...their own true feelings on the matters of which they speak. People also behave as if there are no consequences for their acts of “free will”. We are supposed to be an evolving society. We should be learning from the mistakes of the past to better shape our future. However, the problem with America today is that people are ignorant; we are technological modernized ignorant Americans. A glaring example of a technological, modernized, ignorant American is Donald Trump. Donald Trump actively uses social media accounts to push his candidacy for president. In fact his Twitter account has 9.1 million followers, a world rank of 202, and on average sends out 9.2 tweets per day. (Van Zentan) When questioned about a recent Twitter mention from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and prominent white nationalist, Donald Trump actively choose to rely on his Twitter history to affirm his stance regarding the issue. “I totally disavow the Ku Klux Klan, I totally disavow David Duke,” Trump insisted. “Look at my Twitter account.”(Dickson) However, this stance only occurred after it was brought up nationally. During the State of The Union Address, Donald Trump went on to state that he was not well enough informed on white...
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...Lately, my friends are constantly asking, "How in the hell could Donald Trump be so popular?" Without question, their reactions to Trump's presidential bid are reasonable. Yet, when Trump announced his candidacy, to be honest, I wasn't the least bit appalled or surprised. Why? Well, because I've grown up and lived around the white working class my entire life. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I understand the ideological roots of Donald's campaign and the very palatable white anger that supports it. However, let's back up and make something very clear: Donald Trump isn't actually that popular. According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, Trump is supported by 20% of likely GOP voters, but over 30% of Republicans say there's "no way" they...
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...years, evidence has overwhelmingly shown that immigrants play a vital role in our country’s economic, social, and cultural prosperity. Therefore, responsible social, political, and church groups should try to change Americans’ hearts and minds about immigration and about persistent bias against people who are already members of our society. Illegal immigration is not an issue that can be simply solved through mass...
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...Donald Trump’s plan for not allowing foreign Muslims in to the country is my public story. This story is contagious because it involves the U.S presidential race and the future of our country and the way other countries and people look at us as a whole. Other countries judge us by our leaders and not by the people of our country. I personally agree with his plan but there are no sure ways of him being able to do it. This story hits all 6 STEPPS. The story has social currency for sure although, not in a good way. This story brings negative publicity to the United States. The story’s trigger is that you can type the words Muslim, terrorism, or Trump into Google and this story will most likely be the first to come up. There are many differentiating...
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...Topics of controversy usually are about politics, religion, and everything that people might agree and others disagree. For example, in Facebook we find the topic about the elections this year which has caused many debates, and I have seen how the support of a candidate can affect someone’s reputation. In the case of Donald Trump, people often perceive their supporters as racists, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslims and in favor of laws that affects the minority in this country. While for others, it is okay to be in favor of this candidate. However, many of my friends have debated this topic with supporters of this candidate and sometimes they are involve in fights that can destroy friendships and relationships, losing respect to each...
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...During my 9:10am English class is we disscused a controversial topic this Monday. The topic at hand was Colin Kaepernick decison to take a knee durning the national anthem. It was a heated debate, both sides took their stand and great thoughts were shared. However, as it turns out most of the class including my professor, viewed Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protests as injust. His goal is to raise awareness of police brutality andI racial inequality. He does not want to stand up to a flag or a country were african american are being killed by the justice department. “The message is that we have a lot of issues in this country that we need to deal with,’’ said Kaepernick. He thinks we have many oppresed people. I think he's right...
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...problems in our country,the world, and could potentially be destroying our self-built communities.A clear example of this is our new president Donald Trump.Trump’s autobiography page(trump.com)undeniably illustrates his upbringing divergently to a middle class or low class citizen.An empty fridge or the lights going out in the middle of the night were the least of worries for the current president of the United States growing up.As one of the benefits of being born a millionaire he went to school and grew up socializing with people of ‘his’ kind.With having his education handed to him and getting away with not going to the Vietnam war in the late 1960’s,it is clear to see how challenging it must be for him to empathize with the 99% in our country.This explains his intolerance towards who he views as ‘they’.His recent disrespect towards Muslims and Latinos amongst other minority groups is what has only fed more hatred in the U.S,inclining the perception of the nation as a whole towards the ignorant idea of ‘us’ and ‘they’.As recently seen on the news, president Donald Trump has presented the executive order most commonly known as the ‘Muslim Ban’.Such promoted islamophobia is a continuous addition to the migration xenophobia Trump carries as part of his influential nationalist agenda.As critical as it is to state,its not the fault of Trump or even of much of his racist supporters for thinking the way they do.Prejudice principally affects a person when it is being directed at he/she...
