W. D. Ross

On the opening of The Late-Night Show with Stephen Colbert, he started with commenting on how each debate session either during or after, Trump would claim that the election is rigged. So, to add a comedic moment to start off the show Colbert used what is media literately known as his multiliterate ability to show a scene from the debate where Hillary Clinton is talking and behind here and slightly adjacent to the viewers left is three letters, “Rig.” Of course, it wasn’t the word rigged and it…

Hello, humans. Since I hate this clown so much, I thought that I might as well dedicate a blog post just for him. Quick note here, if he's your 'president', your (ex) husband, or your father and you feel annoyed, kindly send your complaint letter here. These theories are for entertainment purposes only. 1. Donald Trump is the member of the Illuminati: Obviously, every president, prime minister, monarchs and dictators are said to be the member of the Illuminati because allegedly, the…

In the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, they both compare in that they both talk about the impacts that these terrible events had on people’s lives. However, they differed in the way they were talked about. In the September 11 Digital Archive, it concentrated mostly on where the people were during these attacks, how these people remembered this day, and the impact it had on our country. In the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, it focused on what led up to this…

As I am growing up and learning all of these new roles in life one thing that I have inherited recently by age is the privilege to vote for the next American President. Although I should be excited to exercise this right of mine given by the constitution, I am not. As I have been looking on to see who the next possible president will be and who I might vote for, I am starting to understand why people may chosen not to vote in past elections. This year all I have heard, is either the wonderful…

In the president election year of 1968, Nixon won 301 votes and defeated the Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who won 191 votes. Nixon edged Humphrey in the popular vote, with Wallace earning 13.53%. Nixon's victory came with a margin of less than three percent in California, Illinois, and Ohio; had Humphrey carried these three, Nixon would have lost his election. Nixon won most of the West and mid-West but lost parts of the Northeast and Texas to Humphrey and lost the deep South to Wallace…

Alyssa Mattson 2A Current Event #3 Despite mutual agreement between the Republican and Democratic parties, the Senate still could not pass a bill enacting criminal justice reform. It was believed that this overhaul bill would be the “bipartisan success story of the year”, according to New York Times writer Carl Hulse. However, this was not the case. Some Republicans Senators disagreed with the idea of reducing minimum sentences, as well as providing President Obama with a “legacy victory”…

much Kennedy’s death influenced the president’s security for decades to come. (Dwyer, Devin. "5 Ways JFK's Assassination Changed Secret Service"; Rossoll, Nicki. "Five Ways Kennedy's Assassination Changed Presidential Security Forever”; Shinkman, Paul D. "After JFK:…

As earlier said, with the end of the Cold War, the UN Security Council began the utility of sanctions more often. In mid-1990s alone they were implemented so as to effect a series of goals, such as enforcing a democratic governance in Haiti and ensuring the Yamoussoukro Accord to put an end to military war in Liberia. Sanctions were used as “instruments meant to alter the cost–benefit assessment of the targets in their policy choices and to enforce international norms, generally but not only…

The Mexico City Policy (MCP) is damaging for women and communities and will have consequences that reverberate around the world for years to come. The Mexico City Policy came to be known as the Global Gag Rule (GGR), referring to the “gagging” of any abortion related talk (Gezinski, 2011, p.839) if an organization receives U.S. federal aid. In order to improve the quality of international development and global health and reproductive rights, it is important to understand the harms that this…

In 2003, the United States launched a full-scale invasion on Iraq, only two years after the attack on 9/11. This lead to war almost immediately between Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan against both the United States and the United Kingdom. For eight years, the American government tried to subdue Iraq, ruled by Saddam Hussein at the time, because of an assumption that the Iraqi government was in possession of nuclear weapons and to stop Saddam Hussein’s aggression against his own people, thus attempting…