Category Archives: Environment

“The Interconnected Estate”… for good or for evil?

As Eric Scmidt and Jared Cohen indicate in their article The Digital Disruption: Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power,  technology has now brought society to a place where even at the height or depths of society, every man and woman has … Continue reading

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Gas Prices Rise as a Result of Hurricane Isaac

From last week, into the weekend and onto the beginning of this week, all eyes were on Hurricane Isaac. As far a early last week, Isaac made its way through the Caribbean Islands and Hispaniola bringing devastation to the Dominican … Continue reading

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Seven Years Later: Louisiana Once Again Prepares For The Worst

If you live in the state of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, or Texas you probably have been keeping a close eye on the news for any updates on Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac. As of now Isaac is only a Tropical Storm … Continue reading

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How Would You Look In a Virtual World?

MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) have been around longer than any of the social media sites we use today. With this in mind, I’m actually surprised that social media practices didn’t start even earlier than they actually did. … Continue reading

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Ways To Avoid The Wasteland That Is Mass Media

In Newton N. Minow article “A Vaster Wateland”, he spoke about the changes that face mass media and the regulations that need to evolve along with them. Minow created six goals that will help mass media run more effectively. His … Continue reading

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Can Graphic Pictures really enhance the amount of Humanitarian Action?

On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti with a magnitude of 7.0 and it ended up killing around 230,000 people and leaving almost 3 million homeless. Once the news broke, American journalists and photographers rushed over there to … Continue reading

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Exploitation or Empowerment

Journalists have been include a little to much information at times, mostly when it comes to pictures. Words can take you only so far in the mind, even with the best writers, however some of these pictures that are shown … Continue reading

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Titanic photo shows evidence of human remains

A newly released photo from the North Atlantic site of the shipwrecked RMS Titanic shows evidence of human remains, federal officials are saying. In observance of the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking, a 2004 imagewas reissued to the public in an uncropped version, which … Continue reading

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I-4 Ultimate Project

With an estimated 55 million people traveling to Orlando this year, traffic is becoming more of an issue for local commuters. Local Commuter Zack Bain said he spends 30-minutes a day stuck in traffic, and something needs to be done … Continue reading

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Entitled Celebrities

Normally, I usually like to write about political topics because they are what interest me most. However, recently while I was driving home from work I heard on the radio some meaningless gossip about the singer Rihanna. In an interview … Continue reading

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