The Insiders

characterized by its insularity. Until the latter part of the twentieth century, most nominations almost involved exclusively the White House and the Senate. Public controversy over nominees rarely existed and the debate included a small number of insiders. The process of nominating Supreme Court justices manifested the cooperation of the three branches of American national government. The Constitution provides for presidential appointment power over “judges of the Supreme Court” with the…

The article “Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened” by James Perloff is biased as the article lacks coverage of the other side and how discontent they were. The author identifies the Shah to be a long-term ally of the United States explaining that while the Shah was in power, he made his country have a well established economic growth even though not everyone seemed to enjoy the growth, and he made women have the equal amount of rights as male citizens of Iran. However, he doesn’t include the…

existence than it might seem. St. Petersburg is a community in which outsiders are easily identified. The most easily identified outsider is Huck Finn, because of his father’s drunkenness. Despite the community’s clear separation of outsiders from insiders seems to have a strong impulse toward comprehensiveness. Tom who is also an orphan has been taken in by Aunt Polly out of her love and daughterly responsibility. Injun Joe is the only resident of St. Petersburg who is completely excluded…

came forward, and that showed Zeus great readiness. Moreover, she steered the Olympians to victory in the war with the Titans. Nike sportswear associates the Greek goddess Nike to personify athletic victory. As stated by Philip Levinson on Business Insider, Johnson, Nike's first employee,…

The family is recognized as the most important unit in society. The Nuclear Family is the traditional American model of the family unit. While it is mostly associated with archaic thinking or old TV shows, the nuclear family structure affects our culture even today. Having the perfect family is the cherry on top of having the American Dream. What happens then when this is applied to a family that is not necessarily nuclear, like Shoba and Shukumar in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short Story “A Temporary…

dramedy. Ryan Murphy stress over this point as well in an interview saying Glee is not that different from other sitcoms, however, to remember just because it is “labeled” dramedy does not disregard its potential to move the audience ("The Hollywood Insider: Is 'Glee' A Comedy?"). With this pattern of recombinant shows in media, I do not believe that Glee became or is a new genre. However, I do believe Glee is a Bourque with a slight taste of Revisionist style show. Murphy portrayed a new…

Bored of Bulger After reading Adam Bulger’s piece, “How addictive is social media, really?” on BTRtoday.com, I found myself feeling disoriented and confused. His article is filled with empty allegations, statements oozing with bitterness, and references to a few random pop culture references (Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man”, and “Black Mirror”) which required me to fire up the Google machine. Allow me to analyze this article, and save you the headache of reading it. Bulger relies, on more than…

Writing for The Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch defined chaos syndrome as "a chronic decline in a political system 's capacity for self-organization". Rauch writes that chaos syndrome starts with the weakening of the institutions and brokers (parties, career politicians, congressional leaders and committees) that have traditionally held politicians accountable to one another and stopped everyone in the system from using it for naked self-interest all the time. As these intermediaries ' (we 'll call…

A major factor contributing to the unavailability of legal marijuana is old laws that were informed by faulty information. When marijuana became a Schedule I drug in the 1970’s the studies that led to that classification were inaccurate. “Since the 1970s, advocates of an aggressive drug war have maintained that any liberalization of drug laws would "send the wrong message" to kids and increase adolescent drug use”. At the time scientists believed that alcohol was less dangerous than marijuana…

African Colonialism in Conrad and Achebe In the minds of many Europeans, Africa was known as the “Dark Continent,” not because of the color of the skin of its inhabitants, but because large sections of the interior were simply unknown. By the late 19th century, British imperialism was beginning to penetrate into some of those unknown regions, bringing European government, religion, and attitudes to people otherwise deemed “savage.” The effect of this process of colonialism has been famously…