Essays on Current Events

Introduction

On June 17, 1972, Americans woke up to the news of several burglars arrested in the Democratic Nation Committee (DNC) offices located in the Watergate building. The robbery, later named the Watergate scandal, was highly linked to President Richard Nixon because he took part in protecting people suspected of committing the crime. Several media houses and bloggers covered the scandal giving different views on the issue. News coverage of the Watergate scandal impacted the views of Americans on politics and politicians differently. The following essay analyzes two articles that described the conduct of President Nixon regarding the Watergate scandal ...

Philosophy Questions

Robert Solomon postulated that love is a matter of choice, opposing the normal view that love is a natural feeling that is elicited by our spontaneous attraction to each other. He argues that love is a conscious decision that brings together two people searching for self-identity. In explaining the idea of self-identity, Robert raises the issue of inseparability, whereby, by falling in love, we are looking for that person who makes us comfortable by getting inculcated in our lives to form mosaic kind of a figure, made by an amalgamation of two figures. The fact that we choose our ...

Social stratification is a description of social inequality in society, its division into social strata of income, presence or absence of privilege, lifestyle.       In the case of a primitive society that inequality was not as significant, and therefore the phenomenon of stratification was almost absent (Smelser, Wilson & Mitchell, 2001). With that as a society developed - inequality began to grow. Nowadays American society, as well as many others, divided the people by level of race, gender, education, income, and power. Racism in the United States has existed since the founding of the country. U.S. racial politics has deep historical ...

Biography

Being There was written by Jerzy Kosiński, a Polish-American writer who was born on June 14, 1993 and passed away on May 3, 1991. He was born Józef, yet he had to change his identity during World War II as his parents were Jewish. His family survived through assistance of people in his local village, something that was illegal and punished by death to the whole family. He went on to study History and Sociology at the University of Lodz after the war, achieving graduate degrees in both areas while only being 22 years old. In 1957 ...

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Abstract

The importance of social media effects on families and communities has been determined by the research findings based on the investigation of existing literature. The principal objective of the study is to examine the influence of social media on our everyday life. Besides, another investigative goal is to identify possible consequences that social media may bring. Therefore, this study implies the utilization of both secondary research and primary research approaches. The expected ...

Audience + History China Central TV, further referred to as CCTV, is a globally driven network seasoned in providing news from around the globe with an Asian target audience; however not limited to. Originally launched in Beijing on April 26th of 2010, the network spanned into America just shy of two years later on February 6, 2012 and also is reporting live feed in Africa, Europe and South Asia. Because CCTV is a major source in global news linked to Asia, the audience is mostly viewers from an Asian background or at the very least has significant ties to Asia. ...

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Summary of Saskia Sassen’s “Women’s Burden: Counter-geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival” and its Relationship to Current Events Saskia Sassen’s article discusses the “variety of alternative global circuits” for “making a living, earning a profit and securing government revenue” (523). The writer notes that these “incorporate increasing numbers of women” (Sassen 523). Sassen pointed out the most significant of these “global circuits” are the “illegal trafficking in women for prostitution” and “regular work,” “organized export of women as brides, nurses and domestic servants,” and the “remittances” of a growing “female ...