In 1799 publisher M. Gallagher inaugurated the very first English Language newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago called ’The Trinidad Weekly Courant’. In 1825 the ’Port of Spain Gazette’ was introduced . Later‚ on the 21st January‚ 1832 the government established ’The Trinidad Gazette’. This move by the Governor brought with it competition in the newspaper market in the country. By the early 19th century there was over nine major published newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago. This signal and began a boom
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/17/martinbright.theobserver Revealed: why evil lurks in us all Study shows that crude loyalty to our social group and blind obedience make tyranny possible anywhere Martin Bright‚ home affairs correspondent The Observer‚ Sunday 17 December 2000 Psychologists have struggled for decades to explain why ordinary people participate in atrocities such as the Nazi Holocaust or the Stalinist purges. Now experiments carried out in Britain reveal that most people
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perspective on the legacy of the sixties underground press‚ comprising hundreds of cheaply produced‚ unevenly written weekly/biweekly “rags” (his term throughout the book) from mimeographed sheets (a copy produced on the precursor to a photocopier) to tabloids‚ which eventually merged New Left politics with a counterculture communal aesthetic intended to connect‚ reflect‚ and advance the youth movement. Reading the book at this point in society‚ it is almost impossible not to agree with his implied suggestion
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Like many ambitious‚ provocative films‚ "15 Minutes" is a bit of a mess. Both audacious and unwieldy‚ exciting and excessive‚ this dark thriller is too long‚ too violent and not always convincing. But at the same time‚ there’s no denying that it’s onto something‚ that its savage indictment of the nexus involving media‚ crime and a voracious public is a cinematic statement difficult to ignore. For despite its traditional cops-and-killers format‚ "15 Minutes" (its title taken from Andy Warhol’s
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The Story of Harry Potter Even if you have lived at the North Pole since 1997‚ you will probably have heard of JK Rowling and her Harry Potter series of books. Harry Potter himself is arguably the world’s most loved cultural icon from the past 10 years. To put Pottermania in perspective‚ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‚ the sixth book‚ sold more copies in the first 24 hours of its release in July 2005 than The Da Vinci Code sold in the entire year of 2004. Consider The Da Vinci Code’s
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Essay Science and Technologies. With the advent of future developments in science and technology‚ we will assign more and more decision making to machines. At present this is evident in military systems in which electronic sensors maintain the ideal flight characteristics in advanced aircraft. The capacities of computers today exceed five hundred trillion bits of information per second. The complexity of today’s civilization is far too complex for human systems to manage without the assistance
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never get to leave. Some hard-working Americans like to drink off a long week with a cold beer at a bar with some friends. If you’re famous and alcohol is involved‚ believe me‚ the paparazzi will be there and your face will be plastered on every tabloid from Murphy to Manteo. Actors and athletes are forever
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The Vietnam War was a defining moment in American history‚ due to the fact that the American people where concerned about the war and the actions of President Johnson. The lack of trust kept on growing between the American people and the government‚ which left a lot of unanswered questions. After the country’s involvement in two world wars and the cold war‚ America felt the responsibility of imposing its way of life on the world to stop the growth of the communists. War has an impact on all the parties
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FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS Functional stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies functional varieties of the literary language determined by specific spheres and aims of communication. In modern society every person constantly finds himself in regularly recurring situations typical of the given culture‚ in which he has to play a definite social role‚ i.e. to behave according to norms accepted in the given society for such situations. One of the manifestations of a social role of
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The influence on the mass media has tainted our views on what the real issues are. Topics that should be circulating the news circuit are put in the back burner behind the latest celebrity scandal‚ wardrobe malfunction‚ and YouTube hit. Real issues such as the war and its progress are not headlines but only on shorter time slots. It seems like the importance of important issues has even been ignored by respectable news organizations and publications. The draw to scandal has even become main news
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