Midterm Project
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Data Privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/strava-privacy.html
For my editorial project, I decided to focus on the issue of data privacy and why It’s important. Now that we are living in the digital world, everybody’s information is being given up by services that we use, but how trustful is it? We use many apps, and social media sites and we need to abide by the consent that these companies offer to us. Sometimes we won’t read the consent of what we give up. There’s consequences when we accept these consents from these companies. whether our data is private or public, it’s all out there.
Editorial Article- North Korea Crisis
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/906760/north-korea-news-nuclear-ballistic-missile-tests-predicted-2018-kim-jong-un-world-war-3
The missile crisis in North Korea has gotten lots of attention from the U.S and is a really concerning problem for the rest of the world. North Korea is striving to build a missile that can reach other continents such as the U.S. Their president Kim Jong-un is not in anyway, of stopping his mast production of deadly and distructive nuclear missiles. North Korea has been testing their missiles for some time, alerting neighbor countries like Japan. Based on news reports, Kim has already test 6 nuclear bombs and one hydrogen bomb, it is expected that another deadly bomb will be tested over the Pacific Ocean this year 2018.
I chose this article since missile crisis has always been a problem because of their deadly destructive potential. Today many countries with material available continue to produce nuclear bombs such as North Korea however the purpose of these countries aren’t for the well being of others but for their own malicious use.
Malik Smith – Project 3 (Research)
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/
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My topic for the editorial assignment will be police brutality. I have picked out 2 credible sources that includes data and statistics surrounding the deaths-by-police count in 2017. There has been a record of 987 deaths in 2017 (second to the 995 deaths recorded in 2015). The first link, from the Chicago Tribune, gives a very nice summary of the deaths by police reported throughout 2017, as well as the causes and the issues surrounding it. The second link gives a clean visual representation of the same data collected in 2015-2017.
This is a topic that is very important to me as a young black man who often feels like his image is considered a “threat” or resemble one a “thug” and I could be #988 this year..
Malik Smith – Midterm Project
Here is the process book for my midterm project + final inking
**Inking is very new to me and I was EXTREMELY nervous about making some mistakes (which I did) so I used photoshop to fix those issues**
Research
Gun control had been a problem for a long time. Two of the big problem are the lack of background checks and the minimum age for buying a gun. As stated in the article, one study by researcher at Northeastern University and Harvard University estimated that 22% of gun sale occur without a background check”, some gun sale doesn’t require background check to buy a gun. The minimum age to buy a handgun compare to a Ar-15 is non sense too. You need to be 21 to buy a handgun, but you can get a shotgun at 18?
Research – Project 03 Editorial Illustration
Phone Addiction
Smartphones have been integrated into the lives of many people since it’s introduction in 2007. Smartphones are useful tools that act as a device that can do many things that should make life more efficient. Smartphones also makes it easier to connect with people whether it would be calling, texting, and most notably social media. Smartphones create an easy faucet for social media to flow into and people who get caught up often times spends a majority of their waking hour checking for new posts. Social media companies rely on certain mechanisms that keep the user coming back (Snapchat badges, red notifications, refresh button, etc) which are often times very effective in keeping a person on the platform. As something that was supposed to make life more efficient now becomes a problem of the 21st century.
Sharif Tyler Project 3 Editorial Illustration
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/19/us/police-videos-race.html
For the third project I decided to choose police brutality as my basis. Police brutality is described as excessive force used by police for lawful purposes. Often times, police brutality leads to death or serious injuries. The victims of police brutality most of the time are black people. Some of the most well known victims of police brutality are Sandra Bland, Rodney King, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and Oscar Grant who was the inspiration behind the movie Fruitvale Station. 9 times out of 10 when black people are the victims of police brutality, they’re innocent and minding their own business. Just recently in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a black man named Saheed Vassell was shot and killed by police after police supposedly mistook an object in his hand has a gun. Come to find out it wasn’t a gun. Saheed Vassell was known to be mentally ill, but police still shot him instead of trying to de escalate the situation. A lot of times when police murder black people, they often get away with it. As a black man living in America, I always fear that me or someone that I care about might be assaulted or murdered by police. Almost everyday I fear that my life might be cut short just because of the color of my skin.
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