Category Archives: World News

Has Social Media Caused Us To Grieve Differently?

America experienced a tragedy this week when bombs were set off at the Boston Marathon, and innocent people were killed and injured. There was an immediate outpouring of emotion on social media supporting the victims and their families, as well …

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Media’s Impact on the Boston Marathon Tragedy

On Monday, April 15th, two homemade bombs were set off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three civilians and injuring almost 200 more.  While many have brought up the media’s inactivity during Bush’s push to wage war …

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To what extent should media expose the brutal truth!

So if anyone saw the news in the past week. You might have caught the Boston Marathon. And how there was unfortunately multiple bombings at the finish line. It seems like anywhere you turned you were constantly being informed and …

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Collaborative Learning vs. “Collaborative” Learning

How do you define collaborative learning? What makes a one type of collaborative learning more effective than the other? According to BusinessDictionary.com, collaborative learning is “Cooperative arrangement in which learners of different abilities and interests work jointly in small groups …

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The War in the Shadows: Cyberwarfare and Hacker Armies

When the Internet was first created I doubt many of us considered just how powerful of a medium for social change it could be and the impact it would have on global communications and globalization. I know I didn’t, because …

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A Real Virtual Relationship

What makes a relationship “real”? Do these said persons in the relationship have to have seen each in person at least once? Do they have to live in the same state? What really qualifies a relationship as a relationship?

The …

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Immigrants risk a lot, don’t you think?

Immigrants risk their lives, and families to be under paid and overworked, The Southern Poverty Law Center has found that from 2004-2006, the average personal yearly income for women farmworkers was 11,250. For men it was 16,250. With weakened laws, …

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Who Knew being Technology-Savvy had an Age Limit

Our society has this stereotype that the younger generations are the tech-savvy individuals and we are so surprised when we see someone who looks like he could be in his sixties or seventies with an iPhone5. We find it mind-blowing. …

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Amanda Knox: A U.S. Quandary

 As news spread across the world early last week of an Italian Supreme Courts decision to overturn a 2011 acquittal for American Amanda Knox, the United States quickly realized they were thrusted into what could become an international nightmare.  Knox, …

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The Media’s Code of Ethics Is Non Existent

Today I was at work and while I was working one of my coworkers asked me to come over to her desk. There we were standing around her computer looking at the Wesh Channel 2 news page. the clicks on …

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