ENGL1102Fa2018

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-seattle-nun-led-shareholder-revolt-against-gun-makers-n915006 People are more concerned about how gun manufacturers are producing there guns and are making the safety on them more safer for people to bear these guns. This nun in Seattle which has a degree In finance has really been getting involved into looking into gun safety, her way of getting people to help her as a nun she looks for faith-based activist to help her really get to people in the stock market because what they are paying in the stock market is what they are against. After many cases shootings she went out and got investors to find out how are these companies making their guns safer for people to decrease the number of public shootings. however after her uprisings for these demands to see how guns where becoming safer other investors started taking interest into this and this caused a completely new front to the stock market . “My religion wasn’t just about God and me; my re...

September 28, 2018 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/09/news-chandra-xray-hubble-galaxy-collide-black-hole-neutron-star-image/ National Geographic was founded in 1888, 130 years ago as a very prestigious academic society. It is now based out of Washington D.C., and partnered with 21st Century Fox, operates the National Geographic magazine, website, TV channel and so on. The organization is very pro-science and does not have much political bias to it. National Geographic has established a huge name for itself worldwide and has several TV channels to cater to different sections of the globe. The organization's interests include geography, archaeology, natural sciences among other scientific and historic subjects. This article in particular, found on the website speaks of a massive astronomic discovery. Two spiral galaxies were able to catch onto each other's gravitational pull and eventually "collided" to create a ring galaxy filled with neutron star...

The debate between Kavanaugh and Kristine is underway and causing a big controversy in the congress. She is claiming the he mulested her when they were in high school and he is saying that it is all lies. She had three people backing up her story well now they are saying that it did not take place. Kavanaugh says he is completely innocent and that did not take place. In my opinion why did you wait so long to finally say something when the guy is trying to better himself in his job and get a job at the White House. I think she is just trying to stir stuff up so he will loose his opportunity.

The Human Destruction from Hurricane Florence Assessment: Jedediah Purdy, the author of this article, is currently a teacher at Duke University and is the author of the book “After Nature.” The New Yorker, which published the article, also publishes a variety of media from political journalism to poetry and news related cartoons. Their main audience is New Yorkers, but they produce content for a large amount of the country’s population. The New Yorker publishes mainly liberal views with accurate views on current events. Summary: At least 32 people are dead because of Hurricane Florence; North Carolina alone received thirty inches of rainfall and the roads leading to the coastal town of Wilmington are flooded, leaving all those that chose not to evacuate stranded. Michael Regan, the state’s Secretary of Environmental Quality, reported multiple flooded lagoons, or extremely confined spaces in which farm animals are forced to live--and defecate. The rainfall that lands in or around t...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/asia/super-typhoon-trami-wxc-intl/index.html Assessment of news source: The article i found was from our very own CNN(Cable News Network). CNN news are based is American based and they also have their own television channel. CNN headquarters is in Atlanta, GA. They were founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Ted Turner first starte off with a 24-hour cable news channel. CNN won the national Peabody Award for the year 2017,2016, and 2014. They were also awarded Shorty Industry "Best In News" for 2013 and 2012. Summary: The article is about another natural distaster. After what happen with Japan recently, Mothernature can't ever give them a break. Astronauts on the ISS(Internation Space Station) has captured images of a category five Super Typhoon Trami heading towards Japan and Taiwan. Forecasts predict that the typhoon will affect northern and central Taiwan and Japan's Ryukyu Islands as well. However, this is still unclear. CNN's m...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-justice-department-trump.html Assenment I am using a New York Time as to talk about Rob Rosenstein problem. This source is really popular with it story, with popular viewers from newpaper to article.   The company have been around over 30 years and provide decent information with recent world event.   They have large varied of writer that contribute to the story. A lot of story tends to varied from of different media . They cover almost everything from food to government.   They are multi million dollar company.  Summary. This talk about Rob Rosenstein resign indicate, also the  opinion  of Donald Trump saying he was ready to fire him. This article talks about who is going to take over his office. This then talk about a Russian investigation going on with Rob. This is then talk about Rob Rosenstein’s clashing with Trump supporter. They then talk about the trial of testifying at the c...

