Rachel Deodato

Jacob Riis  Jacob Riis, as many of you knew as an American reporter, is also one of New York's most  popular social reformers and photographers. Riis is one of many muckraker journalists who brought attention to the economic and social hardships in New York during the the late 19th century.  In the late 1800s the Lower East Side was probably one of the most populated places on earth. Blocks after blocks were tenements filled with poor and hard-working immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Germany, China, Czech  Republic, etc. Riss, who was also an immigrant from Denmark, photographed these tenements filled with immigrants and its conditions. Not only did Riis photograph the hardships of immigrant life but he experienced it first hand as well. When Riis moved to America he began working as a carpenter, however during the financial panic in 1873 he became unemployed.  Working as a police reporter for newspapers, including The Evening Sun , he had seen a different view of the pover

The Supreme Court can be considered one of the most important parts of the judicial body. It's considered one of the most important parts because the Supreme Court has the final say in all cases that involve the laws of Congress and the Constitution. However, the power of the Supreme Court is limited by the other two branches of government, the Executive branch and the Legislative branch. This limitation of power is also known as checks and balances. Another reason why the supreme court is so powerful is because it has the ability to check the actions of both the President and Congress. For example, if the Presidents actions conflict with the Constitution the Supreme Court can stop or override his or hers actions. Regarding the Congress, an example is when the Supreme Court vetos a law passed by Congress that interferes with the Constitution. As a summary, the job of the Supreme Court is to make sure all branches of government abide by the rules of the Constitution. The Supreme

For those of you who do not know, there is a prevalent issue in the world of Journalism today. Our press freedom is at risk everyday that we allow the torturing of Julian Assange to take place.  Julian Assange, who is the founder of WikiLeaks and an Australian journalist, has been charged  with 17 counts of espionage after leaking a host of secrets that the United States government has been keeping from us, those secrets that include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  What brought a great load of attention was a video known as “Collateral Murder ”, this was a video of US soldiers shooting a number of innocent people and laughing about it from a helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. Assange is now being held in confinement in the Belmarsh Prison, one of Britain's most notorious maximum-security prisons by the United States government due to espionage. He is held in solitary confinement 23 hours of  the day and is reported to be in ill conditions, sounds more like torture than jail a