Russell Contreras

Flying Sequence - Superman

youtube.com — One of my most favorite love songs, "Can You Read My Mind?", composed by John Williams. Love the orchestral arrangement!

John F. Kennedy - Address on Civil Rights

youtube.com — You can view the full speech here: http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3375 Kennedy speaks from the Oval Office in response to the National Guard being sent to protect African American students at the University of Alabama. The President declares that a moral crisis exists in America and requests congressional action to expedite desegregation through legislation.

10 Blogs Journalists Must Read

profkrg.com — Most writers consider it fact that, in order to write well, you must read a lot. I encourage student journalists to read everything they can get their hands on. I figure the good writing they read will give them something to mirror. The bad writing serves as a warning and a great way to practice their editing skills.

Tool for journalists: Repost, for embedding articles

journalism.co.uk — Repost creates an embed code for a whole article, allowing you to embed it in the same way as you would a YouTube or Vimeo video Tool of the week for journalists: Repost What is it? A tool that allows you to embed an article in the same way as you would embed a video.

Thomas Pynchon Returns to the New York Where He's Always Been

theatlanticwire.com — Though he's lived in New York City since the early 1990s, after decades of a famously fugitive existence in and out of America, Thomas Pynchon now seems, at last , to have moved in.

What would happen if Clark Kent tried to get a newspaper job today

jimromenesko.com — Newspapers and journalism take a beating in "Man of Steel" tweets * "Are we really supposed to believe there's a newspaper adding employees?"(@brianbatescomic) * "Wow, #manofsteel is totally unrealistic sci-fi.

Is the Mexican Government Failing to Protect Journalists?

vice.com — Anabel Hernandez is one of the most decorated journalists in Mexico, and currently reports for the weekly news magazine Proceso and the online magazine Reporte Indigo. She's been on the radar of the most powerful corrupt law enforcement officials in the country since at least 2008, when she published her first expose on Genaro Garcia Luna, the head of Mexico's equivalent of the FBI and then-president Felipe Calderone's right-hand man in the drug war.

Superman vs. Jesus

huffingtonpost.com — Superman is Jesus. More precisely, in the new movie, Superman: Man of Steel, we are meant to draw very distinct parallels between Superman and Jesus. Arguably, the movie goes a step further making Superman the modern-day, Americanized Jesus.