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“If you dont stand for something you will fall for anything”(Malcolm X). Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He was assassinated February 21, 1965 by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. His followers looked at him as a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, while he was there for the harshest term for crimes against black americans. People call him a preacher of…

Enhancing drugs shouldn't be introduced to athletes in sporting events. The use of performance-enhancing drugs, or “doping,” by professional athletes has been acknowledged as a problem since at least the 1960s (CNN). FDA took action in 2004. It is banned by the NFL, Olympics, NCAA and MLB (CNN). The use of enhancing drugs is not fair to the other contestants. The drug gives an athlete an unfair advantage. It is the act of misusing medicinal products to gain an advantage in performance and to…

Was the American involvement in Iraq Justified? War has been apart of mankind 's history since the beginning of time, but what justifies war? Is war just if one nation attacks another? Is war just if one nation hold a citizen from another nation hostage? War is a brutal way of handling a problem the can solved through conversation and negotiation. The United States (US) involvement in Iraq was not a justified war and we had no reason the set foot in the Iraqi territory. A just war is a war that…

Similar to the decline of Rome, the U.S. may be heading toward a decline as well because of economic struggles. According to a CNN Money article, “Consumer spending makes up two-thirds of the nation’s economic engine.” However,…

Color Children are so innocent but are subconsciously learning racial bias from everything around them. When children are in early childhood they seem to not really notice color until they get a little older and understand what is really going on around them. Non- whites and whites start to see how they are treated differently obviously the non-whites see how being white is seen as being superior. Media shows its racially bias by mainly having white actors shown on t.v and having token…

Growing up a phrase that always passed through my ears was, “Never talk about religion or politics to people.” Thinking about it now, I can agree to that statement under some circumstances such as an interview. Would not want to risk getting on the wrong foot with my employer! In other circumstances, I believe it should be talked about (respectfully and peacefully). If we are not having a conversation, how are we supposed to develop as an individual and as a collective nation. Some people would…

depression or an eating disorder and leave with horrible memories of sexual abuse or bizarre satanic rituals. These memories are recovered during therapy using hypnosis, dream interpretation, and other types of techniques to ensure the patients remember (CNN Guilt by Memory). Most of the therapists who use these techniques are certain that the uncovered “repressed memories” are fully accurate and they cannot be false or imagined. One book entitled The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors…

Over the years, news articles have released articles about chocolate. The article, “Why A Journalist Scammed The Media Into Spreading Bad Chocolate Science," shed the light of the current media trend. Just by searching up chocolate, reports come in about how you can lose weight just by eating chocolate. It is true that dark chocolate is better for us, but articles all over media are lying to consumers. When news came out, the media went crazy falling under the giant hoax. Bohannan a journalist…

News stories are biased because of how they are interpreted by people and what the media chooses to include or not include in their stories. This makes it biased. We all receive information and think about things differently. It’s not the news that presents the events differently, it is the individual and their understanding of the past and present that forms their opinion about the events presented. Therefore, bias in the news will always be there because we all view and interpret information…

fired as a result of taking the leave. Scheiber gives evidence that paternity discrimination is happening and also that it’s a problem. The first example that Scheiber gives is the recent case that was resolved between CNN and Tuner Broadcasting. In the case Josh Leves, a former CNN correspondent was trying to get paternity leave. Leves discovered that biological mothers were offered ten weeks of paid leave and biological fathers…