Each One Teach One

According to TheHouse.gov “Samuel Morse, an inventor, created the telegraph system. Each dot and dash combination in Morse's scheme, known as "Morse code," stood for a different letter of the alphabet. The "American Recording Electro-Magnetic Telegraph" was the name of the invention's patent submission, which was made in 1837. He gave the first public demonstration of his machine to Congress in 1838 in order to request a congressional appropriation to pay for its expansion. Even though the new technology was impressively demonstrated, Morse did not get the funding he requested until 1843. On May 24th, 1844 Samuel Morse wrote the first message “What hath God Wrought? Over an experimental line from Washington D.C, to Baltimore. 

 Ancient civilizations such as those in China, Egypt, and Greece employed drum beats, signal fires, or smoke signals to send information between far sites until the invention of the electric telegraph in the 19th century altered how information was transmitted over vast distances.However, such methods were limited by the weather and the need for an uninterrupted line of sight between receptor points. 

 According to History.com The electric telegraph revolutionized how newspapers operated, how money was sent, and how battles were waged. Pieces of news could be sent between telegraph stations nearly quickly, opposed to writing letters and looking at newspapers. Although the telephone, fax machine, and Internet have since become the more practical option, the telegraph set the stage for the communications revolution that gave rise to those future inventions. The telegraph also facilitated the growth in the railroads, consolidated financial and commodity markets, and reduced information costs within and between firms. 

 According to science.org the telegraph had negative effects for example, From Baltimore to Washington, the first long telegraph wire ran. Depending on the length of the message and the operator's expertise, sending a message by telegraph could take a minute or several minutes. The telegraph transmission process required more time than current electronic communication techniques since each letter had to be converted to Morse Code and manually keyed.

 Another negative effect was message length and access. Telegraphs could only be used for extremely brief and concise messages because the length of a message needs to be relatively small due to the conversion time of a message. Another issue was getting access to telegraphs. Certain areas had them, but others didn't. Telegraphs were rarely utilized outside of government, business, and other major institutions, in contrast to today's widespread telephones.

 Final reason is poor quality communication. The telephone, created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and allowing direct voice connection, quickly replaced telegraphy as the preferred method of communication. Telegraphy was relegated to specialized purposes due to the major communication quality issues associated with telegraph devices. Telegraph messages lacked the complexity and natural speech, but telephone conversations do. In contrast to the telegraph, modern communication systems enable the digital transfer of documents, video, and audio. Other technologies, like the fax machine, also enable physical documents to be reorganized on the receiving end.

My opinion on the Value of Freedom "Marketplace of Ideas"

I hold it in neutral ground when it comes to he value of freedoms. I like the idea because it gives people an act to share their truth to the world despite where people come from and whether people like it or not, they have the opportunity to present. The goal of the whole thing is for no voice should be unheard and all opinions and beliefs are voiced. 

My issue isn’t with the value itself but how our society has bent what we call our “truths”. It’s way harder these days to find credible sources about anything and it’s because people will put just about anything out there for attention or just to scramble people’s minds. Also people won’t want to hear other peoples “truths” especially if it doesn’t agree with their own. Take the internet for example, there are a lot of sources out there that aren’t trusted or reliable, like wikipedia, everyone knows you can only use wikipedia to a certain extent and it’s because people can easily alter words in articles no matter what it is. 

Social Media plays both sides when it comes to seeing”truths”. When using social media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Tiktok. We use these platforms to look and share different opinions and information that we find relevant or informative, which is one of the main points of social media, But the main job for social media companies is to find out ways to keep viewers like us on their app. The way they do that is simple yet genius. They have simple AI’s to track what you say, what you look at, how you reply to specific things, what you like, what you dislike and they make algorithms that only interest you, Our truth doesn’t change and our knowledge doesn’t broaden, instead when you log onto these same social medias, you only find similar truths and opinions that you have which isn’t necessarily bad because you get to see mindsets like yours which can cause friendships, But By doing that we’re drowning outside opinions that might be helpful for us. Basically they tell you what you want to hear only instead of telling you also what you need to hear, and it’s only for their benefit because as long as you're happy with it they get revenue.