Andrew Cuzman   https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/asia/indonesian-teen-rescued-intl/index.html CE Blog #3 Assesment of News Source       CNN is an american news-based channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System. CNN has been subject to many controversies but is a valuble source to go to for news source since they are consistent when gathering sources. CNN is biased more towards the Democratic party which leads to some news articles pertaining with politics are more on the side with Democrats.  Summary of article        A 19-year old teen from Indonesia had a job to light lamps on traps to attract fish in the sea, the way that he did this was by sitting on small huts that were tied by a rop to the bottom of the sea and watch over these traps. He was hired for six months to stay out there with someone checking up on him at the end of each week bringing him food, water, and other supplies. A strong storm made one of the ropes of...

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ National Geographic Channel known as National Geographic but also have a commercially trademarked named as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV. Nat Geo is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by National Geographic Partners. The channel leads air non-fiction television programs produced by National Geographic and other production companies, such as History and Discovery channel. The channel also features documentaries with factual content involving nature, science, culture, and history programs. The Trump Administration’s presidency has brought an outbreak of changes both realized and anticipated to U.S. environmental policy. During the Obama-era policies, they aimed to control climate change and limit environmental pollution, while President Trump threatens to restrict federal funding for science and the environment and less regulation on environmental policies The Trump ...

Mary Young ENGL 1102 Dr. Molly Daniel 24 September 2018 Current Event Blog: National Public Radio Assessment of News Source     The National Public Radio ( NPR ) is a non-profit organization that serves as a radio syndicator to over 1,000 radio stations in the country. Jarl Mohn became the President and CEO of NPR in 2014, after having a large background in the public radio business. He founded E! Entertainment Television (a talkshow covering the latest celebrity gossip) and Liberty Digital Inc. (a company invested in television and media business), and was a general manager of MTV and VH1 . He is now a current board member of Scripps Network Interactive , a cable network that focuses solely on providing lifestyle channels (and fights against the gender gap). Mohn and the NPR are both criticized as being “very liberal” by The New York Times , and Mohn has been a contributor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to support Gephardt, Gore, Kerry, and Obama...

The news source I chose today is Science Daily, my favorite news source. Science Daily is made up of scientists. Every article and image is credited and sourced often with links, or even email addresses. They specialize in all science and the whole website is categorized.  The article is about a new discovery that was made four days ago in Australia. Scientists found molecules of fat from a creature called Dickinsonia that lived 558 million years ago. Making it the oldest animal ever discovered! The article contained a few quotes from the scientist himself. The scientist said that he had to ride a helicopter to the location and hang over the edges of cliffs. Then he had to throw sandstone down, go down, bust it up more, and repeat. The article concludes with an observation from another scientist on how big of a deal it is to have confirmed the discovery. The article tells you and gives a link of exactly where to go to get straight to the source and the scientist. The article is a l...

  The news source I used for this weeks current event blog is USA Today. It was founded 1982, and there motto  is to serve as a connection for better understanding and unity within the whole United States of America and to truly unify that United States as one without bias. This news source was primarily founded by Al Neuharth in 1982 and the headquarters are currently in Virginia. interesting enough their goal is to do this all through a social media platform.    I read about the article "With 911 dispatches in short supply, average response time is slower" in which it is projected that low employment rate can be a threat to our lives as Americans. Your hear about the low employment rate all the time but it does not intensify when you need to dial 911 and you get put on hold. This article explains that crisis that Americans are facing because people have died from delays in 911 calls. The reason being that they are a lot of hurdles they must go through to even get ...

CNN or Cable News Network is an American news-based pay television company. Owned by Turner Broadcasting system that's a division of AT&T and Warner Media. It was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner and was the first network to provide 24 hour news coverage. Its more of a liberal based company and it has received many awards for international reporting and best sports news reporting. CNN has been proving news coverage for years and is a leading news source. On September 23, 2018 it was reported that multiple people had found needles inside strawberries in New Zealand. They were found in a major name brand sold in many supermarket chains; the brand Choice strawberries were recalled from shelves for having sewing needles and pins found inside of them. The brand choice Is an Australia based company and the strawberries were recalled in Australia as well. No one was to be reported hurt by the incident .The investigation is still on going to discover who or how the needles got into the ...

Tiger Woods Current event #3 For this weeks news source i used CNN. CNN is known for very quick and up to date news. However some of their news about politics are swung to their bias and are sometimes not very legit. For that reason i decided to use their sports article they are always on point with sports because you cant hide that and what happens happens in sports there is no swaying that. CNN stands for  Cable News Network is an American news-based pay television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel.  This article was about Tiger Woods great comeback to get his 80th win. He had struggled through a lot of adversity from being in the spotlight for wrong doings all the way to not even knowing if he would be able to swing a golf club or even walk in some cases because of a set back injury in the prime of his outstanding career. Criti...

