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Spotlight is about the investigative reporting unit of the Boston Globe, a somewhat autonomous journalistic arm of the newspaper. In 2001, Marty Baron, the newly hired editor-in-chief, asks the crew to drop the story they're currently working on and focus on allegations regarding a priest named John Geoghan (who's accused of molesting more than 80 boys). The team initially doubts whether the story will pick up traction with the local community, and are hesitant in pursuing it, feeling that Baron (who is neither locally raised nor catholic) is a bit of an outsider who doesn't understand what news is important to Bostonians. The team talk to lawyers who have or are working on alleged sex abuse cases perpetrated by Catholic priests in Boston (those lawyers including Eric MacLeish and Mitchell Garabedian), known victims (such as Phil Saviano, the head of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)) and insiders in the Catholic church. Through this investigation, they get wind that the problem is not contained to one priest and one victim, in essence changing the focus from the priests to the systemic problem of the Archdiocese not only covering up the abuse but in reality doing nothing to stop it and thus condoning it. The movie is based on a true story.…

COMPANY II: NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY BACKGROUND New York Life Insurance Company was found on April 12, 1845. In 1856, New York Life’s assets exceed $1 million. During the Civil War, New York Life’s president Ogden stand firm on the company commitment to pay legitimate claims, North and South. Throughout the war, the company continues to pay death claims. In 1894, the time when gender equality is rare; New York Life becomes the first insurer to charge women the same premium rates as men…

Supreme Court Case of The New York Times v. the United States was about how freedom of the press overcomes the prior restraint of the government when there is no catastrophic event to the safety of the armed forces. The Nixon administration tried to use prior restraint on the New York Times from printing out more newspapers on the Vietnam war and the classified study called, "History of U.S. Decision-Making on Vietnam Policy." It was not only the New York Times that had printed out the papers on…

Kate Spade New York was a brand created by Kate Brosnaham Spade and her husband, Andy Spade. It was a company created out of desire for something new on the market, skill and creativity. The company took off immediately after the couple’s first trade show, and in a span of ten years, the company had been through a number of owners, finally reaching the creation of the umbrella company Kate Spade & Company in 2013 (Spragins, 2003). After initially having success on their own for a number…

Italy during the Renaissance period a new style of dance was introduced called ballet. Catherine de Medici who was an Italian aristocrat with an interest in the arts of Italy had ballet dancing preformed when she married the French King Henry II. This lead to choreographers becoming inspired by ballet, and its influence spread worldwide. One choreographer who loved the brilliance of ballet, and was considered one of the leading contemporary choreographers of ballet was Balanchine. His is real…

monograph “Triangle The Fire That Changed America” by David Von Drehle is a brief history on the The Triangle Waist Company that burned down in March 25, 1911 claiming many lives of The Triangle Waist Company. Drehle profession lays in journalism where he studied in the University of Oxford and also at the University of Denver where he got a masters in Literature as a Marshall Scholar. With the fire at The Triangle Waist Company issues arose that the fire was indeed a crucial moment in…

seconds for an ambulance in New York City to reach the caller. This is 4 minutes longer than the national average. New York’s congestion problem began in the 1930s, the depressed economy put thousands of people behind the wheels of taxi cabs. Thousands of drivers chasing after few fares congested the streets of the New York boroughs and forced the city to put a restriction on the number of cabs allowed on the streets at a time. Uber, an app that allows its users to request a pick up and drop off…

“I call it the cut-and-paste apartment,” Walter Youngblood, an artist and ice-cream man, said of the fourth-floor walk-up in East Harlem where he’s lived for 20 years. He bartered a painting for the stove and rescued the bashed-in mini-chandelier from the trash. It hangs in the kitchen, which has colonized half the living room. The refrigerator stands in a far corner, and steel wire shelves jut out, with dangling pots, pans and heavy-duty sieves at the ready. But the tool that Mr. Youngblood,…

first taxicab company in New York City was the Samuel's Electric Carriage and Wagon Company (E.C.W.C.), which began running 12 electric cabs in July 1897. The company ran until 1898 with up to 62 cabs operating until the company built the Electrobat electric car, and had up to 100 taxicabs running in total by 1899. By the early 1900s the Electric Vehicle company was running up to 1,000 electric taxicabs on the streets of New York City until, in January 1907, a fire destroyed 300 of these…

The athlete I choose to do is Mark Teixeira. Mark Teixeira is a 34 year old First Baseman and Designated Hitter for the New York Yankees of Major League baseball. Mark Teixeira was drafted 5th overall in 2001 by the Texas Rangers, the team in which he would eventually make his major league debut for in 2003. In 2007 he was traded to the Atlanta Braves of the National League and then was traded to the Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim the next year. Teixeira would settle down in 2008 when he signed…