1. The role of history and war:
Terrorism
a. Website: Time: time.com
b. URL: http://lightbox.time.com/2010/11/23/joel-meyerowitz-revisits-ground-zero/#1
c. Date: Tuesday, Noember 23, 2010
d. Title: Joel Meyerowitz Revisits Ground Zero
e. Article: On September 11, 2001, the united states was involved with a terrorist attack. The attack took down the twin towers locates in New York. Photographer Joel Meyerowitz captured panoramas of the seen to show the world what devastation this event has left us with.
2. The role of the individual in society: The family, marriage, peer pressure, class
a. Website: Time: time.com
b. URL: http://time.com/3067694/weheartit-teen-girls-bullying-instagram/
c. Date: August 5, 2014
d. Title: Teen Girls Describe the Harsh Unspoken Rules of Online Popularity
e. Article: Most teens have social media. Social media is the virtual platform that shapes their real lives. Teenage girls telling their stories about how they’ve been affected by bullying, peer pressure, and online drama. The survey is located in the app found in the Apple App store: We Heart It.
3. Cultural changes: Youth and drug culture
a. Website: Time: time.com
b. URL: http://time.com/1556/the-mindful-revolution/
c. Date: Jan. 23, 2014
d. Title: The Mindful Revolution
e. Article: Trying to find the peace in a digitally dependent, stressed out culture makes everyone think differently.
4. Education and welfare
a. Website: Time: time.com
b. URL: http://time.com/68162/heres-how-you-help-the-poor-without-soaking-the-rich/
c. Date: April 18, 2014
d. Title: Here’s How You Can Help the Poor Without Soaking the Rich
e. Article: We have to clear our minds of a fallacy about poverty alleviation: Helping the poor does not mean welfare. This isn’t to say that we don’t need welfare. Ignoring the unfortunate who can’t put enough food on the table or afford proper education or healthcare is not just cruel, it’s bad economics. The impoverished make either good consumers or productive workers
5. Sport, leisure, international competition
a. Website: Pro Publica.com
b. URL: http://www.propublica.org/article/hyperspecialization-is-ruining-youth-sportsand-the-kids-who-play-them
c. Date: June 10, 2014
d. Title: Hyperspecialization Is Ruining Youth Sports—And the Kids Who Play Them
e. Article: Research has found that kids who play a variety of sports before settling on one achieve higher levels of success and suffer fewer serious injuries. The heightened pressure on child athletes to be, essentially, adult athletes has fostered an epidemic of hyperspecialization that is both dangerous and counterproductive.
- 6. Wealth: changes in the work place
b. URL: http://time.com/3546731/wealthiest-cities/
c. Date: Oct. 30, 2014
d. Title: These Are the Wealthiest Cities in America
e. Article: The city proper has seen its fair share over the years. The change that’s happening and impacting, is wealth. After analyzing data for five years researchers determined the wealthiest cities in America.
7. The importance and impact of tourism on a country: Impacts for the economy, employment, public transport, environmental concerns
a. Website: National Geographic.com
b. URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150102-hakka-china-tulou-fujian-world-heritage-culture-housing/
c. Date: Jan. 2, 2015
d. Title: China’s Remote Fortresses Lose Residents, Gain Tourist
e. Article: In Hekeng, a place with several hundred residents, I ticked off 13 tulou. (Tu lou means "earthen structure" in Mandarin, a very modest definition, like describing a coliseum as a stone circle.) The buildings look medieval, with high mud-brown walls, tiny windows in the top stories, and usually just a single iron-plated wooden door allowing entrance.
8. The provision and politics of aid
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9. The state and its institutions: development of state, democracy, post-imperialism, nationalism
a. Website: LA Times.com
b. URL: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-capitol-business-beat-20150105-story.html
c. Date: January 4, 2105
d. Title: Little-known tax break for wealthy helps low-income college students
10. Article: Two laws by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León provide College Access Tax Credits for contributions to the popular Cal Grants program that helps low-income students.
