Television and Its Impact   September 11, 2001, the Black Tuesday, the World Trade Centre collapses to ground. Whole world watch this spectacle on their television sets, many of them children. As the children sit around with their parents they see planes crashing into buildings, innocent civilians jumping from windows, and later on, they see fire fighters and volunteers sifting through the rubble, pulling out bodies. The children try and understand...

Entertainment Industry   In the past five years, the entertainment industry has been more and more focused on the scheme of reality-based entertainment. This urge for live television has made a great force upon major network television stations. Shows such as MTV’s Real World and CBS’s Survivor are great indicators of society’s passion with drama in a “live” situation. It seems our obsession with these shows stems from our desire to...

Soccer: The Most Popular Sport   Soccer is the world’s most popular sport and is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and many other nations. A field game played by two teams with a ball of various types, usually an inflated bladder or rubber bag in a leather or rubber cover (an increasing number of balls are plastic), which is spherical or ellipsoidal in shape. The object of...

Media Coverage Should Be Ethical and Responsible Media covers radio, television, communication, journalism, newspapers and periodicals. Television is system of mass communication, involving the transmission of images and sounds to distant screens, by electronic means over electrical or fibre-optic transmission lines or by electromagnetic radiation (radio waves). TV is a vastly important medium. Newspapers are publications usually issued on a daily or weekly basis, the main function of which is to...

Tattoo or Body Piercing Your 18th birthday is one of the most important birthdays. You have finally attained legal age to get a tattoo or a body piercing. The difficult question you now face is which one do you choose? Tattooing is a method of decorating the skin by inserting coloured substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, often an electric needle. In many parts of...

Our Country’s Only Feasible Solution—Plutonium Should we begin to manufacture one of the most destructive and infamous substances on the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but the public says no. But with the continuing problem with our ever-diminishing energy sources, some want us to begin using more nuclear energy and less energy from natural resources. It is a radioactive metallic element that is used in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons....

The Glorious Indian Cinema   Life in India would not be the same without the exuberance of cinema. Song and dance, melodrama, relevant messages—Indian films have them all and usually all together in one film! Lumiere brothers’ cinematography arrived in India on July 7 1896, to a truly dramatic setting. Natural and political factors had unsettled the country—floods, & famine: at Sholapur, a famine—afflicted 5000—strong crowd stole bags of grain, resulting...

Hollywood vs. Bollywood   Hollywood may be the ‘big brother’ in the ‘Bollywood vs. Hollywood’ stakes but for many of its stars today, all roads seem to lead towards Bollywood. Even as many filmmakers in Bollywood still look for inspiration from the western counterpart for story ideas, the ‘song-and-dance’ fare from the world’s largest film industry seems to have, of late, caught the fancy of a number of Hollywood actors and...