Joe Biden

Pennsylvania 's U.S. Senate seat, with Katie McGinty topping incumbent Pat Toomey 49% to 46% among likely voters, just inside the poll 's margin of error” (Agiesta, 2016). It also does not hurt that the current Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, is a democrat from the Electric City Scranton, Pennsylvania, a city about 30 minutes from my hometown of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. It is unknown whether the changes in the court elections will have any significant impact on the upcoming 2016…

The EDM Drug Culture: Problem or Normality? When thinking about the dance music scene, what does one think of? Hard basslines and kicks, loud music, DJs, bright lights, big venues, and the big one, the drugs. Whether you go back twenty years or look forward into the future twenty years, MDMA and various other drugs will always be prevalent in this culture. However, ecstasy is only as dangerous as you make it. House, Acid Techno, and Deep House were all being created around the same time MDMA…

Rape on U.S. College Campuses: Causes, Effects, and What’s Being Done to Stop It Rape culture on college campuses is pervasive and blatant, but universities, as well as fellow students, politicians, law enforcement officials, media messages, and gender roles in a culture where men dominate and women are not taken as seriously, endorse the bias that sexual assault is the victim’s fault or “unavoidable” in a culture where X, instead of focusing on preventing rape by changing the behavior of…

reducing the prison population where the incarceration should be changed. For example, in the article, Tom Bethell’s 1989 Washington Monthly cover story “ Criminals belong in jail,” where he talks about along with other liberal lawmaker, “the senator Joe Biden helped President Ronald Reagan enact major legislation related to the “War on drugs,” later helped Bill Clinton spend billions of federal dollars on hiring more police and building more…

“There were three rules for reporters: ‘Accuracy, accuracy and accuracy.” - Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911) Introduction Media shares stories, records history and projects reality. Therefore, Journalists have been provided with a certain code of ethics that would inform people rather than inflame them to create chaos. To inform, educate and to entertain have always been the three basic functions of media. This paper puts forward a case where a Hasidic Weekly newspaper named Der Tzeitung, based in…

Bryonna Williams Dr. Dubose English Honors 101:04 13 November 2017 Argumentative Essay One The United States has reluctantly adjusted to the new presidency, but what would happen to America if President Trump was impeached? Donald Trump currently possesses the highest executive officer of the modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States. Mark Yarnell said “a leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.” According to Sean Stewart Price, “it takes a special kind of person,…

Depending on who a person talks to will depend on the opinion one will receive when talking about gun free zones and having guns in schools. To some people, even the sight of a weapon brings fear to their very core, while others look at it as a way to be protected from the bad guys of the world. The right to "keep and bear arms" is enshrined in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and reflects a deeply held American belief in the use of weapons - particularly guns - for sport and for…

Sarah Wisniewski Ms. Schlossberg English II Honors, Period 5 20 January 2017 The Fight for Adoption: DeBoer v. Snyder Through the history of the United States, with an unfortunate pattern, discrimination has been a part of the progress and obstacles overcome for issues including race, gender, sexual orientation and more. In the cases of DeBoer v. Snyder and Obergefell v. Hodges, discrimination came in the form of a lack of basic rights for people of the homosexual identity. In both cases,…

episode of the season. A year later in September 1998, a new gay character emerged on the popular sitcom, Will and Grace. Will Truman was the first openly gay male character in a lead role on primetime television. In an interview on Meet the Press, Joe Biden gave a shout out to Will and Grace by saying: "I think Will Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody's ever done so far. And I think people fear that which is different” (2012).…

Would you imagine being imprisoned and physically tormented when you are pregnant? There is so much negativity spreading across the natural world and it seems as if there is no end to it. Premarin a prescription for cruelty. Also known as “PMU” a drug prescribed to women worldwide as a hormone replacement therapy and the pregnant mares are used brutally to produce this drug. Why are humans becoming so inhumane? Alice Walker’s essay “Am I Blue” is a voice of anger and concern for the solitude and…