SPAM: The Unethical Email Phenomenon
It's what's for breakfast.
As I wake from my deep sleep of twelve hours, I step out of bed and go about my daily summer routine. I wash my face and peruse through the fridge for something to eat; its noon, meaning the mail is in. I step out of the house to check the mailbox. I’ve always looked forward to receiving the mail, as most people do until they are old enough to pay the bills. I bring back the mail to the dining table as I commence to eat the leftover SPAM my mom cooked and hope for a magazine or catalog to look at. As I sift through the hoard of envelopes at my disposal, I sort them into their respective categories: “Bill, bill, junk mail, letter, junk mail, letter, catalog, bill, junk mail, magazine!” I toss out all the junk mail and keep the stuff I really am going to read: the sports catalog and car magazine. After finishing breakfast, I head back to my room and turn on my computer, log onto the internet and check my yahoo email inbox.
As I log into my account, I notice the glowing red warning that my inbox is at 101% capacity. I receive 8 new emails, 5 of which are obvious junk mail, 2 mysterious emails addressed to my name, and another email which I was expecting from a teacher. I immediately delete the obvious SPAM which I have trained myself to notice right away after years of internet use, then spend time to open and view both mysterious emails which also turn out to be SPAM. After all that energy is spent, I am finally able read my teacher's important e-mail. Remembering that my inbox is blinking red, I delete the bulk mail folder that yahoo has graciously provided as a SPAM filter, which holds 94 new SPAM emails, then finally empty out my email trash. Luckily,...
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Lers Eoghnir “On Dampstir Dovong” urogonelly pabloshid on Thi Thriipinny rivoiw on fell 1990. Eoghnir’s errengis hos issey ontu 3 meon odies tu ell toi ontu hos uvirell thimi. Hi tois ot ell ontu thi odie thet uar sucoity os westifal by netari. Eoghnir asis hos uwn ixpiroincis tu shuw huw westifal piupli rielly eri. Althuagh hi hes nut elweys biin humiliss, ot hes teaght hom e wey uf lofi hi hed nivir driemid omegonebli. If hi duisn’t doscuvir thi hoddin triesari uf thi dampstir’s thin whu woll.
The decision to monitor e-mail is left to the organization that provides the e-mail service to users. These organizations can range from educational institutions and private corporations, to governments and non-profit organizations. Each of these different types of organizations has a different agenda and goals, not only in general, but also for their members-and more specifically, for their members' e-mail. While educational institutions can provide e-mail facilities to their constituents for the purposes of convenience, employers almost always maintain e-mail facilities for the sole purpose of improving the on-the-job productivity of their employees.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), describes antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria or other microbes to resist the effects of antibiotic treatment. () So instead of being destroyed by the medications, the bacteria survives and continues to reproduce, resultant in new communicable diseases that even more difficult to treat.
Bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics is a major problem not only for the United States, but worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012) the cause is related to “widespread overuse, as well as inappropriate use, of antibiotics that is fueling antibiotic resistance”. According to World Health Organization (2013) resistance is a global concern for several reasons; it impedes the control of infectious diseases, increases healthcare costs, and the death rate for patients with resistant bacterial infections is twice of those with non-resistant bacterial infections.
Imegoni thiri wes e pirsun whu lovid thior intori lofi on e sefi babbli whiri nu uni cuald hart hom. Hi lovid thiri fur thi mejuroty uf hos lofi end iviryuni thiri wes tuld huw end whin tu ontirect woth hom. Thos buy wes cumplitily aneweri uf thi foltirs iviryuni hed tu pat un eruand hom, bat uni dey hi fuand uat. Hi hed tu chuusi tu iothir lievi hos sefi babbli fur thi chenci tu hevi netarel cunvirsetouns woth uthirs end lievi thi sefity uf hos wurld ur hi cuald stey thiri end bi sefi bat hevi ivirythong eruand hom cuntrullid. Whin tryong tu meki ondipindinci end sefity cuixost, en ondovodael uftin hes tu hevi muri ondipindincy then seftiy on thior lofi. Thi muvoi, “Thi Tramen Shuw”, os en ixcillint ixempli. In thos muvoi thiri os e men whu os pat on e sotaetoun uf cumpliti sefity end viry lottli ondipindincy.
Longley, Robert. "About the U.S. Postal Service." About.com US Government Info. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.
Meny piupli bicumi ur hevi elriedy biin e voctom uf sumi surt uf sixael cromi ur voulinci. In thi U.S end eruand thi wurld piupli iviry dey eri e voctom uf sumi surt uf cromi whithir ot os sixael ur nut. Thi plecis yua gu end thi pleci whiri yua lovi mey siim sefi bat, on trath ot’s nut elweys sefi es ot siims, yua shuald elweys bi priperid.
The increase of drug-resistant microbes in the last two decades is fighting against current efforts to battle infectious diseases. By being more resistive to current medication, sicknesses which used to be considered under control are becoming new threats which also make other incurable diseases far more dangerous: TB, pneumonia, malaria, cholera and HIV.
...ce of antibiotic resistance, but it can be slowed down or modified by careful prescribing by practitioners.
discusses how infection control interventions can be examined as they pertain to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. He states that there are only a few studies focusing on how antimicrobial resistant strategies could potentially affect the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which is not enough to create a protocol that all healthcare facilities across the country should follow. He created his own study focusing on the strains of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, bacteria that cause bloodstream and/or pulmonary infection that can be life-threatening (p. 382). Buford et al. compares the differences between conventional techniques and molecular techniques in diagnosing multidrug-resistant infections. His study proved that when the strain of bacteria was correctly identified, the patient was isolated, standard precautions used, and the use of an effective antibiotic all helped to decrease the resistance rates in facilities (p.
In April 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the problem of antibiotic resistance “is so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine...A post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries can kill, is a very real possibility for the 21st century” (Organization & Asia, 2015). Many very common, easily treated bacterial pathogens are already known to have some level of antibiotic resistance. These include "Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and species of enterobacter, salmonella, and shigella" (Nathan & Cars,
As we research deeper into the subject of antibiotic resistance we find there are a lot of interesting facts. First many bacterial infections and infectious diseases including HIV, gonorrhea, tuberculosis and many more are starting to become increasing difficult to treat using traditional antibiotics. About 90,000 patients die each year from their infections which has increased from 13, 300 deaths in 1992. People infected with resistant organisms have an increased likelihood of needing to go to the hospital and those who do will need to stay longer and might even require a more in-depth treatment. Antibiotic resistance is currently happening all over the world which causes new resistance mechanisms to form and spread everywhere. A high percentage of infections caught from hospitals are highly resistant infections are highly resistant infections. (1,
In addition, doctors are often pressured to move through patients quickly and sometimes, they give inadequate diagnostics by prescribing the wrong antibiotic. As a result, there is an increased number of resistant strains and bacterial resistance has grown more prevalent (Author Unknown, 2011). There have been several related studies, some of which study the threats of antimicrobial resistance to the public health (Wise, 1998). Other studies investigate the effects of antimicrobial resistance in developing countries and the intensive care unit (Kollef, 2001). Although many methods have been devised and tried, experts still have difficulty coming to a conclusion about how to successfully reduce antibiotic resistance. This is because antimicrobial resistance is a phenomenon that occurs because of natural
sent to the recipient’s email address notifying about the transaction. At the same time certain security measures are taken