Originally, I came down to DC for my interests in foreign affairs, but in the end it really ended up in the experimentation of public policy and the pursuit of freedom. Within the two days, I was travelling between wars in real life and potentially by means of social media. Visiting the Capitol, I was impressed by the "great compromise" and the respect for different voice but one decision. In the Newseum, the original piece of media started from 1800s and was literally a representation of world history. Although overloaded with information, busy walking between different institutions, the theme of freedom and humanity remains unchanged.
Brookings - Countering Proliferation: the challenge of the nuclear rogues.
The dome of Capitol, with the Logan "Out of Many, One". On top of the dome is the statue of liberty, which was completed during A. Lincoln's era.
This picture is taken at the Newseum. It is a special exhibition of the 9/11 event. This wall shows the front page of all newspapers around the world. If you zoom in and look carefully, you would find something different about one newspaper in the middle. Anyways, the wall still shows how powerful and unity the world of media is when such tragedy happened.
This picture is an overview of the freedom of speech in 2011. Red stands for not free where government take most control of the media and press. Yellow means partially free people still have some freedom of speech but the government would control over 50% of the media. Surprisingly, the Green part, which stands for free, is less than 1/3 in terms of size.
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