Comment on the article "Can India fly?", from The Economist n°8480, 2006 - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
"Indian Business has much to celebrate", says the author of the article "can India fly?—now for the hard part", published in the june 3rd 2006 edition of The Economist. India has been recently swept by great optimism, thanks to its phenomenal economic growth. Indian GDP growth hit of 7% in...
Walter Ong, orality and literacy - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Walter Wong's Orality and Literacy provides the reader, who by definition is a member of the literate world, with insights into the rich oral cultures that spawned the chirographic (writing) and the typographic (print) cultures that followed. In a world steeped in literacy for many centuries,...
The paradox of American democracy (Chap. 1), by John B. Judis
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
John B. Judis is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he is working since 1982. He graduated at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965 and taught philosophy there later on. He was an active leftist activist during the 60es and founded the leftwing journal The Socialist Revolution...
McIntyre, W. David. British Decolonization: "When, why and how did the British Empire fall?" - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
In this book David McIntyre, Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, gives a detailed account of a most important episode of British and global history, that is the fall of the British Empire. The decolonization process that took place mainly after the Second World War was sudden...
Six feet of the country, by Nadine Gordimer
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
How does Nadine Gordimer denounce Apartheid in this short story? Judging from this text, do you think she uses literature as a political weapon? In “Six Feet of the Country”, a short story written in 1956, the South-African white author Nadine Gordimer tells the story of a white man and...
Social cognitive processes mediating the relationship between exposure to television's sexual content and adolescents' sexual behavior by Steven C. Martino, Rebecca L. Collins, David E. Kanouse, Marc Elliot, and Sandra H. Berry - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
The article I chose to study is from the volume 89 of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published in 2005 by the American Psychological Association. It deals with a research supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. I chose this one since, like the...
The USA patriot act: The un-American way
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by a foreign terrorist Muslim group called Al-Queda directed by Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, as well as, others. President George W. Bush appeared on television screens at the Oval office to address the American public after the...
The magic of thinking big
Thesis - 13 pages - Journalism
This wonderful book authored by Dr. David Schwartz reveals the secrets of SUCCESS. The SUCCESS for which we strive all our life only to find that at times that harder we try to achieve our goal…the more difficult it gets. In this world where only the toughest survive and flourish, we need a...
Reputation versus business
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
When rapper Nas Escobar and entertainer Sean “Puffy/P.Diddy” Combs recorded the video to the song “Hate Me Now”, Puffy backed out after a copy of the video was sent to MTV and asked Nas' manager and Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute to remove the part of the video...
Asking questions about the popular sphere, media and democracy.
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
An important question, right now, according to a recent Globe and Mail article, as well as chatter heard recently while riding the grid-lock streets listening to a taxi driver's radio, is if daily newspapers collapse, is this a sign that democracy is in trouble? Perusing the numerous blogs of...
The rhetoric behind personal ads
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Many people search for that one person to spend the rest of their lives with. People do this in a variety of ways and placing a personal ad in the local newspaper is only one such way. Men and women daily check personal ads in the hope of finding that “perfect person” or just for a...
Childe`s materialist approach to archaeology and proof of his use of scientific method
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Processual archaeology, also known as New Archaeology, which came to dominate the field in the 1960s presented a critique of past archaeological work, that it, fundamentally, was non-scientific. The debates and arguments that exist within the field of archaeology often seem to be limiting, as...
Coffee in Italy and the United States
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
Coffee has been grown, processed, roasted, and brewed for thousands of years. This age-old drink has become increasingly popular within the last decade due to the attractiveness of the modern coffeehouse (Shultz 1999:76-77), along with increased global marketing. Yet this popularity is perceived...
Preparing Mughlai Gravy
Thesis - 27 pages - Journalism
The hospitality industry includes all establishments that provide food and beverage service to the public. It offers a wide range of jobs and careers which very according to the style of services in each establishment. For example, the tasks performed in a fast food outlet differ greatly from...
