History and Context of Journalism
Romanticism
A Brief Introduction to History and Context of Journalism
(24/09/2010)
A focus on the continual differences between what is believed, and what is fact.
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My Philosopy Seminar Paper (Semester 1)
(10/10/2010)
A brief look at Aristotle, Plato, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Hobbes, Newton and the italian renaissance.
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My 1st History of Western Philosophy Seminar
(10/10/2010)
In the seminar we discussed the first set of reading from the Bertrand Russell's book - A History of Western Philosophy, which includes the points of discussion that were raised in the lecture the week before.
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John Locke - HCJ
(29/10/2010)
John Locke was crucial for Journalists and philosophy. He had many important ideas such as the social contract which is the way people agreed to be ruled by governments. Locke fled to Europe which is where he wrote most of his books.
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Joseph Addison - HCJ
(06/11/2010)
Joseph Addison was an English poet and playwright born in the 17th Century. With his friend Richard Steele, he founded the ‘The Spectator’.
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David Hume - HCJ
(15/11/2010)
Hume's ideas include impressions and ideas, causation, induction, theory of knowledge and the bundle theory.
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Jonathon Swift and Adam Smith
(06/12/2010)
In 1729, when Ireland was in very big financial trouble, satirist, Jonathon Swift decided to publish 'A Modest Proposal'. This was a satirical piece of writing which suggested eating your children, or selling them to the rich as a food.
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HCJ Lecture - Romanticism, Rousseu and The French Revolution
(10/02/2011)
Romanticism had a dominant role in the 19th Century and contrasts with the 'clockwork' idea of empiricism. This is because it has no exact mearuements.
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HCJ Seminar Paper - Mary Wollstonecraft (Semester 2)
(15/02/2011)
Mary Wollstonecraft published ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ towards the end of the 18th Century. She seemed to feel that women were forcibly placed into a restricted role in society. Mary’s views have lead to her being considered one of the first feminists.
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Romanticism - A Guest Lecturer
(02/03/2011)
We were lucky enough to have a guest lecturer(Dr Gary Farnell) in our HCJ lecture, and we were taught in more detail about Romanticism.
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Kant and Hegel
(03/03/2011)
In HCJ, the focus over the last week has been on two German philosophers - Kant and Hegel. These are two particularly difficult philosophers to get your head around, but i hope i've done ok in understanding some of thier concepts and ideas.
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Karl Marx
(08/03/2011)
A blog about Karl Marx, looking at his theories. Most notably Marxism and Communism.
'Capitalism comes into the world dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt'.
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The Communist Manifesto
(16/03/2011)
The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.
The short book followed marxist politcal theories, and explores why they feel we should live in a communist society, listing certain demands and explaining how we would gradually progress to communism.
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Rural Rides by William Cobbett
(26/04/2011)
This is certainly an interesting piece of journalism from Cobbett. It essentially follows his journey across the south of England, and you read about his consistant complainig. These complaints range from the treatment of farmers and the countryside, to the trees that fill England.
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J'Accuse by Emile Zola
(11/05/2011)
J'Accuse was an open letter written by journalist Emile Zola, and was addressed to the President of France - Felix Faure. It was published on the front of a daily paris newspaper called L'Aurore on January 13th 1898.
