Reflection Of The Media In Honduras

Passage: I found out that Honduras is one of the, if not the most, violent country in the world. However, I do not hear anything in the media about Honduras. It is interesting to see what the media chooses to cover and what it does not.

Reflection: I became more aware of how the media shapes our viewpoints on the world. Society may tend to think one event is more important than another because the media shows a lot of coverage on it. For example, there is very little coverage on Honduras, yet there are 68 intentional homicides for every 100,000 people and there is a huge drug problem there. As a result, not many people are not concerned with what is happening in Honduras.

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Passage: The industrial revolution created millions of jobs. Today, machinery is taking over the jobs of people.
Reflection: I thought the comparison between the industrial revolution and today’s technology advances was interesting. Though machinery was introduced in the past and today, the effect on jobs is completely different. It is important to remember that the machines during the industrial revolution required people to run them. Today, many machines run without the help of humans.

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Passage: Japan and China tried to separate themselves from Western societies.

It was such a large, devastating war that I knew nothing about. I learned that the war was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Yugoslav nationalist. This set off a diplomatic crisis and entangled international allies that had formed over previous decades. Within weeks, many countries around the world were at war. The war was assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (Britain, France, Russia) and the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary). As the war went on, Italy, Japan and the U.S. joined the Allies while the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the Central