ABSTRACT This study examined the political economy of news production amongst three campusbased radio stations: Radio Windy Bay, Radio Univers and Radio ATL in Ghana. The study identified the various filters of news production to include how the filters affect news production and how journalists negotiate the filters during news production. Using a qualitative research approach via interviews and documents and anchored on the political economy theory, the study showed that size, ownership, ...
The unprecedented prevailing outbreak of Ebola in West Africa can properly be described as a conundrum, so confusing and difficult to solve. Many questions have been asked by the inquiring minds with regards to the appearance of this outbreak in this region of Africa where it has never occurred before, and far from where it has always occurred, East Africa, but especially why it has reached such an alarming rate of becoming both an epidemic and a pandemic. The spate of this outbreak, if not s...
INTRODUCTION The Summa Theologiae is a vast and complex work that many take to be the most comprehensive account ever given of the Christian Faith. Aquinas was writing at a time when the works of Aristotle, which many Christians took to be antithetical to the Christian Faith, had recently been recovered. One of Aquinas’ tasks was to show how Aristotle could, on the contrary, be an aid for the presentation of the Christian Faith. Because of his extraordinary philosophical skills, Aquinas has...
ABSTRACT: Starting from the assumption of the inadequate comprehension of the foundation and the ultimate purpose of law as Kant and Cicero observed in jurists, this paper looks at the positivist interpretation of law, critically analysing the tenets of legal positivism and how this approach to law upholds amoral laws. Dissociating morality from law has the tendency to derail society of ethical and moral values, plunging it on the slippery slope of the perversion of justice, something that un...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this work is to explore some of the various traditional forms of communication of the Malimba people of Sierra Leone. It is worth mentioning here that these modes, devices and systems of indigenous traditional communication of the Malimba discussed in this work are by no means the only ones, nor are they all extinct. Furthermore, these traditional forms of communication are also common with many other African ethnic groups within and outside Sierra Leone. The wor...
This study was a comparative investigation into the nature of difficulties in learning English by the secondary school students of Provincial and Federal government schools in N.W.F.P (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa). The objectives of the study were (1)To find out the level of difficulties of secondary school students of Provincial and Federal government schools of N.W.F.P (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa) in tenses, active and passives voices, direct and indirect narrations, conjunctions, prepositions, articles...
This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the learning of English of the secondary school students in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The objectives of the study were (1) To find out the factors affecting the learning of English at secondary level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; and (2) To provide a base for improvement of teaching English as a second language at the secondary school level in Pakistan. The population of the study was comprised of all the English teachers of twenty four Provinc...
The present study was conducted to investigate the errors of Pakistani school students in prepositions and articles. The main focus of the study was to analyse the errors of students in articles and prepositions. The sample of the study was comprised of 100 randomly selected students from government secondary schools of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. The instrument used in the study was the essays written by 8th class students in their annual examination. The annual examination papers in the subject of ...
The main objective of this manuscript is deals with the history of writing environmental history in Ethiopia Studies. It has shown that particularly after the 1960s, as a new discipline, scholastic works and publications are produced on environmental history in Ethiopia. Various authors repeatedly made their researches on the history of environmental thought, forest history, drought history, famine history, agricultural history and etc. Among others drought and famine history received a consi...
This manuscript tries to explore the continual droughts and its phenomena’s in the Southern Ethiopia East Guji Oromo pastoralist and semi-pastoralist communities that exhibit periodically via examining the possible root causes which fuel for periodical disasters and pestilences occurrence, and communities age old practice of indigenous acquired skills and wisdom's in the face of hardship as a means of coping and surviving mechanisms. Like, Raagaa [prediction the future] practice as drought ...
Key Note: Luke’s concept of salvation “today” is not just application to the present—it is a rhetorical strategy, aimed at bearing witness to audiences of all times and places regarding the saving power of Jesus. By “today”, Luke’s … narratives certainly draw attention to the here and now of faithful living. For Luke, God’s reign has not just drawn near; it stands right before us “today” in Jesus’ ministry. Whatever Luke’s intentions with “today” language, it do...
The book of First Corinthians is the seventh book of the New Testament. The epistle to the First Corinthians was written by the Apostle Paul at the close of his three years residence in Ephesus. There was an occasion of this Epistle of a letter of inquiry concerning such things as marriage and the use of foods offered to idols. Paul was also greatly troubled by reports from Corinth of deepening divisions, increasing contentions, and other problems, and by a case of incest that had not been ju...
Liberal theology is rooted in modern, secular theories of knowledge and has moved towards participation in the work of the church as the priority for Christians at the expense of delineating theological belief, which has led to the abandonment of many orthodox beliefs in many mainline denominations.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to examine the impact of management in FUOYE Theatre and Media Arts department. That is, using the department as a case study to examine the importance of management in the department. Chapter one covers the general introduction which includes the background, purpose, significance and scope of the study, there is also the methodology, limitation of study and definition of terms. Chapter two is the literature review, which is an in depth look into managemen...
ABSTRACT In recent times, traditional African dance seems to be given less cognizance in the society which is been compounded by high level of attention given to contemporary dance and less attention to African traditional dance. The level of involvement of the youth in African traditional dance is not encouraging, worse still, there is the tendency for this trend to continue in view of ignorance of the uniqueness of our own dance for the present and younger generations. Although there are ...