Essays on Commentators

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias The issue of illegal immigration has been discussed for decades. State and federal legislation has been drafted in order to respond to the issue, however, these policies have had an insignificant effect on the flow of people coming into the country illegally. In addition to the anemic effect that laws related to illegal immigration have on solving the problem, politicians will commonly leverage the issue as a means to manipulate their own popularity. The divisive nature of the issue is such that the nature of proposed response can influence the voting decisions ...

Introduction

How does the factor of gender impact the concept of violent offending? One of the most commonly held notions is that males have a higher propensity to commit violent crimes compared to women. This holding is one of the most widely held concepts in the area of criminology. However, there is a growing debate as to the scope of the “gender gap” in terms of violent offending has shifted in recent years. A number of commentators hold that the gap is described in terms of its stability; others proffer that there is an observable closing of the gap, particularly ...

CONTENTS 1. Part I - Occupational Health and Safety Law 3 1.1. The UK Approach to Regulating Occupational Health and Safety 4 1.1.1. The Role of Legislation (Civil, Criminal and Administrative), other sources of law and recommendations 4 1.1.2. The Role of Law Enforcement and Specialized Agency 6 1.1.3. The Role of Courts 7 1.2. Comparison between the UK and the Brazilian approaches to OSH regulation 8 2. Part II – Management and its Impact on OSH 8 2.1. Administrative approach to management 9 2.2. Scientific management 9 2.3. Behavioral approach to management 10 2.4. Co-operative social systems approach 11 ...

According to the “Comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the Conditions of Peace”, they argued that a number of provisions would damage Germany’s economy. For example, the authors argued that Germany’s enemies were being allowed by the newly-formed League of Nations to determine the amount of monetary reparations that Germany would pay them. In addition, Germany was expected to let its enemies have access to its natural resources, such as rivers, canals, and even other man-made resources such as railroads. Moreover, the authors pointed out that their former relations with older countries ...

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Introduction: Domestic violence: profile of an offender

In the past, an act of domestic violence was not considered as a matter that merits the engagement of the law. Though men have pummeled, maltreated, and molested their intimate partners for years, the common comprehension of society was that abuse and maltreatment of women was as a part of the marriage. It was only to the end of the 1970s that domestic violence was understood as a criminal offense that warranted the involvement of the criminal justice system. However, there has been much contention as to the establishment of a general, universally accepted ...

Literature Review

In the article, ‘Online Stars and the New Audience: How YouTube Creators Curate and Maintain Communities’, author and researcher Hector Postigo highlights the participatory culture of YouTube and how it manages to capitalize on bringing in valuable funding that is needed to help it not only be more visible but the choice for many successful entrepreneurs and businesses alike . Smith has defined the participatory culture of YouTube by explaining that content creators connect directly with their followers and thus the videos that are shared on the platform are a more personalized communication than mass information broadcast. Not only that, ...

The article ‘The Fatalism of Gun Worship’ by Colin Dickey tries to highlight how centuries of permissiveness towards guns and their possession and use by civilians has led not only to a lax mind-set about the dangers of guns but has also altered public psyche in a negative way. Dickey quotes Manseau and states that the way that gun-related deaths are reported has caused the public to accept such incidents with a certain kind of fatalistic melancholy. This analysis of the article will assert that even if one grants the apparent pessimism of the American public, there is no ...

Introduction

Parliamentary sovereignty is a system of governance, which denotes that Parliament is the supreme legal authority with the sole capacity to make or end any law. The relationship between Parliament and other arms of government go as far as they do not interfere with or overrule legislations passed by Parliament. The concept of supreme Parliament was discussed by the AV Dicey in his 19th-century book “The Law of the Constitution (1885, p. 39-40).” In his view, Dicey believed that Parliament has unlimited power under the English constitution to make or unmake law in whichever way it deem fit and ...

Impacts of Petroleum Exploration, Extraction and Transport

Oil shale may be defined as those rocks that usually contain a high proportion and percentage of organic matter such as kerogen. Oil shale is mainly characterized by the low calorific value as well high ash and even mineral content. Oil usually produces energy, which serves a very crucial purpose to our planet. Energy is regarded as the lifeblood of the planet earth and its occupants, thereby, being categorized as among the essential commodities that normally powers the intentions to expand the global economy (Burnham, Stubblefield, & Campbell, 1980). In the 1950s, natural gas and oil became the primary sources of liveliness ...

