James Foley's Death

The 2006 Duke Lacrosse Case brought to light many of the issues and divisions currently plaguing our media sphere. This terrible act of injustice, which blamed three innocent Duke lacrosse players, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans, for the rape of an African-American stripper, garnered extensive media attention that gripped America for almost an entire year (Wasserman, 3). Today, many scrutinze the media’s methods of covering the case, and deem that certain codes of ethics were not adhered to. Rather than remaining neutral, newspapers and TV outlets allowed themselves to “be used” by Mike Nifong, the former District Attorney for Durham and prosecutor of the case, by reporting

Articles like Lessons from Virginia Tech: Exploring Disparities & Commonalities Between Visual Coverage in U.S. Newspapers & Victims' Families' Perceptions by Fahmy and Roedl (2010), News as Subject: What is it? Where is it? Whose is it?: The Case of the Virginia Tech Massacre by Fry (2008), The Thirty-Third Victim: Representations of Seung Hui Cho in the Aftermath of the “Virginia Tech Massacre” by Jones (2009) each focus on a different aspect of media portrayal. The article by Fahmy and Roedl (2010) looks at the ethnics of how newspapers framed the tragedy affect people’s perceptions of the event. It found that US newspapers mainly framed to the story around the shooter and weapons used in the attack, while images focused on victims and community involvement (Fahmy & Roedl, 2010). The methods used in this study were interviews with family members of the shooting, analyzed the use of graphical devices in new coverage, and content analyze crime photographs (Fahmy & Roedl, 2010). The study by Fry (2008) focuses on the shift on how news is defined and how fast, digital, and in real time Virginia Tech was covered. It found that people began to change their news habits due it becoming widely available and accessible, many considered the internet in conjunction with television is the best news source, and adults began to become more distrustful to new sources. The methods used in this study was analyzing how

The 1970s was a rough time for Americans. The economy was struggling and gas prices were doublings, sometimes gas stations even ran out of gas. While all this was going on, the media caught the attention of the American people on the story of the sixty six hostages that were captured in Tehran. Soon that became the center of attention. Both in Iran and America, people focused on what would happen and especially how President Jimmy Carter would respond. In his book, Taken Hostage, David Farber closely examines the events that led up to the hostage crisis. He informs us of America’s first encounter with radical Islam and what had caused the conflict between them. For four hundred and forty-four days, President Carter tried to put effort into resolving the issues but he failed on releasing the hostages. Since the American people paid close attention to this issue, they were highly disappointed with President Carter and his processes. From our class lectures and throughout the tensions illustrated in Farber’s book, we learn of how the role of Cold War policy had fueled the crisis between the United States and “Radical Islam”, the Cold War policy shaping the response of the U.S. to the crisis, and also understanding the present War on Terror.

September 11, 2001 is a date in history that changed the lives of people from all over the world and especially the lives of Americans. On this day nineteen militant men associated with al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, hijacked four airplanes and carried out multiple suicide attacks on different locations in the United States. Two of the planes directly struck the World Trade Center located in New York City, one of the other two planes hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the final plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania before it could reach its final destination. On this day, more than 3,000 people were killed including over 400 first responding police officers and firefighters. In recent years as people look back on that day it is remembered as a time when the country was joined together by grief and showed an overwhelming amount of comfort and support to the victims and their families; it was also a time of extreme national pride. People also remember that following the attacks the economy suffered tremendously, in addition, air traffic which makes up a portion of the economy was greatly disrupted, both of which created uncertainty about the security of the financial markets critical to the success of the United States. What most people do not remember is the immediate backlash and hostility the Muslim and Arab communities received following the attacks by both civilians and the media. This is a topic that has been largely ignored by the public and media’s

Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Determine never to be idle .... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." James Trump, a local accountant, lived by this motto. He also died by this motto.

On July 30, 1975 at the age of 62 Jimmy Hoffa vanished from the face of the earth without a trace. Jimmy Hoffa was the leader of the teamsters union, but also he had ties with the mafia. Because of his union leadership many working Americans considered Hoffa their hero, but he also had powerful enemies. The question that stills has everyone baffled today is that did he die and if so who killed him. I think that Hoffa got murdered by a mafia hit man by the name of Frank “The Irishman”Sheeran. Frank is a WW2 veteran that loved to kill after he came back from the war he began to have ties with the mob and became a hitman for them. Frank and Hoffa were best friends for 20 plus years. I know what you're thinking why would somebody kill their friend

I am going to tell you about the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, better known as Ted Bundy. I will explain why he started to commit these murders, and the stories of the few victims that survived. You will read how he committed these murders, and what he did with the victims. You will learn about how he got away with escaping prison twice. Ted Bundy was sentenced to death after confessing to thirty-six murders. He started committing these murders when he was around eighteen years old. He continued these murders until he was twenty-four years old. In one of his last interviews he explains why he blames himself and pornography for his killings.

