Friday, July 26, 2013

WEEK 3 EOC Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone


Rolling Stone is a popular magazine that published every two weeks. It is focusing on politics and famous or unique culture. Rolling Stone was found in 1967, San Francisco, California. The name of the founder is Jann Wenner who is currently still the chief editor. And for music critic is Ralph J. Gleason. In the 1990s, the magazine changed its format to younger consumer. 
Rolling Stone was known for its musical coverage and for political reporting by the enigmatic and controversial gonzo journalist. In the 1990s, the magazine changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. This led to criticism that the magazine was emphasizing style over substance.

In recent years, the magazine has resumed its traditional mix of content, including in-depth political stories. It also has expanded content to include acclaimed coverage of financial and banking issues. As a result, the magazine has seen its circulation increase and its reporters invited as experts to network television programs of note. As we can see people love Rolling stone and people WILL continue to love it and read them.  

During the 1980s the magazine began to shift focus towards being a general "entertainment" magazine. Music was still a dominant topic but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films and the pop culture of the day.

The printed format has gone through several changes. The first publications in 1967–72, were folded tabloid newspaper format, no staples with black ink text, and a single color highlight that changed each edition. From 1973 on, editions were done on a four-color press with a different newsprint paper size. In 1979, the bar code appeared. In 1980, it became a gloss paper, large format (10″×12″) magazine. As of October 30, 2008 edition, Rolling Stone is a smaller, standard-format magazine size.
On November 5, 2012, the magazine published its first cover in the Spanish language as recognition to the influence of Latino artists in American culture.


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1. http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/202315/rolling-stones-long-history-of-putting-killers-on-covers/
2. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Rolling_Stone.html
3. http://cecilbuffington.com/photo3_40.html

Friday, July 19, 2013

WEEK 2 EOC Stand Your Ground

 Fla. Governor Refuses To Revisit "Stand Your Ground" Law


Stand you ground to me is NOT a law at all. In some situation, you know who is wrong and innocent. "I think the Florida law ought to be changed," Nelson said on MSNBC's 'Andrea Mitchell Reports.' "I think where there are the extreme cases, for example, a guy gets into a fight, he leaves, goes to his car, gets a gun and comes back and kills the person he was fighting. To use Stand Your Ground in that circumstance is ridiculous.
 http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/sen-nelson-florida-stand-your-ground-law-should

This is a very good example. And this is what happened  to the Trayvon's Case. The little boy was innocent but because of this "Stand Your Ground" Law, the guy who killed this little boy was free. There was no any equal justice. And people KNOW who was wrong and innocent.




How one might increase the “expected cost of committing violent crime” is obvious.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354359/stand-your-ground-not-new-charles-c-w-cooke

This is a chance where people WILL start committing crime. They can try to take something from people or because of personal reasons and get violent and perhaps killed them. And they could be in Trayvon's situation. People can be FREE even when they committed crime. This is NOT a law, how could a law be like this. I mean, if this law do show people what it's use and knowing it is protecting human's right and really give people a RIGHT justice this law would be an awesome law. But we all see that the result is not like that. People are not feeling safe with this law anymore or even their environment.

 I think the law needs to be considerably tightened," he added. "Maybe down the road we do need to change (Florida's) law and similar ones in other states these and completely eliminate them, but in the meantime, they need to be severely constricted. 
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-08-01/features/os-nabj-stand-your-ground-20130801_1_ground-law-your-ground-trayvon-martin 

Some people said stand your ground is a law that shows our self-controlling. But as my point of view, I don't take it the same way. If this law is really about showing our self-controlling, then a lot of people are not qualify. There is no justice towards this case and this law.


Friday, July 12, 2013

WEEK 1 EOC My Voice



Me & Fashion

Fashion rules the world. People live in the world that's surrounded with Fashion. You won't realize it until you really look into Fashion. My name is Cynthia Tsai aka Pei Ju Tsai, I fell in love with the Fashion World since middle school. There is no one day that I can NOT read Fashion Magazines or knowing information about Fashion. As a stylist and a Fashion Show Coordinator, I've work with varies Brand and Magazines, Photographer and Fashion Shows. I have enough experience to really tell my clients and readers what they need to know and what they ought to know. I show people what type of clothing they can dress in but being themselves, express their personality and be comfortable. You will explode your mind with amazing Fashion Shows and information about the Fashion world. If you know nothing about Fashion, read my Blogs, you will be living in another whole new world and simply understand the Fashion Industry so easily. You don't have to BE a Fashion Designer or related job to Love Fashion. There is no revolution in Fashion, Fashion is changing at every blink of your eye. Who runs the world ? The simplest answer, "Fashion"