analysis

The climate in Alexandria, Egypt has always been unconditionally hot. The Egyptian Gazette from the early 1900s provided daily weather reports in their weekly issues. This newspaper also referenced the many ways the population escaped from the dreadful summer months.

For my analysis project, I decided to analyze job advertisements in the “Cheap Prepaid Advertisements” section of the Egyptian Gazette. The specific contents of the job advertisements that I analyzed were the languages that employers wanted applicants to know, the expected gender of the applicants, and the adjectives used to describe desired applicants.

Immediately upon first glance of the Monday issue of my week in “The Egyptian Gazette,” I was intrigued by the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section. As a history major, I am constantly learning about different time periods and cultures, while desperately trying to grasp the true interests of the people living in these different time periods and cultures.

There were many topics to chose from pertaining to the Egyptian Gazette however, in my analysis project I decided to look at the “Local and General” section of the newspaper. I was interested in the topics that showed up most in the section and moreover what topics kept getting printed in the issues of the newspaper.

For my research analysis project, I looked at the number of times Lord Cromer was mentioned throughout the Egyptian Gazette. I first searched a simple XPath query by searching for the word “Cromer” with the restriction of //div[not(@feature=“advert”)] to look throughout all the issues and every div except the divs with the feature of advert.

My inspiration for this Analysis project began with my blog post. When looking through my page images for the Egyptian Gazette, I came across something that really peaked my interest, “A Prison Wedding”.

I chose to study the most popular sports in Egypt during the early 1900s for my analysis project. As a Sports Management major, this subject is very interesting to me as I can compare how sports culture has evolved and changed throughout the years.

I chose to do my Analysis Project on the performances of different polo players and teams in Egypt and using different xpath queries and analysis to see who is the best polo player and the best polo team in Egypt.

Microhistory gives the ability to focus on smaller details in history to be able to fully understand why and what happened during that day in time. Microhistory for this class allowed the students to investigate the Egyptian Gazette newspaper from 1905, 1906, and 1907 and see details from our certain weeks assigned to us.

When we think of the day to day lives of people we may think of a consistent schedule that only changes when major events happen. However, from first hand experience I know the largest disruption to daily life are accidents.