X-ray

Are Millennials the Most Desensitized Generation to Violence in Media? Violence is an ever-present theme throughout all of time. From a young age, children are exposed to violence through a plethora of both expected and unexpected sources. Nearly every movie, television show, book, etc. features at least once scene with some sort of violent event. Even religious scriptures such as the Bible, the Torah, and the Qur’an depict accounts and stories of graphic violence. At what point does becoming…

Malcolm X “You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom” Malcolm X born on the 19th of May, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He is among the most discussed and debated public figures in history. Malcolm X was a human rights activist and supported freedom through violence to achieve equality in a society dominated by whites. He encouraged the blacks to fight back and gave them a sense of pride. Malcolm X is widely known for his beliefs and…

Authenticity is defined to be genuine and of undisputed origin. Throughout Sherry Turkle essay “Alone Together” she talks about authenticity and how technology has taken the human ability to build authentic relationships. She also speaks about how prominent technology has become for the human species. Sherry Turkle’s argument is strengthened by Jean Twenge in her writing “Generation Me” where she speaks about the depression, anxiety and the different pressures that lead to the rise in numbers of…

Curious, Desperate, and Gullible “The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter, which originally aired from September 10, 1993 to May 19, 2002 on Fox.” (“The X-Files”). The episode known as “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” which was released on October 13, 1995, shows two FBI officers who track a serial killer of fortune tellers, but encounter a genuine psychic. The episode showed watchers a realistic aspect of the show that was brought to light.…

community, Dr. King stuck with the approach of nonviolence, confident in its ability to not only to invoke a moral awakening among whites but prove that fighting back was not essential for change. However, the Black Power movement, led mainly by Malcolm X clearly addressed whites as the oppressors…

In the speech by, Simon Sinek he states that Millennials are a generation that “were dealt a bad hand.” One of Sinek’s main points is that Millennials are given everything they are seen as entitled, and are not taught that you have to earn what you have, millennials are taught that they can have anything that they want, which is why it is harder for them when they find out the reality you have to work for the things that you have. Another one of Sinek’s points is that when millennials grow up…

I do believe that people with an internal locus of control tend to work harder and persevere longer in order to get what they want. People who have an external locus of control would mainly work based on what others had to say. Everything that may be influenced by others may not be matching to what the individual wants. Those influences could lead to possible regrets later on or future manipulations by peers. People with an internal locus of control feel more comfortable with the decisions and…

Up until the mid 1960s, Alabama's constitution rested upon white supremacy as a basic element of governance. The Jim Crow era championed the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine, which became the status quo in the United States until the mid 20th century, especially in the deep south. In his essay, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr., a human rights activist heading the civil rights movement, addresses a group of Alabama clergyman’s specific concerns about the movement while at the…

to an expectancy theory – in which an individual will act in a certain way based on the expectation that the act will be followed by a given outcome and on the attractiveness of that outcome to the individual. Reframing Theory Structural Malcolm X really did his homework prior to joining the Nation of Islam. When he was in prison, he was asked to convert or to consider his options of becoming part of the movement. This process was not an overnight decision, because he was Christin and his…

Malcolm Little, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and Malcolm X, was born on May 19th, 1925. Since his birth Malcolm has faced racism and prejudice. His father, Earl Little, was a minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. This caused the family to receive several death threats and to relocate twice before Malcolm’s fourth birthday. Despite their efforts to elude the violence, in 1929 their family home was burnt to the ground and two years later, Earl’s…