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68Online news: A ‘disposable economy’
Keosha Johnson, editor and producer for Boston’s NPR affiliate station, WBUR, said online news consumers just can’t get enough. The 24/7 demand for online news has made journalism a 24/7 content-creating job, she said. Unlike other forms of...
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80The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and its Impact on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
The Civil Rights movement will be forever remembered by the images of white policemen beating well-dressed, relatable African Americans and the African American non-violent response. The movement was successful largely because television coverage...
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79The Effects of Capitalism on the News Media Industry and the Mainstream News Media’s Portrayal of Capitalism
What is capitalism, anyway? Capitalism, as defined by Adam Smith, only functions in societies with the “proper economic institutions and the proper respect for the rules of behavior” (as cited in Galbraith, 1993, p. 12). John Kenneth Galbraith...
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78Judaism and Islam: Similar in their Paths toward Salvation
Whether it was their common descent from Abraham or a shared geographical region, Islam and Judaism have more fundamental similarities than differences in many of their written religious traditions, including the human quest. Through conducting...
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75Be a Hemphead, Not a Pothead
The legalization of marijuana has riled up many doctors, potheads, and believe it or not, environmentalists! Just about every pothead knows the hemp plant produces marijuana, but how many know it can save...
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59Menorah Paddy
Along the matted dirt path of Chongqing, children play in the fields bordering the green, mellow mounds not quite large enough to be mountains. “Ni hao!” I greet the children in Mandarin Chinese. “America! America,” they...
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65Friedman’s Flat World: A Well-Informed Projection of the Future of Globalization
While American policy makers have been focused on terrorism and budget cuts technological innovations created over the past 30 years have merged together in the past 10 years, to create an environment where people from all over the world can share...
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82Genetics vs Technetics
When speaking of beauty, usually it is most apparent when it is from within. Beauty is genuine, true and natural. The ‘beauty’ in beauty is that nobody is the same. Everybody has a different natural...
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60Elbow Space in a No-Space Land
Stepping into Shanghai’s airport after a 14 hour flight, I was expecting to see some type of primitive, majestic, suburban, setting like in the Disney movie, “Mulan.” Instead, my first thought was, “This stinks!” Literally. Shanghai is so...
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75Censorship: Here, There, and in the Political News Media
Knowledge is the key to opportunity. In a democratic sense, knowledge is the key component to our participatory democracy. However, what happens when few external forces are consciously limiting the greater public’s knowledge? The political news...
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