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Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA In this show we were taken on a tour around the tragic event of Michael Brown and the shooting that started a large division now seen in USA between the police force and the black community. From the onset I was taken back by the event that took place and the tragedy that cause a lot of loss. We were given a tour by a black young male called Clifton who knew Michael and also new the areas and parts that were affected, we saw how the area was left after the riots caused by the release of the police officer Darren Wilson who was responsible for the killing of Brown.  The programme really opened the doors to the world they live in and what struggles they have to go through on their day to day basis, firstly by the ‘saggy trousers’ law that is stated in the short preview above, that really was ridiculous and seemed to be another reason to target the black community. The shooting was unnecessary and i don’t see how he deserved to lose his life for...

For another one of our media trips we got another opportunity to got to the BFI Film Festival in Brixton, to see another film and we also got the opportunity to meet the director and writer which was truly amazing. From listening to the director you could see that the story meant a great deal to him and this was due to him living in the place where this was set and also casting people in his film that had lived there all their life, it seemed a very personal story line but also story for him.  Mediterranea is a new 2015 production and it is about two men who journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, however when you see the realisation of what many refugees have to go through you truly do see the violence and struggle that many have to go through to get a better life. Jonas Carpignano the director, released the film on the 20th November 2015 in the USA and on the opening weekend they earned $5,846. This shows that his passion was for the film and it was more about th...

From recent stories I have posted you are able to see a slight pattern occurring, this is due to each story i see shocking me and thinking how do we live in a world like this. From girls beating up an old women with no apparent cause and a  shooting occuring which takes a young boys life, this is all happening and many more in the world and country we live in and that is crazy to think about. Each being not a lot older than me or even being the same age, and to think they are either being done for a crime or not even living is horrible to see but it's the reality this world has come to know everyday. Much like the Paris shootings, one day anything to could happen could go from a calm day having a nice evening drink at a bar to having a call from the police saying that a loved one had been murdered, what really has this world come to? The truth to me is that it feels like we are all in a video game, because they things i hear about or see on the news shock me to think so...

This is a scary thought to hear, a gun crime in the UK. When many talk about gun crimes they always refer to either a war or America, but from the past days we have seen a scale of different events that have shaken the world but also shown that gun crimes are becoming for frequent. Guns however are illegal in the UK to own unless you have a permit e.g. shooting clubs, but that is what makes this so horrible the fact that we still see it and experience it in a safe so called country. Paris attacks have shown how the world can come together so why are we trying to destroy it? Overall I liked this story due to the issues it has raised but also the way it connects to every other crime that happens around the world, we have enough issues in this world soon some many never know a world without crime or guns and that's sad to wrap my head around.

This story was eye opening because it was in our area and on the bus many of the Coulsdon college students get. Firstly the thing that really shook me was the fact that it was to an old lady, someone who is known as frail, and now she had just been beaten up but girls that really didn't care about the state they left her. The way all they had to do was pay for the bus, but instead of in some words looking stupid they thought they would stand up and prove that they don't listen to what they are told and that is disgraceful.  Overall I felt this story angered me in the way that they seemed to have no remorse due to running away and truly leaving her for dead, it's cruel and unthinkable. 

I like the idea of changing it up a little to post the pictures from the day, i did this because it shows how people come together and share a passion from all over the country which i find truly incredible, due to the everyday addiction of the phone so to see people going out and taking pictures makes me very happy.

This story does really show how the limelight works even if it is a soap star. Everyday people go through these charges but because he is known and a star he is put in the paper as news, when of course there is nothing more important being missed in the news, oh wait there is. These stories do anger me because i do not see this as news it is more ignorance, and should be put in a magazine or the entertainment sector rather than news because that's crazy. Overall i found this story very unimportant and really does show what the world has come from if this is what we are really reading as news and actually caring because that just out of mind. This angers me and i really don't see the importance.