The treatise "Sun Tzu", the authorship of which, according to general belief, belongs to the famous military commander Sun Wu, has long been revered in China as the chief military canon. The title of "canonical" means, among other things, that the book is intended for not easy and superficial reading, but slow and in-depth, for memorization, almost soaking it in oneself to the last word. For "canon" in China - as in every cultural tradition - it is ultimately nothing else than a literary image of the infinite diversity of the creative abundance of life itself. It does not contain ...

The economic crisis that hit the global economy in 2008 is often compared to the Great Depression. The crisis has caused hundreds of thousands of small tragedies, depriving people of homes and livelihoods. Knowing about the events that occurred in the last century, one could not help drawing an analogy with the current global financial crisis. All began in the United States, again everything started with the financial sector and then spread to the real economy, the stock market collapsed, consumer demand plummeted, unemployment increased drastically, money devalued. Although the past events are reminiscent of the current situation, are ...

PART A

1 a) Wittgenstein employs the picture theory of meaning effectively to explain many important things in philosophy. In essence, the picture theory of meaning by Wittgenstein is a theory in which he argued that the state of things or the atomic facts could b pictured by a meaningful proposition. Using this theory, Wittgenstein managed to compare spatial pictures with the concept of pictures. In essence, the picture theory is seen as a correspondence to the truth theory. Wittgenstein’s arguments were to the effect that statements can only be meaningful in the event that they can be easily pictured or be defined in ...

That fact that the American labor movement has been on a sharp decline is not in question. Statistics released by the US Bureau of Statistics in the year 2013 on the summary of the unionization in the United States, the union membership stood at a paltry 11.3 percent in the year 2012. This was a level lower than in the year 2011 when the union membership was at 11.8 percent. The plummeting of union membership and the labor movement in general in the United States has been phenomenal in the last fifty years when it was at the peak with over 30 ...

Introduction

Sports and media have always had a direct link between them. In the modern context, it is even argued sports and media cannot exist without one another. Sport can be defined as a “repeatable, regulated physical contest producing a clear winner”. The evolution of the media has had a direct impact on sport. Currently, the media chooses, analyzes, interprets and finally represents sporting events mainly to attract audiences. Sports in the media have increased dramatically, and some media firms have even abandoned other communication roles to focus primarily on sports. The content and style of sports programs are designed to entertain the audience. ...

Theory of Natural Selection Remains Controversial

Many people usually think that evolution has never taken place and thus is something nobody has ever claimed of witnessing it happening right before their eyes. The topic concerning natural selection has resulted too many controversies that stir heated debates on who is right and who is not right. However, it is very advisable for people to consider the evidences produced through a distinctive study of fossils found in the past. Many commentators argue that evolution under such an intense population usually takes place at a very high pace such that only a few people discover the process. Many debates have concentrated ...

Explanation of Problem

Parents usually become involved in their own children’s education mainly through supervising them do their homework. Some commentators argue that the parent may use homework as the key tool to comprehend on various issues such as the child’s learning progress, teacher’s ability to teach the child and parents-teachers meeting proceedings. Most parents, who involve themselves in their children’s education, believe they have a right to be involved in such activities since (McIver and Ruth Stevenson 100). Some studies have revealed that some parents do not involve themselves in any of their children’s education activities due ...

Cyber and Technology Enabled Crime

Introduction Cybercrime or technology related crime has been on the rise with the advent of technology and the continued sophistication of life in this digital era. Besides the benefits that have flowed therefrom, technology has also brought along numerous challenges, key among them cybercrime (Sieber & Brunst, 2007). This paper is written with the main aim of examining the concept of cybercrime and the war against the vice, in a bid to ensure that online operators are safe and secure from all ills that technology engenders. In the first section, we discuss the term cybercrime and what it constitutes so ...

Proposal pitch for new girl heroes

- Introduction - Research question: Has the rise new girl heroes/feminist commentators in the modern popular culture got recognition and improved the life of the girl child? - Working thesis: There has been a rise of new girl heroes in the modern culture today. However such heroes’ efforts rarely gets recognized and most of the time, their hard work goes unappreciated. This behavior has greatly not improved the life of the girl child. Therefore, such trend should completely be abolished so that the society learns how to improve the standard of life of a teenage girl. This could be ...

