The School for Scandal

accepted among people in society. Although Scandal is a high-rating television show many people love, it portrays African American women in a negative light. This essay is not meant to downplay African American screenwriter Shonda…

Throughout grade school, the classes that I’ve had that taught me about the government, never went into great details of the Supreme Court. Even then, I got the impression that the Supreme Court was the vanguard of justice because of the protections for minorities and women…

also found that the University wanted to avoid the bad publicity from the sexual abuse scandal by hiding it from the University Board, school employees, and the whole community. All of this could have been fixed if the University Leaders took a stand and addressed the issues since 1998. There were 120 recommendations made to Penn State by the Special Investigative Counsel in areas such as the Penn State way of school life, monitoring improvement, the programs made for minors and facilities…

Babe Ruth was one of the most influential players in baseball history. There are many reasons this is true. He was a player during the time where there were many scandals going on in the game and that truly hurt the game and that fan base. He was able to bring fans back to the game with his style, performance, passion, and character. He was an instantly likeable player that was able to draw fans into a game they had lost faith in. A game that had taken advantage of them and made them feel…

who has earned the title of "infamous." President Richard Nixon, the thirty-seventh president of the United States of America, is commonly noted for his association with the Watergate Scandal. President Nixon, however, lead an enriched political career both before and after his involvement with the Watergate Scandal made him infamous. Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9th, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. He was the second of five children to Frank Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon, a…

regarding this situation. According to Ravitch our public education is this country is not broken, however it does require repairing. She explains in various ways how people who call for a different type of education system such as, charter schools, online schools, and vouchers, are higher government reformers who consider themselves the saviors of education in this country, yet they appeal the basic ideas that this country stands behind— ideas implanted in the bill of rights, the ideas of…

standardized testing is for education, it is still fundamentally flawed. Programs once promoting education reform have now created all-or-nothing gambles for schools. Teachers, schools, and school funding are all at risk because of flawed and sometimes inaccurate tests. This has also brought larger issues to the public’s attention. I am opposed to schools using standardized tests because of government interference and the tests being rigid and inflexible. The most obvious issues of standardized…

Here in the United States, there have been many scandals involving police corruption. Jinhua (2009) described the widespread corruption within the NYPD in 1970 that was exposed by former NYPD officer Frank Serpico. Serpico and several other colleagues accused the NYPD of allowing corruption to spread throughout the department. Their accusation was publicized in a New York Times article and eventually led to the creation of the Knapp Commission, named after its chairman Whitman Knapp. After over…

Ciavarella was the ringmaster behind one of the biggest prison scandals in recent years. Ciavarella was said to have received more than $ 2,600,000 of secret income from a series of deals with the developers of a privately run, for-profit juvenile detention center (Temple University of the Commonwealth, 2012). “The…

students or even the community would respond the way that they did about the scandal, he possibly could have done more to bring awareness to what was going on. I think Joe Paterno’s position was that he had built his reputation as a winning coach in college football history, he had a social status to uphold and he had resources available to him. I think Joe Paterno didn’t think that he could or would be part of the scandal that was exposed should it ever be exposed. Joe Paterno…