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The second source was from an article on Alabama.com, written by Barnett Wright, titled, “Letter from Birmingham Jail' written 52 years ago today: Read Martin Luther King's historic words.” This writer collaborated and interviewed several other contributors from Universities and from the director of MLK Research and Education at Stanford University. Wright, is an African-American raised in Philadelphia, PA. He holds bias through the story of his ancestors and the voice of the black man. Barnett…

##Addressing “Sensationalism” and Moral Panics Sensationalism is news media has been both a subject of and a bolstering contributor to moral panics ins the United States since the beginning of descriptive crime news reporting of the *New York Sun*in 1833 (Lots, 1991). The “sensation” and exaggeration of crime and criminality to the masses created a cascade of moral and ideological counter movements, which increased “fear of crime” (?), that overlaps frequently with moral panic(?). Crime news has…

Dictionary of Modern Medicine defines physical fitness as,”A state of physical well-being and higher-than-average tolerance to cardiovascular activity.” This definition supports how being physically fit and having the skill to perform is an important contributor to being athletic, if one has a higher than average tolerance to cardiovascular activity or any activity it shows that, that individual has practiced to gain that tolerance and has built up that “physical well-being.” Therefore, being…

“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.” That is one of many quotes coming from Charles De Montesquieu. An important contributor to the principles of the constitution and the nature of the country Americans know today. America came from Europe, and so did many of Americas values and ideas. The constitution contains the what to do and what not to do when running a country based on those who felt oppressed from…

Power is like confidence, the more you have, the more successful you will be. In this book, a man named Edmond Dantes is brought down by three men and later, gains the power to defeat them. In the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, the author uses figurative language and diction to portray the theme of power. To begin with, the first form of figurative language Dumas uses to show power is irony. After Maximilian threatens to commit suicide the first time the count stops him,”’Try and…

POP! The bulging bubble of the housing market in the United States as previously predicted finally burst in late 2007. With several contributors that previously pumped air into the over-inflated housing bubble now losing steam, the burst of the bubble (or mortgage meltdown) with its remnants was experienced by many Americans whether on a personal or a national level. The burst of the housing bubble saw many home owners lose their homes to foreclosure; short-sales and even bankruptcy as the…

Renaissance is called as the early modern period and a time of enlightenment with most famous art, discoveries, poetry, medicine, inventions and other achievements were accomplished. Even some ideas of old time were intact but many new beliefs and concepts were formed as well. The medieval time was a challenging period with too plagues and other evil acts of inhuman nature. Later, the world changed a lot and diseases and evils of old time started to disappear. This however took much time to…

terms used by people is now known as Textspeak. It is a form of language or a sort of expression used by teenagers to communicate swiftly with their friends. Mostly, it is grammatically incorrect and filled with abbreviations. C. Miles (2012), a contributor for the Deseret News and student of English Education at Brigham Young University in Idaho explains that textspeak is the new Newspeak that Orwell conveyed in his novel 1984. Miles proves this to be true by researching the usage of shortened…

technology, women are less willing to publicly display their opinion to the public. “... surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women,” says Noam Cohen in his article “Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List.” Given the surveys, he proceeds to rant about the lack of female contributors to Wikipedia articles, In fact, a 85-to-15 ratio between men and women in terms of online contributions in common, according to the OpEd…

Foster youth who age out of the system often do not attend higher education (Brandford & English, 2004; Wolanon, 2005). “Less than 11% of children that have been in the foster care system will go on to college…[and]… the Federal government also helps children who were in foster care in their teen years through the Fostering Adoption to Further Student Achievement Act” (Rowan, 2014). Despite receiving financial aid to cover the cost of education, many youth continue on after care to obtain jobs…