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Our class briefly investigated the main stream media following a clip we watched on msnbc (I believe) about what the broadcast termed a “crazy 9/11 truther ” that was killed outside the pentagon in a shootout. My concern here is that after watching this 2-3min clip I began to really wonder; what exactly is the news?

Wikipedia state that the news is “the communication of information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass… Continue

As the Olympics were beginning to wrap up last weekend I continued to sit on the fence (and in front of the TV) about this “Pure Competitive Event”. As I watched the races being won, the goals being scored, and the hearts being broken by a hundredth of a mili-second. I was compelled to get off the fence and formulate my opinion about the Olympics. So my friend and I jumped in my car and drove out to Vancouver for the weekend.

I went into Vancouver the same way you would go about solving a… Continue

Last week’s class surrounding apartheids got me thinking again about colonialism. When we think of the word colonialism we think of a concept of the past. However it dawned on me last week in class that colonialism has not been gone away with, but simply transformed to satisfy the social criteria of the 21st century.



It took some time and a little bit of creativity but governments around the world, especially that of the beloved United States have found a common denominator to begin… Continue

Colonialism as stated in the dictionary is "the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people". Conquest and expansion has suppressed civilizations for thousands of years. Has it always been this way? Or along the way did we lose the belief that as Esther Tailfeathers stated "all people are equal". It is evident that the Papal Bulls of 1452 and 1493 certainly accelerated the phenomena of “beliefs are not equal”. This was a time when European expansion… Continue