Web, we are participants in the Power of the Web.
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Lead the Teleworker Wave
Teleworking in the new millennium serves as an epiphany to the freelance writer's vocation. We can have it all and keep our slippers on!
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The Gaian Democracy
The Gaian Democracy presents a bottom-up strategy toward governmental organizational theory.
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The Just Third Way, fourth in a ten-part series on Global Constructs
On the one hand there is capitalism, an economic system governed by market forces but where economic power is concentrated in the hands of a few who own or control productive capital. On the other hand, socialism, in its many forms, is an economic system governed centrally by a political elite, with even more highly concentrated ownership and economic power.
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The Earth Charter, Second Article of a ten-part series on Global Constructs
The Earth Charter purports that in order to build a sustainable global community, nations of the world need to renew their commitment to the United Nations, fulfill obligations under existing international agreements, and support the implementation of the Earth Charter. This article presents a copy of the Earth Charter along with other information for your enlightenment.
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Global Constructs
The global society is speaking out in defense of planet earth and voicing concern through global humanitarianism efforts. This is the introduction of a ten-part series that presents ten differing ideologies concerning globalization of the planet; these reformist and innovation based constructs are presented for your review and our further discussion.
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Cultural Consciousness and the Media
Cultural Consciousness is becoming a worldview through observation and the Fourth Estate Guardian (FEG) is at the forefront of the Internet Society.
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Fourth Estate Changes
With a multitude of news stories in the media that really ignite our inner beings the Fourth Estate Guardians (FEGs) are ready to pursue some more innovative discussions. This is the last in the series on "Who Owns What." There are links to the list of publicators and we hope you will utilize these as you write and submit your works!
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Smokeout marks its anniversary
As Fourth Estate Guardians (FEGs) do we have an influence on the world at large? Does the media have an influence on the world at large? We may all be in agreement that we do, here's an example of what a positive influence can be enacted by the media.
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Who Owns What Publications, continued
When you write for an Editor you imagine them to be part of "the particular" magazine, trade journal, or newspaper you are submitting to. You don't imagine them as small kegs in a major publication system, but that may be exactly what they are.
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Who Owns What Publications?
The initial article in a series on the "Big Ten" conglomerates of the publication|media industry. Who Owns What? You might be surprised who you are writing to and who you are writing for.
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Memetic Journalism, Part Two-Final Release
This article is the second in a continuation series on the topic of Memes. Adding to the analysis of Memetic Journalism, part two presents thoughts on the Memetic effects of Journalism.
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Memetic Journalism, Part One
This article is the first in a continuation series on the topic of Memes. It adds to the elements of Memeology toward analysis of Memetic Journalism. Part one consists of a basic re-introduction to Memes including some more recent theories and part two delivers ideas regarding the Memetic effects of Journalism.
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Letters: Should We Write Them?
Writing is, as you are aware, a most rewarding career choice. When employed in the service of writing for others FEGs find they may not have the ability to express their emotions and|or experience to a readership. Writing letters when all other resources are unavailable is a loyalty we have to one another and ourselves.
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A Fourth Estate Christmas Story
The Fourth Estate in its responsibility toward free press and free speech has the privilege of garnering knowledge of differing viewpoints and belief systems. Christmas is a wonderful holiday season to Fourth Estate Guardians who are attuned to its concepts, but what about the Fourth Estate Guardians who have another system of religious concept?
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Hacking in The Fourth Estate
The recent newsbreaks concerning Gary McKinnon and his "hacker escapades" that invaded hundreds of government and military computers again raise controversy for Fourth Estate Guardians. How do we feel about "hacking?"
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Evolution of Language
The question of whether language is evolving seems to be answered by linguisticians. Resoundingly they agree that Middle English is experiencing an ongoing practice in development. This article presents some background on the development of the Germanic rooted English language.
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Fourth Estate Guardians Research
References on researching for the Fourth Estate Guardian. What drives the writer toward the inquisition of an article and its performance? A need to know.
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H.G. Wells Sees It Through
Charles Keller II, of the American Chapter of the H.G. Wells Society, shares the life behind the man in this skillfully crafted article so thoughtfully contributed to The Fourth Estate
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We can derive from this article filled with accounts of H.G. Wells life experiences that among his many other talents he was also a staunch and early participant in The Fourth Estate.
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The State of the Fourth Estate
What is the State of the Fourth Estate today as it relates to journalism and mainstream reporting? It is a field full of landmines. Those who take up the cross of fact-finding and its delivery bare the burden for us all.
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Telepathy, Psychical Phenomena, and the Fourth Estate
How telepathy, psychical phenomena, the omnipresence, and the Fourth Estate interplay toward a unified consciousness delivering "intuitions" to Fourth Estate Guardians (FEGs). A treatise of consideration that presents scientifics for independent resolution.
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Simple Language, Plain Rhetoric: Dumbing Down of Literature
As Fourth Estate Guardians (FEGs) we are destined to grapple with the realities of dumbing down from academia to palatable rhetoric on the Internet, in the media, in literature, and education. Is simple language and easy reading rhetoric really the description of an astute messenger?
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Memes
Memes: ideas, universals, communications, textual conveyances are they contagious? Can you catch an idea? Are Ideas real (Extreme Realism)? Are ideas without concrete identities (Nominalism)? Are ideas Conceptual (Conceptualism)? Memes answers the biological implications of communication.
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The Fourth Estate
The Fourth Estate Guardians(FEG's), who they may be, what they might be doing. Achieving online zen balance when encountering the FEG's and understanding your role as participants in the evolution of communication
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Viral Impressions of Gifted Minds
Gifted minds share a commonality, they affect those who come into contact with them. Great thinkers of history, those gifted minds we honor and emulate, pass their concepts and impressions on to our psyche. Are these transferrences then viral applications? We know that there are those viruses that produce positive result for the human creature-could the peppering of gifted minds throughout the global population be likened to proactive viruses promoting human advancement?
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Congressional Impetus Toward Fahrenheit
 Freedom of Speech is a Fourth Estate tenet. Do conventional forms of political correctedness dictated via mandate project us toward a reality of Ray Bradbury's Congressional Fahrenheit 451 existence? |
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Cryptic Language and the Art of Communication
Cryptic Language and Communicative Arts have existed throughout recorded history. Historically ciphers have been used to keep secrets pertaining to the safety and welfare of countries and/or countrymen and women. The Internet is quickly evolving as the newest Cryptology, however cryptic language has evolved from early man's cave drawings, heiroglyphics, to Graffiti, to Native American encoded languages, to African American Slave Quilts onward. Does The Fourth Estate need to know?
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The Investigative Writer
As participants of The Fourth Estate becoming an investigative writer is an essential component to the literary and technical writing mission. Through research and analysis in addition to objectivity we can provide our audience with true Fourth Estate Guardianship.
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