Lab # 1 Free Press and Democracy Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Democracy allows eligible citizens to participate equally and to have free access to information ideas and opinions‚ with this reasoning is inferred that de democracy needs free press in order to be function properly. The power of the press is associated to the fundamental principles of democracy that ’s to say the freedom of expression
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Methods of computation of VAT. (a) Addition Method. (b) Subtraction Method. (c) Tax credit or Invoice Method. Methods of calculation of VAT. As mentioned earlier VAT is nothing but a form of sales tax only and is charged at each stage of sale on the value added to the goods. “Value Added” is the difference between sale and purchase of a business. A straight forward way to compute the base of a VAT for a given period‚ say a quarter‚ is‚ in the case of a manufacturer‚ to deduct the total
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inventions of the Renaissance: telescope‚ compass‚ printing press‚ etc. But the most important technological advance of all was the development of printing‚ with movable metal type‚ about the mid-15th century in Germany. A German named Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1436. Printing press invention had a large impact on the value of the books‚ religion and reformation and education. Before the invention of printing press‚ multiple copies of a manuscript had to be made by hand. Hand
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FOUR THEORIES OF THE PRESS ORIGINS OF THE THEORIES The “Four Theories of the Press” was by three professors‚ Fred S. Siebert‚ Theodore Peterson and Wilbur Schramm‚ and since 1956‚ has come a long way. Over time‚ it has established a typology in the minds of journalism educators and students. The four theories are authoritarian‚ libertarian‚ social responsibility and soviet communist (Preserve Articles‚ 2012). AUTHORITARIAN THEORY Authoritarian is defined as favouring or enforcing strict obedience
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My great-grandfather‚ John Press‚ was born on February 20‚ 1920. He lived in Pennsylvania and worked as a shipper. He would ship items by land‚ sea‚ or air. He then later married his wife‚ Elizabeth. She worked as a secretary where they would help makes bombs for the war. John and Elizabeth Press had two girls that they put in Catholic school. Throughout their life‚ they were very healthy individuals. When they got older from age‚ John Press‚ had a heart attack at home and was sent to the hospital
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Professor Elizabeth Palamara English Composition 101 14 September 2014 Limiting the Freedom of the press Advertising is a powerful and effective source of information in our everyday life just like TV or internet. Advertisers use ads to encourage people to get products and make products more applicable to them. Respectively‚ advertisers should allow the freedom of the press. Freedom of the press is freedom of communication and the right to publish newspapers‚ magazines‚ and other printed matter
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analysis and interlanguage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chomsky‚ Noam and Morris Halle. (1968)‚ The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper and Row. Crystal‚ David. (1985)‚ A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. 2nd edition. New York: Basil Blackwell. Crystal D. (2005)‚ The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language - 2nd edition. Cambridge: CUP. Ellis‚ R. (1985)‚ Understanding second language acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Harmer‚ J. (2007)‚ The Practice of English Language
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has its roots in the standardization made possible by the printing press. Early textbooks were used by tutors and teachers‚ who used the books as instructional aids The next revolution for books came with the 15th-century invention of printing with changeable type. The invention is attributed to German metal smith Johannes Gutenberg‚ who cast type in molds using a melted metal alloy and constructed a wooden-screw printing press to transfer the image onto paper. Gutenberg’s invention made mass production
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Should the press be completely free? Under a dictatorship the press is completely under the control of the government. The implications of this are that the authorities discard all stories unfavorable to their policies and supplement the favorable ones with propaganda and disinformation . All this involves control of TV and radio; in many countries‚ listening to broadcasts such as the BBC World Service‚ now available everywhere because of short-wave satellite output‚ is proscribed. People are
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This essay will assess to what degree the invention of the printing press has contributed to the spread of the ideas and ultimately the success of the Reformation in England and Scotland during the Tudor period. The impact of print has been studied by several historians and conclude that the Reformation was ‘virtually unimaginable without the invention of the printing press’. The movable type printing press invented circa 1450 by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz. In 1517 Martin Luther’s nailed his Ninety-Five
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