News Article Essays

  • How Did The Articles Of Confederation Create A New Government

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    among the nation. While they were thinking they just ended a revolution, the American’s were actually facing a new one against its own people. The lack of interest among the states for looking forward the common well of the nation was the principal weakness of the government of the united states. Deficiency in team work and lack of communication where present in the first years of the new government in power. At the beginning each state was ruled by the interest of its own good without even consider

  • Domestic Terrorism

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    for ideological purposes) which would include the 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing. This article directly relates to the definition of sociology, which is the systematic study of social behavior and human groups. This news item is sociological because it focuses on terrorism which is an act of violence (social/deviant behavior) against a person, group, or an entire nation (human groups). This article focuses on the behavior of domestic terrorist groups or gangs of people such as “the white supremacists

  • Corporations and the economy

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    this topic can offer a revealing look into what composes a complex society such as that of America. Two very basic elements to be reviewed are ‘producers’ and ‘consumers’ and the relation that exists between the two. More specifically, as in the article I have chosen to review, how it is that a producer reaches its consumer, how their market is defined and what effects marketing has on both the targeted audience and third party members. Advertising takes on many forms in the world of business but

  • The Warning of Fahrenheit 451

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    oppression. Over the three years of its existence, the concert has generated so much publicity that it has forced President Bill Clinton to step in and try to hasten the negotiation between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama. In a Sonicnet Music News article, the Dalai Lama said, "'Through this live show, many, many Chinese will have gained a better awareness of President Clinton's feelings about Tibet, and also President Jiang's feelings, and I think that can be enormously helpful in the long run

  • OAS last meeting

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    elections. In Venezuela the opposition reclaims that past election was not totally legal, these accusations to Venezuelan’s government made the OAS to worry about the status of democracy and human right protection to Venezuelan society. According to news article on the Miami Herald another fact which makes the OAS worry about Venezuela’s situation is the actual President Chavez’s hostility against the United States type of democracy. The OAS discuses all these conflicts during the recent meeting and finally

  • Neo Nazis

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    school and sports, was born and raised in Norway. He also had spoken out against racism on national television a few months before his death after he was assaulted by neo-Nazi youths during a soccer tournament in Denmark. “ (fare.net) That was a news article I found on a Norwegian anti-racist website. It happened only a few days ago on January 21st in Norway. This shows the prevalence of racism still going on today. The group responsible for the murder belonged to an organization that calls themselves

  • Balanced Literacy vs Whole Language Approach to Teaching Reading

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    Whole language is considered a "top down" approach where the reader constructs a personal meaning for a text based on using their prior knowledge to interpret the meaning of what they are reading. Teachers are expected to provide a literacy rich environment for their students and to combine speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Whole language teachers emphasize the meaning of texts over the sounds of letters, and phonics instruction becomes just one component of the whole language classroom

  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

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    I Know What You Did Last Summer In “I Know What You Did Lat Summer”, written by Lois Duncan, there are five major characters. Their names are Julie, Helen, Barry, Ray, and the killer (we will find out his name at the end of the book). Last summer all four of them (Julie, Helen, Barry, Ray) went to a party, on the fourth of July, and hit a boy with their car on the way home from the party. They had been drinking and had used some drugs so if they had stayed at the accident, they would be put

  • Analysis of a News Article on Economics

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    us relate into markets and economies. Many news articles today are centered on the economy and current events. One of these articles lends itself to many economic principles and ideas. Even though there are many important topics not covered in the article, the article titled, "You Are What You Owe" in Time, encompassed many general economic principles as well as the many macroeconomics indices illustrated in the article. Article Summary The article titled “You Are What You Owe,” centers around

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of The Article 'Good News, Despite What You' Ve Heard

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    In the article, “Good News, Despite What You’ve Heard” the author, Nicholas Kristof, talks about human rights issues and tries to convey the importance of being aware of these problems happening around the globe. The rhetorical strategies: tone, pathos, and logos are used by Kristof in his article to persuade his readers to care about all people suffering from unfortunate circumstances in different countries. The article starts off with the story of a young 12-year-old boy named John Brimah. Brimah