Link to Article Assessment of the Source- Founded in 1851, The New York Times as been a staple in journalism for a long time. Founded by a banker and a journalist, the paper has provided coverage on current events, entertainment, art, music, and countless other topics throughout it's history. Summary of the Article- This article breaks down some of the problems of the new tariffs that President Trump has placed on Chinese imports. It interviews several factory owners who have already started to move their productions out of China and into other countries, like Cambodia and Taiwan. The article also focuses on the struggle that several of the owners are going through because they have to source multiple parts for their products from multiple countries, which takes longer and can lead to more mistakes in the chain of things. Analysis of the Article- This article does a very good job of describing what is going on in production markets, and what is happening in the minds of ...

The Huffington Post is a news and opinion website that was founded in 2005. It covers politics, news, satire, business, entertainment, technology, and more. It is considered to be a liberal news source. The Huffington Post was acquired by AOL in 2011, and subsequently Verizon in 2015 when they purchased AOL. It is regarded as a popular site by several measures of performance and continues to pull in high ratings on the Alexa Global Traffic Rank. This article discusses how Wells Fargo is planning to cut up to 27,000 jobs by the year 2020. Wells Fargo has a goal of reducing costs by $4 billion by the same year. They are also operating under an asset cap by the Federal Reserve, in the wake of several scandals. Wells Fargo does not specify which parts of the company that will be affected by the cuts, but it will reflect the trend of consumer preferences. I found the article to be mostly objective in their portrayal, because there was not a lot of opinion injected into the reporting. They ...

https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/45625712 BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world’s largest broadcast news organization and generated about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. BBC News’ domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmers and other current affairs and sports programmers. There was a period, very recently, where the only time you thought about Tiger Woods was to wonder when the official retirement announcement was going to arrive. He had a body wrecked that he struggled to bend down to pick up his ball. He was t...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/20/asia/india-rape-victim-mother-interview/index.html Cable New Network (CNN) is an American news-based pay television channel and is a source that leans to the left and is critical to the right side. The network was launched on June 1, 1980 and and its headquarters are located here in Atlanta, Georgia. It is owned by Turner Broadcasting System and founded by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfield. It's liberal perspective on events have attracted a global audience and has nine sister channels around the world. On September 20, 2018, journalists Ray Sanchez, Sugam Pokharel and Anna Coren have reported a mother's story of her seven year old daughter being raped. The attacker raped the young victim using a water hose and then handed her 10 rupees (equivalent to 14 cents in USD) with a piece of chocolate. The victim was able to point out the attacker and he was then arrested. The mother of the victim stated that the attacker should be hung for his wrongd...

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/gbi-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-after-police-chase Assessment: Fox 5, also known as WAGA-TV, is the tv station licensed to Atlanta, Ga. They first started in March 8, 1949. In the beginning the tv station was owned by a Toledo, Ohio company and they also owned the Atlanta radio company. Fox 5, or channel 5, is the second oldest tv station in Atlanta. In 1993 fox outbid CBS for the footballs television package, making them have more views. Summary: A clayton county sheriff arrested a man after being involved in a high speed chase. They originally tried to talking to the man because the car had stopped. But when the officer got out the car and started walking toward the vehicle the driving started driving towards the officer, intending to hit him. After the man had left the scene officers weren’t able to catch up to him and arrest him until the suspect was added to the top ten most wanted list. Considering him armed and dangerous. ...

Blog # 3 https://apnews.com/34fd80809446482a81785cb77b4144ca/Parents-face-tougher-rules-to-get-immigrant-children-back PARENTS FACE TOUGHER RULES TO GET IMMIGRANT CHILDREN BACK The Associated Press is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers, radio, and television stations in the United States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists. Associated Press was founded in 1846 and currently has 3,200 employees. In 2016 the company won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. This Article talks about how under the trump administration it has become tougher for parents whom are  here illegally to get there kids back after there kids have been sent alone to cross the border from there countries seeking refugee. Before thousands of kids used to come from central America and were immediately granted access and released to relatives here in the un...

