The toll of professional journalism
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
The nightly news is a ritual that millions of Americans are attune to from California to New York. For many people, their busy lives have slowed down enough to sit and watch the news: people are home from work, supper is over, dishes are done, children are in bed. This may be the only time...
A comparative analysis of nation state media access as a global welfare dilemma
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
One can define media as communication vehicles designed for mass transmission - including newspapers, magazines, television and radio. This definition allows for media to include such entities as K-12 schools, internet blogs. However, this paper will focus on the four media forms noted in the...
Under determination in science articles
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Within the field of science and technology, there is a realm of discussion that highlights the debate over under determination, and how it is used by scientists when they seek to present data in scientific reporting (by scientists, for scientists). Under determination is a concept that states...
Post modernism in pop culture and The Simpsons
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Attempts to define post-modernism can come in many different forms as different people have different ideas as to what exactly the term means. This being said, most people who take part in the debate over modernism and postmodernism share a consensus that postmodernism might be many things, but...
Customs and Border Patrol for Homeland Security
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
The Customs and Border Patrol is an integral entity involved in protecting the United States from terrorist activity, illegal immigration, drug smuggling and human trafficking. The Border Patrol has been around officially for many years, starting with 450 agents in 1924 when the agency was...
Parody or parroting: Meredith Brooks' sub version of Bitch
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
In 1997, Meredith Brooks' song, Bitch, burned up the charts and through verbal taboos. Was her use of “bitch” a reclamation of a pejorative title, or did it reinforce misogynistic machinations? An examination of the lyrics to Bitch, the music video, music reviews and Monique Wittig's...
Is 16 too young to drive?
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
More than likely everyone has seen the commercial for All State Insurance with the cars driving on open country roads full of teens doing normal things, with “I miss you” by Lifehouse playing in the background. Then the voiceover comes on and says “Every year nearly 6,000...
Wallace's wild world of women
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
I'm Wallace Kirkman. There's really nothing too wrong with me. Granted, I am scarred for life from my Mother committing suicide when I was six years old. But that only messed me up a little. I mean, coming home from school in the second grade to your mother half naked in a pool of blood is bad,...
Light vs. darkness
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Norse mythology is a mythology different from most modern religions today. It is a collection of stories about the supernatural full of surprises and twists. One of the most endearing themes among the Scandinavian stories that comprise Norse mythology is that of lightness and darkness....
Communication and media
Case study - 6 pages - Journalism
Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols and "Communication studies" is the academic discipline which studies communication. Almost every university that has a journalism program also offers a distinct program often from the same...
Construction: Failure and success
Presentation - 426 pages - Journalism
The presentation first talks about its objectives and then moves onto some simple errors that can be made while constructing a building. It will then cover the types of errors followed by the classification and causes of these errors before moving onto the failures and their various types. It...
Jerry Seinfeld, the artist : What's his deal?
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Mel Brooks once said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” Humor's never sounded so pure. Mel Brooks seems to be saying that what's funny is what's most extreme while truthful in the resultant unexpected pain of a circumstance. While it...
Data mining in financial crime detection
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
In this paper, we have discussed different financial crimes that are seen today i.e credit card fraud, card not present fraud, Loan default, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering, Insurance crime etc. Then we have discussed how data mining becomes helpful for detection of these types of financial crimes....
Wind energy integration in power systems
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Grid connection of wind energy sources is essential if they are to be effectively exploited, but grid connection brings a number of problems. In the paper, Distributed Generation and Wind Power integration problems are discussed. Many early wind turbines utilized a squirrel-cage or wound-rotor...
Reliable distributed generation: Key issues, challenges and roles in the Indian energy sector
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
In this paper the traditional approach in electric power generation is to have centralized plants distributing electricity through an extensive transmission & distribution network. Distributed generation (DG) provides electric power at a site closer to the customer, eliminating the unnecessary...
Magic tricks
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
So what, I thought? It was really quite a simple move. When standing in the magic shop, among a group of thirty teenage magicians, their fathers, and the Director of the Society of Young Magicians, there are only two ways to categorize the miniature miracles going on in the hands of these...