11. These new tax credits are reserved for contributions to so-called Cal Grant B awards that help pay for books, housing and transportation while students attend community colleges or four-year schools.
12. Minority group, pressure groups
a. Website: Times: times.com
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13. Freedom of speech, action, and thought
a. Website: Times: times.com
b. URL: http://time.com/6447/india-the-hindus-wendy-doniger-penguin/
c. Date: Feb. 11, 2014
d. Title: Indian Publisher to Recall and Destroy Copies of American’s Book on Hinduism
e. Article: A reported settlement by Penguin India to recall and pulp copies of U.S. academic Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus" raises questions of freedom of speech in the world's largest democracy.
14. Judiciary
a. Website: Times: times.com
b. URL: http://time.com/3595574/secret-service-director-restore-faith/
c. Date: Nov. 14, 2014
d. Title: Acting Secret Service Director ‘Confident’ He Can Restore Faith in Agency
e. Article: Joseph Clancy addressed the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, noting the failures that have led to public mistrust in the agency. Joseph Clancy addressed the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, noting the failures that have led to public mistrust in the agency
15. Matters of conscience, faith, tolerance, equality, opportunity
a. Website: Times: times.com
b. URL: http://time.com/3642909/pro-gay-evangelical/
c. Date: Dec. 21, 2014
d. Title: I Am a Pro-Gay Evangelical Christian Fighting for Marriage Equality
e. Article: After spending four years in a conservative evangelical Bible College in Chicago, a dramatic realization occurred: Evangelicals, which means “people of Good News,” were instead seen by the people of the world. Those people began to fight for gay rights and Christian marriage equality.
16. Corruption
a. Website: Times: times.com
b. URL: http://time.com/3649284/putin-foe-alexei-navalny-found-guilty-of-fraud/
c. Date: Dec. 30, 2014
d. Title: Putin Foe Alexei Navalny Found Guilty of Fraud
e. Article: The opposition activist rose to prominence investigating official corruption.
- 17. Medical dilemmas and issues of research and ethics
b. URL: http://time.com/3652455/ebola-2015-un/
c. Date: Jan. 2, 2015
d. Title: U.N. Officals Saya Ebola can be beat in 2015
e. Article: Friday that the Ebola outbreak can be stomped out in 2015 but that months of hard work remain to stop the virus that has killed almost 8,000 people.“We have not come anywhere close to ending the crisis. We’ve done a lot in 90 days in a very successful response but we have a long and difficult way to go,” Anthony Banbury, head of the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response told reporters.
f. 18. Drug manufacturing and provision
i. Website: Eurek Alert.com
ii. URL: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/du-psc010215.php
iii. Date: Jan. 2, 2015
iv. Title: Predicting superbugs' countermoves to new drugs
v. Article: New drugs are desperately needed, but so are ways to maximize the effective lifespan of these drugs. To accomplish that, Duke University researchers used software they developed to predict a constantly-evolving infectious bacterium's countermoves to one of these new drugs ahead of time, before the drug is even tested on patients. In a study appearing in the journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team used their program to identify the genetic changes that will allow methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, to develop resistance to a class of new experimental drugs that show promise against the deadly bug.
g. 19. Diet, health education
i. Website: esourses.com
ii. URL: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/scic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOver&query=&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&u=fl_sarhs&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=SCIC&action=e&catId=GALE%7CONAXMF168249431&activity&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CCV2644031363
iii. Date: 2014
iv. Title: Bipolar Disorder
v. Article:Bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, is one of the mental illnesses designated as mood disorders. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 5.7 million Americans have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. But this likely represents a small portion of the actual number of sufferers, because many people go undiagnosed. Indeed, experts have suggested that about one in five families has a family member who has or will experience a manic episode or depression. Consistent with the designation bipolar, this illness is typically apparent as two extreme moods; depression and mania. Individuals with bipolar disorder may experience mild mania, or hypomania, in which individuals are energetic but usually functional. More severe mania may lead to impulsive, often self-destructive, behavior. Periods of depression follow manic episodes.
