Interview questions

WSInterview question

· How you grown up your family or tell me about your family life??

· What are the main custom of your culture?

· Tell something about religion group?

· What kind of government system in your country?

· What are the main sources of income or asset you have?

· What is your state language? Do all people speak the same language? If not how many language you have?

· Tell something about your independence?

· What is the famous thing in your country?

· How you differentiate your way of living and US life style?

· What type of change you thing that is necessary for your country?

· Tell something about your education system

· What is the recent big achievement in your country?

A crash course in American culture

A crash course in American culture

It is very time for any person to adjust with a new country, new culture. Unfortunately I am the person who tastes that experience. When I was in my home country come to America was my dream. One day my dream comes true and I arrived the country of most prosperity. The way I thought American life was not so easy. Adopting American culture is a struggling thing to me.

I found a group of people who are my coworker and friends give me direction to the way to adjust with the culture. I started my first struggle with human behavior. It is really difficult to understand people emotion in a new place. I tried to analyze my roommate Adri and tried to understand his emotion and way of react. I believed that if I don’t understand human behavior in a particular culture it is not possible to adjust with the culture. Later on after starting school that in another world to me. Different education system, different type of classmates, exam styles makes me frustrated; I shared my problems with one of my professor. She introduced me with a group of in my class. They showed me the way to study here. I also got tutors help to get academic success.

I paid much attention in my daily and social life. I found that every person in US are self dependable .That gave me a great lesson to how to struggle. I realized that when I was looking for a job. I thing that is the most important lesson in my US life.

I know America is the country of prosperity and development but I want to go back my home country, Bangladesh... The lessons I learned and learning from my US life I will try to implement in my home country where I will start my new life.

Movie Review - " The Killing Fields"

The Killing Field

The movie killing field is based on domestic war of Cambodian in year 1973 after Vietnam War. Cambodians national army fought against communist khmer Rouge. The main character of the movie is Dith Pran a Cambodian journalist and interpreter of New yorks Times reporter Sydney Schanberg. The story starts with the arrival of Sydney Schenberg at Cambodian. He expected Pran at airport to receive him. He moved to hotel by cab. Later on when Pran met him he explained him the situation of the town. At that time town targeted by a US bomb accidentally. Both Pran and Sydney try to go the place . They found barrer of transportation. Pran able to manage police boat to go there. When they arrived there they found hundreds of dead and wounded people. They arrested by Cambodian army because they took photograph of the execution of 2 people. They released eventually.

Then the story moves 1975. All foreign diplomats was moving and closed their operation. Pran and his family got opportunity to move secure place. Pran stay in the battle field by himself. Khmer entered in to city under a banner of piece.Pran is turned over to the Khmer Rouge and is forced to live under the oppressive KR regime.

After returning New york Schenberg got recognition for his work.He gave half of these credit to Pran and start campaigning to find him.

Pran assigned under Phatt who was in charge of prison compound. Prans duty was to take care of his little son. Phatt begin to trust pran and told him to take care of his son if he died. Before his death he send a map and some American dollar to Pran as they can escape. At the time of escaping unfortunately Phatts son died by an mine explotion. Pran reached at the Thailand's border ans saw red cross camp.

Soon Schenberg arrived there and met Pran.

Source : http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/The_Killing_Fields_%28film%29

Different Media, Culture and Economy

Cultural Imperialism
Some critical scholars concerned about the US role in global media expansion and how it relates to global business and different culture.
Concerned about the possible effect of mass media and how it relates to other nation and business organization.

The United States of Europe (USE)
15 states of Europe worked together in media and satellite sector and their strong expanding appearance known as The United States of America (USE).
Strong existence of USE becomes a source of many advantage of Europe includes product marketing, colonial expansion and a powerful media system.

Bertelsmann
The German based Bertelsmann group of companies appears as a strong media power who has different branches of business and also joint venture projects with different big organizations.
Although Bertelsmann’s primary focused on television but later on they gave concentration on multimedia , telemedia, printing , and sports agency.

Vivendi Universal
Although Vivendi corporation is the major player in France in audiovisual sector , later on they expands their business through middle east, USA and Africa.
Vivendi corporation is one of the major pay TV operator in Europe and has joint venture business with different big companies like The Seagram.

British Sky Broadcasting group
British Sky Broadcasting group is the leading pay TV provider who provides service to 4.2 million people in England and Ireland.
British Sky Broadcasting group provide different channels in different fields that is the main source of their increasing customer.