USA Today is a middle-market newspaper that was founded in 1982. Its founder is Al Neuharth and is currently owned by Gannett Company. The USA Today's political stance bias in center, but some opinions may say it is left-leaning. It is now an award-winning news website that is updated consistently and includes popular culture stories. It's headquarters are in Virginia and in Switzerland for its international edition. USA Today's mission is to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. At the Grand Slam Tennis match, the famously known tennis player, Serena Williams, lost to a first timer Grand Slam player, Naomi Osaka this past weekend. Serena is a 23-time major champion, and as her defeat to Naomi Osaka was established, people from the audience boo-ed the new champion. During the match, Serena was frustrates and being counted for cheating during the match as her coach, televised, motioned his hands for her to move forward. Co...

The Washington Post is a type of daily newspaper, founded by Stilson Hutchins. Its headquarters are located in Washington, D.C. and was one of the city's first newspaper to publish seven days a week. It is currently owned by Nash Holdings, whose company is controlled by Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon. The Washington Post is known for its left wing bias journals. Its slogan is "Democracy Dies in Darkness". It is one of the higher quality democratic new sources. On Saturday, August 25, 2018, it just began as a competition for NFL gamers in Jacksonville Florida. The gamers were competing to advance to the next and bigger competition that was held in Las Vegas. They call it an Esport Tournament, and it can get very competitive as each gamer hopes to win the cash prize. The motifs of the shooter are still unsure, but the shooter shot himself dead after he killed 2 and injured 11. The post of the Jacksonville Shooting was reported by Antonia Noori Farzan, Kristine Phillips, Pet...

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/11/trump-says-us-response-to-puerto-rico-hurricanes-was-incredible-unsung-success.html Assessment of news source: Fox News Channel (FNS), also known as Fox News, is a basic cable and satellite television news channel based in the United States that is dedicated to delivering breaking political and business news. Because FNC’s founding CEO is the former Republican political consultant Roger Ailes, the news organization is known for favoring conservative causes and having a strong, right bias. Funded through television programming and filmed entertainment from its parent companies--Fox Entertainment Group and 21st Century Fox--FNC is often labeled one of the most biased news networks (specifically toward conservative causes). y. Summary: This article describes President Trump’s attitude towards Hurricane Florence based on his experience with the hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico last year. The article explains how President Trump b...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/senegal-african-nation-host-olympic-event-180907175449927.html Al Jazeera is a major global news organization. The Al Jazeera news only channel about the dissenting views in the middle east. For example, shows that created controversies in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf. Also, Al Jazeera gained worldwide attention after following the outbreak of the war in Afghanistan. The government of Qatar owns this Media Network. However, they stated that are they are editorially independent of the government of Qatar even though the government funded them. Al Jazeera accused of being a propaganda outlet for the Qatari government Senegal becomes the first African country to host an Olympic event. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) board picked Senegal in a four-nation hosting contest for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games. Africa is known to many successful and prominent Olympic athletes. IOC President said, "Africa is a continent of youth....

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/donald-trump-bob-woodward/index.html Assessment of news source: Cable News Network (CNN) is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is a cable television news channel in the United States. Running 24 hours, CNN strives to present the finest possible hard-breaking, national, and international news products as they unfold. As a result of CNN’s funding through cable subscriptions and advertisements (in addition to being owned by Turner Broadcasting System), the news network is prominent for its left bias. The stories covered and their presentation often have a liberal political party bias, favoring these causes and omitting information that may damage them. Summary: President Donald Trump of the United States and Bob Woodward continue to incite each other, this time as a result of Woodwards “Fear: Trump in the White House.” Trump made strong remarks against Woodward’s work on Tuesday (saying his reporting is fictional and full of li...

September, 12, 2018 https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/world/neutrino-blazar-cosmic-ray-discovery/index.html Operating out of Atlanta, the Cable News Network (CNN) is an American news-oriented television channel that leans left politically. CNN is owned by a division of WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T. It was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner, a media proprietor, in an effort to start a 24-hour news broadcasting channel and for a while, CNN was the only channel that could claim this. In 1982, a companion channel by the name of CNN2 was released, though given time and multiple name changes, CNN2 became known as HLN. The article describes a certain particle in astronomy and particle physics known as neutrino. Very little is known about these particles because they are so different from everything else that we know. They are described as 'ghostly' due to their nature, they are vaporous with nearly undetectable mass and can pass through any material or condition no matter how extreme ...

