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The political cartoon titled “Who has damaged Muhammad more?” by Signe Wilkinson that was published on 08/01/2015 speaks so much truth about Islam in this day and age. As a Muslim I greatly appreciate that the artist did not put a picture of the prophet because it is forbidden to do so and there is a reason behind it. In Islam, there is always a reason why something is “Haram” in this case pictures of the prophet is forbidden because the prophet feared that people would worship his image…

Minecraft: Survival Mode, I think kids should spend more exercising. On a hot summer day, the ideal thing to do would be to sit on the couch with a bowl of ice cream and watch a movie, but why not invite your friends over and have water-related relay races? You’d be wasting a perfect day of skiing if you stayed indoors by the fire with a cup of hot chocolate in your hands, watching snowflakes slide down the windowsill. Children these days need more exercise, whether it’s challenging your friends…

Which Movement Was More Effective? The Civil Rights Movement was more effective. Based on history the Civil Rights Movement was a time during the 1950’s and 60’s to rid the world of segregation and gain equal rights for African Americans. If you look back to the events and dynamic and powerful figures it produced, you could see this as one of the most important times in the U.S. history. If you are to fully understand and comprehend the Civil Rights Movement, you have to go back to the very…

life. This is shown much throughout the novel For One More Day by Mitch Albom, when the main character Charley or “Chick” as he is called in the novel gets addicted to alcohol. Charley’s drinking started when his mother died and he wasn’t present in the situation. His mother’s funeral is where Charley started drinking uncontrollably. This leading him to harm his relationship…

to reach perfect equality, no matter what anyone did to try to change that. When it comes to marriage equality, there is a definite problem, especially when it comes to the comparison of traditional marriages and same-sex marriages. In the article “More Equal Than Others,” Rebecca Solnit describes the distinct relationships between traditional and same-sex marriages, referring to both the positives and negatives of each. In the beginning of the article, Rebecca Solnit explains conservative…

Someone shouldn’t live their life in doubt , but should consider it in a way. I think being a bit doubtful is better than being completely certain. People who question things learn more, they aren't “smart alecks” , and are good role models. People who doubt from the obvious to the most difficult thing always end up learning more. Asking questions can lead to new and valuable information. For example, in “Law and Order” the detectives get their first suspect and interrogate them. They must…

of information and the hunger they have for power. They do as they wish to get what they want they wish to get what they want shown in Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince and Thomas More’ Utopia. In the way authors of this novels show how they see the government like if they controlled everything and anything and who has more power Gods or the government like in Antigone and 1984. Power is the control over something or someone. Many people have different views on who should have power? The…

In his speech entitled “A More Perfect Union,” Barack Obama asserts that while we may differ from one another, Americans also have some important things in common. For example, Obama states that “…we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes…” and that “…we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction.” I agree with Obama’s claims because everyone wants to succeed in life. No matter how or where a person was raised,…

In Wiley Cash’s, A Land More Kind than Home, Julie Hall is the mother of Christopher and Jess Hall and the wife of Ben Hall. She is a young woman who used to be beautiful, use to love her husband, and use to be a good mother. But can those same statements hold true at the end of the novel? No, Julie is none of those things anymore. She is anything but. A mother is someone who loves unconditionally and always puts her children before her own selfish agenda. A good wife is a woman who loves and…

Media Ecology Theory – One More Theory “You’ve got mail!” that’s right, I’ve got 66,483 emails in my inbox. That would be the current total in my Gmail account that I opened on 09/17/2005. Over eleven years of Electronic Era media history stored in my Gmail inbox – and during that time, various forms of media were born and became obsolete. The Media Ecology Theory (MET) is used to describe a what I see is a cycle – it depicts forms of communication that are given the symbol of the word…