Front Pages Essays

  • Front Page News

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    Every story that makes the front page a paper has to go through a “test” where the editor of that newspaper company decides whether the story is good enough for the front page. The editor makes the decision of whether or not the story is news worthy. The editor uses various different values to help him/her in their decision of what actually goes on the front page. Sometimes this judgment by the editor can be based solely on whether or not the story is going to grasp a lot of readers’ attention which

  • The Fight For Racial Equality in 1963

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    Hope looked slim as the years wore on, and little progress was made toward freedom. Tension came to a head in 1963 as Negroes grew tired of silent acceptance of racial discrimination. Demonstrations, sit-ins, peace talks, and marches graced the front pages of the newspapers in major cities in the south and in the north. The hope of a future for African-American people in America was greatly affected by the struggles and persecution they endured during the year 1963. The struggles started in the hearts

  • Technology in Auditing Using Benford?s Law

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    What started out as a curious observation by an astronomer in 1881 has the potential to have a significant impact on the audit profession 125 years later. In 1881, the astronomer “Simon Newcomb noticed that the front pages of his logarithmic tables frayed faster than the rest of the pages…”. Newcomb concluded “the first digit is oftener 1 than any other digit”. Newcomb quantified the probability of the occurrence of the different digits as being the first digit and as well as the second digit. For

  • Newspapers

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    The front page of a newspaper provides a great deal of information on various subjects. Most newspapers include a weather forecast, an index or brief description of articles inside the paper, and a small sports scorecard to accompany the local and national news. Newspapers also concentrate on how to grab the attention of readers. They most commonly use a larger, darker type of print, mixture of color, and/or pictures on the front page of the paper. A newspaper’s job is to update people on the happenings

  • Creating a Booking System For British Airways

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    Creating a Booking System For British Airways Implementation Homepage This page needs to be eye catching, colourful, and vibrant, as it is the front page, the first page that the customer will see. "First impressions count" as we all know, so it has to have an image that customers would remember and relate with. It should register in their minds so that the colours and graphics are easily distinguishable. [IMAGE] A screen dump of the homepage (Fig 3.1) Problems Encountered

  • Designing a Leaflet

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    of the content of the shop’s selling items, prices, opening and closing hours. Form of Output: · Hand made leaflet on an A4 sized page, which will be photo copied many times and be posted off to companies, businesses, and near by houses. The leaflet will contain pictures of sandwiches and various drinks Information to be output: · On the first page I will have the Lancre lunch box logo. · Opening hours · Closing hours · Shop name · Location · Map with Location clearly

  • Lord of the Flies

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    their hunting adventures. As seen on page 69, “Jack, his face smeared with clays, reached the top first and hailed Ralph excitedly, with lifted spear.” After dirtying their faces, the choir boys proceed to paint them. Page 74 mentions, “I painted my face—I stole up.” In the beginning the face painting is only something they do for fun. However, near the end of the story it becomes so bad that Ralph cannot even recognize who was standing in front of him. On page 195, “A smallish savage was standing

  • Analysis Of Sophocles 'Oedipus The King'

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    2005 1. Oedipus, page 5- "The city is filled with the smoke of burning incense, with hymns to the healing god, with laments for the dead." Commentary- Oedipus wants to know why the citizens of Thebes are praying to the gods for health and healing. This connects to setting because it explains how Thebes looks at the moment. It also connects to mood because it shows how the citizens are feeling towards the sickness. 2. Oedipus, page 16- "But now I am in command. I hold

  • Comparing Two Newspaper Articles

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    newspapers present the story in different ways, therefore, both newspapers have to be attractive to sell well. To be ‘eye-catching’ the layout of the article is very important. ‘The Sun’ has used the e-fit picture of the kidnapper on the front-page, which takes up 75% of the page. However, this is very helpful because even if the paper does not sell the customers will see the e-fit picture. There is a single column along side the picture which is headed by ‘Sarah Payne’, who has been kidnapped. The picture

  • Making a Website for a Company

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    as we cannot process that information. This website is going to be about eight pages long, in these pages there will be; three links to external sites, a chat room and many other things. The information on the website, although not going to be produced onto the Internet, will be factual and accurate. My objectives are: - Contents bar on each page - Title bars on the pages - Internal links on every page All of these will be easy to use whether you are a novice or an expert on the

