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Banned Music  By: Ryan Darling  Protecting others from Music: When I was younger I can remember my mom letting me listen to "Yeah"by Usher and "In the Club" by 50 cent.  I loved those songs and still do but my father hated the songs and never let me listen to them.  I never understood why this was until I got older and understood what the songs meant.  Now that I have a little sister who is nine and she listens to my music I am more careful what I play around her as to not let her hear some of the words that are not meant for younger ears.  For example there is a song by ASAP Ferg called "Plain Jane" which I enjoy and Grace my sister loves as well the song is not clean and should not be listen to by nine year olds but I sometimes just don't care to censor the song because I don't want to lose the enjoyment of listening to it.  The experience made me think twice about the words that were being said and the meaning.  I used to not really c

Banned Books  By:Ryan Darling  Books:             When thinking about banned books I imagine books that have bad or sexual language that is not appropriate  for younger readers.  I was very surprise to find To Kill A Mocking Bird  was on that list.  I remember reading that freshman year of high school and I thought it was a great book.  looking back I can see why it was banned.  Due to the racial discrimination that is going on in the book, but that was part of the time when this book was set. I think that it is very harmful to make books such as ones depicting history as it was such as To Kill A Mocking Bird or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.   those books are important for us to see how it was like in the times it was set in.  If we sensor those books it takes away from the learning that can be achieved from seeing the mistakes of our grandparents so that we know never to repeat it again.   Thinking about the books on my own shelves and in my phone I mostly read

Ryan Darling  Journalism Blog Project 2 Get Out  Get Out By: Ryan Darling              It is very rare for a directors first movie to become a smash hit and even more unlikely that they would win any awards for it.  But with his award-winning debut of his first film “Get Out” Jordan Peele shocked the whole world with his directorial talents and his writing chops.              Get Out, which is a horror/thriller movie was written and directed by Jordan Peele, who you may know from his YouTube channel Key and Peele or his comedy central show of the same name.  Get out stars a Black photographer named Chris Washington, who is dating a white woman named Rose Armitage.  She takes him home to meet her family.  The first half of the movies portrays white liberals trying to have meaningful social interaction with a black man, which does not go so well.  The second half of the movie turns out that Rose’s parents are running a slave action with Chris as the new target.  An old w

Newspapers  By: Ryan Darling Local news, the backbone of the media and the also in the eyes of many the least credible.  Local news comes in many different forms from the local paper to the local news station, even radio.  I get my local news every weekday morning from KGW News, which is an affiliate of NBC.  KGW news today talked about the South Valley Fire burning near Dufur, which grew to 20,000 acres. https://www.kgw.com/article/weather/wildfires/south-valley-fire-burning-near-dufur-grows-to-20000-acres/283-579445373.  The clip stated that the fire burned at least one structure and between 80 and 100 homes are in danger of burning.  Forcing at least 400 people to evacuate.  I also get my daily News from the Today show which comes on right after the local news I just talked about.  I use the Today show to inform me of the world wide news that they cover which has included political events, social events and tragedies such as the volcano activity in Hawaii.  I rely on bo