I am using Vox, is good site for information, and they are going  in dept detail about the situation, they usually do writing article and video for all age.   In this article, they have a video within the article to help the viewer understand more context. Teacher usually this website for information to show in class, and it  great  way to understand what the current event going on with the world. They use  number good of way  helping the viewer understand context work with vocabulary word. This event was going this week with Serena William lost to Naomi Osaka in Tennis championship . Osaka win the event, but was not spotlight of show. The spotlight is Serena William argue Carlos Ramos over 3 warning of code violation over the game. The warning was about the coach talk to each other during the live match. Serena tell she never cheat on her life, and it was unfair charge against her. Serena tell that the referral is inconsistent with the charge. Thi...

Link to Article Assessment of the Source- Founded in 1877, The Washington Post has long been the source of news for not only the people of the nation's capital, but for the entire nation. The Post has been been known to carry a left-leaning bias in their reporting, which can be best emphasized by the slogan at the top of their website and paper, "Democracy Dies in Darkness." Summary of the Article- This article tackles the issue of football players in America kneeling during the presentation of the flag and the reciting of the national anthem. It also addresses the recent controversy surrounding a Nike ad campaign with the player who started the kneeling trend, Colin Kaepernick. The article addresses the issue that some people see kneeling during the national anthem as "disrespectful" and "unpatriotic." The article goes so far as to quote a veteran who says that, through kneeling, the football players are directly targeting them, and everythin...

Mary Young English Composition II Dr. Molly Daniel 10 September 2018 Current Events Blog 2: New York Post Assessment of News Source     The New York Post was originally the New-York Evening Post that was established by Alexander Hamilton in the 19th century, but was later purchased by Rupert Murdoch. Although Murdoch’s company, News Corporation, was accused of obtaining the personal information of the famous and public, he still continues to own both News Corp (a prequel to News Corporation after resigning) and 21st Century Fox via a family trust. President Donald Trump reported the New York Post as his preferred newspaper and supposedly keeps in contact with owner, Murdoch. The paper faces criticisms for having a “conservative bias” after several article controversies and Murdoch’s rise as CEO of “Fox News” in 2016. Summary     The article written by Marc Berman titled, “Serena acted like a sore loser,” is an overview of the controversial U.S. O...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/us/dallas-police-officer-amber-guyger-arrest/index.html Assessment of new source: CNN is an American cable and satellite television show owned by the Turner Broadcasting System. It was founded in 1980 by an American man named Ted Turner. CNN was the first television channel to have a full 24 hour news coverage and it was the new channel aired in the United States of America. They have a head quarter in Atlanta but it’s only used for weekends. As of August 2010, CNN is approved and watched in more than 100 million U.S. households itself. Summary: After a long shift of work, a lady police officer entered an apartment and shot an unarmed man. She THOUGHT the apartment she entered was actually her own, but it turns out that it wasn’t and she had entered the wrong one. The man, Botham Jean, was pronounced dead at the hospital. They released the officer, after being arrested, for a $300,000 bond on Sunday Analysis: The goal of this article ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/09/10/amber-guyger-dallas-officer-burglar/1254789002/       Assesment of News Article     This story of a officer in Dallas who killed a black man because he thought that he was a burglar was found on USA Today. USA Today is the third most circulated news source in the USA and was founded by a Gannett Company chairman by the name of Al Neuharth. USA Today focuses more on the middle class for their audience when posting their articles. The writer of this story is John Bacon, a rewrite chief who has been writing for USA today for more than three decades.  Summary of Article    A police officer in Dallas recently got off of work and went home to her appartment. The off-duty officer usually parked on the third floor of her parking garage but this afternoon she decided to park on the fourth floor and tries to go into an appartment room that was not her's. She initially thought that she wa...

Serena Williams Fights Sexism in the US Open Assessment: Vox is owned by Vox Media; it was founded by Ezra Klein, who previously worked for The Washington Post. Vox Media was originally a sports blog company, but it has since expanded its focus and manages multiple companies and a video game; they are also producing a Netflix series this year called “Explained,” which goes in depth about topics ranging from the wage gap to UFO’s. Vox leans liberal, but presents fair analyses on news. The company says that it is an "organization genuinely dedicated to explaining the news. That is to say, our end goal isn’t telling you what just happened, or how we feel about what just happened, it’s making sure you understand what just happened." (Vox 2014).  Summary: Serena Williams is fighting sexism after her US Open finals match against Naomi Osaka. The umpire, Carlos Ramos, gave Williams a warning after seeing her coach attempt to signal her. Later, she broke her racquet, and...