The School for Scandal

For as long as we can remember, people have been communicating using their voices. Today this has not changed; however how those voices are heard, where they can be heard and by whom has changed drastically. What at one time was limited to only what was being said or written, at the time it was being documented and only heard or read by those in the immediate vicinity; can now be heard by anyone, anywhere in the world at any time. This is possible because of the dramatic advances in recording…

House of Representatives from New York, and had served that position for more than ten years. However, instead of praising his successful career as a congressman, we should emphasize on some of his ridiculous actions: he is a recidivist of numerous scandals of sexting. For example, “June 6, 2011 – Weiner holds a tearful press conference and admits to taking and posting the photo and engaging in “inappropriate communication” with women. ‘To be clear, I am deeply regretting what I have done and I…

He titles his second chapter Ann Coulter: Nutcase which points out several faults and inaccuracies in her book, Scandal. Additionally, Franken mentions how Coulter lies about her age on either her Connecticut driver’s license which says that she was born in 1961, or her Washington DC license which states that she was born on 1963. She claims that the younger license…

playoffs (“Tom Brady”). After winning the 2015 AFC(American Football Conference) championship game Brady was accused of deflating the game balls and if found guilty Tom Brady would be suspended for four games without practicing in Gillette Stadium. This scandal of deflating the balls was known as Deflategate and was even brought up to the Supreme Court by the NFL’s lawyers and commissioner to have Brady suspended(Daniels). The talk of Deflategate went on for five-hundred fourty days after first…

“Pretty Tough” is much more than a brand or a film, but it just so happens that their narrative short will be shown at the Artemis Film Festival this year. The main premise of the story is that of two competitive sisters who join the high school soccer team. Recently, I had the opportunity to ask Jane Schonberger about this film and the importance of raising strong girls in today’s society. What inspired you to pursue a career in the entertainment industry? A love for stories and…

case of Jason Blair, a New York Times reporter caught plagiarizing. Not only did this this reporter steal around three dozen articles he also falsified testimonies and created false scenes. Another example many are familiar with is Watergate, this scandal showed students that even the leadership of the country uses less than savory methods in order to beat their competition. And what happened to Nixon? He got a presidential pardon. So, is that what we are going to be teaching? Do whatever you…

Sports are a huge part of every country in the world. There are professional sports and they have Winter and Summer Olympics. There are even High School and College sports. In sports, there are people who try to get an upper hand and try to get an advantage in the competition they are doing. They try to get away with doping in sports, from performance enhancers to over the counter pills to calm them down or to ease the pain if they are in any. They know that it is cheating to take drugs. If they…

Introduction “United Breaks Guitars” illustrates the power of social media in company’s incidents with customers today. On July 2009, United Airlines, one of the largest international airline based in the US knew a negative worldwide buzz made by an unsatisfied customer. This situation is interesting because it also shows an important reversal of power between a big company and customer. What happened? What were the consequences for both? How could the problem have been sold? And finally, what…

Additionally, Britain notoriously turns a blind eye to the 'customs' of its Islamic immigrants. Girls are pulled out of school in their mid-teens and are forced into marriages, which amounts to kidnapped and raped. As for suffrage, in many places Britain still uses mail-only ballots, where the ballots are delivered to a household. Under such conditions, the head-of-household can 'persuade' those of voting age to vote in a certain way, both eliminating woman's suffrage and their ability to make a…

Macdonald whom was known as a 'nation builder' yet was unsuccessful with the Canadian Pacific Railway. This eventually led to the Pacific Scandal in 1872 and to the forceful resignation and loss of his leadership in 1874 when Sir John A. Macdonald lost the election. Plagued by difficulties Macdonald faced the last chapters in his political career with a weakened vision of a strong centralized…