Mike Goldman

"Have patience",exclaims dad every day we work on the farm. Some days on the farm are easy like just feeding cows. Other days are long and hard like pulling a calf at midnight or having to fix something when you need it the most. But every day on the farm is fun and relaxing. I don't like fixing something in the middle of summer on the one hundred and ten degree days. We got a call from the fence builder and the red angus and gelbvieh cross cows at the Frazer Farm did not have any water. So dad…

“Idiocracy” is a film directed by Mike Judge that is a satirical science fiction film which basically predicts our nation’s cultural decline into nothing but a nation of imbeciles. Judge starts the film with the idea that intelligent people have now become an endangered species while the uneducated are copulating and reproducing at furiously rising exponential rates. The film presented a dangerous and chaotic way to view the world. The impoverished and uneducated people were portrayed as the…

When all the smart people die off, all that is left is the dumb. Idiocracy came out in 2006 and is a mediocre satire. After 500 years, Joe Bower, an average guy played by Luke Wilson, wakes up from a government hibernation experiment to a dimwitted society where he is the smartest person alive. Although the acting in Idiocracy is phenomenal, the portrayal of society in the future is annoyingly exaggerated and the narrator’s voice over is unnecessary but understandable. Starts off with Joe…

Government surveillance programs, Muslim registries, and deportation squads have one essential thing in common; they are the products of xenophobic fear. Although they seem like totalitarian tactics from an Orwellian novel, they are actually inching their way in to the United States’ political discussion. The President Elect Donald Trump used xenophobia to gain support for his presidential campaign. This tactic is not new, in fact, the utilization of the narrative of foreign subversive is an…

The O.J Simpson murder trial took place in Los Angeles, California in 1995. It was one of America’s most interesting court dramas; however, the characters were real life people, jurors, lawyers, celebrities, and victims. After an eight-month trial, the not guilty verdict stunned the nation. Underneath a mountain of criminating evidence, a jury of his peers had found O.J Simpson not guilty. Numerous pre-trial factors may have contributed to the outcome of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. This…

spring weeks to undergraduate students including JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutshe Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Citi, UBS and HSBC. As a second year student in an elite university, there are many options available to me. Main Body The 2007-2008 financial crisis severely damaged the banking scene with…

‘Media event’ is a term first coined by Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz with regard to the festive viewing of television. A media event consists of three levels—syntactics (the interruption of the normal routines), semantics (the asserted meaning of the event) and pragmatics (the response of a committed audience). (Dayan and Katz 1992, p. 14) These occasions are preplanned, promoted and presented live to the viewers (Dayan and Katz 1992, pp. 5-7) which thus create a disruption of dailiness including…

The beginning of the story starts with when Westley (the farmer boy) falls in love with Buttercup. Then the rising action is when Buttercup and Westley fall in love. Westley goes to America to start a better life. Buttercup and her parents get contacted that the pirates start attacking Westley’s ship and he dies, Buttercup becomes beautiful and Prince Humperdinck asked to marry him. She says yes but never loved him. Then Buttercup is kidnapped to start a war. The man in black comes to save her.…

ISSUE PRESENTED Whether Orenthal James Simpson is guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Facts and Proceedings A. OJ Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and Ronald Lyle Goldman, 25, are stabbed to death. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Lyle Goldman were found murdered outside of Nicole’s house in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California. Both victims had been stabbed multiple times throughout their bodies, Brown showed defensive…

The Princess Bride “The Princess Bride,” by William Goldman is a fictional story filled with adventure, true love, and high fantasy, which is all the qualities needed for a reader getting lost in the story. This novel was first published in 1973 and it became an instant bestseller. This book also got to shine again, when it was made into a movie in 1986 and was added to the list of one of the most famous young adult movies to exist. Ultimately, this book holds many elements to make the story so…