The Boston Globe

The Spotlight team at the Boston Globe was able to publicize a 30 year history of the Catholic Church covering up to not deal with the repercussions and refusing to put a stop to the massive child abuse problem occurring by the priest. In order to do this, the team had to work countless hours to remain focus on the “big picture” to gather the information and inform the public about this extremely important matter that would become one of the biggest scandals in history. The team had to go out of their comfort zone and seek creative ways to find the truth. The team began to reach out to the churches and also reached out to a support group of victims abused by priest. An example of this was in the movie, the team spoke to the person in charge of the support group, Phil. Phil was able to give the team material that could be used for the investigation. He was able to give the team a list of a few victims willing to be interviewed regarding this. By getting those victims to speak up, they were also able to discover 13 names of some of the priest that did the abuse to them. The movie showed an example of a phone call the Spotlight team had with a man that had been investigating this for may years. He informed the team that 6% of Boston priest alone were involved in this. This helped the team discover books with all the priest’s names on it and…

The film Spotlight (2015) dramatizes The Boston Globe’s spotlight team’s investigation of the priests’ sexual abuse of children within the Boston Roman Catholic Church. The Spotlight team discovers the many cases of priests who committed sexual abuse, but the lack of justice carried out by law enforcement. They uncover the privately taken care of crimes, often hidden from the public. This film raises important topics of the relationship between church and state, the church’s abuse of power, the…

The Boston Globe’s highlight crew group digs deep into the state’s reputation about racism against black humans and its fact in its modern-day investigative collection, “Boston. Racism. Mage. Reality.”. It pronounced on Boston’s image and Boston’s truth, and the racism this is so deeply ingrained into every. The anecdotes it offered had been awful, and the statistics are astounding. The median internet worth of non-immigrant African-American families in and around Boston is $8. In schools,…

The Boston Globe It all starts with the overview of how social media has become a place where more harm than good is happening. No one meant Facebook or Instagram to become a spot of where hate is filtered through. Nicholas Carr is stating how getting more information on each other, was meant for good but instead “put us at each other’s throats.” “Although people believe that knowing leads to liking,” the researchers wrote, “knowing more means liking less” This quote is what the entire…

Spotlight – Sociologial Theories 1 “When the Boston Globe’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world” (Road, n.d.). Spotlight is a movie based on real-life events that occurred in 2001and it shows the viewers the obstacles that these…

Shakespeare was born in April 23, 1564 in a small market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. He died on his birthday in 1616. During his life, Shakespeare’s father became the bailiff which is the mayor in 1568. Williams attended the Stratford grammar school and spent 9 hours a day in school. Also he was to study Latin because it was neccessary for certain jobs and was a sign of an educated person. He was a country boy and enjoyed gardening, horsebackriding, and archery. He like lawn bowling the best.…

Before the first theatres, playwrights and actors performed in towns, college halls, inn courtyards, and private houses (“The Original Globe”). When the Globe was built, theatres had only been around for roughly five years. Not only was William Shakespeare an amazing playwright, he helped design one of the first theatres! The beautiful Globe Theatre lied on the south of the river Thames (Mabillard). One woman described it as “one of the most elaborate and attractive theatres built.” The…

different ethnic backgrounds attended school together. I say this because I came from a country where there wasn’t much diversity. It’s hard to imagine that just 50 years ago people lived in a racially divided America. So how did we end the racial divide in our school system? Especially in the white dominated cities such as Boston. I decided to research on how schools integrated in Boston. I came across a topic called Boston Busing crisis. I had no knowledge of what the Boston Busing crisis…

The story of The Three Stooges began in 1922 with Ted Healy, Moe Howard and Samuel “Shemp” Howard. From a young age, Moe Howard desired to go about the career of acting. He started in smaller positions, taking most anything, such as performing in Shakespearean plays. However, nothing for Moe stuck or became massively successful. That was until he re-encountered a long-time friend, and now Vaudeville entertainer, Ted Healy, at the Brooklyn Prospect Theatre. Healy needed a…

prominent theatres in today’s day and age? In Shakespeare’s time, one of the most popular was The Globe Theatre, also called Shakespeare’s Globe. Built in 1599, Shakespeare’s playing group, “The Lord Chamberlain’s Men” owned and operated this theatre. The theatre drew people from all across Europe, exposing Shakespeare to many people. Shakespeare, along with The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, performed some of his greatest plays there. The theatre burned down and closed once, resulting in people…