Week 3: "In pictures: Life inside Liberia's archaic jails" - BBC

1. The light outside compared to the darkness inside represents that there is a brighter future outside the jail.
2. The bars between the area of light and the darkness inside represents how the jail's inhabitants are prohibited from accessing a brighter future. 
3. The picture's subjects stare at the camera (or the viewer) to represent how they can't do anything and can only wait for someone else to help them.

Source: Frame 3 out of 10, "In pictures: Life inside Liberia's archaic jails." Photograph. BBC News. First Last. 2011. Web. 25 Sep 2011. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14993991>.

Week 2: "Time to raise taxes on the rich" - CNN

• Worker productivity in the USA has been rising, along with the wages for the top 1% of Americans, but the wages for the rest of the American population have been inert.
• Almost 75% of Americans support raising taxes on the rich, including Republican voters.
• In the past, America has cut the taxes on the rich and expected it to help the economy again and again, but to no avail. 
• The actual tax rate that big businesses and corporations pay is now the lowest in several generations, and lower than what middle-class Americans paid in 2007.

Source:
Kohn, Sally. "Time to raise taxes on the rich."CNN. N.p., 14 Sep 2011. Web. 18 Sep 2011. <http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/14/opinion/kohn-tax-the-rich/index.html?hpt=op_bn6>.

Week 1: "Delhi bomb: Indian group 'may be behind' court attack" - BBC

The investigation following Wednesday's bombing in New Delhi, India, has led to the conclusion that the attack may have been the work of militants based  in India. So far, two militant groups, Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (Huji) and the Indian Mujahideen claim to be behind the attacks. Although Huji has Pakistani origins and is reportedly linked to Al-Qaeda, the militant group has not been recently active in India. This discovery is encouraging India to work on battling terrorism in India by going after Indian militant groups instead of Pakistani militant groups. Also, the recent bombings in Pune, Mumbai, and Delhi are putting the Indian government under more and more pressure because there are concerns that the government will not be able to handle the increasing threat.

Source:
Majumder, Sanjoy. "Delhi bomb: Indian group 'may be behind' court attack." BBC News. BBC, 09 Sep 2011. Web. 09 Sep 2011. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14849681>.