News Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Review: American Political System

Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is a well respected and award winning professor of political communication. She is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She has written and co-authored fifteen books about political discourse. The titles of her two most recent books give a good idea of the theme she writes about The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages shaped the 2008 Elections (2010) and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007). Dr. Jamieson has spent her career evaluating election campaigns for the accuracy of their campaign statements. Her work ...

The Reality of Mass Media is a book written by Niklas Luhmann. The Stanford University Press first published the book in the year 1995. The book comprises of different mass media theories, which are applied in our modern society. In addition, Luhmann talks about the construction of social realities with the use of the mass media. The author argues that the mass media plays a crucial role in the modern society. It is through the mass media the society constructs its illusion of their definition of reality. Therefore, Niklas Luhmann presents a book that explain how the modern mass ...

Summary of chapters 1, 2 and 3

Marketing and press release old rules are ineffectual in the online domain. The chapter foregrounded issues concerning the old strategies and rules of marketing and press release. One significant point is the fact that one-way interruption is not as effective as it used to be. Web marketing is concerned with an extraditing meaningful message at the time that a potential buyer needs it. Another important point is that broadcasting stories and press releases to the media is not the best manner of attracting attention from the media. Creating websites and blogging about your product and your company exposure is ...

Introduction

This paper aims to relate the concepts of and the paradoxes behind equity, efficiency, security, and liberty to a news article titled San Francisco students suspended over racist ‘wigger party’ by Kale Williams (2016). It reports the incident where over twelve high school students were suspended from San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Preparatory for taking part in a “wigger party,” a racist themed party where White individuals emulate the culture of African Americans through a depiction of the stereotypes in mannerisms and clothing (Williams, 2016).

Equity

The news article depicted the paradox behind equity in that although the school ...

About the author

Scott Martelle is a veteran journalist and a former staff writer for the L. A. Times. He is a journalist of the third generation and was born in Scarborough, Maine. He spent part of his childhood there, and the rest in Wellsville, New York, which is two hours south of the town of Buffalo. He got his first newspaper job at age sixteen, where he wrote a sports column for a weekly high school newspaper called the Wellsville Patriot. He then started covering local news on a part-time basis for the Wellsville Daily Reporter.
Martelle attended Fredonia State University. Here, he was the editor ...

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” the author paints a rather effective picture of heartbreak. However, rather than showing the devastation of Louise Mallard’s devastation upon hearing news of her husband’s accidental death in the train wreck, Chopin takes an unexpected turn. As the reader experiences Louise’s shock at the news of her husband’s death one is led to believe that she is overwhelmed with shock and unable to comprehend the tragedy of becoming a widow. Instead, as the final scene in the story unfolds the reader is made aware ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Background of the author

A professor at the University of Sonoma- California, in the United States of America, Dr. Carl Jensen is also an author of prominent publications in the field of sociology that have scaled to global heights. A few books under his name include “Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News and Why (from1976 to 1996)” and “20 Years of Censored News (1997)”. In addition, Dr. Carl Jensen has also featured in Project Censored- a media research project in 1976 that attained international recognition.

Thesis of the book

The book delves into how the American society was adjusted to become more flexible to ...

INSTITUTUION NAME

In the earlier times, which means around the middle of twentieth century, printing was one of the most significant method to communicate ones ideas to the masses. The printing press industry published manuals and that resulted in promoting literacy. Around that time, people got interested in learning the art of writing letters and the availability of manuals made their task easy. There was a rise in the number of people who could communicate by the method of writing. Circulation of written material started amongst such people. These written materials were the most prominent means for sharing thoughts and ideas. ...

Introduction

Journalism is a field that can have many faces. One may even go as far as saying that this industry is the best one when it comes to making perfect disguise. Throughout history, it can be attested that journalism and political science has been merged, perhaps subconsciously by the people working in these fields. In modern day politics, for example, a stage where democracy appears to be the dominant player, as evidenced by the fact that the number of counties that are based on a democratic and liberal type of government is far larger than those that are based on monarchy and ...

Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

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Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

Introduction

“Presidencies Derailed” is a book about why college presidencies collapse. While it is not the only book on the subject, it comes at a time when college presidents are failing. During 2009 and 2010, presidents of fifty universities, schools, colleges, and educational intuitions either resigned or fired. Presidencies Derailed examines sixteen such derailments and presents six ...