h. 20. Old and new industries
i. Website: The Gaurdian.com
ii. URL: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/02/piano-stores-closing-kids-snub-lessons-compete-technology
iii. Date: Jan. 02, 2014
iv. Title: Piano stores closing across US as kids snub lessons for other activites v. Article: Sales decline accelerates as businesses dedicated to the instrument dwindle and music learners opt for less expensive electronic keyboards or used pianos Stores dedicated to selling pianos like Foster’s are dwindling across the country as fewer people take up the instrument and those who do often opt for a less expensive electronic keyboard or a used piano. Some blame computers and others note the high cost of new pianos, but what’s clear is that a long-term decline in sales has accelerated.
i. 21. Spin-offs from space industry and weaponry
i. Website: National Public Radio.com
ii. URL: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/18/371755900/once-written-off-kepler-telescope-finds-new-planet
iii. Date: Dec. 18, 2014
iv. Title: Once Written Off, Kepler Telescope Finds New Planet
v. Article: More than a year after NASA said its Kepler space telescope was beyond repair, the planet-hunting probe has delivered an unlikely find: planet that's outside our solar system. The find comes after a team worked to find a way to make Kepler productive again, says NASA, calling the find "a comeback."The space agency says the newly discovered exoplanet is 2.5 times the diameter of the Earth – and that the lead researcher on the project is a graduate student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
j. 22. Information and communications technology: Internet
i. Website: Pro Publica.com
ii. URL: http://www.propublica.org/article/judge-doesnt-think-police-are-abusing-spy-technology-and-more-in-muckreads-
iii. Date: Oct. 24, 2014
iv. Title: Judge Doesn’t ‘Think’ Police are Abusing Spy Technology, and More in MuckReads v. Article: "It's not just bullets you need to watch out for." Sick and vomiting residents. A chemical smell. A dead 18-month-old German shepherd. Tracking suspects in violent felonies, kidnappings, and you. This cost-saving measure has resulted in the wrong people paying property taxes
k. 23. Environmental concerns
i. Website: Times.com
ii. URL: http://time.com/3652715/weather-forecast-polar-cold/
iii. Date: Jan. 2, 2015
iv. Title: Ready to Shiver? Arctic Air to Put America on Ice
v. Article: National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Kocin, an expert on winter storms, said it is a classic pattern of massive blasts of Arctic air hitting just about everyone east of the Rockies. He said it will rival last year’s January Arctic outbreak that introduced the phrase “polar vortex” to America.“This is going to be a big cold outbreak, pretty windy as well,” Kocin said. “It’s going to drive all the way down south.”The wind and cold could mean wind-chill factors that will make the temperature feel like 30 degrees below zero — 50 degrees below zero in Minneapolis and Chicago, said meteorologist Ryan Maue of the private Weather Bell Analytics. He called it “old-timer’s type of cold.”
l. 24. Migration; population dynamics
m. 25. Feeding the global population
i. Website: Yahoo.com
ii. URL: http://www.small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable-living.com/advantages_and_disadvantages_organic_farming.html
iii. Title: Advantages and Disadvantages Organic Farming: Good things, Barriers, and Environmental Effects
iv. Article: Despite the good things about organic farming why do most farmers still operate by industrialized agriculture? Here we explore the pros and cons organic farming presents for consumers and producers, as well as examining the environmental effects of organic farming.
n. 26. Public Transport and travel
i. Website: Yahoo.com
ii. URL: http://news.yahoo.com/plane-crash-survivors-unusual-tale-many-7-olds-121602984.html
iii. Date: Jan. 4, 2014
iv. Title: Plane crash survivor's unusual tale: How many 7-year-olds have survival skills? v. Article: Sailor Gutzler, the 7-year-old lone survivor of a plane crash in Kentucky, showed remarkable resourcefulness and fortitude to find help. Even as investigators work to determine the cause of a plane crash in rural southeastern Kentucky late Friday, the lone survivor, 7-year-old Sailor Gutzler, is being hailed for her remarkably calm thinking and resourcefulness. o.
