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Do you think that racism is still apparent in today's society? Think about the recent election of president Obama and the rections which he has drawn and feelings towards immigration and inner city aid.

Paramedics try to clean out the eyes of a women who was involved in the Mt. Sinabung eruption.

9/19/13 NY times vs. Boston Herald

Both the New York Times ad the Boston Herald are renowned newspapers. Each of these newspapers tend to lean a certain way when presenting the news, The new york times is known as a liberal paper and the Boston herald is considered republican. I read both newspapers on the topic of gun control and analyzed the similarities and differences. Both the new york times and the Herald would present the facts in an unbiased way. For example both sites explained how the senate voted against gun control. The differences between the two sites came in the information which they presented after. For instance, the herald quoted an Iowa republican senator saying, "Expanded background checks would not have prevented Newtown. Criminals do not submit to background checks." This was the basis of heir argument for the rest of the article explaining how background checks would not stop mass shootings from happening which is an opinion of may conservatives in America. In the New York Times the article identifies the Democratic Senators who voted against the background checks and went against the democratic parties beliefs. They then interviewed them asking their thought process of why they wouldn't pass the restrictions in an accusational manor, trying to defend the liberal views.

9/19/13 Navy Yard Shooting Blog Post, Summary of multiplenews articles on an issue

The Huffington News reports that on Monday, September 16th a lone shooter had been killed after a mass shooting at the Washington D.C. Navy yard. They also say that 13 people were killed including the shooter in this deadly ordeal. Multiple sources have identified Aaron Alexis, 34, as the shooter. NBC reports that he was originally from Fort Worth Texas but had recetly naken a job at the Navy Yard as a civilian contractor. Earlier in this investigation the police believed that another man in a tan military uniform as also responsible for this attack but DC Police announced via twitter that there are no other suspects or people of interest.

9/19/13 Brian Holloway home destroyed, editorial

1st post-  Brian Holloway's home destroyed

                  Brian Holloway is a former New England Patriot Lineman. Holloway was away in Florida but his vacant home in Stephentown, NY was trashed and vandalized by a group of 300 teens over this labor day weekend. His home sustained over $20,000 worth of damage and no one to put the blame on. So what Holloway did was genius. He created his own website called, helpmesave300.com. Holloway's purpose of the website was not to get teens in trouble or to turn them into the police but to help them save themselves from lives of drugs and alcohol. This website included pictures of his damaged property, his biography, an explanation of what Stephentown meant to him, and pictures of teens on twitter which he could identify the background as his house. In Holloway's biography he talked about how some of his friends and teammates from the NFL had faced alcohol and drug problems and died because of them. He put the pictures up from twitter to show the teens that they are not "cool" because they get drunk and post about it via social media but how naive they are to think that alcohol cannot ruin their life. I agree with the purpose of Holloway's website 100%. His property was destroyed while he was away. The place that he called home was vandalized by teens which he had never met. Holloway gave them a taste of reality when he explained how he had buried several of his friends due to alcohol abuse and I do not think most of those 300 kids will be going to any parties anytime soon