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By Torsten Nelson and Kathryn Burek There have been many concerns lately about Internet piracy. There was so much concern actually there was an act created to stop it. This act is called SOPA. This act has the potential to stop copyrighting once and for all but many people disagreed with [...]
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We are students in Frontier Regional School Mr. Murphy’s Information Literacy (Info Lit) class. We are researching SOPA(Stop Internet Piracy Act). This is a response for the blackout that occurred on January 18th 2012. It included the websites Google, Wikipedia,Mozilla, Tumblr, Vimeo, Flikr, Craigslist, and many more. We chose SOPA because it could affect the [...]
~Glenn Sullivan This cartoon was drawn by Dan Wasserman on September 7th 2005. Dan is the head cartoonist for the Boston Globe newspaper and has been working with the Globe since 1985. The cartoon shows a family at a gas station after they just filled the gas tank. The father is in the driver’s seat [...]
~Glenn Sullivan If Dr.King were alive today he would be outraged. The anniversary of King’s dream is coming up and still today there is “racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism” which has created a “sick society.” King fought for these ideals but clearly they haven’t been met. Racial profiling still goes on today, the police go [...]
By: Brie Cook Mike Peters is a cartoonist who has a website called Grimmy.com, where all his comics are displayed. In 1965 Mike was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University. Mike then immediately began his career on the art staff of the Chicago Daily News. In 1969 an artist Bill [...]
During the early stages of WWII David Low published a collection of political cartoons that depicted the acts of appeasement. Towards the end of the war Low’s cartoons began to inspire the British people to join the war effort. David Low was born in New Zealand and at the age of fifteen began creating [...]
During the early stages of WWII David Low published a collection of political cartoons that depicted the acts of appeasement. Towards the end of the war Low’s cartoons began to inspire the British people to join the war effort. David Low was born in New Zealand and at the age of fifteen began creating his [...]
I have always thought political cartoons are funny and I usually appreciate them, and Jim Morin’s cartoon on November 8th, 2011 for the Miami Herald was particularly one of my favorites. Jim Morin is a cartoonist for the Miami Herald who started drawing cartoons when he was 7. In 1978 he joined the Miami Herald [...]
By Glenn Sullivan An article we addressed in journalism class Color: White/Complexion: Dark written by Louise DeSalvo, discusses the topic of whether an Italian immigrant is or isn’t “white. ” This article deals with a time when Italians first immigrated to America in mass numbers shortly after the emancipation proclamation. The U.S. was looking for [...]
The newly established category of white ethnicity accounts for 9.4% of the United States population. But what is white ethnicity? White ethnicity accounts for the group of white Americans who aren’t of European Protestant background. While white ethnicity does touch upon religion briefly, we lose the customs and traditions of that person or people that [...]
