Essays on Columnist

One of the predominant elements of the 2016 Presidential election in the United States was the ways in which the American press underestimated the appeal that Donald J. Trump had, first among Republican voters in the primaries and then among American voters in the general election. National polling had the Democratic nominee, leading Trump by a significant enough percentage for the media to assume that Clinton would end up winning the election. Despite winning the popular vote, though, she failed to carry several states that had voted Democrat for more than three decades, and those electoral votes gave the ...

Analysis of a Columnist

For the purpose of this paper, the selected columnist is Carter Stewart. He authored the article “Money Rarely Solves Complex Social Problems.” He is a former American Attorney for the Ohio district. At present, he is serving as the managing director of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. According to the columnist, money has been used at all levels (the local, state and federal levels) (Carter par. 2). Despite the case, the use of illegal drugs in America has not been reduced. The columnist also cites a range of other issues such as addiction, mass incarceration, and systemic poverty. According to ...

Columnist individuals play an important role in the society. They are concerned with writing local articles in a magazine to raise awareness about a problem affecting a community by defending his or her argument concerning a public issue. An action to be taken by the leaders in power was of concern to writing the document in the magazine. In most cases it is normally repeated and published by the same writer on that subject. Article columns share some characteristics regardless of the author and they are, one, it must be precise and clearly states the point of view in ...

Journalism should never be underestimated. It is a flow of opinions through which one can gain his or her most important knowledge. Moreover, it gives not only positive knowledge, but also an opportunity to think critically, to analyze and to compare the material discussed in one or another article. So, when I am asked if a person was a potential model in the sphere of journalism, or not a model at all, I am not sure if we can come to a comprehensive and an explicit answer. Anyway, I am sure that Murray Kempton cannot be omitted while discussing ...

Executive Summary

The given essay includes the general information about the internet based financial news and investment information website, MarketWatch.com. The information found comprises of general information about business profile of the company and scale of its operations (global). This section also informs about the information about the patron group and gamut of services provided by the company to its customers. Then there is information regarding the key personnel in the company including newsroom team, information technology team, and financial advisory team. Following this segment will be the information technology related information like basic network information, server information, internet domains, registry ...

Introduction

In today’s society, the relationship between the mother and the child is not always perfect. This was the message of the letter response of Sugar that was published in the web page “The Rumpus” on May 17, 2012 entitled “Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advise Column#98: Monsters and Ghosts”.

Thesis Statement: Pain is a normal part in a person’s life, but what is important is how we learn from these struggles and make ourselves whole again.

Sugar supports this statement by recalling her sad childhood memories when she and her siblings visited their father, who they had not ...

1.A.1. A newspaper columnist signs a contract with a newspaper chain. Several months later, she is offered a position with another newspaper chain at a higher salary. Because she would prefer making more money, she notifies the first chain that she is breaking her contract. The courts will decide the legality of her action. But what of the morality? Did the columnist behave ethically?

When a newspaper columnist signed a contract with a newspaper chain, she is bound by the terms and conditions of the agreement. Whatever is stated in the contract binds legally the columnist and the newspaper chain. If after several months later, another ...

On 13 December 2012, Robert Parker, a sports columnist and panelist made racially motivated comments about Robert Griffin III; a Washington Redkins rookie quarterback during an ESPN sports panel show. Parker, an African American himself, questioned whether Griffin was a true African American due to some of his characteristics and behaviors; both physical and social, which seemed to be deviant from those of the “conventional” or “typical” black individual. Parker referred to Griffin as a “cornball brother”, something that his fellow panelists had no idea about and that consequently left them bewildered. Parker then went into a lengthy explanation of what he r meant ...

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Introduction In an article for 9 News, the columnist Usher discussed response from various sectors to the Western Australian government’s policy on shark culling. In 2013, the WA government announced its implementation of shark culling as a policy due to increasingly alarming safety issues. Shark culling involves the use of drum lines to bait and capture sharks. Since then, many tiger sharks were captured and killed. Various sectors, particularly environmental activists such as Sea Shepherd expressed opposition against the WA government’s shark culling policy citing issues about its legality. The issue was brought to the WA Supreme ...

[Description of news reporting professional aspirations] Media Futures 316 course intends to set up the understudy for genuine situations and the universe of news reporting. My dream is to be a news columnist. Accordingly, as a yearning news columnist, I plan to recognize that which is newsworthy, see how news and reporting have changed about whether and get ready to use my news reporting aptitudes in both my individual and expert life. The difficulties ahead for media and diversion organizations are huge. Instability is at an unsurpassed high. New item lifecycles are contracting, conventional plans of action are coming ...

Gustavo Arellano’s book Orange County is delightfully complex tale of his family, the towns where they settled, its migration, the story of towns and the outlandish paradox that is Orange County in California. From literature point of view, the book reveals its theme from three aspects that are the cornerstone of the book. Orange County is a unique book with three parts; person history, investigative journalism and memoir. Arellano’s literary work explores the backstory of the Orange County and its uncovering skeletons. However, this paper provides an insight of connection between the immigrants’ home cultures and the culture ...

- Account for why and when the author decided to do the work and what he encountered while doing the research. What are your thoughts about the historian's work? Stephen Oates is specifically noted for his craftsmanship as he tries to redefine the way history and its events are penned down into writing. Practically, in the book The Fires of Jubilee, Oates tries to take note of the fact that the hero of the event that occurred, in the being of Nat Turner, would particularly get the spotlight he deserves. The author of the book knew what needed ...

Augustine (354–430 AD) and Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274 AD) were both Christian philosophers who focused on God and what God expected of humanity. An application of their philosophies to decisions made in modern times reveal how much more rigid the lives of people were during the Roman Empire and the medieval period. However, there are still arguments to be made using these philosophical concepts of ethics. In the case of the newspaper columnist who signed a contract and then decided to break the contract because she wanted to accept a better job Augustine’s ethical principles, though rigid, do not ...

Introduction

Over the past four decades, many countries have faced many obstacles in their efforts to build and restore democracy. Turkey is one country that has seen a transition to democracy. When protests broke out in many Arab countries such as Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, there have been comparisons that are been made with reference to Turkey. There have been questions such as; could these countries make a transition to democracy by applying the Turkish model? What this means is that Turkey is already considered as a model for democracy. While developed countries such as the United States, Western European Nations ...

For quite a long time, there have been arguments as to whether Hitler was an effective leader or not. Proponents of the argument that he was a great leader claim that he maintained a legitimate rule over his subjects and managed to reign in such a volatile time (Megargee para. 5). On the other hand, the opponents believe that his leadership style was such a mess as it caused more damage than good to the people of Germany and to the world as a whole.

Looking at this issue, this essay seeks to take the opinion suggested by Varghese (para 1). He claims that Hitler ...

CHARACTERISTICS OF JUDGES

On October 24, 2006, The Washington Post had a story that discussed the decision and verdict of a federal judge. The case in question involved the New York Times Co. and a former army scientist. The retired army scientist, Nicholas Kristof, had sued the newspaper on claims that they had published a story that could be considered defamatory to the scientist. The story insinuated that the army scientist was the one who had developed the anthrax virus for biochemical warfare. The judge in this case directed that the reporter disclose their sources to verify whether this was all a lie (Markon, 2006, para 1).

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