One antiquated hand washes the other. The only place I ever see people read magazines or newspapers is in airports.– Dylan French, founder of Nobody.com At the risk of sounding trite, everything suddenly clicked. This quote is a summation of the future. There will come a time when yearning for the “old days” of journalism […]
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Airports: Transportation, time and keepers of the textual flame
Posted by: sruffin | November 10, 2014 | No Comment |Long before America was declared an independent country, the first magazines were being published. From these beginnings, they largely covered the following topics: commerce, politics, manners, society, and women. Why did magazines discuss women so much? Articles about women were largely published because in both the pre and post decades of revolutionary America, where were […]
On Tuesday, May 29th 1453, after a seven-week siege, the city of Constantinople, then under the jurisdiction of the Byzantine Empire, fell to Ottoman forces commanded by 21-year old Ottoman Sultan Mehmed. Mehmend defeated the army of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos who was 28 years his senior. The city’s fall marked the end […]
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The Impact of media on people with eating disorders
Posted by: nakedraygun | November 10, 2014 | No Comment |We live in a media-controllled world and it is hitting us the hardest where it hurts. The truth is, mass media provides a significantly influential context for people to learn about body ideals and the value placed on being attractive. Here are some statistics: American children participate in growing amounts of media usage, a […]