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...In recent times, there has been extremely political, racial, and economic turbulence in the United States, especially with more recent events like Donald J. Trump's presidency. To many of us, these times symbolize a dark period where progress has been stifled for tradition and the future has become bleaker due to many people's resentment and hatred. Although many may never experience the negative outcomes of recent events, for others it is too real of a reality, a reality that is filled with fear, suffering, and a dystopian vision of America's future. Many people have experienced discrimination from Caucasian people, it is like they don’t care of others emotions and are being ignorant within each other. In this essay, I wish to accomplish the goal of showing how science fiction can overlap with reality and the ways in which people’s nightmarish imagination have become eerily prophetic. One of the books of science fiction that comes to mind is the works of Octavia Butler titled Parable of the Talents. In the book, Butler describes a future America torn apart by religious, economic, and civil unrest. Much like in the contemporary political arena where conservatives belittle...
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...Obama also mentions Rev. Wright himself. He states that, “as imperfect as he may be, he is family to me. He strengthens my faith. He baptized my children. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community, or my white grandmother who raised me who once confessed that she fears black men, and has on more than one occasion uttered racial slurs that made me cringe.” He uses an analogy to compare Rev. Wright’s ignorance to that of his grandmothers’. In this quote, Obama is saying that he can acknowledge what is ignorant, but he won’t overlook it. Despite Rev. Wright’s comments, Barack Obama continues to point out the good in him; Wright baptized his children, and has always shown what Obama calls “unwavering respect” towards everyone. In addition to this, he also continues to point out that race is an issue we cannot ignore. I agree with this. He gives the same example with his grandmother. He states that this woman raised him, and fed him. Yet, he has heard her be prejudice on multiple occasions. What he is telling the...
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...based research, humans have a tendency to seek interesting information from others quickly, and the internet/social media appears to be the best tool for this. Hyperreality: For a large part of the semester, I wondered how believing in bundled lore was dangerous, because it wasn’t actually real and couldn’t harm anyone, but it’s not believing the myths and the legends that’s dangerous, it’s how this form of thinking has become normal and it’s making us lose touch with what’s going on outside of our own bubble. From politics to entertainment, we focus on issues on like whose hand Donald Trump chose to shake to which Kardashian is pregnant, rather than actual societal issues. We don’t only engage more with meaningless drama, but we even engage more with fake news. An example of this was a tweet by Texan Eric Tucker where he took a picture of multiple coach buses in Austin and tweeted that it was full of Trump protesters. Tucker was unaware that the buses were not related to the rally, but since there was a protest scheduled in Austin he ended up connecting the two, and this tweet was shared all over the internet. When an article was published revealing the truth it “[had] been shared about 5,800 time according to its website, a fraction of the number for the fake version of the news”. This demonstrates how the knowledge that we take in is very rarely based off of evidence based research, but rather from social media, where there are no gatekeepers to sort through information before...
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...He can read about it if he wants to. I think he’s an intelligent man and will make the correct decision after getting the real facts,” said Dr. Carson. While I did not always agree with Dr. Carson, I did concur with him on this issue. I happened to be familiar with the literature, not only because of my profession as a neuroscientist, but also because I’m the parent of two young children, who at the time were two and a half years old and seven weeks old. So I was utterly surprised by my reaction to what Trump had to say next. “I’d like to respond,” said Trump. “Autism has become an epidemic….It has gotten totally out of control….you take this little beautiful baby, and you pump — I mean, it looks just like it’s meant for a horse, not for a child. And we’ve had so many instances, people that work for me. Just the other day, two years old, two and a half years old, a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back, and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.” My response was immediate and visceral. An image of a nurse inserting a horse-size syringe into my tiny baby emerged inside my head and would not fade away. It did not matter that I knew perfectly well that...
