Faith's Media Blog

When I looked at the list of the top banned books I was surprised by how many I have read. Out of the top 100 banned books, I read twelve of them as part of my middle school or high school curriculum. Some of the titles I wasn't surprised to see, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, because I remember discussing that it was a commonly banned book when my English class read it in the 9th grade. I wasn't surprised to see the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn either. Other titles, however, surprised me. I was surprised to see The Giver, Are you there God, it's me Margaret, Bridge to Terabithia, and Friday Night Lights. I remember being slightly uncomfortable when I read To Kill a Mockingbird, because of the derogatory racial slurs, but now looking back, I'm glad that I read it and was exposed to it at that time in my life. Reading the book as a class opened up a lot of discussions about racial injustice in America at that time, and I learned so much more from the book than just wha

Every once in awhile I'll come across a song that stops me in my tracks. "Sober" is definitely one of those songs. I first came across this song in my suggested videos on Youtube a couple of weeks ago, but after the recent tragic news of Demi Lovato relapsing and ending up in the hospital, I've seen the song all over the place. The song itself is very new, and it was released unexpectedly, so that coupled with the fact that Demi Lovato has been in the hospital means that there's only a couple performances of the song, but here's my favorite one: It's clear to see in the video above the amount of emotion that went into the writing of this song, and it's obvious that Demi struggles to sing it without getting overly emotional. The reason that this is my favorite performance of the song has very little to do with the performance itself. Even though the song was brand new at the time of this show (it had been released only three days before this show ),

Topic One: Newspapers have never been a really big part of my life and I think that it's partially because of my location. Events in my immediately local areas aren't generally covered by any of the major newspapers. Because of this I've always used Facebook for community updates and things like that. I think it's a very effective platform especially when you're looking to find information about something that just happened, and you don't want to wait to read about it in the Sunday paper. Recently there was a civil emergency warning that Oregonians got on their cellphones. No details were given and a lot of people were really panicking, because no one knew what the emergency was. After trying to find something on local news websites and coming up empty handed, I went on Facebook and found the answers I was looking for within minutes. When it comes to local politics I'll admit that I could  be much more well informed. Unless there's something reall