The Stephen Lawrence affair - published: 09/01/2009
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
Stephen Lawrence was born in 1974; he was the first child of Doreen and Neville who emigrated from Jamaica in the 1960s. He had one brother Stuart and one sister Georgina. By the age of seven he had already resolved to become an architect. He lived at Plumstead, south-east London, which is a...
From judging to legislating: The Supreme Court as a law-making body
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
Whether the judicial branch in the United States should exercise activism or restraint has been debated since before the constitution was ratified. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 were split on the issue, and left Article III of the Constitution purposefully ambiguous, most...
Identity sags in transition
Case study - 6 pages - Journalism
In February of 2005, the state of Virginia proposed a “Droopy Drawers” bill. The House voted 60-34 for this bill (Bellantoni), but was later shot down by the Senate. If passed, one would have been facing a fifty-dollar fine for sagging. “It's not an attack on baggy pants,”...
Harry S. Truman: The man from Missouri
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
In the fifty-three years since his presidency, the nation has truly had time to reflect, and Harry S. Truman has now been elevated to the pantheon of ‘great' Presidents of the United States. Hailing from humble roots in the heartland of Missouri, Truman guided the nation through some of the...
Belgian comics and constructing Belgian national identity
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Belgium is a unique country that uses a federal solution to construct a civic nation from two competing ethnic and cultural identities. In the north is the Flemish region, in the south, Wallonia, and in the middle, the capitol and mainly French speaking, city of Brussels. There is also a small...
The morality of drug use and dealing
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Everyone in America wants to live the American Dream. They want to make a lot of money and be happy. Life is not easy though, and it is difficult to successfully live out the American Dream. Some people are fortunate enough to be born into families who are financially well off and everything in...
Underwater inspection system
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Different forms of security such as underwater surveillance are becoming much more important in maintaining the safety of the United States of America. Though there has been much progress made in advancing underwater surveillance and technology, there is still a necessity for improvement and...
The Dixie Chicks: Political musicians from here on out?
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
The source for the controversy that has been surrounding the band, the Dixie Chicks, and has forever changed the image and role of this band in the music industry, possibly for the rest of their careers, can be pin-pointed to the date of March 10, 2003 when the group performed at Shepherd's Bush...
Whaling during the 19th Century
Essay - 10 pages - Journalism
The subject of whaling can hardly be discussed without a mention of Moby Dick, the maritime adventure novel by Herman Melville. Published in 1951, it tells the story of Captain Ahab, and his obsession with catching the “white whale.” Mythic in its titanic beauty, nothing serves as a...
Becoming Me: My journey through life
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
From birth my life was destined to be anything but usual. I was born into the broken lower-class home of a sixteen year old girl and her parents, who resented the girl for having pre-marital sex. I know this because of a letter this girl wrote to me and sent with me when I was adopted. Soon...
Institutional change in armed forces at the dawning of the 21 century
Essay - 9 pages - Journalism
Although the military as a social institution and war as a social process figured prominently in classical sociological theory, military sociology did not emerge as a field of empirical study until World War II. Then, for four decades, the field was dominated by scholars in the United States,...
The mutual relationship between archaeology and the environment
Essay - 8 pages - Journalism
The nature of past environments is a key aspect of archaeology because human action cannot be understood in isolation from its surroundings. For example, the lifestyle of a human group living in a densely forested area in a temperate climate would be very different from that of the same community...
The city of Aksum - Ethiopia
Essay - 8 pages - Journalism
Aksum was the ancient capital of the only sub-Saharan African kingdom known to the Romans and Byzantines. Located on the upland area of Ethiopia, Aksum is the Holy City of Ethiopia, a city rich in tradition and fantastical monuments and central to Ethiopian national narrative and culture. It is...
The city of Aden - Yemen
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
The Yemeni port of Aden has long been one of the major entrepôts of the Middle East. With its starkly beautiful natural harbor nestled within an extinct volcano and its access to the highlands of Yemen and its products, the city called the “Eye to Yemen” would already have been...
Artistic merit of rap music
Book review - 5 pages - Journalism
According to Webster's Dictionary, music is defined as "sounds produced in harmonious, rhythmic combinations". There are many forms of music, some may not even be "harmonious" to others, but they are still considered music. This is perhaps due to the real reason for music: the expression of...
