Essays on Aljazeera

A general move to broaden the security agenda occurred during the 1980s by expanding the focus from the security of the state or the nation to an alternative focus on the security of the people, or the global collective. The human security can be affected by economic welfare, environmental concerns, cultural identity, political rights, and military issues. In recent years, environmental degradation is increasingly being considered as a security problem by not just the environmental activists but also the security establishment as they have become more responsive to the idea. In late 1989, the journal of the International Institute ...

Introduction

It has been over 150 years ago since the formal abolishment of slavery in the United States, and many people claim that the institution of racism has ended with the transformation of the society. The media, specifically claim that we are now living in a post-racial society, and discrimination is a thing that is associated only with history. However, there are many instances when the media has portrayed a conflicting image of the minorities, which leads to the question about the validity of the argument that racism is now a thing of the past. The media has been reporting ...

One of the most elongated conflicts in the world has surely been related to the Jews and Arabs over the territory that defines the modern state of Israel. What many people fail to notice is the gravity of the conflict and how the conflict surely is not recent. What makes both the conflict and the peace process so complex between these two groups is that their cultures and religious beliefs date back thousands of years, (Jospe, R., 1995). To this end, they have many religious holy sites, for example, that are sacred to both faiths due to the territorial ...

Touching upon the problem of improvement in race relations in the United States, we should say that it’s a rather controversial topic. Denying African Americans citizenship was deemed essential to the formation of the original union. Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. An extraordinary percentage of black men in the United States are legally barred from voting today, just as they have been throughout most of American history. They are also subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service, just as their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents once were. ...

Through last two decades much has been said about the relation between the almost unstoppable growing of nationwide obesity and fast food. Fast food is cheap, almost instantly available and filling, and yet full of fat, sugar and salts. Consequently, this altogether makes for a large amount of extra calories. However, to blame the so-called obesity epidemic on fast food alone is too simple and shallow. Many Americans struggle with it while not consuming fast food on a daily basis. Indeed, they do much of their cooking at home, where they can control the ingredients - but still find themselves struggling ...

The connectivity and technological advancement in media industry facilitate a faster transmission of the news, updating people on the happenings all over the world. The problem with media today is being bias within their reporting. The level of their engineered consent varies from one media network to the other leaving the audience to decide the broadcasting network of their choice the media tend to be most unfair while reporting news on issues that require society approval, like politics.

An example of the recent media bias, is when the armed men allegedly from Russian military forces entered the Crimea region ...

Kuwait is a constitutional emirate (not kingdom) with a parliamentary system. The leader of the country is called Emir (Amir). Each Emir is the heir of Al Sabah royal family, which rules this emirate since 1752. The first Emir of Kuwait was Sabah I Al-Jaber Al-Sabah or His Highness the first Monarch of Kuwait, the Cavalry Commander from the Tribes of Arabia Chieftain. Nowadays, emirate has three authorities: judicial, executive and legislative. The National Assembly consists of 50 members, who stand for the rights of people. (bbc 29/October/2013)

The Constitution

Constitution in Kuwait consists of regulations and judicial laws, which were adopted in ...

Academic or Professional Institution

The spark which burgeoned Arab Spring in 2011 has presented the feasibility of democratization in Tunisia. Beyond the young “Tunisian street vendor” setting himself afire in protest demonstrations in 2011, one initial response of the government was to shut the Internet down (“Arab Spring Research Guide,” 2015). The influence of one relatively recent movement shortly after the first budding blossoms of Arab Spring, mass protests demanded the ousting of then-President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali (“Tunisia’s Arab Spring, Three Years on,” 2014). Three years after settling down a bit, the feasibility of democratization in Tunisia has faced a few sticky harbingers ...

Introduction

Russia is a huge producer of oil and gas. It is the second largest producer and exporter of oil, and the largest producer and exporter of natural gas (Winfrey, 2010). Its economy largely depends on its oil and gas reserves. The funds acquired from its oil and gas reserves have greatly contributed to the survival of its political system. Boix (2004) argues that there are no examples of a successful transition to democracy in a country in which the contribution of the oil in the country’s export income is more than one third, and it seems to be alarming situation for ...

The information about policies that the public needs to know should be truthful and free of bias as much as possible as these information shape public opinion and even electoral decision. The presentation of the factual and unbiased information about policies is most of the time the responsibility of media as politicians are subject to their political beliefs and stand on the specific issue. The media, as the Fourth Estate, should present this information in such a way there could be clarity and understanding between the government officials and the constituents. There has been a lot of information published regarding ...

