Media Matters for America

of resources, and one of them is what is called "social media through the internet". This feature allows to communicate in a simple, fast, agile, and allows its necessities satisfies community on the issue of communication, but the question is: Are the new generations, will be benefiting from this new type of communication, or conversely, is a way to slowly destroy of rich grammar and meanings as the English? It’s special as the…

Pro-Gun and Pro-life: The Great American Paradox Particularly in America, an intriguing topic that seems to pick up more momentum each and every day is on gun control. Anti-gun control groups often belong to a political ideology that fanatically focuses on the worth of every life from conception to birth and yet do not focus their efforts on another potentially lifesaving measure: gun control. The way that ideologies can conflict in a culture of violence under the guise of protection and…

“Black lives matter is an organization of people who mobilized in order to transform the inept justice system in this country that never protects African Americans.”(Black Lives Matter). This group brought to life the fact that America who for so many years tried to believe, that we in fact got rid of racism, and thought all American’s had the same civil rights was completely…

scholar called a "lost awareness of a supreme power..." (In The World, Pg. 146). In my list, I highlighted the complacency with which many people consume morally filthy forms of media, such as movies, video games, music, and even books. The things that people watch today would have caused an uproar 50 years ago; it is as if America has become desensitzed to evil. Solzhenitsyn, despite being alive 50 years ago, noted this also: "Today's world has reached a stage that, if it had been described…

that was fired upon by the North Vietnamese which was a French colony at the time. North and South Vietnam split after they got their freedom from the French. North Vietnam was a communist country and South Korea was a democracy and was backed by America. Once the South was attacked by the North, the South asked for assistance from the United States. Being allies, we obliged.…

2016. Many have considered Formation to be an anthem of 2016, speaking about the issues of race that are often glossed over in pop culture. Formation uses both visuals as well as lyrics to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, and the controversial topic of police brutality in America, the city of New Orleans, post hurricane Katrina, and also touches on body positivity and the representation of people…

Reflection: Chicano/a Civil Rights Movement Cesar Chavez was the most recognized Chicano activist in the U.S.. He was the co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW), a labor union for agricultural workers, and promoted nonviolence. In 1965 to 1970, he helped lead the Delano Grape Strike, a strike started my Filipino workers to protest the poor pay and working conditions of farm jobs in Delano, California. Cesar Chavez became the face of the Chicano/a Civil Rights Movement. Another leader of…

Black Lives Matter: A Social Movement With mass communication more accessible than ever due to social media and news outlets, a greater number of people are able to become aware of ongoing issues in the world. In particular, social media has brought a surge of information regarding racially motivated shootings/police brutality to the public’s eye. Starting in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, three black activists came together to create a hashtag on twitter called…

and homophobia are two very popular examples of discrimination. There are a couple of cases about "black lives matter" still going on often enough, and words like "gay" and "fag" being used more than ever. I chose these two cases because they 're very common and it 's is something that will most probably always be around in our world. If after everything we have gone through, North America still hasn’t overcome racism and homosexuality, I 'm afraid there is a chance we never will, and that will…

cultural events could be halted to create the ideal outcome, and no precedent could prepare the United States for what would come to be. In the election of 1800, America definitively learned what it meant to live under the Constitution. Furthermore, they learned how the culture of America would be intertwined with international matters, and how the United States government would establish their own culture. It is in these times that the divisions of belief, later to be called “parties,” formed,…