Bush-speak and PC teaching: A discourse on the relevance of grammar
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
The first question we need to ask when thinking about the legitimacy of Bush's poor speaking habits is how errors like these can be possible when the man has a team of professionals writing out his speeches for him. Surely, as professional writers for the most powerful and visible man in America,...
The Velvet Underground and Nico: Anti-modern rock and roll
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
That banana, it's the single image appearing on the cover of The Velvet Underground and Nico, one of the most influential albums of all time, accompanied only by the teasing phrase “peel slowly and see” at the top and artist Andy Warhol's name at the bottom. On the original album...
Re-Africanization and the popularity of the Brazilian Samba
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
To the rest of the world, Brazil looks like a kaleidoscope of races, foreign in its demographics to virtually every other culture on the planet. From the density of the Amazon rainforest to the all-inclusive street parties of Carnival in Rio, the Federative Republic of Brazil, ostensibly the...
Media portrayal of Midwesterner's
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
Media influences the way people think and behave. What media says about anyone/thing becomes the norm. It influences simple things such as what people talk about on their lunch breaks to more complex belief systems. Media frames depict people from geographic areas in stereotypical ways; this...
Modern mass media consolidation and the erosion of information
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Ever since there has been a way to convey information—spoken language, perhaps even body language?—there has been the immediate by-product of misinformation. It is a reasonable assumption to say that nothing presented as information of any sort can ever be fully “true,”...
The credible reality of fake news
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
Everybody remembers the moment they first saw footage of the burning Twin Towers toppling down on September 11th, 2001. Everybody remembers the panic that ensued, the news tickers running constantly on all the major television stations giving updates on nothing in particular, the finger-pointing...
Collegiate publication censorship: Will Hazelwood infiltrate campus life?
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
In the United States of America, over 295,516,700 citizens enjoy a considerable amount of freedom. A vast assortment of backgrounds, races, and occupations are compiled to make up the population of America. Although this diversity is combined to make a powerful country, it also brings internal...
The creative impact of jazz music
Essay - 12 pages - Journalism
Music frequently requires more than one performer to be created. Perhaps two or more musicians are required, each playing a “part” - without the presence of all the musicians, the song would be incomplete. Perhaps one musician will accompany a singer, each performing distinct but...
Three mile island accident
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Three Mile Island Crisis started at four a.m. on March 28th, 1979. There was a clog in one of the pipes and the men working there had to clear it out, which was a regular occurrence. They shot air into the pipe in order to unclog it, which worked and then they went about their usual business at...
Market driven Journalism
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
The effects of market driven journalism on the fourth estate are questionable at best and disastrous at worst. In market driven journalism, “viewers and readers are transformed into customers, news into products, and circulation or signal areas into markets” (McManus, 1). A prime...
Hiding in the stacks: How U.S media transmit U.S Government lies
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
The American Government has a wide array of resources available with which they can disseminate information regarding their activities, both at home and abroad. These resources include but are not limited to press secretaries, communications chiefs, and leaked documents that are released to the...
"Text Messaging and Instant Messaging : Aid or hindrance?"
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
As is the case when many technologies emerge, the debates that spring forth tend to fall to one side or the other. Moral, ethical, social, and religious concerns arise. However, there is one type of concern that I find not only interesting, but in a way disturbing. That is, the fear of the...
Anthropological and historical perspectives on the death of Captain Cook
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
Scientific and philosophical thought have been preoccupied with the problem of an objective, empirical reality whose nature is discoverable and quantifiable at least since Descartes. This theoretical trend continued and culminated in the discoveries and ideas of Isaac Newton. The Apotheosis of...
The Broadcasting Board of Governors
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) which became independent of the United States Information Agency in 1999 when that department was dissolved, is charged with responsibility for US-backed, non-military international broadcasting. Such endeavors long pre-exist the BBG, and have been an...
Cost - effectiveness in health care
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Applying cost-effectiveness to heath care is “a clear necessity for responsible nonprofit management.” (Schmaedick, 1993, p. 3) Cost-effectiveness analysis is an equally necessary tool for a responsible physician who has no choice but to allocate limited resources.Today's nonprofit...