Introduction

Faster travel time, a feat of human imagination and a masterpiece of engineering. These are but some of the things that airplanes embody in the world. While there have been many records and variations throughout history of emulating flight, it was the Wright Brothers that finally made modern aircrafts possible back in 1903 . Since then the “aeroplane” has been used in many situations of human history. Such situations include public transportation, combat and even entertainment. This invention did not come without a price however; just as when dynamite was used in manners that were against the wishes of Alfred Nobel (leading ...

Introduction

The Aljazeera Media Network is a multi-media corporation that is owned by Government of Qatar. The Company is the parent of Al Jazeera and its networks. The Company was launched in November 1996. Al Jazeera media network has transformed itself from news and current affairs channel into a large network with specialty channels that broadcast in several languages and in various regions of the world. The company has expanded to offering a mix of talk shows, news analysis and programming and commentaries and other online platforms (El-Nawawy, & Iskandar, 2003.

Media outlets owned by the company

The Al Jazeera media network owns the following channels and subsidiaries: Aljazeera English, ...

For example Elizabeth L. Angeli, Department of Psychology, State University.

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant Program. Angeli, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 55555 The Criminal Re-incarceration Problem in the US The highest number incarcerations are in United States. It is estimated that about 2.2 million people are behind bars. It is a 500% increase over the past 30 years. This resulted in an overcrowding prisoners in the prison. The government is desperately dealing with expanding penal system. There is evidence that large scale incarcerations is not ...

Nowadays, Edward Snowden is the person, whose activity connected with the leak of top-secret documents about a variety of the classified N.S.A. surveillance programs, who is widely discussed all around the world from ordinary people to high-ranking officials. Being a computer system contractor for the N.S.A., Snowden collected a pile of documents linked with the U.S. surveillance activities towards ordinary Americans (Smith). The whole society was shocked with his revelations, though an overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens approve the act of Snowden, people who are in minority ask themselves: ‘Why Edward Snowden is a hero? (Turley)’ The answer to this question can ...

Launched in June 2006, Straits Times Online Mobile Print (also known as STOMP Singapore) is an online portal showcasing news presented to the world by the citizens or man on the streets. As it suggests, the website works by showcasing user-generated news items in the form of text, videos or photographs. It is managed by Singapore Press Holdings (of The Straits Times). In the beginning of STOMP, the idea was to attract the younger generation of Singaporeans, who were not drawn towards the boring style and design of The Straits Times. The intention was to draw upon the media-sharing ...

INTRODUCTION

The history of human civilization is built upon the names, actions, and achievements of people whose contributions have an impact on society. Some of these people and events, be they famous or infamous, become part of the paradigm of the cultures all over the world. In a diverse world, it is not surprising that sometimes society does not always see eye to eye on some of the events that make up history. These actions and impacts may be perceived by some as wrong, while others may support the individual wholeheartedly. That is most certainly the case with Edward Snowden. One ...

The Tulsa race riot refers to an incident of racial violence that occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma from May 31 to June 1, 1921. The incident was instigated by male members of the white community, which prompted the black community to take defense. There were fatal casualties on both sides, as well as a massive loss of property. Racial violence was quite common in those days, with lynching against blacks and repressive laws to pervade the course of justice or to deny it outright. Large-scale mass incidences of racial violence did occur, but the Tulsa race riot was by far the ...

The all American meal that has become popular all over the world comes with a price. What made it popular around the world was the ability to provide cost effective delicious food at the blink of an eye. The fast food chains have worked hard to maintain the cost advantage over other forms of food but in the process they have neglected the quality of food products they are using. The consuming of fast food to the level of abuse has left many of the younger generation obese and lethargic and causing the various types of diseases. As if this ...

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Sennott, Charles . "Inside The Egyptian Military’s Brutal Hold on Power." PBS. PBS, 24 Jan. 2012. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/revolution-in-cairo-foreign-affairs-defense/inside-the-egyptian-militarys-brutal-hold-on-power/>. This is an online article from the PBS website. The article goes in-depth to talk about how the military in Egypt control about 30% of the country’s economy. The military in Egypt holds executive power. According to other retired military staff and most analysts, the military is not going to give up its executive power easily because the country continues to grow stronger economically. Egypt’s military control 30% of the country’s $180 billion ...

