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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The myth that our human world is a “men’s world” is founded upon the practical reality of the complete overriding and dominant influence of the male over the female gender in all facets of our public life. Modern education together with the advancement in science and technology, which processes have accelerated in tandem especially...Continue Reading »
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» GENERAL INTRODUCTION Popularity is relative. It can take positive or negative directions. The major factor is to have activities that would generate interests. However, the human response to song has traditionally been the subject of philosophical thought. More recently, the human response to song has been the subject of psychological investigation. The notion that songs can and does affect people...Continue Reading »
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» INTRODUCTION The media, a product of technological advancement on communication, can be described as a force that has not only come into existence for a life time but has come to stay for an indenite period. It is a force that most people of all ages and walks of life have become accessible to, and become exposed to its content, thereby having a sense of attachment to it. This implies that media p...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY As a result of their ability to reach and influence large numbers of people, the media carry immense power in shaping the course of a conflict. Although many examples of the media’s negative contribution to the escalation of violent conflict exist, fair and accurate journalism and media circumspect is vital for the development of every nation ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Programmes are essential elements of television broadcasting. Programmes are largely responsible for a television station’s rating and revenue. Eastman, Ferguson, & Klein, (2013) indicate that programmes help stations to stay aoat in the midst of stiff competition. In the same light, Pongiannan (2012)assert that programming when poorly han...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The role of the social media in political mobilisation and participation across the globe cannot be overemphasized. Of recent, the social media have been playing a leading role in mobilising support for or against unpopular leadership. Recent happenings in the especially in Nigeria has clearly demonstrated the effects of the social media on poli...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study Commercial breaks are common features of daily television programming globally. These breaks are typically set aside slots for airing series of commercials at particular points in time when it is believed viewership is high. Commercial breaks are believed to attract large audiences. Advertising or commercial space is chosen based on programme ra...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study According to Ude (1998) in his book, Introduction to Reporting and News Writing, he defines news as “the timely report of facts or opinions that hold interests or importance or both for a considerable number of people”. Ukozor (2003) sees news “as something new and unusual. While Kamath (1980: 33), says news “is any event, id...Continue Reading »
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» 1.0 INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is the second largest contributor to global warming among anthropogenic greenhouse gases after carbon dioxide (CO2). Although it comprises a relatively small percentage of the atmosphere, it is 21 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over a 100 year time period, and currently accounts ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The phenomenon of human migration, as Marie McAuliffe and Marfin Ruhs (2017) agrees, “stretches back to the earliest periods of human history” (1). Human migration in the modern world has been massively enhanced by the ease of mobility due to the massive advancements in transport technology. People tend to migrate from one part of the globe to another where they hope to achiev...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study is couched within the framework of Basic Linguistic Theory. It takes a descriptive approach to the study of the typology of questions and their responses in the Efutu dialect of the Awutu Efutu language (Guan, Kwa). It is further aimed at establishing the relevance of focus in questions and to find out how question intonation and questions particles interact. The typology of qu...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This research is a tentative sociolinguistic study of language variation in the English spoken in Ghana. The purpose is to identify consonantal variations in the realization of the affricates and the fricatives that contribute to the unique pronunciations Ghanaians exhibit and describe them. Thus, the study identifies and describes the alternative pronunciations of the affricates and the ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Paradise Lost was written sometime in the 17th Century by John Milton as a Christian epic with a Christian redefined meaning of heroism. Using the epic structure, Milton successfully outlines the genealogy of man, even the state of the world before man was brought into it by God. Milton does this by tracing the linear stories of man from Genesis, through the Messianic and redemption stori...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT In the lower primary classrooms in Ghana, most teachers are faced with the challenge of having to teach pupils from diverse ethnic and language groups. This qualitative study, therefore, investigates the practicalities of the instructional language policy and the role that English plays in multilingual classrooms at the lower primary schools. Accordingly, the research aims to find answers...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study In every developed and developing nations, the education is very crucial process through which an individual’s life changes are determined. Beyond economic significance, education is viewed as a good, and indeed a basic human right with regard to the lower level of education (World Bank 1995). Education in Nigeria is an ‘instrument par e...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract: Social media is a prominent medium of communication and used by all generations. Besides being used as a tool of communication, institutions have integrated social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube as learning tools to deliver new information and connect with students. The popularity that social media has gained over the years has become a debate whether social media platforms...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The low performance of students in government schools in the area of English Language during the Basic Education Certificate Examination has been a source of worry to all educational stakeholders. The study therefore was aimed at investigating the low performance of students’ English in the Basic Education Certificate Examination in the Sunyani municipality. The study examined the f...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The safety of lives and property has been a major source of concern for Human right from time immemorial, the search for security forms part of the reasons why ―people aggregated into bands, tribes, kingdoms, and nation states to join international organizations (PadelFord, 1976). Even in ancient times, the need for security was expressed in t...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Nigeria is endowed with abundant natural resources ranging from solid minerals to arable land with varieties of agricultural produce such as palm oil, cocoa, groundnut, beans, melon, corns, and rice, among others. The hub of Nigeria economy before the advent of oil in commercial quantity was agriculture, but with the emergence of oil, there were focus shift from being an a...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The Horn of Africa has seen some of the longest lasting conflicts in the world dating over five decades (UNPF, 2018). One of the countries in the sub urban that has sustained such conflict is South Sudan which was born in 2011. Just as the nation is young it also ranks amongst nations with the youngest population in the world with 73.7% of the popul...Continue Reading »
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