27. The uses and applications of mathematics
i. Website: CNN.com
ii. URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/30/business/zaha-hadid-stem-month/index.html
iii. Date: Oct. 30, 2014
iv. Title: Zaha Hadid's Iraq: 'Math was like sketching v. Article: When I was growing up in Iraq, math was an everyday part of life.My parents instilled in me a passion for discovery, and they never made a distinction between science and creativity. We would play with math problems just as we would play with pens and paper to draw -- math was like sketching.
28. Literature, biography, diary
i. Website: The Guardian.com
ii. URL: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/dec/30/100-years-books-noughties
iii. Date: Dec. 30, 2009
iv. Title: 100 years of literary naughtiness v. Article: The differences between the book world 100 years ago and now are obvious, but a 20th century end of decade list also reveals a striking similarity. We've reached the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and the 'books of the decade' lists have been published. These lists may tell us something worthwhile about the world of books and may even show us something interesting about this decade in particular. But how do they compare with the lists from 100 years ago, at the end of the first decade of the 20th century?
29. Language- heritage, tradition, dialect
i. Website: Smithsonian.com
ii. URL: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/our-top-stories-2014-180953698/
iii. Date: Apr, 2014
iv. Title: How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better
v. Article: In our April issue, journalist Tom Downey explored Japan’s infatuation with and perfection of American culture. While there probably are only a handful of countries around the world where you couldn’t find an American fast food joint, in one Japanese restaurant you can get a flame-grilled hamburger fresh off the barbecue. A culture focused on perfection has taken many of these iconic facets of American culture to the next level, and Downey gave readers an inside look at Japan’s version of America, from cocktails to suit shirts.
30. The Global media
i. Website: Times.com
ii. URL: http://time.com/3651961/idina-menzel-new-years-eve-frozen-flub/
iii. Date: Jan. 2, 2015
18. Title: Twitter Won’t Let It Go After Idina Menzel’s Frozen Performance on New Year’s Eve i. Article: Idina Menzel’s New Year’s Eve performance of “Let It Go” met a frosty reception on social media. The singer behind the hit song fromFrozen performed in Times Square for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on Wednesday night, where she stumbled over a high note.
b. Censorship; privacy
c. Traditional Arts and crafts
i. Website: The Art Newspaper
ii. URL: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Latin-American-art-has-its-day-in-the-sun/36582
iii. Date: Dec. 06, 2014
iv. Title: Latin American art has its day in the sun
v. Article: Art Basel in Miami Beach launched in 2002 with an eye firmly on the Latin American market, branding itself as the gateway to South America. Collectors from Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina have since flocked to the fair but beyond Miami, the market for Latin American art has been a slow burn in the US and Europe, with few artists selling for more than $1m at auction.
d. Architecture; painting; fashion
i. Website: The Art Newspaper
ii. URL:http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Market%20predictions%20for%202015:%20economic%20chaos,%20dealers%20under%20threat,%20leaderless%20sale%20rooms%E2%80%A6/36694
iii. Date: Dec 30, 2014
iv. Title: Market predictions for 2015: economic chaos, dealers under threat, leaderless sale rooms… v. Article: This year was an incredible one for the art trade, and while the final figures were not yet in when we went to press, 2014 is likely to be a record year, thanks to the strength at the top of the market for contemporary art. But the year ended with the chief executives of both major auction houses stepping down amid some apparently glorious results. What will happen in 2015; can the market continue to grow, or are we in for a correction? The next 12 months are probably the hardest I have ever had to predict