Yasmin's Blog

   Media is something that has me and most of you constantly looking at our phones whether we admit or not. First we start looking at our phones for a couple of minutes but then those minutes turn into hours. It's addicting no doubt. After a little bit of research I came across that apparently 4.62 billion people in the world now people use social media. Which is really mind-blowing.  Media sources can also really impact our view of the world. A term used to describe this would be gatekeeping. This basically refers to the fact that media controls the information we get, and therefore what we think about. Editors here contain lots of power because they basically decide what we end up hearing about therefore what we also think about.    Media is seen everywhere. It's like there's no escape. We see all different types of media everyday. They come our way in many different types of forms as well. They come in magazines, usually containing over like one hundred ads. Or that'

                            I didn't know what to talk about for this blog entry if I'm being completely honest but today were talking about news that's going on around us currently. Since majority of us are loaded with homework and responsibilities it feels like the world has gone silent and there isn't much going on, but surprisingly there's a lot of news and events.  About a month has gone by and it seems like things have calmed down between Russia and Ukraine. People weren't posting about it on social media as much but a lot has gone down between these two countries. Putin's forces are preparing to expand control in the east and south side of Ukraine. The move follows Russia's failure to capture the capital city of Kyiv, according to sources. Putin recently just appointed General Alexander Dvornikov to lead the next phase of the War in Ukraine. Many believe including the U.S. that the new leader will change the outcome of the war. Not only that but c

       Without realizing it, we come across lots and lots of hashtags every single day. It's like they're everywhere. We see them all over our social media's, books, magazines, you name it, but what exactly are hashtags? Well hashtags are used to signify the theme of one's content. As we all know a hashtag is made out of a pound sign attached to a word or phrase. They're normally used to tag a group content of a common topic. They essentially become a hyperlink that when people click it, it takes you to the search results page of that tag, it's a way for people to search for content of a given topic. It's another way to filter down the overflow of online content and find people that share the same interests.  Although hashtags are most commonly associated with Twitter they appear frequently on other social networks. Many brands use hashtags to promote themselves. Which is one reason why they are important to big brands and companies. They use it as a way for

      Do you guys remember the talk our parents would give us about being safe on the internet when we were younger? My parents would give me and my little brother the talk almost everyday to remind us about the dangers surrounding the internet. At first it just seemed like a pointless conversation to have, but now with so many young people going missing, I thank my parents.            At some point we have all been in the same position where we talk to people without really knowing them online. Maybe we met them through a game, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook. Sometimes we think of it as nothing, but what if people came across a predator without realizing it. A case that stood out to me was Alicia's, the young girl who was lured and abducted by an online creep. This case kinda freaked me out because Alicia lived in the same city as majority of us. I remember seeing so many of her posters around the city.   Alicia lived here in Glendale, Arizona with her mom. According to her mom Ali

        Ducey: Why Arizona needs more college grads               Hi welcome back, today's blog isn't going to be about the weather this time, or what has been going on with Russia and Ukraine, or Covid. Instead we are going to talk about a local news article that came out a couple of years ago called "why Arizona needs more college grads". When I was about to graduate high school there was no denying I was nervous. Simply because I didn't know if I wanted to continue my education journey. There were lots of factors that came to mind. I was probably not the only student who thought about financial problems, if college is even worth all the stress we were about to go through, what to major in, and so on.      Immediately at the beginning of the article, Doug Ducey made sure that we knew he was talking to his audience from a husband/father perspective, and not as an elected official. Simply to make a type of connection with readers, and make them understand that he

                  We're only about to be on month three of this new year, and already so much has happened. This blog entry is just a little recap of what's been going on so far, or what's going. So far there's been a lot of chaos especially since we are still being impacted by a pandemic.        As we can see from the map, Ukraine has a big massive border to the east side with Russia. Even though you can't really see it, to the west side is Europe. Back in the seventh hundreds the Russian empire was massive, it even controlled several countries like Poland for example. It all came to an end eventually. Certain Russians like Putin for example, love the idea of the Russian Empire. For some weird reason people obsessed with that idea still consider many of those European countries that were part of the Russian Empire to be Russian. That includes Ukraine. Despite the fact that Ukraine is its own independent country with their president. There's lots of factors to t