Theodor W. Adorno

What is more powerful than an atomic bomb, more influential than money, and can build or destroy a career or reputation in seconds? Information. What people hear and see, how they work, and what they think can all be influenced by information and how it is received. There are two ways that the media/press distributes information, through top-down and bottom-up models. Top-down models give the benefit to a select group of highly talented and qualified journalists to vet news coverage to all,…

Bright, dramatic, and to the point, Meet the Press is meant to touch on important political happenings in a balanced perspective; it instead falls short. Meet the Press gives the idea it is offering a fair platform to the presidential candidates by inviting individuals to debate and discuss. Unfortunately the topics chosen were one sided and there was an extreme neglect to remotely include third party presidential candidates. Also the inclusion of Saturday Night Live’s skits before each…

In the first place, Hillary Diane Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She was born in the middle of the twentieth century, an epoch of great changes and prosperity. This woman is a well-known public figure, whose popularity is attributed to the active participation in the Democratic Party. In general, people admire her determination, genuineness, simplicity, and perseverance. Moreover, Hillary Clinton is a fascinating woman in politics today (Shambaugh, 2010). Likewise,…

Political Rhetoric The 2016 presidential election is in less than ten days away and everyone seems to have a problem with democrat candidate Hillary Clinton and republican candidate Donald Trump. These two presidential candidates have spoken to their people about the making our economy great, working together, and making America great again. Even though, these candidates are speaking from their heart the many things they promise can be false and even be persuaded. Hillary Clinton, whose husband…

Two Republican candidates vying for Marco Rubio 's Senate seat said that though college tuition is too expensive, Sen. Bernie Sanders plans for tuition-free college don 't add up. “As much as I respect Mr. Sanders … I think if he’s going to offer free tuition, something is wrong with that idea,” said Senate candidate Dwight Young, a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy. “I don’t see where we are going to get the money to afford it.” The University of Central Florida College Republicans invited…

democracy upon foreign nations by brute force, coups, and diplomacy. American foreign involvement historically has been ineffective and has lead to unforeseen consequences such as power vacuums, chronic instability, and Collateral damage. George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq and subsequent fall of Saddam caused a power vacuum. The fall of Saddam and America getting rid of the Iraqi armed forces lead to there being no centralized entity to…

Everyone remembers the feeling we felt that morning of September 11th 2001, when we found out that our great country had been attacked. Most felt grief, anger, and some were fearful of not knowing what was going to happen next. Like United States always does, it pulled itself together uniting and helping out everyone in need. Once we were back on our feet it was time for Justice to be handed out by the hands of Americans. The highlighted causes leading up to the war in Iraq that will be…

Based on What of This Goldfish Would You Wish?, Texas v. Johnson Majority Opinion, and my own experiences, our reactions to situations define our relationships with others. In the the short story What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? by Etgar Keret, Yoni a young man with a thirst or making it big by creating a documentary knocking on doors, and asking people if they had three wishes from a magic goldfish what would they ask for. Along Yoni’s journey he comes across a man named Sergei in which…

Introduction In 1991, David W. Abbott and James P. Levine predicted that, “In the not very distant future the candidate who loses at the polls will become the president of the United States.” Abbott and Levine framed this possibility as the “coming constitutional crisis,” and made ominous predictions about the effect that such an outcome would have on the American public. Less than a decade later, George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States after losing the popular vote. This…

If it is true that tragedies come in threes, then the death of American democracy is surely inevitable. The trio is affecting this nation is evangelical, paternalistic and sentimental nihilism; a toxic combination of institutionalized practices and behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism and imperialism. The threads of nihilism were woven into the fabric of America since the values of the nation were conceived in the Constitution. The architects of this paramount document set a precedence for…