  • Fraudelence Personified

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    any other part of The Canterbury Tales. For example (page 135, line 712) “There was no pardoner of equal grace/ For in his trunk he had a pillow case.” When the words “no pardoner of equal grace” are used you are lead to believe that the Pardoner is a great man, but if you look back in the reading you will find totally different things. He is a dirty, immoral man that really does not have much grace. Another example of the sarcastic comedy is (page 135, line 727) “In church he was a noble ecclesiast

  • Orwell's Animal Farm

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    Old Major's speech started the rebellion of animal farm off with great hatred towrads humans, and anything associated with them. One of the main points bringing hatred to Mr. Jones's can be found on page 30 "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evil of this life of our springs from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.". This quote brought great hatred to Mr. Jones's because it brought up the tyranny he put the animals

  • Gradient Function

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    will then find the similarities and generalise y=ax⿠where 'a' and 'n' are constants, and then investigate the Gradient function for any curves of my choice. I will first find the gradient of tangents on the graph y=x² by drawing the graph (page 3), and then find the gradient for a number of selected points on the graph: Point X Change in Y Change in X Gradient a -3 6 -1 -6 b -2 4 -1 -4 c -1 2 -1 -2 d 1 2 1 2 e

  • The Kate Moss Effect

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    Effect seemed to be the most realistic, and straight forward. So let’s get back to that good old feeling of sifting through the many discouraging pages of a modern day fashion magazine. The Kate Moss Effect is a study based around the simple everyday activity of viewing a publication crammed with aptness. Basically, women were gathered to look at pages bubbling with models who were virtually flawless and their reactions to this exposure were then observed. To be exact, researchers divided 91

  • Humans Soon To Be Extinct

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  • Octavia Butler

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    Table of Contents Page 1. A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Page 2 - 4. Biography Page 5 - 9. Synopsis Page 9 - 14. Analysis of Criticism Page 14 – 15. Influences on Society Page 16. Footnotes Page 17. Bibliography A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH OCTAVIA E. BUTLER 1. Who is Octavia E. Butler? Where is she headed? Where has she been? Who am I? I'm a 51-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old

  • The Importance of a Sound Mind and Body in Homer's Odyssey

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    "...it amazes me quite, how this young man(Telemachos) looks exactly like Odysseus, strong and mighty"{page 47}. Yet, he is criticized by others, for the reason that he does not have a sound mind. In an attempt to stand his ground, in front of the council he breaks down into tears. Antinoos says "Telemachos you are a boaster, and you don't know how to keep your temper!"{page 24}. Telemachos made an attempt to express his valid point of view, and does so, but fails to convince

  • Should The Internet Be Trusted?

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    looking for valid sources on the free Internet to look carefully for the purpose of the page, the author(s) of the page, and the institution that backs or produces the page, if any. One quick way to check the purpose of a webpage is to look for any obvious ads. A webpage that is obviously trying to sell you something is not as likely to be a scholarly webpage. Runway.net has a multitude of ads right on its front page (Cousins homepage). Its purpose is clearly at least partially to sell you something

  • Flipping Pages While Drinking Coffee

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    Flipping Pages While Drinking Coffee I never really got into the world of coffee shops – especially a coffee shop/bookstore all in one. When I used to think of Barnes and Noble, I thought of people like my cousin who is somewhat snobbish and would spend her evenings there reading and drinking her coffee. The other type of person that seemed like they would fit there is, I guess what one would call, a “bookworm” or “nerd.” I know that seems a bit harsh, but one tends to get stereotypes of things

  • Censoring the Pages of Knowledge

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    Censoring the Pages of Knowledge Imagine a world where you could not read or own any books. How would you feel if you had someone burn your house because you have books hidden within the walls? One of the most prevalent themes in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is the idea of censorship. In Bradbury's fictional world, owning books is illegal. A fireman's job is not putting out fires like one may assume. In Fahrenheit 451, a fireman has the job of starting fires. Firefighters start fires in