The New School

News happens 24 hours a day and is part of our daily life, keeping audiences informed of events happening locally, nationally and worldwide. As we watch our chosen news source, have you ever noticed any differences in the anchors delivering the news, how news worthy events are reported on and the many ways we can keep up on the breaking news. While there are many ways to get daily news, our focus is television news, looking at local ABC 7 Morning News and ABC World News Tonight. News Anchors…

The unbelievable news was on the radio. You had heard it but you didn’t believe it was true. The stock market had crashed. People were hysterical. The lines at all of the banks were as long as the eye could see. The people living in this time period were just beginning to experience the awful roller coaster their lives would be. In 1929 the Stock Market crashed. which led to the Great Depression. Roosevelt passed the first New Deal in 1933 and it ended in 1935. The Second New Deal started in…

force of a nuclear explosion. Less than 12 hours later, more than 80% of New Orleans was submerged in water. The resulting damage is predicted to have cost $300 billion and to have taken at least 1,400 lives. The progress in which cities along the Gulf Coast has amazed much of America, especially in New Orleans. As The New York Times stated, “It is a wonder that any of it is there at all.” (Robertson and Fausset) However, New Orleans and many other cities have yet to fully recover from the…

Misconduct in News Media News media has evolved for almost thirty-five years because of Internet usage, leaving a great milestone in world history; now advanced in technology, social media has pulled itself in the world of news media, giving a window to viewers to read and reflect on news media without even knowing it. However, according to Tim Graham, social media has been put in a harsh spot because of the inaccuracy of sources within stories. In Paul Farhi’s “Why Everyone (It Seems) Hates the…

access to high speed internet of 5Mbps.[1] WHAT LED TO THIS INITIATIVE? Although New Zealand is an extensively developed country but the population is widely spread throughout. The population density (people living per square kilometer) varies comprehensively from around 500 in urban areas…

As a little boy I always loved going to the festivals with my mama, New Orleans had the best of them. I loved the food, the music, and the mixture of the people from our city. Normally we weren’t allowed to be around the white people, but during festivals they were all over the city, and so were we. At school, we wouldn’t eat lunch at the same table as the white boys, but at the festivals I could be right there and nobody would pay any attention to me. Once during the first Jazz Festival in 1970…

called the New Deal and it was created in 1933 and lasted until 1935. It was created to help society after the Great Depression. In the year 1929, the U.S. stock market crashes, and the Great Depression begins. In 1931, over 8 million Americans are unemployed. Many people thought it went too far, and others thought that the New Deal did not go far enough. The overall question that is being asked is, “Was the New Deal a success?”. This answer to this question is determined by the New Deal…

good at this because I had a new surprise waiting for me almost every time I would go to the other parent’s house. I never knew whether it would be a good surprise or not. Because of this there was a lesson that I learned at a younger age than most people. The lesson being that, ”In order to live a good life you have to adjust to whatever life throws at you.” This lesson hit me hardest when I was three months into my sixth grade year. At the time, everything with school was going good as normal…

largest economic decline in American history. However, it not only affected the U.S. but other countries such as Germany and Great Britain. The president of this time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, created the New Deal to improve the poor economic conditions and give the people of America hope for the future. The New Deal was a series of federal programs that targeted specific areas of people that were most affected by the Great depression. President Roosevelt created fireside chats which allowed him…

prayer and other basic Christian traditions. After the New England Primer, was Noah Webster’s Speller which was a book meant to teach children how to read it is like the New England primer but different. Next were McGuffey’s readers a series of books, meant to help children to read and learn the word of God. These books read more like a novel and used fun ways to teach the bible and reading. These books were also used in Sunday schools. Sunday schools were and are meant to teach basic literacy…