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Technology, Society, Morality and Criminality: How A Deleted Cell Phone Video Led to Murder

Posted on March 4, 2010
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The story told in this video takes around seven minutes to tell. But it will haunt you for much longer.



What do you make of this story? About the commentary on the story? About what it says about technology? About us as a society? About our notions of morality? And, indeed, about how violence and criminality gets legitimized in the confused clash of all of the above?

GEORGIA PERIMETER COLLEGE WRITERS INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES FACULTY AWARDS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News September 1, 2009 ATLANTA, Aug. 26 — University System of Georgia of Georgia Perimeter College issued the following news release:

Georgia Perimeter College Writers Institute recently awarded its 2009 fellowships and grants to GPC professors working on a variety of publishable projects. The awards show the depth and breadth of the scholarly and creative writing by faculty at the two-year college, said Rob Jenkins, director of the Writers Institute.

The competitive awards give faculty members blocks of reassigned class time during the academic year to complete their projects; they are funded through the college’s part-time faculty budget.

Awarding the fellowships and grants “creates opportunities for our faculty to spend a year writing and conducting research,” said Jenkins “The result is good for them, and good for the college, because their scholarship helps them in the classroom and enriches the classroom environment for their students.” Fellowships, which give faculty members four courses of reassigned time, were awarded to Charles Fox, humanities professor, to complete his textbook helping students use creative strategies to revise their compositions; and Andrea Hendricks, online mathematics professor, for her series of algebra textbooks for college students. in our site creative writing prompts

Grants, which give faculty members two courses of reassigned time, were awarded to Lawrence Hetrick, humanities professor, for his work on a collection of poetry; Dr. Louvincey Brown, communications professor, to revise her doctoral dissertation on Gullah culture into a book; Elizabeth Cranford, humanities professor, for her poetry; Paul Hudson, history professor, for his article on Hazel Raines, Georgia’s first female pilot; and Chris Moser, humanities professor, to write a script for a television documentary on the Scotch-Irish in America.

Fox’s textbook working title, “Creative Control: Creative Writing Prompts for Controlling Ideas,” is slated for publication in 2010. “I’ve been accumulating the prompts for at least 10 years; the idea for the book came after talking to several colleagues at GPC and other colleges,” Fox said.

Hendricks is working on a textbook, “Intermediate Algebra for College Students,” which is to be published in November 2011.

This is the fifth year the GPC Writers Institute has awarded fellowships and grants. Since the program began, seven recipients have published books or have had their work accepted for publication. They include three authors of published nonfiction books: George Pabis’s “Daily Life Along the Mississippi”; Robert Alderson, “This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794″; and former faculty member Margaret Keiley-Listermann, for “Sinn Fein Women.” To qualify for a fellowship, applicants must be full-time tenured professors and must already be at least a third of the way finished with their book, and there must be clear evidence that the work will be published upon completion, said Jenkins. creativewritingpromptsnow.net creative writing prompts

“I feel so honored to work for a college that values the professional development of its faculty, said Hendricks. “Receiving the Writers Institute fellowship is life-changing. It has afforded me the opportunity to complete a project that has consumed much of my time over the last several years. Having this kind of support is overwhelming. I am forever grateful to the Writers Institute and to GPC.” Rebecca Rakoczy, 678/891-2691.

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  1. Adil Syed says:
    April 16th, 2010 1:02 am

    Very sad and depressing. But it shows the real picture of our modern society.

  2. Asim says:
    March 11th, 2010 3:54 pm

    Real problem is poverty…I dont see how praying to God will solve the poverty or any other problem? If it did, we would not have had any problem in the past 1000 years. Even our dear Prophet had many problems, God did not solve his problems and expected Him to take care of His issues Himself.

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