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As with most young folk my age I spend an obscene amount of time on the internet and a majority of that time is spent specifically on social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook. On these I do as … Continue reading →

The Television News Archive is a site dedicated to maintaining and preserving the news broadcasts in America from 2009 until today. It copies the broadcasts and has them available for search. I was perturbed initially by the idea of this site taking these videos from … Continue reading →

I decided to search the South African Soweto uprising as the historical topic to look up on Wikipedia. This was a student protest turned horribly violent in 1976. After skimming over the article I reached the sources and began clicking … Continue reading →

“Seeing is believing” is not always relevant especially when dealing with photos presented in the media. The article Photography as a Weapon is an interviewing going in depth about why people will believe just about any photo they see. The way … Continue reading →

Initially there were some blocks in finding anything about any labor disputes, but I went onto ProQuest and began my hunt there. I started by typing in all the information possible into any space available. Of course only one article … Continue reading →

Immediately when I began navigating through ProQuest I noticed some disadvantages. It was difficult to find a topic if it was not specific. If you were to go onto the site knowing very clearly what it was you wanted to … Continue reading →