In the article titled” Optimism on GCC-Singapore free trade deal despite lower exchange”, they talk about increased partnership between Singapore and Gulf Coast Countries. Against the background of decreasing trade, they have just signed a free trade agreement. This agreement lowers the tariff for goods prepared in Singapore, and give GCC preferential treatment in latter’s industrial sector. In specific terms, Singapore has inspired Abu Dhabi’s economic development, and latter’s national oil company has upgraded its representative office in Singapore. This is an important development as Singapore is positioning itself as gateway to Asia; and UAE is positioning ...

Al Jazeera

Introduction Emerged in 1996 Al Jazeera is located in Qatar meaning (“the peninsula,” or “the island”). The firm emerged after the new Emir of Qatar Shaykh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani bought the Arabic TV division of the Broadcasting Corporation News Service (BBC) (Aljazeera, 2012). Under that period, BBC had been in endless efforts towards developing an all Arabic television station by pursuing an acquisition with a state Saudi owned Orbit Radio and Television Service with no success. This was based on the failure of the two organizations to agree on some of the issues attached to the new ...

Did Qatar bribe FIFA officials to obtain the 2022 World Cup bid? The process of bidding for the 2022 and the 2018 FIFA world cup involved making a decision on the venues for the staging of the 2022 and 2018 World Cup events. The bidding process commenced on March year 2009. A total of eleven bids from thirteen nations was received by the executive committee of FIFA. One of the bids was rejected and another one withdrawn. During the bidding process, bids for the 2022 came from Qatar, Japan, United States, South Korea and Australia. The process of bidding ...

In the war against the Iraqi insurgents, the Pentagon introduced the new policy of journalist embedding amongst the American soldiers. This, they claimed, was an effort to get rid of the past tendency of mishandling and mistreatment of media personnel and to provide the direct footage of what really happens in the battle field. The role of media is thereby seen as largely to shape and influence the public opinion or perception of the war, or the international community’s view of the humaneness of the war. The pentagon claimed it was in order to show the factual happenings ...

TITTLE

On September 11, 2001, nineteen captors stole control of four passenger jets passing from U.S. airports. Two planes crashed the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the third plane crashed on the Pentagon, and with the fourth plane, US had successful recourse and crashed in an unfilled land. Overall, approximately 3,000 people passed, and the fault was directly engaged with the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. ("American Muslims Since 9/11 | Wilson Center." xx-xx) This paper will try to explain what the consequences on the life of Muslim society in US had this attack, ...

Introduction

The dramatic events of the so called “Arab Spring” are still unfolding in many parts of the Middle East. Syria is still experiencing this wave even though it is entering its fourth year of this uprising which has evolved to the point of a civil war. The Sunni-dominated civil uprising in Syria has taken dramatic shift as it has failed to bring down President Bashar al- Assad regime, unlike other Arab countries where the toppling of regimes took place swiftly. President Bashar al- Assad’s family has ruled Syria for forty years. Assad is from the minority group or sect ...

A Military Coup for the Wrong Reason

Looking at the history of human civilisation, one can understand that there were more wars then times of peace and diplomacy. Nations and people can be in various forms of confrontation with one another, but one of the most curious and specific is the civil war. When someone is asked about perception of civil war the answer would often be that it has something to do with national uprising against undemocratic government or military coup against the existing legitimate government, when civilian population is involved one of the sides or simply in-between. In most of the cases, this way ...

Question 1

What are the three major categories of revenues for the federal government? The different kinds of taxes imposed by the federal government allow it to raise trillions of dollars in tax revenues (Tax Policy Center, 2013). The trillion in dollar revenues raised by the federal government come from three major sources; individual income taxes, payroll taxes and corporate income taxes. Major sources of revenue accounts for 46 percent from individual income taxes, 34 percent from payroll taxes and 11 percent corporate income taxes (National Priorities, 2013a).

The three categories of revenues for the federal government are as follows;

- Individual Taxes Individual taxes are the most prominent category of ...

Abstract August 21, 2010 was the date set for nuclear fuel to be weighed down to the first reactor at Bushehr. This was an announcement by the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency. The action would make the Bushehr resource be approved as a procedural power plant. The transfer of fuel to the facility was approximated to take a week. Bushehr fissile resource interested a number of controversies the United States inclusive. The reactor was designed with Russian specifications despite an agreement to be the central of a German-designed counter. At Bushehr, two reactors were present; one at its advanced stage of ...