Newspapers
Holidays in Ukraine
The word “holiday” comes from the words “holy day”. Holidays were first religion festivals. Now many holidays have nothing to do with religion. Almost every country has holidays honouring important events in its history.
Some holidays come on the same date of the same month, for instance, New Year`s Day or Christmas. But some do not. Some, such as Easter, are movable holidays.
New Year’s Day is very popular all over the world. People usually get together, have a big dinner and make big plans for the future.
We celebrate the first day of Christmas on the 7th of January. On the 6th of January people tidy the whole house, cook much food because the day after we must not work, we must celebrate a Great Holiday. On this evening we have a sacred supper or Kolyada. It begins when the first star lights up. As the legend says, this star announced the birth of the God’s Son. We celebrate Christmas for three days. Every evening a group of children comes. They sing songs. By these songs they congratulate on holiday, wish good harvest, long life, no illness and so on. It is interesting to know that only boys must congratulate, because girls bring unhappiness.
Another religious holiday is Easter. It is movable. It is usually the first Sunday after the first fullmoon after the beginning of spring. In Ukraine we have special attributes of Easter: Easter eggs, we call them “krashanka” and Easter cakes “paska” that are baked according to the special recipe. It is a very nice spring holiday.
Victory Day is on the 9th of May. It is a sacred holiday for every Ukrainian citizen. Almost every Ukrainian family sent its member to fight against fascist invaders. We are thankful to our grandfathers for the victory.
Newspaper is a publication that presents and comments on the news. Newspapers play an important role in shaping public opinion and informing people of current events.
The first newspapers were probably handwritten news-sheets posted in public places. The earliest daily newssheet was «Acta Diurna» («Daily Events») which started in Rome in 59 B.C. The first printed newspaper was Chinese publication called «Dibao» («Ti-pao») started in A.D.700's.*It was printed from carved wooden blocks, The first regularly published newspaper in Europe was «Avisa Relation» or «Zeitung», started in Germany in 1609.
Newspapers have certain advantages over other mass media — magazines, TV and radio. Newspaper can cover more news and in much detail than TV or radio newcast can do. Magazines focus on major national and international events of the preceeding week. But newspaper focuses on local news as well and provides information and comments faster than magazine can do.
There are about 1700 daily and 7500 weekly newspapers in the US. The circulation of some weeklies is no more than a few hundred of copies per issue and the circulation of some dailies is over a million of copies.
There are daily newspapers and weekly newspapers. Daily newspapers print world, national and local news. Many dailies are morning papers, others are afternoon papers. Sunday issues of the dailies are usually larger than the weekday ones. They may include special sections on such topics as entertainment, finance and travel or Sunday magazine, a guide to TV programmes, coloured comics. The major dailies in the US are «Christian Science Monitor», «New York Times», «USA Today» , «Wall Street Journal», «Washington Post».
Weekly newspapers serve usually for smaller areas. They are printed in small communities where people know each other and are interested in activities of their friends and neighbours. Weeklies report of weddings, births, deaths and news of local business and politics. Most weeklies do not print world or national news.
Newspapers
Newspaper is one of the important types of Mass Media. This type of publication is aimed at presenting and commenting on the news and different kind of information. Newspapers play a significant role in informing people of current news and shaping public opinion.
Newspapers offer several advantages over other means of communication — TV, radio and magazines. Newspaper can cover more information and news and in more detail than radio or TV newscast can do. It is known that magazines focus on major international and national events of the last week. But newspapers are intent to local news as well as provide information and comment faster than magazines are able to do.
There are daily and weekly newspapers.
National, world and local news are printed by daily newspapers. Dailies can be morning papers and afternoon papers. Sunday issue of the daily newspapers is usually bigger than the weekday issues. They may consist of special sections on topics such as travel, finance and entertainment.
Weeklies report of births, weddings, deaths and news of politics and local business. Finally, newspapers are delivered almost to every home every day.They contain lots of advertisement. A lot of people subscribe sometimes to two or more newspapers.
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