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...Mata 1 ! Marco Mata Sociology 001 Professor Rodriguez 5 August 2015 Growing up in a neighborhood like mine, south central, I was well aware that there was many immigrants roaming in the city but it wasn't until high school where I was astonished that many of my classmates were undocumented. My reactions were surreal because in my mind I use to think that if you went to school you had to be in “legal status” to attend, you can say I was pretty ignorant towards that situation back then. Although through my classmates I began to educate myself and thought my findings I remember they talked about the Dream Act. They were so stoked because I believe it had just passed before we were going to graduate back in 2012. The Dream Act stands for Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, its purpose is to aid undocumented immigrant students have an opportunity to enlist in the military or go to college and have a path to citizenship. Having passed this act it also helps the United States as a whole because its a chance to contribute back to the country that has given so much to them. The Dream Act may help out a lot of undocumented students but not every undocumented student can qualify to obtain it. Certain regulations and requirements have to be met in order to get his/her process started. I say this because the student must have been here since they were sixteen years of age or younger and had to be in the united states before the act passed for five...
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...“How is Your Personal Economy? Abstract The discussion of the book entitled “The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke” by Suze Orman, and “Let’s Get Real About Money” by Eric Tyson is one that measures an individual’s knowledge on how to handle their money and ways to make it grow to benefit them. Key points found in both books deals with a lot of the economic aspects of our society today. By using both books as references and knowledge gained from the microeconomics book, This paper discusses the benefits of both books for one’s overall ability to be financially sound, even if you think you may live in an un-financially sound society. Although, both books are geared toward readers in different stages of their lives, they do bring up the questions of whether or not these individuals understand the concept of money, or how it should be a benefit and not a hindrance, and also that it is truly not the happiness factor for life that several millions believe the case to be. The one idea that should be taken from this paper is the knowing whether or not you are financially healthy enough to fit your needs, goals, and desires. What is an economy? It is a type of management of one’s resources. Whether its money, oil, food, land, or a type of service, knowing how to manage one’s own resources, is key to having a great personal economy, even when your countries’ economy isn’t doing so well. To make it even simpler, when talking about one’s personal economy, I talk about...
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..."Oh, shut up!" says Claudia, blushing."1 may read the astrology column, but I certainly don't believe it. I just read it for fun. But, the fact is, during the past twenty-five years there have been thousands of alleged sightings of UFOs, and not a single one has led to any solid evidence of their existence. What do you make of that?" "I think we should look at this situation the other way around," Ralph says."Up until now, nobody has shown that UFOs don't exist, so I think we should give those people who claim they have seen them the benefit of the doubt. We should believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials until the sightings are proven false." "Well, okay. Let's suppose,just for the sake of argument, that I admit the existence of UFOs and t~eir little green drivers. How are we supposed to respond to them? What are we supposed to do?"C1audia asks. "For starters, we should extend an open invitation to them," answers Ralph."They may come from a dying planet where millions of their compatriots desperately strug gle for survival.Their sun may be burning out, their water supply exhausted, and their soil poisoned with toxic chemicals. Surely they deserve a second chance on a new planet." "Maybe so," Claudia says in a patronizing tone."And now that you mention it, we probably have a legal obligation to let them in. Our current immigration laws say that we have to admit at least ten thousand applicants annually, from every major nation. If those aliens would just sign the right papers, we'd...
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...3 Industry Analysis: The Fundamentals When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. —Warren Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway The reinsurance business has the defect of being too attractive-looking to new entrants for its own good and will therefore always tend to be the opposite of, say, the old business of gathering and rendering dead horses that always tended to contain few and prosperous participants. —Charles T. Munger, Chairman, Wesco Financial Corp. OUTLINE n n n n n INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS TO INDUSTRY ANALYSIS THE DETERMINANTS OF INDUSTRY PROFIT: DEMAND AND COMPETITION ANALYZING INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS Porter’s Five Forces of Competition Framework Competition from Substitutes Threat of Entry Rivalry Between Established Competitors Bargaining Power of Buyers Bargaining Power of Suppliers APPLYING INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Describing Industry Structure Forecasting Industry Profitability Strategies to Alter Industry Structure 66 INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES 67 n n n n DEFINING INDUSTRIES: WHERE TO DRAW THE BOUNDARIES Industries and Markets Defining Markets: Substitution in Demand and Supply FROM INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: IDENTIFYING KEY SUCCESS FACTORS SUMMARY NOTES INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES In this chapter and the next we explore the external environment of...
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