The Goldbergs

Addiction is a very present problem when it comes to smoking cigarettes. Most people know someone who is fighting this day to day battle. Each person may choose to deal with his or her addiction to cigarettes differently. The problem is that there aren’t many safer options to choose from. One of the most popular choices to help aid with smoking cigarettes is smokeless tobacco. It is implied that smokeless tobacco is a safer source of nicotine. Even though it is considered to be a “safer”…

conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, which can influence a person’s performance in various areas. The Big Five personality traits, is a way to describe human nature by five main categories (Goldberg, 1993). The term “big five” was initially related to natural language by Lewis Goldberg, an American personality psychologist, and then it came into the use of personality test. Developed by Robert McCrae and Paul Costa, Five-Factor Theory explained the total five figures…

Zimmerman (2000), Lakoff (1990) and Goldberg (2014) all put in perspective the way one’s Gender 2A, 2B, performance and sex all come into conversation. In Zimmerman’s book, Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, she discusses the idea that men and women have been taught to slowly learn how to perform a naturalized definition of what male and female mean. Zimmerman states, “the notion that the appearance of having a natural gender is an…

Tim Tebow, Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Spielberg, and Agatha Christie are all very accomplished athletes, actresses, directors, and authors, but what do they all have in common? All four of these well-known celebrities have learning disabilities or LDs. “Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three. These…

contributes no practical benefits to our lives and has in fact, created a degenerate and immoral society. 2. This article does have a bias. Jonah Goldberg believes that the only reason why society is in such a degraded state of condition relative to the past is due to the influence of reality television. 3. In the article, Reality Television Debases Society, Goldberg focuses on how “reality-show culture has [accelerated] the decay and [helped] to create a society in which celebrity is the new…

As James Truslow said, “Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” The American Dream is very much alive and well through hard work, sacrifice, and risk taking, the American Dream can be achieved. Arnold Swhwarzenegger took risks and broke the rule of being an actor with an accent as a leading role (Sanchez). Arnold took acting classes, English lessons, and accent-removal lessons to become the leading man in his…

Jonah Goldberg is the editor of National Review Online and author of The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. He takes the standpoint in favor of the death penalty and that those who oppose it, whatever the intention, cannot hold against the argument. A minor point of his would be that opponents tend to avoid cases where the audience would not sympathize with their argument. After reading his article “Why Death Penalty Opponents Can’t Win,” I agree with his opinion because…

We observe the emergence of more and more Afro-American actors and actresses such as Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett or Samuel Jackson. The professionals recognize the talent of these actors in the 2000s: Afro American actors obtain four Oscars of best Actor/actress. The revelation and the confirmation…

out of the libertarian closet. After coming forward with his views, Stossel thought that he and his peers could have educated arguments and discussions about why others disagree. Furthermore, Bernie Goldberg being interviewed by Stossel mentions groupthink playing a huge role in the media bias. Goldberg continues on stating that groupthink is a way for people to come together with similar ideas on a news network. As a result of groupthink, news networks filter what truth it wants to portray and…

The Innumerable Number Nine: An Essay on the Rank of the Original Ten U.S.A. Amendments As the song goes, “In 1787 I’m told our Founding Fathers did agree, to write a list of principles for keepin’ people free” (Ahrens Scholastic.com). This is referring of course to the Constitution of the United States, written by James Madison to, as the lyric states, set up laws to enforce freedom. In fact as James Madison himself stated “Equal laws protecting equal rights… the best guarantee of loyalty and…