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Joseph E. Stiglitz surely knows a thing or two about International Economics. The Nobel Laureate Columbia University Economics Profe.ssor, who served from 1995 to 1997 under US President Bill Clinton as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and then from 1997 to 2000 as the Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, debates in detail, the effect that globalization has had on the world.
Globalization, as a process, is the coming together of countries. It all but eliminates the needs for boundaries, making countries interconnected. The resulting effects are increased trade, better communication, and ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation supports a “Development Dialogue” series in order to encourage and promote dialogue, communication and debate on subjects between North and South global divisions. In June 2012 the Foundation published a book edited by the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives titled No Future without Justice. The civil society reflection group was established in the fall of 2010 and is comprised of members of a variety of civil society organizations (CSOs). At first the group came together informally in order to discuss the numerous global crises that are happening simultaneously. By November of 2010 the group ...

Neil Gabler’s “Life: the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality” is about the major themes of celebrated culture and how the pursuance of “Life Movie” is influenced by these themes. In his book, Gabler fully examines the emergence of the entertainment industry. Perhaps more importantly, he examines the transformation of entertainment into such powerful force in the American culture. It is exclusive to American culture that the everyday life of Americans is influenced by different forms of entertainment to a significant extent. It can be argued that entertainment would not have manifested itself as a driving force in American culture if ...

Introduction

This paper is divided into four sections. The first section is a troubleshooting report on a restaurant’s food and operations. The report highlights the observations and gives the recommendations. The second section is short memo report which highlights the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning and the recommendations to Paper Products, Inc. The third section gives an in-depth development of an objective and “Related Capability” sections for the resume. The dream job, for which the resume is intended, is sales and marketing manager/executive. The final section is a memo that gives a critique of the website of Talisman Energy Inc., one of the ...

In Douglas Rushkoff’s article “Bart Simpson: Prince of Irreverence,” he refers to the FOX sitcom The Simpsons as “the closest thing in America to a national media literacy program.” (Graff et al, p. 241) Within this program, the Simpson family deconstructs memes and cultural landmarks of television at a breakneck pace, holding a lantern up to the way that media works and displaying it for all to see. Due to its irreverence and ability to recognize and lampoon the structure and politics of the media industry, The Simpsons educates its viewers to view media with a more critical eye. In this paper, ...

I find the Rachel R. Chapman ethnography intriguing because it gives very interesting insights in a global health initiative on maternal health care and how maternal mortality rates in Southern Africa, particularly in Central Mozambique, can be improved. Reading on, I find some of the things addressed in the book weird and absurd; it doesn’t make sense to me that pregnancies are actually, for the longest time possible, hidden from others, or how they expose someone to social threats, envy and ill will. I think pregnancy is supposed bring joy to the pregnant woman and the community at ...

20th of April 2016

Barbara de Angelis “Secrets about Men every Woman should know”
"There is nothing secret, which will not become known" - this old adage comes to mind when you become acquainted with the original and colorful book of famous American psychologist Barbara De Angelis. It is unlikely that the readers have ever held a manual on "How to handle a man”, such a mysterious and incomprehensible creature from another planet. At least, in such a way the author characterizes the stronger sex. Moreover, we must admit, not without reason. There is hardly a woman, even with the extensive experience of ...

Introduction

It has become difficult to distinguish once traditional media from the new media, as the former have integrated all the capabilities of the latter. In such a scenario, it would help to compare a traditional medium of communication with a relatively modern/new medium with respect to the circumstances around their origin, and how did they facilitate interpersonal and mass communication. This essay will discuss and analyze two cases: coffee houses as really old media, and podcasts as new media. While the coffee houses gained importance in Europe the mid-1600, and have been around since then, their importance as facilitators ...

Relating Literature to Experience: Literary Masterpieces that Speak.

Literature has existed in our lives since the invention of formal standardized writing. Writers have used literature to express their thoughts and opinions on various subjects relating to human life. Fundamentally, literature has always been about relating to the human life and experiences. Literature employs elements of writing such a plot, point of view and dialogue to express the ideas of the author. In most cases, authors approach a subject by writing about experiences and using humor to pass the point across rather than approaching the subject head on. Literature has been used over time to record experiences and ...

