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What if a person was reading an article and believed it and, later found out it was fake? Fake news can persuade people into believing something that is true but, really it’s fake. Also fake news changes the mind of american society because some websites want you to believe what they think. Fake news does have a very big impact on american society. Fake news can persuade the american voters into who they wanted for the new president. In the Article “Fake news, once satirical and sketchy, is…

Mequlito Q. Ragin Management in Film (MGMT215-150A-15 10/13/2015 Watched Remember The Titans Remember The Titans is a movie based back in the 1970’s, during the time of heavy racism in a small town of Virginia. The Jim Crow laws were still a very big part of their everyday life. There are many complex feelings during this movie. For this discussion board we want to focus our attention on the unity the coach wanted to provide during the training camp. 1. “Doc”, the new head coach took his…

Warren Buffett is arguably the wealthiest man in the world. He invested, saved, and established businesses to earn his net worth of over $65 million. He has generously donated much of his fortune to charity. He had to learn to be patience to earn this abundance of money, but with hard work and determination, he made it happen. Warren Buffett, born August 30, 1930, has been investing ever since he could understand what it was. For him, that was at age 11. Up to that time, he had been…

The Museum Of Modern Art starts when three prominent women envision a museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene…

Charles Dicken, fully known as Charles John Huffam Dickens is an English writer who has written well known books such as Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol and many more. Even though he had little formal education, he still came to fame by his mid-twenties. After the loss of his brother and the family’s move to london, Dickens had to starts working at a shoe factory. He worked to earn money which was later used to pay for his room and board while his siblings stayed in a prison…

Trump’s Presidency Synthesis In the year 2017 President Obama’s four year term will be over and a new President will settle into the Oval office. As of now there are three Republican candidates still fighting for a nomination, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and finally Donald Trump. Trump has received harsh criticism in the past couple of months and is known to be a loose cannon. However, despite all of this he still has won more states then the rest of the Republican nominees. So the question must be…

KANSAS City, Mo.--Esa Ahmad snapped out of a slump, notching a double-double and making the go-ahead free throw as No. 2 seeded West Virginia University topped No.8 seeded Kansas State 51-50 on Friday. The Mountaineers (26-7) overcame a 12-point deficit to advance to the Big 12 Championship on Saturday for the second time in as many years. Ahmad had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Tarik Phillip tallied 13 points and Elijah Macon grabbed 10 rebounds. Wesley Iwundu had 13 points and Kamau Stokes add…

3. By the 11 “Synthesis of Textbook Standards,” the Willie Horton ad can be considered unethical. The ad shows both candidates running for president, but appears to blame Dukakis for the weekend passes and Willie Horton’s crimes. The ad goes on the state that Horton stabbed a man and raped a woman. The first standard is not to use distorted or misrepresented information. The advertisement does just that when it distorts some of the information. The law that provided weekend passes to criminals…

While directing The War Room, a documentary account of Clinton’s 1992 election campaign, D.A. Pennebaker had to work within a world of limitations. Limited time, limited access to his subjects, and even self-imposed limitations rooted in Pennebaker’s cinema verite style all could have led to a narrow-scoped film lacking in depth and clarity. Instead however, Pennebaker flourishes in this world of limitations. His resulting documentary uses camera angles, audio, and humor to humanize the…

I agree with Darren on the fact that the show “Little Mosque on the Prairie” would be able to run in the United States. Although the show is about a minority population (Muslims), we see no direct put down of religions. As with anything, timing is everything. In 2002, I think that the show would have had a hard time airing. The attitude to Muslims whether it was justified or not was negative and the show would be cancelled immediately. In 2015 however, the times have changed and this show…