The World Is Flat

How do you think journalism is suffering from management today? In his book Flat Earth News, the British journalist Nick Davies explains that 80% of the stories in Britain's quality press wouldn’t be original and that only 12% of stories would be generated by reporters. This fact is due to a phenomenon called “Churnalism”, that is to say a form of journalism in which pre-packaged material such as press releases or wire stories are used to create articles instead of publishing articles based on

LV1 Séries S et ES juin 2010 1) The main character is Amit. 2) He was born in the United States of America, l. 22-23 “people always assumed that he’d been born in that country and not in Massachusetts.” 3) a) Langford is the high school in which Amit will study. b) Winchester is the city where he lived with his parents. c) Calcutta is the city where Amit’s relatives live in India, and where Amit’s parents had lived before moving to Dehli. d) Delhi is the city in which his parents had moved

and fucking is a disturbing play of Ravenshill, a contemporaneous playwright who depicts the contemporary British society. This excerpt is the introductory scene; it sums up the main themes and sets 3 of the main characters of the play. It will be interesting to show that even if the scene draws up the aspects of a modern and innovative theatre which breaks free from taboos and conventions, in trying to set here as an art of life a particularly hidden face of society; it keeps the purpose of a

and Good Luck is a 2005 film written and co directed by Georges Clooney and Grant Heslov. “Good Night and Good Luck” is a direct quote from the main personage of the film who is used to conclude is broadcast by these words. He probably say good luck ad he worried for the next generation coming soon in this world, even a journalist can’t know the reality of the world he has to describe so he may wonder what about us, simple spectators of what happen. We all know that George Clooney is a fervent defender

The MIT Press Journals http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals This article is provided courtesy of The MIT Press. To join an e-mail alert list and receive the latest news on our publications, please visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-mail THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS Vol. CXVIII February 2003 Issue 1 INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1913–1998* THOMAS PIKETTY AND EMMANUEL SAEZ This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income and wages from 1913 to 1998 in

A century of history for real recognition for co-operatives in France The pioneers of co-operative system were the “fruitières”, cheese dairies, in Jura. Breeders didn’t have enough milk to do one tomme cheese of Comté, they needed 500L of milk just for one. So all brought to the “fruitière” to do one big cheese and after they shared this according to their contribution. This system has worked since XIIIth century. But the real beginning of co-operatives take roots in XVIIIth and XIXth century

This novel is entitled My Antonia. It was written by Willa Carter and was published in 1918.We are going to study Book one and Chapter one. The first chapter is entitled «The Shimerdas».It focuses on the journey from Virginia to Nebraska. Jim Burden, who is ten years old, is an orphan and he is going to live in his grandparents in Nebraska more precisely in Black Hawk. In this episode, we have a presentation of our two principal characters, Antonia and Jim, they meet each other for the first time

readers, leaving the book open to all kind of interpretations, the reader will see the clues to use to understand his version of the plot. When the story is simple and the ideas of the author clear it leaves less room for the readers imagination to work. By consequence it won't be accessible to as many readers, for the readers that don't like the ideas of the novel will not be able to imagine a different version that they prefer. In contrast, in real literature, also called art, the writers writer

THE HITHCHIKERS GUIDE OF THE GALAXY I'm going to talk to you about The HitchikersGuide of the Galaxy, or H2G2, who is an humoristical science fiction's universe created by Douglas Adams. The legend, borned in 1978 as a radiophonical serial was took back in differents adaptations like books, television series, part of theater or ful-lenght film, I will talk more about the movie that I loved but there is a lot of points who are connected with all of the adaptations. The Hitchikers Guide of the

2 iesel is a top fashion brand that sets global trends in the fashion industry. With shops in over 50 countries and ground braking advertising champagnes, Diesel has accomplished an annual growth rate of 60%. In 1978 Renzo Rosso collaborated with numerous other manufacturers in his area and they created the Genius Group. Together they formed many thriving fashion brands including Diesel. Renzo Rosso bought out the other partners in 1985 so that he could be in total control of the brand. With