CNN is a perfect example of media television bias. Surrounded with huge controversial headlines week in and week out this television channel is a highlight of all types of political bias. Being accused of having huge media liberal bias CNN is still a huge source of political information. For years CNN has highlighted the glorious […]
Personal liberty supersedes the constraints of societal conventions. This is the message of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” which centers on Louise Mallard, a married woman who learns she is now a widow. Her sister informs her that her husband has died in an accident, causing her to break down into sobs. However, […]
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Get startedThe novel Things Fall Apart by Chinau Achebe is set in Pre-colonial Nigeria, in a village named Umuofia. The village has, by today’s standards, a very misogynistic and outdated. To the Igbo, however, it is the only way they know. The village environment has very specific gender roles. Men are warriors and farmers of yams, […]
As much as people prefer to see themselves as individuals, society controls us more than we admit or even recognize. Oscar Wilde’s lighthearted look at societal expectations in The Importance of Being Earnest ironically suggests that society provides pressure to appear perfect, but often this pressure warps or destroys one’s perfectly genuine self. In Wilde’s […]
Introduction Blockchain involves a chronological collection of blocks, which represents a collection of data and sensitive information. In economics, blockchain represents an autonomous ledger that contains sensitive information. Therefore, sensitive information and data are spread across all individuals in a blockchain network. The data can only be viewed, but its contents are protected and cannot […]
Media bias is an issue that has been in discussion for a long time (Sloan and Jenn, 12). In most cases, the media presents information in the way they desire it to be perceived and not the way the situation was at the scene. In order to expound on this, the article ‘Advertisers are looking […]
The media is ever present in societies around the world today, providing information and news for mass public consumption. Many allow it to influence their opinions as it has a reputation of being objective and reliable. This can be dangerous if the media fails to live up to its reputation, especially with the recent 2016 […]
Can you imagine being born already in the foster care system? Then being adopted and after that going back into foster care? Some can’t even fathom going threw it but I did. As soon as I was born I was a ward of the court and after that I was adopted by my auntie. Ten years […]
Forty percent of all adolescents that age out of the foster care system end up homeless (Scannapieco, M, Carrick, K, & Painter, K., 2007). From the Orphan trains to the Children’s Bureau, foster care has been a controversial and well researched topic in the United States. The Orphan trains gave children the opportunity to be […]
Aging Out of Foster Care This short documentary, Aging Out of Foster Care, presented by Jennifer Rrooks, focuses on young adults who age out of the foster care system, specifically in Maine. Rrooks poses a few questions like: “How are they faring?”,”What needs to happen to give them a fighting chance in life?”, and “What […]
According to new research led by Michele Musto, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California found that new segments on women’s sports are shorter, including fewer interviews and less entertaining commentary. And coverage of women’s sports features matter-of-fact reactions which make female athletes seem less exciting (SWNS 2017). The study went on to […]
Throughout the course of history, we have been taught that the growth of technology is always beneficial to our existence. Many believe these advances are what help us survive as an innovative species and often embrace technological advancement. Today in society, we see advancements in many different communicative devices, from our phones to our laptops. […]
As many know, racism has played a major role in American history and still does to this day. During these past few years, Donald J. Trump has spent a mass amount of time targeting the southern border and Mexico before announcing his presidency in June 2015, and because of that, many have accused him of […]
On April 14th, 2017 (Wikipedia, 2019), Kendrick Lamar released an album that has since become one of the best-selling in his entire career. DAMN, a critically acclaimed album and winner of a Pulitzer prize, for its eye-opening lyric on current social issues black Americans struggle with day to day. Music has grown to become much […]
In Octavia’s Brood, the social justice issue depicted in the story Hollow supports the idea that the material body and its health, vitality, and natural and social environments not only create and discipline the citizen-subject but also provide the conditions necessary for its recognition and political agency within biopolitical modes of governance, broadly constructed…to dive […]
