The right of hate speech in public in Canada gives the opportunity of a person to perform a protest against the thing he or she hates the most. At 1991, Supreme Court of Canada had an election on hate speech in public. This election ended by letting the people to have a more robust defense [...]
A company named Terrafugia is getting close to putting a flying car into production. It will be more like an airplane that rolls more than a car that flies. However you will be able to fly it between airports and drive it on streets. It will have electro-mechanical folding wings, an airframe parachute, disc brakes [...]
As the media is getting full of news about rape and violence against women, people start to take action and show their disapproval through protests. Many people from all over the world march, dance and shout slogans in order to show their support to those who are getting hurt and to force government to take [...]
Both Swan and Selby were adamant about going to Oxford. They were both capable and their grades were adequate. However both had a financial problems. Their families’ income were not enough to afford Oxford. There’s a scholarship called “Moritz-Heyman Scholars”. To be eligible for this scholarship your family’s income should be less [...]
The business world has experienced very important events and changes in the last month. Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook has announced that Apple is interested in moving one of its mac lines back to US. In addition, HSBC was fined 1.92 billion dollars due to illegal money laundering to a drug smuggling group. Lastly, countries [...]
Living in a world full of risks, the important thing is to know how to cope with them. Especially in financial terms, taking risks can be extremely dangerous. This is where actuaries come in. They analyze the risks mathematically, figure out the probability of something happening, and produce charts and graphs to explain their calculations. [...]
The former PM of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, was recently condemned to four years of jail due to his arbitrary use of company profits for illicit purposes and tax fraud. Berlusconi founded Mediaset, the largest commercial broadcaster in Italy[1], in the 1970s and still hold almost 40% of the shares of the company. Today the Vice-Chairman [...]
Journalism’s one of the main golden rules is timeliness and it is very effective in the street journalism. It is a fact that journalists not always can be present when incidents or disasters strike. However, with street journalism people are enabled to learn the latest events instantly. With the rising use of social media and [...]
A change is in the air for Murdoch, who has expanded his newspaper corporations since 1950’s after he inherited an Australian newspaper. After last year’s crisis of phone tapping, News Corp.’s Chairmen, Murdoch is willing to separate the corporation into two companies. He is considering separating “its publishing assets from its entertainment business”. While Murdoch’s [...]
New Iranian Oppositional TV Channel: Raha TV Iran media is divided to different sides for political reasons just like the Iranian society in these days. Several TV channels have started to oppose to the leadership of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and to the strict limitations of his regime. Eventually, Iranian activists in London have launched a new [...]
Blackberry hasn’t crushed yet but soon it will. Although the Blackberry was built for business purposes, teenagers use it regularly. In addition, when BBM was spread to the whole world, Blackberry began to be sold in most stores. According to youth, Blackberry enables life to become easier. But the latest news is not good. Due [...]
Nowadays, museums are receiving a lot of requests asking them to return some of their artifacts to their origins. One of the most recent examples of this is the demand of Turkey. Turkey wants the statues that were a part of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus back from British Museum. It was announced in the beginning [...]
Newsweek is a well respected and well known magazine, 2nd best selling in US, pompously in the news sector since 80 years. Last year in December, they announced that they will no more exist in printed version. Newsweek’s radical transitioning away from the traditional style of news onto a new completely digital and virtual sense [...]
“The notion that happiness comes from a knowledge of things as they really are is wrong. For instance, a man who thinks his extremely ugly wife is another Venus is as well off as if she really were beautiful”[1] wrote Erasmus in his Praise to Folly. Was he right about the effects the [...]
John Kennedy and Aldous Huxley are among the brightest minds of the 20th Century/ They both have survived the most turbulent era of mankind, surviving two world wars and two superpowers on the edge of a nuclear warfare. However Huxley and Kennedy envisioned a different world in the future. Aldous Huxley, a successful author best [...]
Foreign Policy looked at “Do graves of dictators become shrines?”[1] and answered “in short, yes” with evidence of burials from Qaddafi to Hitler. The present condition of the graves were analyzed, but it did not talk about why these graves turn in to shrines and what would happen if the governments decided not to burry [...]
The law of a country is based on the constitution. Constitutions that are used today were written many years ago by people who had no idea what might have happened today. People who wrote the U.S Constitution, also called framers, did not have any idea about a lot of things that are essential for our [...]
The 2011 Egyptian revolution took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of October 2011. The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, and labour strikes. Millions of protesters from a variety of socio-economic [...]
Dear Mr. Assange, I really admire what you are trying to do, revealing the truth to people, the truth you strongly believes every person has the right to learn. Although the importance of revealing the truth was the main point of your speech at the New Media Order conference in Istanbul, there were two [...]
The business world has experienced very important events and changes in the last month. Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook has announced that Apple is interested in moving one of its mac lines back to US. In addition, HSBC was fined 1.92 billion dollars due to illegal money laundering to a drug smuggling group. Lastly, countries [...]
A Contemporary Ethical Dilemma in Journalism In 2005, the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 editorial cartoons of which most depicted Islam’s prophet Muhammad. In the explanatory text of the 12 cartoons, Jyllands-Posten’s culture editor, Flemming Rose, wrote, “The modern, secular society is rejected by some Muslims. They demand a special position, insisting on special [...]
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