dimension of foreign aid. In reality, foreign aid had already been provided for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II and to an extent under colonial improvement schemes. It was the first government program (in the United States) namely the Marshall Plan in 1948 to help restore the devastated and destruction of the war in Western Europe. The number of programs and their diversity,…
Judicial restraint; what is it, or better yet, who is it? Judicial restraint is a judicial theory in which the judge does not administer his or her own political preferences onto the ruling of any certain case. One key characteristic of a judge who adheres to this judicial theory is the hesitancy to strike down laws, because judicial restrainers do not see themselves as being able to make law from the bench. Other major corresponding characteristics and ideologies judicial restrainers frequently…
Thanks to social media sites like twitter, social media users have found out exactly how productive and informative sites like twitter can be. Spending time on twitter may have its downfalls but it is also a great way to keep informed with trending topics. These days most celebrities have a twitter account and even some politician do to keep in touch with a targeted fan base. Twitter is a great way to broadcast messages about either products or political views amongst the general public. Thanks…
around the united states. In the movie "Simple Justice" Thurgood Marshall, the main character goes through rigorous training to become a lawyer that could someday overturn Plessy v. Ferguson. He slowly approaches the judicial branch with simple cases of questioning the equality of adult education. With the goal in mind of one day getting toward childhood education. The attack on Plessy v. Ferguson began in 1935 when Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston”founder of the NAACP and…
internet example by shorting text and adding more informing/ advertisement “hyperlinks” and to make people accept the information that is given to them without looking for origin of the information. Carr as well expressed that media theorist Marshall McLuhan explained the media are not only the place to get information from, but rather it is selective information to think about. Carr emphasize that the media is changing the way our mind works, by choosing the information that it has…
exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man’s consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos” (McLuhan 1969). In a 1969 interview for Playboy Magazine, media theorist Marshall McLuhan dreamt of a world where man was capable of individual thought, yet still linked seamlessly to the rest of the world through the media. This notion of a virtual community that breaks down the borders of time and space is what…
Communication implements devices from various configurations, trials and errors which end up creating popular forms of media. The philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined throughout his existence states that the “medium is the message”. This phrase transcends simple communication, and poses the propositions of how influential the devices of communication on society are and to what degree the information…
Future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948. He grew up in the small African-American community of Pin Point, Georgia, with his older sister Emma Mae and younger brother Myers Lee. His father disappeared early on in his life, and the family divided even further when he was 9 years old. Clarence Thomas has been a judge for 25 years, and during that time he was quoted as saying, “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” This quote relates to Thomas…
In “The Playboy Interview” Marshall McLuhan says: “all media…are extension of man that cause deep and lasting changes in him and transform his environment”. The media represents a major and primary form of communication. It has a more negative impact on humankind than a positive one because it causes people to become more distant and divides societies. That division leads to more serious issues, such as discrimination, amongst people. The media, or social media to be more specific, is a key…
assistance to furnish global tranquility, stabilization, and also provide improved human welfare. Over the years foreign assistance has been viewed as positive and a new way for relations to be formed with other countries.It all began in 1948, The Marshall Plan was the first plan to deal with foreign aid, and the goal was to help underdeveloping countries. The State Department had stated to sustaining a peaceful and prosperous world, and have certainly been keeping everything in control, but the…