Religious Studies 305

The book of John in the New Testament speaks so much of Jesus’ love for the sick, the poor, the blind, the doubting Pharisees but also speaks of his deity as God doing the works of Him who sent Him. But how did Jesus speak to the people? What language did he use? Jesus was always around people. Contrary to the manner of how the Roman Pharisees spoke to the people, Jesus spoke of concern, love and understanding for humanity. A Bible scholar wrote that Jesus spoke in Aramaic. Since Jesus grew up in Nazareth, he also spoke ...

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Introduction According to Martinez-Cobo, “Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them” (as qt in Morgan 56). These people constitute the societal sectors that are non-dominant presently. However, they demonstrate the determination of preserving, developing, and transmitting their ethnic characteristics and inherited territories to their future generations. The indigenous communities are striving to survive as peoples and to keep their unique cultural patterns, ...

How Ordinary Men Became Genocidal Killers in the Holocaust

Introduction The Second World War was a watershed even in the history of the world. Over a period of six years, the War brought to the fore some of the worst excesses of mankind in a purgatory of hate and violence in the form of the Holocaust. The Final Solution, mass extermination of the Jews, left deep scars in the psyche of humanity. While the contours of the Holocaust may have been the product of the skewed brains of Adolf Hitler, the sole blame of the entire saga of mass murder cannot be left at Hitler’s doorstep alone. Millions ...

Integrity

Integrity is a hypothesis of uniformity of morals, principles, measures, methods, values and actions. It is a private choice that one makes not to compromise and become consistent in his/her commitment to ethical, moral, artistic and even spiritual values. Many regard integrity as accuracy and truthfulness of people's actions is ethics. As denoted from the original Latin word for integrity ‘integer’, integrity is that sense of wholeness from the inside from where qualities like consistency and honesty of character are derived. In ethics, one is said to have integrity of his/her actions are based on an internal consistent scaffold of principles. ...

The following paper is a case analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s bipolar disorder. The paper uses a psychodynamic model to discuss treatment, symptoms, and diagnosis. The case study uses the concepts of abnormal psychology to trace the etiology of a mood disorder beyond just the vestiges of uncommon behavior. The paper argues that he suffered from a mood disorder. His problems were exacerbated by alcoholism and a tendency to exhibit bipolar mood swings that contributed to his suicide. He was most likely motivated to rescue himself from an overprotective mother and a cold and disciplinarian father. The task of the psychoanalyst is to help ...

Communication

Sports Event Analysis Paper – The Southwest Airlines Orlando Pro Summer League (Philadelphia 76ers versus Memphis Grizzlies) This analysis begins with a short introduction on the Summer League followed by an examination of how the game fixture was covered on a live television broadcast. It includes a further analysis of its cover on the league website and a final twitter response that was related to the event.

Introduction

The Southwest Airlines Orlando Pro Summer League began on the 5th of July on a Saturday running through the 11th of July, 2014. The seven day, 25 game sporting event featured renowned teams like the Bolton ...

Introduction

Substance abuse such as alcohol usage, tobacco smoking as well as others has been on mass media over the last two decades. Some of the popular mass media platforms where substance abuse is common nowadays may include music industry, TV series and now it has been rampant in the movie industry. American movie industry’s exposure on marijuana usage in on the rise as the USA government stand against the issue is changing every moment. This has facilitated the rise in usage of marijuana in movies such as Pineapple Express and Requiem For A Dream as well as others.

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This paper proposes to chart out a road map of a journey of exploration of the life of the American author, Tim O’ Brien, emphasising on biographical aspects that have intumesced and embroidered themselves onto the fabric of his work en route, and delineating the interrelationship/s thus conceived. The paper seeks to lay special emphasis on the correlation between the author’s experential learning and his fiction, with an exclusive focus on exploring this association, as it emerges in his latest work, The Things They Carried. Critics, reviewers and commentators have oft-iterated and reiterated the presence of Tim O’ Brien’ ...

Jenny Walters

The best approach to solve the problem of sexualization of girls is through the use of Media Education and Show Talks (MEST) plan. This is attained by the advocacy of developing career oriented girls and women in the society. There are a number of ways this can be achieved but the most compelling and appropriate method that can be applied and produce the desired results is the use of successful women in the business and the corporate world as icons and references. There is a famous saying in the bible that states that iron sharpens iron. This same principle seems to ...