Failures of the digital millennium copyright act and its threat to fair use and innovation
Thesis - 10 pages - Journalism
In today's society, technology has improved in a very short time, allowing us to perform acts that were not previously possible, such as calling from afar on a cell phone, connecting with someone from India via the computer, or storing what would be thousands of documents into a small flash...
Go green: Why Marijuana should be legal
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Marijuana is a drug that has been around for centuries and in recent history has been a subject of much debate. Currently marijuana is classified by the federal government as a schedule 1 substance, the worst classification it can possibly receive meaning that the drug has no medical use and has...
Privacy protection and copyright issues in networks and on the internet
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Copyright and censorship are access control issues, concerned with limiting access to some information to people in a particular group. In the former case, the group consists of people who have paid for the bits in question; in the latter, they meet some other criterion. Privacy is largely an...
Fatigue life comparisons of the manufacturing processes for a steering knuckle
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
The Paper describes a vehicle steering knuckle under time-varying load during its service life.Fatigue behavior is, therefore, a key consideration in its design and performance evaluation. This paper is aimed at assessing fatigue life and compare fatigue performance of steering knuckles made from...
The influential music of Puerto Rico
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
The music of Puerto Rico is more than a positive or negative influence, though it is more of a reflection of self, of emotion, and the lifestyles of the more poor than famous. This music, being partially responsible for the influences of the Spanish and as well as the American culture, has...
Smoke in mirrors: Reconsidering the Gestapo
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
perfection of the totalitarian police state. So perfect and awesome in their ability to conduct surveillance on German mass society, many historians have described the Gestapo as an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent apparatus of the Nazi regime. Under the guise of this perfect totalitarian...
Automatic parking systems: PLC and SCADA
Dissertation - 41 pages - Journalism
Automatic parking systems are a contemporary answer to the increasing number of cars and the limited number of free space available for purposes, especially in city areas. Savings in construction volume of up to 50% is characteristic for automatic parking systems based on their compact warehouse...
Comparison between radial and nylon tires
Dissertation - 35 pages - Journalism
MRF limited is the largest producer of tires with a 22% market share. Over 95% of its revenues comes from tires. It has six plants spread over south India. MRF derives almost all of its revenue from the sale of automobile tires, automobile tubes, tread rubber and pre-cured treads. A Small portion...
Grey cotton fabrics
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
Although the synthetic fibers have dominated the textile market, consumers still have a preference towards cotton. Today cotton can be manufactured but the natural merits obtained in cotton cultivated in different areas of the country cannot be underestimated. A number of research studies report...
Problems facing the radio, TV, and print media
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
[Some News Shows are] much like the story of the vendor outside the bullfight selling “Hot Meat Pies”. A customer bought one and bit into it - and found nothing but cold dough.“There must be some mistake,” the customer complained, pointing to the sign. “No, senor,”...
Nuit Blanche: Paris 2007 - published: 18/05/2009
Case study - 23 pages - Journalism
In 2002, Christophe Girard, deputy major in charge of the culture suggested to Bertrand Delanoe, mayor of Paris, to create an artistic course devoted to the contemporary art for a whole night in Paris. It was imagined by Jean Blaise, the creator of the festival ‘The lit ‘(‘switched...
Buying cakes and sodas for a party in an orphanage in Cambodia with a very limited budget - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
In November 2006, I went to Cambodia for 2 months as a volunteer for a French NGO called ASPECA Enfants d'Asie. I spent more than one month in one orphan center in Battambang in the north west of Cambodia, not far from the border with Thailand. My principal mission was to conduct an audit of the...
Newsweek's coverage of the news in Africa: (November 2006 - January 2007) - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine of news and commentary, published in New York City. In 2005, the magazine reported a national audience of more than 20 million; worldwide, its audience numbered almost 26 million in more than 190 countries. The magazine was founded in 1933. In 1937, Malcolm...
"Laundry Terror": The laundries in Sweden - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
For most exchange students their first experience in the laundry room is one of confusion and bewilderment. What is the sign up sheet for? It is only after we are taught by someone that we are able to adhere by the laundry rules. There was one story in particular that inspired us to choose...
