Public Enemies

was important because it was a huge step for teachers seeking a higher education so that they could provide the best learning environments for their students. The Compulsory Attendance Act of 1852 was important because it helped form a favorable public opinion of education and reiterated the importance of children attending school. The Brown V. the Board of Education decision was important because it made the separation of schools due to race unconstitutional. It allowed for nonwhite students…

Campaign Finance, and Democracy”). It is imperative for those in power to serve the rest of society and not their own interests. For the sake of society, our leaders within the media and government must look to advocate and work for the interest of the public, as this is also serving the greater good of mankind. Kant notes in his essay how “…it would be a crime against human nature” to obstruct the growth of the human race and the individuals within it (Kant 7). Humanity should not leave future…

constructs we have today of white privilege, perpetuated by the media and political propaganda, seemingly praises white people for the same work that criminalizes minorities. This distinction between the way graffiti and street art is perceived by the public is emphasized even more with the recent waves of gentrification happening all across American…

Entry 1: Today we discussed the public sphere. In summary, we discussed the emergence of the “mass audience”, the low/high culture binary, and determining where the idea of “the public” comes from. We have a conception of the public sphere from the bourgeois class. The set ideal is that of a private (civil society) and the public (state-mediates crises). This public sphere is formed and operated through the norms of publicity. There are five norms that make up publicity: status as person is…

declares “Our institutions do not emulate the law of others. We do not copy our neighbors: rather, we are an example to them.” This differs from how Alexander reflects on the past since he says, “…he [Phillip]taught you to fight on equal terms with the enemy on your borders, till you knew your safety lay not, as once, in your mountain strongholds, but in your own valor. He made you city-dwellers; he brought you law; he civilized you.” Alexander’s speech reaching into the past, about his father,…

from this reference that “Gone were the long trail drives that characterized the prairies from 1866 to 1880 Cowboys no longer lived the rough-and-tumble life that fostered so many romantic visions. Instead of herding their boss's cattle over vast public prairie lands, ranchers now worked more as traditional farmhands, drilling wells to provide water to pastures that did not border on streams and tending the fenced herds.”(Technology and the Making of the West." Westward Expansion Reference…

does reader always need objectivity? In this essay, I want to prove that an attempt to be fair it is a great initiative, but absolute objectivity is impossible. In addition, the ‘journalism of opinion’ can be useful, but it has to go to the level of public debate and considered as media activism. This problem is very serious for…

editors of poems and letters. The funding for this archive has been provided by the Harvard Library, The Sidney Verba Fund, The Houghton Library, and the Harvard University Press. Some of the institutions that contribute to this archive are the Boston Public Library, Amherst College, Library of Congress and the Yale University Library. The primary audience of this archive are scholars especially…

In Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, he explains the journey of how corn developed to what it is today. In 1866, “corn syrup . . . became the first cheap domestic substitute for cane sugar” (Pollan 88). Then as corn refining started to be perfected, high-fructose corn syrup became quite popular. Pollan states that high-fructose corn syrup “is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year” (89). Once these different food processes were…

However, the epoxy resin lining food cans was still a grave concern and widespread problem throughout the United States. A new study done during this time found BPA in several canned fruits, vegetables, and pasta treats consumed by many children. A Harvard study found that volunteers who consumed canned soup daily for five days had a 1,000 percent increase in urinary BPA (Datz, 2011). BPA is found in many foods and drinks ingested by Americans every day. It has also been proven to be found…