A modern issue that is affecting our nation is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria also known as ISIS. ISIS is noted to be a terrorist group that has caused many attacks against the United States of America and many other countries. Their goal is to build a caliphate state (Pierpaoli, 2015). ISIS uses “persecution and extermination” to those who enter its territories or go against them. This is a problem because ISIS is currently a threat to the United States. The people affected by this problem are the citizens of the U.S. the people in the Middle East, and their allies, France and

Ever since its creation America has always been seen as the icon for peace and prosperity; however, just like every other nation in the world, America has encountered some exceedingly dark and sinister incidents of the past years. Like David Berkowitz’s killing spree in New York City during the summer of 1976, the Virginia Tech shooting that took place on the college campus in 2007, and even the horrific Oklahoma City Bombing that Timothy McVeigh orchestrated in 1995. But there is one event in particular that was even more heinous and stranger than any of those – the Jonestown Massacre. It was a mass suicide that occurred on November 18, 1978, in Guyana that took the lives of over 900 innocent people (The Stigmatized Deaths in Jonestown…

On the night of the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd below his 32nd-floor hotel room with unknown motives, ending dozens of lives and impacting hundreds.

On October 1, Stephen Paddock, a Las Vegas hotel guest, was the perpetrator at Route 91 Harvest music festival and the incident is known as the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. During the festival, he opened fire at 22,000 people. Everyone tries to run far away but some people got shot so some individuals helped them during the incidents being good samaritans. In the end, around 500 people are in recovery and 58 people died by a guy with unknown motives to the public because he killed himself.

President Obama stated in his Anti-Terror Strategy address, "We continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today” (Obama).The Middle East today is composed of very complicated religious tensions, unstable states, and rising terrorist organizations. The collapse of central governments and the rise of powerful non-state actors breed problems that foreign powers and the world’s only superpower, simply should begin to address. Many argue that the involvement in the Middle East is not our problem and that it will only cause our national debt to increase. As human beings we must began to realize the crimes against humanity occurring in the region and ask ourselves one question, can we truly turn a blind eye to the hundreds of innocent people dying and at what cost? The United States of America must get involved in the Middle East to ensure justice is achieved and maintained. Our interference will decrease the chances of terrorist attacking U.S. soil, and our military involvement will save the lives of many innocent citizens caught up in the turmoil. The United States must protect its interests and allies in the region. America stands for freedom, justice, and dignity; we must take a stand to defend ourselves and those in need, if we truly want to uphold the

James Patrick Bulger was born on the 16th of March, 1990, to Ralph and Denise Bulger in Kirkby, Merseyside.

One of the most heartbreaking sights was the image of a family with four children sheltering in a bunker as an incessant shower of bombs destroyed their home and nearby buildings. Exiting the bunker only brought forth even more sickening images as the family watched their neighbors being carried away on stretchers. This scene was one of the many portrayed by the media on the conflict between Israel and Gaza. Not much later my TV screen was taken over by the images of Liberia and the sickly patients diagnosed with Ebola aching for help knowing that there wasn’t any help coming. Unable to watch these stomach churning events unfold, I quickly changed the channel only to be faced with the news of yet another beheading of a westerner at the hands of Isis terrorists. Most Americans oppose the idea of America being “The World’s Policeman” because the title assumes immense responsibility. According to the Politico Poll presented by CNN, a staggering 67% of Americans believe that we shouldn’t get involved in foreign issues while 20% believe the U.S has a responsibility to use its military to protect democracy and peace. In the midst of deepening violence

In this article, the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is known for keeping a 26 year old woman hostage, and repeatedly raping her. But, as the article informed the reader she wasn’t the only victim. The 26 year old, Kayla Mueller, was repeatedly tortured and raped she was being kept as a sex slave. The group, the Islamic State, captured about 1,000 Yazidi women where they were given the choice to either be with someone in a “marriage” or be imprisoned. They took girls who were around 12 years old, and women to use them as sex slaves. Since, they claimed this was justified because of their religion. As for Kayla Mueller, she passed away earlier this year.