New Divide

Though he has only been a household name in the United States for about four years, Ed Sheeran is now one of the most famous song artists internationally. His roots are in England, but Sheeran now travels the world to perform his popular music, which is a mix of pop, rock, and acoustic sounds. Ed Sheeran has brought many great songs into the light with his three major albums, titled after mathematical symbols. All the albums that have been released by Ed Sheeran are phenomenal, but his most recent collection ÷(Divide) is definitely his best album to date. Good music is largely defined by each individual and is rarely accepted across the board. Ed Sheeran, however, is accepted across many genres. His songs have made the charts in the standard…

Jessica King English IV Ms. Brown 7 December 2016 Within the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding, the author, creates numerous symbols that are strongly psychoactive but also strategic to the novel. This particular novel is examined worldwide because of its unique world view and tale it represents. The conch shell, fire, and Piggy’s glasses are highly significant to the novel The Lord of the Flies because the symbols all unite and divide the kids. The conch shell preserves a puissance over…

we are living in the new media society because of the digital devices are surrounded our lives such as the Internet, iPhone, TV… In fact, it also means we are living in the information society. According to the lecture, we access to information happens through digital technologies (Quintero, Johnson 2016, Information Society). There is no denying fact that we access the news, music, and information come from digital technologies. Meanwhile, new media society change our lifestyle; it changes our…

The question of what has been the cause of the ever pressing crises in the world today cannot be simply answered by any one thing. At its current standing point, it seems like the world economy, health and social justice is headed no where good. The rich are getting richer, while the poor get poorer. We are using our resources more and more without preparing for when those run out. Structural unemployment is rising, poverty is increasing and inequality is flourishing as it never has before…

21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than searching for it. Based on who you follow or who you’re friends with will determine what kinds of information pops up on your timeline. Because of things like Twitter, where news is easily accessible with real-time updates, there is a demand for instant news stories that quickly inform. Newspapers cannot cater to the majority of the population because…

The new social media has not made for a more enlightened, connected and democratic society. Instead, it has used mechanisms to instill fear and mass hysteria to those following them and will continue to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers…

The American news spends a lot of time discussing the events that take place Iran, Syria, Eqypt, England, and a few others. Some countries are not a majorly discussed country in the news in the United States. There are several others that could be mentioned more, as well. Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden are just a few that we rarely hear anything about in our media. American news networks seem to only discuss a fraction of countries that make up the world.…

my life, and as well as potential risks it poses. These ideas prove that social media has had a negative impact on our society. First of all, people have been relying too heavily on technology for everyday life. Yzzy Gonzalez wrote a descriptive article discussing the way she relies not only just on social media, but how much of her day is controlled by apps. She states, “I eat my breakfast reading theSkimm, Deadline Hollywood, Cupcakes and Cashmere, and many more news sites and blogs, all…

News comes today comes in many forms from a twitter update on your phone to the more traditional newspaper delivered right to your house each morning. Some news we find intriguing, while other articles we just skim over and think nothing of it. So why does some news catch our attention? Is it the shock factor, something interesting or is it just so horrifying you have to read it? Today one of the most controversial topics flooding the news is gun violence and gun control. It seems we cannot go…