New lead: Yorktown Police Department stopped and ticketed fifty-three drivers Tuesday morning for speeding through school bus stop zones. The traffic bust, which took place on Underhill Avenue, allowed offending commuters to be confronted by police in mass numbers. …
Alissa Phillips
Creative Brief
Just End The Suffering is a 60 minute sports podcast with two commercial breaks. Sports featured during the podcast include NHL hockey, NFL football, Collegiate football, golf, tennis, soccer, and basketball.
As people turn more and more to social media and smartphones for access to information…
Taking Media Writing at Westchester Community College online was an interesting experience. The course requirements were rigorous and the expectations high. Whenever I felt like I was finally catching up on one module’s work, the next would be posted with even more than the previous week. …
Adutling or “the practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks” according to the Oxford English Dictionary has never been easier. In the age of smartphone technology where everyone can carry a phone, computer, camera, phonebook, music player, and…
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series played a transformative role on the development of young people of the “millennial” generation. Millennials are people born between the years of 1981 and 1997, according to the Pew Research Center. For context, the first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the…
Hermione Granger, the female protagonist of the Harry Potter series deserves some serious attention. Aside from her role as the ever-constant best friend of Harry Potter, Hermione is also extremely intelligent and serves as one of the most important members of the Battle of Hogwarts. …
Melanie Chan, a senior lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, discusses the significant issue of social media’s impact on in-person communication in her article “The dying art of conversation — has technology killed our ability to talk face-to-face?”
Chan makes several good points in her article, but in my opinion the…
The case of Megan Meier, a nearly 14-year-old girl, is truly a tragic one. According to the Megan Meier Foundation, Meier was a victim of cyberbullying and, after a vicious cyber attack involving “catfishing,” she committed suicide by hanging herself in her bedroom.
In order to discuss the cyberbullying that…
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling has been adored by readers since the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published in 1997. …
Facebook, a social media company with over 2 billion users, has been the victim of security breaches not once, but twice that left users questioning their privacy. Has Facebook truly made an effort to improve its cybersecurity as founder Mark Zuckerberg promised before Congress in March of 2018? Do Facebook…