  • Comparing Edwin Lyngar's Article I Lost My Father To Fox News

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    As society ages they tend to rely on a television for their news updates or anything really. Plenty of the aged population spends several hours in front of a television, and it has shown to affect the aged population drastically. According to Edwin Lyngar, in his article, “I lost my dad to fox news: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria,” he claimed to have lost his dad to “the despair of Fox News” (Lyngar 1) which he refers to as the “Fox Effect” (Lyngar 2). Many viewers are attached

  • Comparing Two Articles on Sleep Deprivation

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    Compare/Contrast Two Articles on Sleep Deprivation Many times people think they can accomplish more if they could eliminate so much sleeping time.  However, they are only hurting their productivity if they lose sleep.  Two articles deal with the issue of sleep deprivation.  The College Student Journal published an article about the grade-point average of college students and sleep length, while U.S. News & World Report produced an article dealing with the lack of sleep in America and

  • Article Summary: Humans Are The New Monsters?

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    Humans Are The New Monsters Some people believe that external circumstances, such as their environment, control their life, but in reality people have more control than they think. Humans have evolved from fearing monstrous predators in their environment to being major threats to other species as well as our own. In an article on Salon.com anthropologist David E Jones argues that the image of the iconic monster, the dragon, is made up of parts of three predators that hunted our ancestors for around

  • How Loneliness Can Affect Your Health

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    The ABC News article “How Loneliness Can Affect your Health,” written by Hallie Levine, claims that loneliness can affect people’s physical and mental health in an extremely negative way. It can cause severe depression, it can weaken the immune system, and loneliness can even make a person more at risk of heart disease (Levine). There are professional scientific journal articles that were also written regarding the possible consequences of loneliness *transition to paper*

  • Annotated Bibliography for Samsung's Outlook

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    “Samsung Is Better Positioned For Long Term Growth Than Apple” Gurufocus. Gurufocus, 28 Nov. 2013. Web. 19 Feb 2014. This web article source explains how Samsung is going to be a better long term growth than Apple. The technology fanatics will be informed on how Samsung is going to improve with their conditions and line of work. The way they are doing this is by coming out with new products and switching their focus from hardware to software. By doing so, people that are into technology are going to be

  • Life's Challenges and Choices

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    In life we are faced with challenges and choices. Do we choose the path that seems easier or the path that is harder? Do we choose to follow our hearts or someone else’s? Do we think about how it will affect us and our loved ones or do we just go with it? Do life choices change our fate? Life choices change the present, but will they push us off our true path? In the biography ‘Wave of Destruction’ by Eric Krauss. Puek and Dang had the choice to follow the path someone else had laid out for them

  • Trends In Copyright Infringement: A Review of Two Predictive Articles

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    Trends In Copyright Infringement: A Review of Two Predictive Articles Abstract: In 1995 Lance Rose and Esther Dyson wrote articles in Wired Magazine expressing polarized views on the future of copyright law and copyright infringement.  This essay reviews those articles, analyzes each article's accuracy as defined by current trends years later. Over the past decade the societal view of creative society has greatly changed due to advances in computer technology and the Internet.  In 1995

  • The Pros and Cons of the Internet

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    name in place of the author’s. A researcher is paging through the internet in search of information to use in her new article. In her searching, she comes upon a likely looking source and prints it out After going through it with a highlighter, she transforms most of the information she wants into her own words, but leaves a few alone to use as quotes. In writing her article, she uses the information, both the summaries and the quotes. She forg... ... middle of paper ... ...hey have

  • The Audience's Response to 'Let him have it!' and 'The Daily Mail' in Peter Medak's Film

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    manipulated in Peter Medak’s film ‘Let him have it!’ and ‘The Daily Mail’ article of November 1952? Do they both show bias? In November 1952 a policeman was shot dead and another left wounded in what the Daily Mail called a ‘gun battle’ when Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley broke into the Barlow and Parker warehouse in Croydon. I have looked at two media sources of information regarding this event. A newspaper article taken from the Daily Mail 3rd November 1952 and Peter Medak’s film ‘Let

  • Matt Haigh's Article On New Horror Movies

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    This article was very informing to me on how old school horror fans feel about new horror movies, their characters, and their villains. Matt Haigh wrote this article said that he loves horror movies, but he hates how they have been done in recent history of horror movies. He enlightened us on many different aspects of a horror movie and how they have been butchered in most horror movies that have come out recently. For the first page of this article I agree with Haigh completely, but the second