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...In the digital age, it is important for public relations practitioners to appreciate the diversity of all media outlets, especially social media. According to Karl H. Friederich (1975), “the persuasiveness of a public relations message generally must rely exclusively on its appeal to the receiver’s self interest” (p. 7). This is especially true of entertainment PR. With the sheer amount of content available to consumers, it is absolutely vital that practitioners understand and utilize new platforms as soon as they become popular in order to reach a desired audience in the way that audience wants to be reached. In the past two years, Tik Tok has grown into a global phenomenon, especially amongst Gen Z. Not only has the app created a new breed of celebrities who require publicity, but it has emerged as a viable platform for entertainment PR professionals to capitalize on. The algorithm of the app caters content uniquely to every user based on data compiled about that user’s perceived interests. In this way, public relations and Tik Tok can be used in concordance with each other so as to effectively target a specific population or group...
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All Week Long
PFxPFA Syracuse Charity Week
Planet Fitness Dewitt has partnered with Project Fit America for a week-long fundraising event the first week of May.
PFxPFA Charity Week will raise money to sponsor a local under-funded Syracuse City School to participate in Project Fit America programs.
Published Historical Research
Published in Chronos 14
...If one is to pose the question: “did the punishment fit the crime in early modern England,” there is only one fundamental way to answer. The only correct answer is one that completely removes every preconceived notion of modern crime and punishment from the equation. Early modern England’s legal system was sodifferent from anything any modern reader will have ever encountered that this actually presents a difficult challenge. From the start, it is important to note that a “crime” only refers to a convicted offence. For this reason, J.A. Sharpe makes it clear that anyone interested in early modern English crime must understand the concept of a “dark figure” of unrecorded crime.This concept further obscures a historian’s ability to understand the full scope of crime and punishment. Nonetheless, that is not to say that there was not a definite spectrum of crime and punishment in early modern England. More serious punishments were the result of more serious crimes, and vice versa. Due to the very existence of this spectrum in and of itself, one can argue that, in early modern England, the punishment did in fact fit the crime. This piece will argue this idea by analyzing the range of punishments on the spectrum from petty crimes to serious felonies. As previously mentioned, this is only a possible argument to make if one completely agrees to remove any notions at all about modern crime and punishment. This is not a question of whether the punishment for theft, for example, fits the crime in a way a modern lawyer would accept. Rather, this is an effort to paint the picture of varying degrees of criminality associated with varying degrees of punishment within the accepted societal standards of early modern England...
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