Scientific journals

While it is not often true that magazine and mass media writers get the essence of a scientific study correct in their entertainment based interpretations, Alice Park of TIME magazine did just that in her article “Feeling Alone Together: How Loneliness Spreads” when interpreting and portraying the research done by John T. Cacioppo et al in their research “Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network.” The overall flow of Park’s article is consistent with…

medium. The first source that I will be exploring in this essay comes from the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. The article, entitled “Integrating Indigenous values with capitalism through tourism: Alaskan experiences and outstanding issues” focuses on the relationship between the indigenous people of Barrow, Alaska and the tourism that sustains a sizeable part of their economy. The…

ethical standpoint of a wide variety of scientific academic journals in regards to the use of genetically modified crops. The purpose is to inform the audience of the ethical issues that arise when discussing genetically modified crops, and to show just how complex the issue really is. The audience includes anyone who is interested in genetically modified crops and the different arguments surrounding its usage, especially the ones present in scientific academic journal publications. The…

The author of the article Gender, Toys and Learning is Becky Francis, who is a Professor of Education and Social Justice, as well as the author of many other academic journal articles and books. Francis’ research was funded by the Froebel Research Institute and published in the journal Oxford Review of Education in 2010. The study focused on the favourite toys and DVDs of children aged three to five. Francis aimed to investigate whether these leisure resources were gendered, and to analyse the…

Major Writing Assignment Three: The Comparison Between a Press Article and an Academic Research Article on the Effects of Teenage Sex The original claim from the popular press article “Teenage sex ‘leads to bad moods’ later in life” By Ted Thornhill was that having sexual intercourse during teenage years will lead to the negative effects on the person as they age, such as the change of size of reproductive organs and a negative effect on brain development. During the first evaluation of this…

This is a report of the academic journal article “Inmate Literacy Assessment Study at the Lake County Indiana Jail” by Jeanette C. Shutay, Ph.D., David Plebanski, Ph.D. and Michael McCafferty originally published in The Journal of Correctional Education in June 2010. In this article, for the purpose of determining the relationship between educational level and literacy among prisoners, scholars conducted a research study at the Lake County Indiana Jail. Due to the fact that recidivism rates had…

Victoria Clayton discusses the “protected tradition” to use overly complex language in academic papers. She addresses that the purpose of this rhetoric is to flaunt the author’s intelligence in order to impress the public, their peers, or academic journals. But she also cites research performed by Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University that concludes the use of “simple words over needlessly complex ones can actually make authors appear more intelligent” (Clayton). She concludes that using…

The author of the story Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is about a prince who tries to avoid the red death. He locks himself in a castle. With loud music he stays in the castle and surrounded by the rich and the poor people were outside listening to how the prince partied. He had the door closed so no poor person can come in. Towards the end the red death came in and killed everyone inside. In this story we talk about the ebony clock and room east to west and finally we talk about…

Symbols flood the pages in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, which he uses to clearly express the theme of unavoidable mortality; Prince Prospero’s palace chambers are one such symbol. The specific layout of the rooms is one symbol found inside the palace. Poe makes a point to describe the rooms from east to west. This symbolizes the rising and setting of the sun, as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. As the sun goes through its daily routine, so do Prince Prospero and…

Kwanzaa, an African-American tradition that contains seven symbols, is celebrated from December 26th until January 1st. “Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966.(History)” Each night, for seven nights, each family will light a candle. There are seven candles, one black, three red, and three green.(History) Each color represents something different; the black represents the people, the red represents the…