Our media offers a platform for all political‚ social and economic policies and debates discussions. Consequently‚ media structure and its content define our democratic experience.it plays a role in molding our minds into the way we view and understand social and political and economic facets of life. Although‚ this can cause panic the most worrying issue could be a case where the media ownership is centralized. Suppose we have just few or single company controlling the information we obtain from
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markets. Formed in 1990 by the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting the company has become the UKs largest pay-tv broadcaster with around 10.6 million customers‚ and revenue of £6.8 million for the current year (Sky‚ 2012). Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation currently owns a 39% share in the company‚ this is currently the largest single stake making News Corporation controlling stake holders (Arango‚ 2011). In 2010 News Corporation announced its plans to buy the remaining shares
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is a sonnet-type poem composed by a First World War veteran and also a war poet named Rupert Brooke. This sonnet finds a soldier speculating about his possible death as we goes away to war‚ which he feels should not be mourned‚ but understood as part of a selfless tribute to his much-loved England. This poem was written as the First World War broke out in 1914‚ as part of a series of many sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. Patriotism is a true form of love. It is a form of love which is pure‚ yet which
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FMDS Share Times Feature Article – Mr. Mark Phooi‚ Founder and Principal of FMDS was featured in our local newspaper‚ The Sunday Times on August 11th‚ 2013. An inspiring and somewhat blatantly truthful interview-like article titled ‘Still hungry after all these years’ narrates Mark’s journey to success‚ a journey less travelled by many and how he clawed out of poverty to where he is today. From being a car-door opener and sleeping on a ply-wood in the kitchen previously to owning a couple of
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I am analyzing the poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke. This poem isabout a man who loves his country dearly. The country is England. He believes that if he should die in a far away battle field that people should remember of him only that he was English. Brookes says in his forth line‚ "In that rich earth a richer dust concealed." This means that if he is to die in a land other than England that the soil would be made better because there would now be a piece of England within it. The plot of this
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"The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke Analysis “The Soldier”‚ is a British patriotic sonnet written by Rupert Brooke in 1914. It expresses love for the mother country which in this case is Great Britain. This poem describes the physical aspects of death and the writer’s opinion of it. Although death is the main point in this poem‚ it not depicted in a twisted and gruesome manner. Rather‚ death in this poem is a sacrifice. “The Soldier” is a patriotic poem. The purpose of patriotic poems during WWI
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Rupert Brooke War Poetry Peace: Why is the poem called “Peace”when the subject matter is about war? The poem talks about how war has brought inner peace to the combatants‚ who now know their duty and purpose in life. Why is the speaker thanking God? What is he thankful for? Refer to text. The speaker is thanking God for creating the land and creating war for the soldiers to fight in. He thanks God for giving the soldiers youth‚ power and clear eyes. (“...caught our youth‚ and wakened
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A Study of Michael Parkinson At the age of 16‚ Michael Parkinson was fresh out of Barnsley Grammer School with the hopes of becoming a professional cricketer. However his hopes and dreams crashed when he was rejected by Yorkshire Country Club. With the feeling of disappointment Michael then turned to journalism. He is now one of the most successful journalists in Britain today. In 1971‚ BBC decided to give Michael Parkinson‚ a relatively young broadcaster‚ his own evening chat show‚ "Parkinson”
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Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English war poet who is best known for his collection of idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War and his boyish good looks‚ which prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as “the handsomest young man in England”. Poets in Brooke’s time were vastly known to glorify war; however Brooke’s poetry with its patriotic mood and naive enthusiasm soon went out of fashion when the realities of war were fully understood. His poem Peace is highly
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Peaks and Valleys depicts the life of a young man who lived in a valley‚ and was somewhat dissatisfied with the way his life was going. He would ask his parents about the peak‚ but he still wanted to experience the peak for himself. The author lets us all know that everyone no matter where they are in life has valleys. He tells us this by explaining to us that ‘every peak is between a valley.” This basically means that when someone is in a valley‚ they came from a peak and are on their way to another
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