Protesters have poured into New York's Times Square to denounce the Iran nuclear deal as a threat to Israel and global security, demanding that the US Congress reject the pact.
Speakers at Wednesday's rally, including Republican politicians, called on the US Congress to throw the deal out, whipping up the crowd on that included supporters of right-wing Jewish and evangelical Christian groups.
The protest came as US Secretary of State and other senior officials briefed members of Congress about the deal behind closed doors.
Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan, reporting from Washington where the talks were held, said that some members of Congress came out from the discussions and told reporters that they were still very sceptical about the deal.
In New York, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, co-organiser of the Stop Iran Rally, claimed that there were 10,000 people in the crowd. Protesters held up US flags and placards denouncing the deal.
Al Jazeera could not confirm the number of people in attendance.
"We're here as Americans to speak with one voice to say stop Iran now, reject this deal," said George Pataki, the former three-term Republican governor of New York.
"This is a God-awful deal, this must be rejected. Congress must do its job and stand up for the American people, stand up for our safety and say no to this Iranian deal," he said.
The rally expressed support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose criticism of the deal has strained relations with President Barack Obama.
Recent polls have suggested that of the 79 percent of Americans who heard about the deal, 48 percent disapprove.
Organisers played a montage of news reports about bombings around the world carried out by armed groups linked to Iran.
Jesse, an attendee at the rally, told Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey that it was "very, very obvious why anyone would be against the deal".
"Iran has been our enemy for 36 years. There is really no sensible reason why anyone would believe that Iran should be trusted with weapons of any type," he said.
Source: Al Jazeera
NAME: ADESINA RUKAYAT
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TOPIC: EXAMINE THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON NIGERIA SCENE
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Magazines published throughout the world find their way onto our major city newsstand racks and bookstores, or they come through the mail for the subscription price. In ethnic communities, the presence of foreign periodicals is greater than in other communities. These magazines bring a new voice to our culture, a new way of looking at similar issues. So how do American scholars use these periodicals in their research? The purpose of this paper is to survey the literature as to the types of methodology used in magazine research, offer some insights as to relative theory or methodologies magazine research can use, and suggest a direction for future magazine research.
Historically, there have been two approaches to the study of magazines: one approach defines magazines in terms of form as physical commodities, and the second approach defines magazines as vehicles for ideas, understanding, and reader service. The first approach is often found in our trade publications, the second is found among our scholars, for the latter often view magazines as agents of socialization and as media for dissemination of popular culture. If then magazines are seen as reflective of culture, studies should also mirror that culture. What may be logically presumed is not what my survey of the literature indicates. On the contrary, my survey suggests that these studies do not provide scholarly information on magazines that is consistent with current norms of our culture. The question then is what types of studies have been performed using international magazines, and what, if any, are their importance to advancing scholarship in magazine research.
A limited number of studies have been performed on magazines published outside the United States, and few are accessible to American scholars. This paper will attempt to first describe some of these research studies and their methodologies. Thirty-four studies have been surveyed as representative of world-wide studies during the period 1980-1993. The parameters of the survey are as follows: only studies using periodicals published outside the U.S. are included, with the exception of comparative studies that also include U.S. magazines; dates investigated were 1980 to present; sources of inquiry began with the _Social Science Index_, _Humanities Index, Communications Abstracts Journalism Abstracts, Carl Uncover, MLA Index, ERIC,
Dissertations Abstracts, Paine and Paine's _Magazines: A Bibliography for Their Analysis, with Annotations and Study Guide_; and no studies are included that use U.S. magazines covering foreign events, people, or issues.
Second, the paper reviews articles I found to be important in discussing international magazines. These articles, I would argue, come closer to the norms of scholarship that currently operate in our culture. Third, I offer some suggestions of types of studies that could be performed and why.
NAME: ADEBAYO RACHEAL OLUWATOYIN
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TOPIC: EXAMINE THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MAGAZINE WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON NIGERIA SCENE
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According to statistics from the end of 2013, subscription levels for 22 of the top 25 magazines defined from 2012 to 2015 with just Time, Glamour and ESPN the Magazine gaining numbers.
The earliest example of magazines who ‘Erbauliche Monaths unterredungen which was launched in 1663 in Germany’ It was a literary and philosophy magazine. The gentleman’s magazines first published in 1731, in London are considered to have been the first general interest magazine. Edward Cave, who edited the gentleman’s magazine under the pens name ‘Silvanus Urban’, was the first to use the term ‘magazine’ on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied material, ultimately derived from the Arabic ‘MAKHAZIN’ (storehouse) by way of the French language.
The oldest consumer magazine still in print is ‘The Scots magazine, which was first published in 1739, through multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years waken that claim. Liyold’s England coffee shop in 1734, it is still published as a daily business newspaper.
SPECIAL FOCUS ON NIGERIA
Magazine Publication in Nigeria used to place emphasis of the information they were distributing, not necessarily the aesthetic quality, from the mid-80’s to 90’s, magazines publication could sometimes be difficult to produce due to the unavailability of advanced computer technology. At that time in Nigeria was news magazines like TSM (The Sunday magazine) published by the late May Ellen, News watch by the late Dele Giwa, and tell which was started by a group of people from News watch. Also popular in the late 80’s and the early 90’s were some soft sell magazines like Prime people and the Lifestyle true strong magazines such as Hints and Hearts, which were published by Dr kachikwu and chief Godwin respectively.
Not all these magazines were industry-based , but rather careered to many demographics. For instance, Prime people appealed largely to woman because of its report on people of high society.
Of all the magazines that were published them, only a handful are still in circulation such as tell, News watch and hints. These Magazines have some turbulences in form of Government oppression (as in the cases of Tell and News watch) Economic downturn and challenges of then-emerging digital technology but they still stayed true to their cases.