DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A QUALITY NEWSPAPER AND A TABLOID NEWSPAPER

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN QUALITY AND TABLOID NEWSPAPER
THE INDEPENDENT: Two Fat Duck chefs killed in Hong Kong by Sam masters		DAILY MAIL: First picture of chef killed in Hong Kong crash: Two staff from Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant die after taxi is crushed between two buses
	QUALITY NEWSPAPER		TABLOID NEWSPAPER
Language	Formal language e.g. ‘uniquely talented’		Informal language e.g.
Reporter’s view	Was objective, the reporter was not biased.		Subjective e.g. they were trapped in the cab for more than an hour, who said it? Comment were also made by the owner’s son
Content details	Quite  detailed, briefly explained how the restaurant was opened and how the accident occurred		Not really detailed, gave details of the tour in Hong king, most of this details are not important
Reference	Hong Kong police spokesman confirmed the accident		-Hong Kong police spokesman -  the chefs colleague , the restaurant spokesmen
Visual	Contained a minimal picture of the building of The Fat Ducks where the chefs worked.		Had ten pictures picture; the victims, when the accident occurred, the picture of owner if the fat duck and his partner, the first restaurant he had and so on

References

Gladdis, K. and Duell, M (2012) ‘First picture of chef killed in Hong Kong crash: Two staff from Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant die after taxi is crushed between two buses’  Daily mail 2oth November Available at : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235880/Two-chefs-Heston-Blumenthals-Fat-Duck-restaurant-killed-car-crash-Hong-Kong.html  (Accessed: 21 November 2012).

 Master, S (2012) ‘Two Fat Duck chefs killed in Hong Kong’ The Independent [Online].20th  November Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/two-fat-duck-chefs-killed-in-hong-kong-8336280.html  (Accessed: 22 November 2012)

 

 

LANGUAGE- The Yorùbá language

THE YORUBA LANGUAGE

The Yorùbá language originated from western Nigeria in Africa. As decades have gone by, the language has spread to other West African countries; republic of Benin and Togo. A lot of communities speak the Yorùbá language due migration, business and other reasons. Some part of Congo, Cote d’lvore, Ghana, Senegal, Ghana, also uses it as a medium for trading.

This language has spread to most part of the world, according to BBC (2007),

an estimated 20+ million people speak Yorùbá all over the world as their first language while 2 million people speak it as their second language.

In the UK, is Yorùbá spoken in several part of London; Greenwich, Brixton, hackney, Lambeth, Southwark and mostly in Peckham (south east London), where passer-by and people speak it fluently, they have a Yoruba community there (BBC 2007). 

There is no specific history of Yorùbá in the UK, when it was first spoken, by whom and the story behind the arrival in the UK. The language might have come from migration of a Yorùbá group to the UK.

The three religions in Yorùbá are Christianity, Islam and traditional worship.  It is believed that Oduduwa was the first king of the Yoruba land, he settled in ile-ife in Osun state in Nigeria.The people of the Yorùbá engaged in lots of art and crafts. It is officially an Orthography (Malomo 2012).

This language is not just a way of communication buy also a way of discipline, passing moral values, expectation and religion (Malomo, 2012).   

 

A Yoruba styled door

(Think press Africa, 2012)

REFERENCES

BBC (2007) Yoruba Your voice  [Online]. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/yoruba.shtml (Accessed : 15 November 2012).

Malomo, T. (2012) Hold Your Tongue Yoruba in the Diaspora

Think Africa Press [Online] Available at: http://thinkafricapress.com/nigeria/yoruba-diaspora ( Accessed: 15 November 2012). 

SOAS University Of London (2012) Languages of Africa at SOAS: Yorùbá’ available at: http://www.soas.ac.uk/africa/languages/languages-of-africa-at-soas-yorb.html (Accessed: 13 November 2012).

Thinkafricapress.com (2012) A Yoruba styled door Available at:

http://thinkafricapress.com/sites/default/files/styles/400xy/public/door.jpg (Accessed: 15 November 2012).

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the European Union?

Membership in the EU is a mixed blessing. The greatest good, in general, is access to the free trade zone, Freedom of people's movement; you can travel, live and work in any EU country without the restrictions. By becoming part of the EU, any country has access to the markets of all the other countries in the EU. This is, generally speaking, an advantage because it increases the size of the potential market for each firm.  From a travelling tourist's point of view, it's great to be able to drive between the borders of EU countries without having to stop at checkpoints to produce passport identification it’s much easier borders to cross. Regarding citizenship, travel and work between member nations is unrestricted, so people facing economic difficulties and unemployment in their home nations may more easily move between nations to find employment.

 

On the other hand, EU membership brings with it some limitations on sovereignty.  Apart from the trade benefits, it is clear that there are plenty of negatives, as is shown by the current crisis that member nations such as Ireland, Portugal and Greece are facing. In addition, the loss of sovereignty is something that is much complained about. It is very difficult to have one system of laws for so many different countries with their own culture and background EU members cannot enact laws that violate various provisions of the basic EU laws.  For example, they cannot close their borders to people from other countries in the EU.  There are countless other examples having to do with much lesser issues like the labelling of food. This means that the countries are not free to enact any sort of laws that they want, which is something that sovereign countries are supposed to be able to do.

References

Euroblog (2012) available at: http://www.europeword.com/blog/europe/european-union-pros-and-cons/  (8 November 2012)

TIME MANAGEMENT

The Term 'Time Management' is a practice by which we manage or control our time in order to achieve a goal.

According to Time thought (2011), Time Management ' is a set of principles, practices, skills, tools, and systems working together to help you get more value out of your time with the aim of improving the quality of your life.

STRENGTH OF TIME MANAGEMENT

·         It aid to balance work time

·         It makes you complete task on time and make you avoid procrastination

·         It help in better collaboration with people

·         Makes one build a successive career

·         Makes one focus with less time effort

WEAKNESS OF TIME MANAGEMENT

·         When there is no efficiency in managing time after learning time management skills then it is a weakness.

WAYS TO IMPROVE TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

·         Make a to-do list for your task

·         Set priority, state and due date for the task

·         Drag and drop task when in progress with the list

·         Set alarms and reminder for your task and receive notification

 

Reference:

Taskmanagement.com (2012) ‘time management strength and weaknesses’ available at: http://www.taskmanagementguide.com/scheduling-tasks/time-management-strengths-and-weaknesses.php ( Accessed: 8 November 9, 2012)

 

 

 

feedback on Strength and Weakness of my Presentation

An academic presentation is an oral examination. During my presentation they are feedback some strength and weakness of the presentation.

Strength

It was well researched.

Had a list of content page.

I gave a bibliography at the end of the presentation.

My voice was audible.

I had eye contact at times with the audience.

Weakness

The table of content had mistake.

Was over five minutes.

There was a format error with the title.

There was too much text on the history slide.

Much in text reference was not given to show where in fo came from.

Read from the slide.

Had grammatical errors.