Hypocrisy And Corruption In The United States

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Hypocrisy and corruption is everywhere as we can see it even in literature you can find it. In your family and friends and everywhere in the world corruption and hypocrisy can be part of it. Especially in modern day,united states hypocrisy and corruption are involved in probably in its everyday life. In the internet and and many modern magazines in the USA show signs of being hypocritical towards many thing especially towards men and women. Many magazines write many articles that may contradict what they said or did before. For example for the magazine Cosmo The odyssey online stated that “For a magazine that bounces back and forth so much between natural beauty and upscale makeup, the celebrities on the cover are still being photoshopped”(The odyssey online 1). …show more content…
Not only social media or magazines can be hypocritical many people that you look up like modern day celebrities,authors, or even a president can be hypocrites. Like the presidents of the united states, someone who many believe is a man of no wrong doing,since he is a man of example to the people of the united

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