The concepts of palliative care began with the hospice. Originally the hospice was a resting place for wary travelers in the 4th century. In fact the latin term for hospice means to conceal or alleviate symptoms without curing”. However, by the 19th century hospice’s religious areas established hospices as places for the dying in London and in Ireland (News Medical). End of life care is a “modern” idea that began in the 1950’s and was first written about by Dr. Cicely Saunders (Loscalzo, 2008). She described her feelings and ideas based on the feelings of dying patients. Dr. Saunders ...

It is difficult to overestimate the effect that increased globalization has had on the manufacturing and food marketplaces, particularly since the end of World War II. Up until the start of the recession in 2008, economic globalization was growing at a remarkable rate, as reported by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, an organization that measures and tracks globalization (Dreher, 2013). However, as can be seen by the flat economic globalization rate since 2008, there are limits to the growth of globalization. A number of economic commentators have put forth the possibility of deglobalization (Samuelson, 2012). Some have stated that deglobalization ...

An issue that was already decades old in a 1994 ethics article (Emanuel and Emanuel), the cost of end-of-life care is an issue that provides both an economic and actual definition of the limitations of medicine. Eventually, all patients die, but the question becomes what treatment and care should be administered to patients in their end-of-life stage. Therefore, this issue defines both limitations in medicine in that there are conditions that modern medicine have no treatment for, as well as limitations from the point of view of the inherent waste in spending limited medical dollars on treatment of patients so ...

The ability for the federal government to issue patents is governed by the United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, “The Congress shall have the power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to . . . inventors the exclusive right to their . . . discoveries” (1787). Although recited in the powers of Congress, the right to issue patents has been delegated to an administrative agency within the Commerce Department, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, 2013). The ultimate enforcement of patents is overseen by the federal and state judiciary, through a system of ...

The greatest challenge facing the modern business arena is ensuring that globalization becomes a positive force for all nations of the world. The definition of globalization is sometimes controversial due to its dynamism and complexity. Globalization is the trend in which countries merge economically, politically, socially and academically; globalized countries view themselves through their national identity and as one part of the world (Ghauri & Powell, 2008). The process of globalization links people of all walks through a common medium such as schools, internet and global markets. The visible manifestations of globalization include greater cross-border movement of commodities, finances, people, and information. ...

LIFE IN THE LIMELIGHT

Abstract The media today wields more power in professional and amateur sports than ever. Indeed, the very notion of media has changed drastically in recent years, as players and coaches join fans on social media sites, exchanging the most trivial thoughts and, sometimes, overstepping their bounds with inappropriate comments. Ultimately, social media encourages behavior that distracts athletes from on-field performance, as does the “real-time” criticism of reporters who are no longer restricted to the print medium. This situation is creating a situation in which the difference between players who can cope with, and perform under, such stressful circumstances and ...

Effect on Reducing Deficits and Stabilizing Prices

In a recent opinion editorial, American literary theorist, legal scholar, and public intellectual Stanley Fish decided to use a definition for neoliberalism provided by political thinker and writer Paul Treanor (2009). Fish stated that Treanor holds that neoliberalism is a philosophy where the existence and operation the market are valued separate from the production of goods and services, to the point of deliberately not justifying the market by its goods and services production. This creates an ethic based on the operation the market alone, and this resulting ethic is asserted as being capable of acting as a guide for all human action, substituting ...

PART I: Summary of Article

The bone of contention in this article is whether the Washington NFL team Red Skins should change its name Red Skins. It is clear from this article that the time has used this title for a long time. However, the use of this name has spurred opposition from various quotas due to the perception that the name Red Skins is offensive to the Native American tribe. ICTMT staff writes that some of the proponents of the fact that the team should retain its name have been the team’s director, Dan Snyder. Snyder has been cited by different media ...

Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Samsung and Apple have engaged each other in multiple of suits in various countries in the world including the United States. The two are the leading companies worldwide with regard to the sales of smartphones and tablets. Despite this success they have been engaged in countless suits in more than 11 countries. In Apple’s case against Samsung in the United States, Apple was suing Samsung for alleged patent infringement violations in a number of their electronic products. Apple also sought redress amounting to billions of dollars as damages if the court found ...

Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Samsung and Apple have engaged each other in multiple of suits in various countries in the world including the United States. The two are the leading companies worldwide with regard to the sales of smartphones and tablets. Despite this success they have been engaged in countless suits in more than 11 countries. In Apple’s case against Samsung in the United States, Apple was suing Samsung for alleged patent infringement violations in a number of their electronic products. Apple also sought redress amounting to billions of dollars as damages if the court found ...

ABSTRACT

Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games tells the tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the authoritarian Capitol. In The Hunger Games, the character of Katniss Everdeen distinguishes herself from other female protagonists in children's fiction in many ways. These differences will be discussed at length, mostly through the lens of the treatment of romantic relationships with regards to the protagonist in children's fiction. Through analysis of the primary text and the surrounding scholarly literature, The Hunger Games is shown to be an ...

For centuries, calling someone an atheist has been intended as an insult. Only a few centuries ago, admitting to being an atheist was to open oneself to severe consequences. For example, one of the greatest British poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was expelled from Oxford University after he and a fellow student published the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism in 1811 (Jager). In 2013, a student stating publicly that he or she is an atheist is unlikely to be expelled from a university, unless the university is a private religious institution. Yet there are still some serious consequences to a public declaration of atheism. One only ...

Introduction

In 1996 Phoenix Television started as a medium broadcast channel. Born in Hong Kong, where entertainment is the main focus, the network found it difficult to compete with local media conglomerates such as TVB and PEAR; these channels had already gained the most of the market share in Hong Kong. Thus, Phoenix switched their focus and redirected the target audience to Mainland China. While Phoenix corporate owner’s Murdoch centers their broadcast focus on entertainment, Liu ChangLe centered its broadcast focus on the broadcast news, which can be seen as a high risk. A survey conducted by the television station, ...

An analysis based on commentaries by three authors

An analysis based on commentaries by two authors Thesis statement: Exposure to justifiable social commentary makes us reconsider the way we live and think. There is no dearth of accomplished writers and social commentators who perceive the world a little differently. The common folks do not approve of what each of these atypical social commentators have to say. There are myriads of writer who preach about impractical and impossible social changes to make- like allowing sex with animals; while some elucidate logical messages on conservation of environment, safety and morality. We don’t have the time or ...

Change in Understanding of the U.S. Change in Understanding of the U.S. When I was younger I used to have a fairly simplistic understanding of how public opinion and laws in the United States worked. I believed that if a majority of voters thought something should be illegal, then laws would be passed making that thing illegal. Similarly, I believed that if a majority of voters thought an activity should be legal or unregulated, then laws would either not be established, or if laws previously existed about this activity, the law would be changed or removed. However, my observations of ...

Get-A-Mac Campaign Analysis

Among the beloved and successful advertisement campaign by the Apple Company was the “Get a Mac” series that featured two prominent personalities being used in a way that personified the PC and the Mac. This campaign was created by Apple’s longtime advertisement agency, it was launched in the year 2006 may 2nd , and ended in the year 2009, the campaign had a total of nineteen advertisements. The all-19 advertisements featured “Mac” (a part that was played by the actor Jusin Long) and the personal computer (PC) played by his partner (John Hogman). In this advertisement campaign, the actors personified the computer ...

Introduction

This paper is going to examine the extent to which there is clear certainty and clarity in the establishment of terms of contract used in transactions completed online. Therefore, the focus will be on the concept of use and incorporation of terms through notice and signature under Australian Law. It will also cover any Commonwealth or NWS statutory provisions that related to e-commerce. The terms browsewrap and clickwrap gained popularity in several US court decisions, which saw the establishment of contracts online. Shrinkwrap licenses gave rise to the terms. The shrinkwrap licenses on the other hand came up ...

Introduction

The things they carried was published in 1990 and is regarded as an outstanding fictional work that is based on a platoon of American soldiers who participated in the Vietnam war and how they are fought boredom and trauma of combat throughout the Vietnam War. While it seems it is based on the experiences of O’Briens, the cover page recognizes the book as a work of fiction. In one of the short stories, Good Form, the narrator draws a clear cut distinction between the happening truth and the story truth. The author, O’Brien, has a feeling that, creating a story that is ...