A Critical Review of Moloney’s Chapter Five

Public Relations vs. Propaganda: A Critical Review of Moloney’s Chapter Five
Introduction and Summary of Chapter Five
In chapter five of the course textbook, Kevin Moloney provides a thorough discussion of the history and nature of public relations, particularly as it has been practiced in the UK. He covers the ideas of several of the most recognised PR scholars, including Sir Stephen Tallents, who used public relations as a way to promote business within the British Empire. Tallents framed what he was doing as “national projection” (p. 61). Others have called PR various names, such as “public diplomacy,” “ ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

Carr, Nicholas G. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Print.

Introduction

Just imagine you went to the web only for three minutes to check your mail. Then someone sent you a hyperlink to that article. You started to read it carefully. At the same time, your friend sent you some funny photo, and of course you are going to the social network to share it with someone else. Just read the first paragraph of article you are looking for your friends online and what is new here, in the news you notice a ...

Book Review of “Is China Buying the World”

As China grows to become the world’s largest economy, catching up with even the United States in the coming decade, it is important to understand the strategic growth objectives of the Chinese economy. Several authors have written books and research papers on the Asian Tiger, and the country is setting the pace of its economic growth. From becoming the manufacturing hub of the world at the end of the last millennium, China is now looking to expand its presence beyond its shores (Mitter, 2008). In the last decade, Chinese companies have begun acquiring companies and assets such as ...

David Halberstam is a renowned American author who is known for his work in various fields. He drew most of work on the experienced that he achieved during his life. Perhaps his profession as a journalist played a huge role in his book The Powers That Be .this book covers the period between 1950s and 1970s. In this book, Halberstam illustrates how the media in the United States has changed from an institution that conveys information to one that influenced and made it. It shows the influence of four key media houses, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Time ...

The children’s book that I will discuss in this assignment is The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John Erikson. In this book, Hank the Cowdog is the main character and goes through several adventures. The book presents glory, guts, danger, and sacrifice in the life of Hank, who is the head of Ranch Security. The setting of the book is probably in the 1980s in Texas where it was written. In the beginning of this book, Drover, who is Hank’s assistant, comes to awakening him to the news of a murder of a chicken in the ranch. ...

Maruja Pachon de Villamizar and her husband Alberto approached their friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write about Maruja’s abduction. However, after realizing that he could combine the episodes and encounters of the nine other hostages that were held alongside Maruja, Gabriel decided to take more time on the project and write a comprehensive book on the kidnapping that took about six Months. The News of a kidnapping reveals the recurrent drug problems of the United States and Columbia that have existed to date (Neuman, 2012). In this book, the head of the Medellin cartel Pablo Escobar ordered for the Kidnappings ...

The Alienist by Caleb Carr is one of the most imperative works, not only of the author, but also in American History. It portrays the initial rough days of America. The novel basically presents the take of the author on the violence and grotesqueness which was then a common part of New York streets. A series of murders take place in the novel, description of which is heart wrenching. Moore along with Roosevelt and other young police officers try to find the serial killer without involving other government officials because they are aware of their lack of interest.
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Introduction

The Postal Age, a book written by David Henkin and published in 2006, gives a historical account of the revolutionary changes in communication borne by the establishment of postal services in the United States. Although the practice of passing written information from one individual or place to another through a go-between can be traced to the early days when writing came to the fore, the establishment of postal services took place much later. In this interesting read, The Postal Age, Henkin examines the chain of events that led to the burgeoning of postal services, and how this was the turning point in ...

Abstract.

Salman Rushdie’s non fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey expresses the gongs on in Nicaragua after the revolution. In this paper, this will be focused on more so the feelings of the people, its culture and political environment and analysis of it. Rushdie seemed to question a lot of things and even back others from a political point of view. This portrays him as a honest visitor of the state who so wishes to explore the land and get to know what really happened behind the scenes of leadership and governance.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

In the book The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan ...

Jonathan Safran Foer has entertained enormous significant approval and international awareness for his writing approach in novels for example Everything Is Illuminated: a Novel. The most recent book, however, is a factual and on edge. Eating Animals is a comprehensive Foer’s individual description of disagreements with the principles of eating animals subsequent to the delivery of his son. The book is sectioned into eight chapters, each one containing a title that is not completely obvious but more reminiscent and figurative. For “All or Nothing or Something Else” for the second chapter plunging into the predicament of the quantity and type of animal ...