Newspaper ownership in Canada
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
The press has always been thought of as an important facet of any liberal democracy. The press in Canada has always played an important role in educating the population about the events and news of the day. However, for the press to truly perform its task in a liberal democracy, it needs to be...
Public transportation in the Arab World
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
The creation and refinement of public transportation in the Arab World are issues that are infrequently brought to the public eye. However, these issues have underlying importance in the institutions of politics and economics in the Arab World. Organizations, such as The World Bank and the...
History of technology
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
When people think about technology from a contemporary perspective, they often think about all the gadgets and devices that are common-place in our lives. For example, only ten years ago we were watching movies on VCR's and were talking on cell phones that would be unrecognizable compared to...
The future of archaeological thought: A debate between Ian Hodder and Lewis Binford
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
In their thoughts on the future of archaeological thought, Ian Hodder and Lewis Binford offer drastically conflicting perspectives. Binford argues that social history can be investigated using the processes of archaeology, yet he shows little interest in the meaning associated with an artifact...
A critical evaluation of media censorship in the US
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
This essay will discuss and analyze the media and censorship of the media in the United States. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…” (United States...
A guide to Chinese cuisine
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Perhaps one of the first things that should be mentioned about Chinese cuisine is how much it differs from western cuisine. The primary difference of Chinese cuisine is usually attributed to a difference in staple crops (for the Chinese this is usually rice), and livestock (The Chinese eat...
Ambiguity of the term "objectivity" in the media - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The importance of the concept of objectivity in the media is well attested. Since the beginning of the newspaper press in the early nineteenth Century in the United States and in Europe, rising democracy in the Society has produced various economic, political and technological factors which have...
The magazine 'What else?' - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
Each year, at the same period, at the IUT, students of 2nd year spend one day with their counterpart of 1st year, that permit to everyone to know the others. The journalists of "What else" were of course on the spot. This day starts firstly with an afternoon of games, where 1st year students were...
Cultural project: Museums in Bradford - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
Bradford is the 7th city in United Kingdom, with more than 478,800 inhabitants (metro district). Located in the West Yorkshire, this city has been developed thanks to the first industrial revolution (1780 - 1840) and the second one (1840 - 1900). During this period, Bradford has become very rich...
Corporate web communication: Lastfm - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 12 pages - Journalism
Last.fm is a open content music community website and also an Internet radio station with music recommendation system based on each user's and friends' musical taste on the base of a collaborative filter. Objective of this site is to become the biggest music database completed by all users and...
How do magazines construct identity? - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The many different types of magazines that are present in the market could be seen as a proof that editors are constantly looking to target an audience. Indeed, in order to secure the right type of advertisers, magazine editors have to find the right type of readers so that the efficiency and...
Violence in South Africa - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
While South Africa is one of the richest countries of Africa, why is there so much violence? 25 of the biggest African firms are South African, and its economy is the largest and the most developed on the continent. It grows by 5% every year. Yet, South Africa has a high rate of unemployment and...
Absinthe - published: 19/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Have you ever read Poe's, Maupassant's or Hemingway's works, examined Van Gogh's, Picasso's, Toulouse-Lautrec's or Manet's paintings, or even studied Baudelaire's, Rimbaud's or Wilde's pieces of art? Chances are you have, which means that you have also tasted the effects of la fée verte, the...
Discuss the methods by which Britain became a great power - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The very notion of power and by extension the one of great power, have always been elaborate concepts to grasp. Should one study the strength of a nation from a historical perspective, then it appears that the notion of great power could only be defined comparatively. Indeed, it is only in its...
Democratic Republic of Sao Tomé e Principe: Parties, influence groups and human rights - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The islands of Sao Tomé and Principe were colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and were then used as a slave trading point. Later in the 19th century they began to export cocoa. After the decolonization in 1951 the country finally came to independence in 1975. A one-party-regime was...
Romania
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
Romania is the old roman province of Dacie created in the II nd century. Since the IIIrd century, it was invaded but the farmers went to the mountains and kept their latin language and traditions. Between the Xth and the XIIIth, Orthodox principalities were created. Until the XVIIth century,...
