Literacy Response: The Speech of Miss Polly Baker Benjamin Franklin creates this powerful and intelligent character in the fiction story‚ The Speech of Miss Polly Baker. At the beginning‚ Polly Baker starts out humbly in response to being accused of giving birth to a bastard child for the fifth time. She asks the jury to listen to what she has to say. As she continues to talk‚ Baker starts to make strong arguments against harsh punishments that women are to bear from having an illegitimate child
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The Political‚ Economic and Social Contribution of Cultural Tourism in Three Asian Countries Different countries have different cultures. No matter it is a developing country or a developed country‚ it also has its own cultural characteristics to attract people from everywhere on earth to visit it. Tourists visit historical or heritage places‚ religious buildings or even performances in these countries‚ it is called “Cultural Tourism”. Cultural tourism has a great effect in the change of economic
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How do you assess the impact of commercial television upon the British Broadcasting System from the 1950’s until the present day? To help answer this question‚ it would be beneficial to begin by summarising the history of Broadcasting from the 1920’s up to the 1950’s. This will help generate an understanding and make more clear‚ whether there was a change in the British Broadcasting System after the launch of the first commercial television channel in Britain. This history will contain‚ in short
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positive and negative impacts of social networking sites THE POSITIVE PART Social networking Web sites are helping businesses advertise‚ thus social networking Web sites are benefiting businesses - economically. Social networking Web sites are helping education by allowing teachers and coaches to post club meeting times‚ school projects‚ and even homework on these sites. Social networking Web sites are enabling advancements in science and medicine. Job hunting Stay in touch with friends Positive
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A Critical Study on “Characteristics of Media under the Broad Light of Social‚ Economic and Political Factors.” Providing knowledge‚ information and entertainment books‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ radio‚ film‚ TV and the Internet are very popular in every part of the world. Mass media has become one of the most important means of modern communication and countless institutions and individuals are producing diverse types of contents in every moment.En general we can say that Mass Media deals mainly
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The Impact of Media Outlets on Political and Civic Engagement Throughout the fall 2012 semester at Illinois State University‚ Ms. Hoppers Reporting II class has been reading about and discussing the role of Journalism in a democracy along with how it aids in serving the citizenry of the United States. The past couple of months have been a busy and important time for the media with coverage of the 2012 presidential elections this November. Several people rely on media outlets to receive information
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The British Political System In spite of the fact that the UK is a monarchy‚ since King Charles I was executed in 1649 and the English Civil War that followed between the Royalists and the parliamentarians the powers of the monarch were gradually reduced. The UK’s constitution is not formally written but it consists of certain historic documents such as Magna Carta written in 1215‚ the Petition of Rights in 1628‚ the Bill of Rights in 1689 and the Act of Settlement in 1701‚ which gradually gave
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Workplaces: Decreased productivity: * Employees would get distracted when they have access to social networking sites. This will decrease their work efficiency‚ hence decreasing the productivity of the company. * Even if they are using the social networking sites for promotion or advertisements (job-related work)‚ it is impossible to justify or make sure that every second they are on the social networking site‚ they are doing job-related work. If we cannot justify that‚ we cannot justify the
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Progressivism started as a social movement and grew into a political movement from the 1890’s to the 1920’s. The early progressives rejected social Darwinism. During the Progressive Era‚ American society was struggling with the growing pains of fast transformations. Not only did the Industrial Revolution change American society‚ but this also happened right after the United States succeeded in removing it from a long and bloody Civil War. Workers started to hate shopping management‚ so they argued
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The Great Gatsby: Symbols of Honesty and Dishonesty within its Characters The 1920’s are known as the Roaring Twenties where there was economical prosperity and moral decline. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby displays many symbols throughout the text of this moral decline‚ one being honesty versus dishonesty‚ these symbols are represented within the characters Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway. Jordan Baker is a symbol of dishonesty and vice versa so is Nick Carraway but rather for honesty. Nick’s truthfulness
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