Matra Hachette
A media from France that has diversified fields of interests including military industrial activities.
Its operations and different field of interests like business sector makes it more diversified.

Canal Plus

Canal Plus is the European leader of Pay TV , has fourteen million customer and availavle in ten European countries.
As a corporation it sees itself as the European alternative to hollywood feature films, yet it is willing to work with US studios and has various co production in deals in Europe with Warner, paramount, vivendi universal studio.

Pathe
Pathe is a major European entertainmet and film production company located at France.
Pathe shunned French nationalism and shought media opportunities and properties across Europe without regard national boundaries or constraing linguistic tastes.

Pearson
Pearson, based in the United Kingdom, is a global media company that controls several media property.
Through its TV production facilities , pearson produces over 150 programmes .

VNU
Netherlands based VNU is a multimedia empire that including publishing, television, feature film production, music, internet service and television rating.
VNU's European asset includes a number of regional television stations, a 50 percent interset in a feature film distributor, and other major publishing interests.

Mediaset
Mediaset controls three major television channels in Italy.
Mediaset networks delivered through cable and sattelite , which facilate furthor global expansion ,particularly fo the Italian speaking market.

News Corporation Australia
The largest share holder of News Corporation australia is Murdoch whohas created an international empire of media, ethnologies and sports franchises.
This firm currently make 25% of global business and 75% of US business.

Star TV Asia
Honkong based television network started television broadcasting known as STAR network.
The str TV channels offer the regions widest television choice whether news, music ,sports events.

Canwest Global Communication Corp. Canada
One of the largest broadcast in Canada.
Canwest has film interest in the United States through its seven arts international division and recently concluded an internet agrrement with Minnesota based Internet broadcasting system that permits thye expansion of an internet based news and information sites across North america.

WETV ( Canada)
WETV is a global television network that takes both commercial and public broadcasting approches.
The mission of WETV is to promote substantial development and furthur the expression of cultural diversity through its TV network.

Aboriginal People's Television Network ( Canada)

Aboroginal Peoples's Television Network (APTN) launched in 1999 as a means osf promoting positive images and messeges about aboriginals and aboriginal lifestyle.
The goal of the network is to present pro social and positive messeges or behalf of aboriginal communities as an alternative to the traditional mainstream TV network.

Grupo Televisa ( Mexico)
Grupo Televisia is the largest spanish media in the world.
They provide a large number of spanish language programme that appeal to growing hispanic audience.

SONY ( Japan)
Established at 1946 named under Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering corporation and appears as SONY in1958.
SONY expanding its business in different branches of technology that makes SONY the leading electronic and telecommunication industry in world.

Source
"Global Communications"pg 72-95.print

Appearence of Journalism and democracy

In order to understand the relationship between democracy and journalism we have to understand three common classification and defects. American journalism is not a single thing. Its branches makes it more complicated. Journalism varies because of group of people. Different ethnic, cultural and religion groups has their own community and their tastes of news varies from group to group. As a result they have their own newspaper. The traditional newspapers and television media is not actually the representative of journalism. This is the age of globalization . The whole maintain a connection. as a result journalism changes its forms. Newspapers and television channels now focus on the international affairs, what happening around us and tried to present a true picture.

Models of journalism in western world consists of three types of journalism. First one is the liberal model. Liberal model basically have three characteristics. One characteristic of liberal model is commercial newspaper take place of other media sources. Here the great thing is that when commercial newspaper take place it displace the newspaper related with different social and political groups. as a result they can focus more to the international affair. Second one is government interruption is less than any other system. Once US government tried to tried to limit the activities of newspaper in their own boundary. Liberal model broke it and focus to the whole world. The third and last character is to establish a strong form of journalistic professionalism.

Second model is polarist pluralized model. a significant different media system appears in Mediterranean countries of Europe. Commercial and market oriented media established near the end of twentith century. State played a vital role to control media in southern Europe because political parralism is high in southern Europe. Newspapers and media takes place in favour of different political parties. It involved more politically rather than news presentation.

The third and last model of journalism is the democratic corporatist model. The model is influenced by liberal model. These model also demands the freedom of press. when commercial media industry grew up they made a link with political groups but their intention was not to make money. The tried to figure out the true scenario in front of people.

These three type of journalism appears as a demand of time. more or less all they are linked with political parties or sometimes they got influenced by politics. Political culture varies from place to place but European media industry put less emphasis on politics. Their concentration was commercialization and trade.