Another issue on how this freedom is abused especially in this time period, is hate speech. Nbc News made an article about how a rapper named “Boosie” saying hateful words to lil nas x” . If you don’t know Lil Nas x he is basically a popular gay artist who likes to troll people on social media. It started with Lil Nas x posting a tweet trolling saying how he and Boosie were getting together for music, Boosie as a ant-gay rapper tweeted back saying ““STOP TROLLING ME F----- LOL!!," the tweet said, in part. "IF YOU #commitsuicide YOU WOULD DO THIS WORLD A HUGE FAVOR NOBODY WANTS U HERE." This alone started a conflict upon social media explaining if this was wrong or not, majority of people didn’t care due to the hate of gay people in this generation and used “Freedom of speech” as an excuse. Thankfully twitter took down the post as it was posed as “Hate speech” but you see that there are many problems like this that don’t get taken down or punished due to people throwing the “Freedom of Speech” excuse. In Conclusion I agree with the idea of the value of marketplace of ideas, but in this time of age our society has used it to manipulate truths for their own benefit.

Supreme Court Overview

  I don't remember about the Supreme Court especially learning it in high school, so everything really was new to me. Learning about John Marshall and how he was known for defending and making both the beginning of the judicial powers the principles of our system of government. John Marshal also played a huge role in the Marbury V. Madison where he establish the unanimous opinion about power of federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional.

    The main thing I took of agreement is how many cases are actually handled in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has about 7,000 cases a year to go through, people actually have to go through, although with help justices individually have to make decisions about the cases. As a citizen I wouldn't be able to keep that sort of attention span with that many cases.

     

  Most surprising thing I learned in the video was about the 19th Amendment. Although the amendment states the phrase "We the people" it was only a small circle of people that the amendment abided by. Woman couldn't vote, people were still held in bondage, Native Americans were not treated as citizens or were treated equal.

It doesn't change my interest about the Supreme Court, usually if it's political I try to strive away from it. One thing I can say about it is that I can see how much is actually put in when it comes to cases and laws. How they are trying to make things equal whether it's trying to fix past laws or make new ones, they have more of my respect.

5 Sources I Use

YouTube 

YouTube is a source I've been using as a little kid. Even now I watch YouTube more than I watch any other streaming services. YouTube is a video sharing service where people all-around the world post videos of anything they want post it on social media, then people like me watch it. There's nothing that you can't find on YouTube, It's versatile in everyday, they have sports, games, politics, business, food and DIY videos for everyone. 

New York Times

  The New York Times is a daily newspaper that was founded in 1851 by Henry Raymond. I use the New York Times because they’re credible and dependable when I need them. They believe in seeking the truth to help people understand the world and that great journalism can make a reader’s life more fulfilling.

ESPN

    ESPN is a cable sports channel, It has stats and information about sports and stats about individual teams and individual players. I use ESPN mostly to keep up with my favorite football and basketball teams, they show live footage of the games and they give play-by -play descriptions of what’s going on. You can access them on all platforms of devices whether it’s on your phone, laptop, iPad or TV.

Apple News

Apple news is an app on all IOS devices that brings all types of News sources to your device. It has over 300 popular magazines and leading newspapers. I use Apple news simply because it’s convenient, they have multiple outlets of information all in one app and it keeps you notified on specific changes and updates at all times. They also have news from all over the world and they personalized your feed based on what you want to see

  CNN News

CNN news is national cable news headquarters in Atlanta. CNN provides live coverage and analysis of breaking news, also a full range of information about everything. I use CNN because it touches all parts of news whether it’s business, political, entertainment and sports. They talk about the weather and health as well, Not to mention they’re fast and reliable.