Tag: politics

Some professors were sticklers for format, some not so much. Unfortunately for me, the one with the big writing assignments was VERY big on citations. She maintained a large library of related reading materials online for each of her courses, and heavily hinted that they should be read, but...

we were at a policy meeting, they were planning new ways of cheating. i didn’t want to rock your boat but you sent this dangerous note… There was a guy in the mid-80’s. His wife had died after their insurance had denied some coverage. He drove out to one...

Less “gladiator porn” than “porn with gladiators”. I don’t do violence as easily as before Sue’s killing. Walking Dead was expired from the watchlist pretty much immediately. I tried Game of Thrones at one point, but couldn’t make it through the first episode without being sickened. Spartacus is an...

The Channel Islands work goes on and on (and on). Some of the writing expectations were pretty hardcore- one prof in particular got easily over 70 pages between the three classes of hers that I took. The first two of those classes were in my first semester, which was...

There was some real luck here. Between work and classes and procrastination, time was really down to the wire. Fortunately I’d chosen one of the few texts that had been written in the last 50 years, and it wasn’t even an original thing. So all I had to do...

I don’t really watch the news, not least because I don’t have any kind of cable media coming into this place. The news is less important anyways than how it is incorporated. This has been true all along, but the last four years have made it painfully obvious. By...

This was May 2016… the final from Pols01, where this process essentially started. I have no memory whatsoever of writing this :D Efforts by the Obama administration to reform immigration rules call attention to a single issue that has been taken up by agencies at multiple levels of government,...

Compare and contrast the depictions of newspapers, journalists, the masses (newspaper readers/voters/citizens), politicians and/or big business in Citizen Kane and Meet John Doe. Identify the common themes and differences in the ways the films portray these subjects and try to draw some conclusions about the directors’ visions of journalism and politics in the...

Essay 3: Technological Immunity             In 2015, fourteen people in Bakersfield were gunned down by a couple that had pledged allegiance to a terrorist organization. Afterwards, part of the story was the inability of investigators to access the killers’ phones for potential evidence (Nakashima). A similar circumstance has arisen...

 Final | Why Read Mill Today? (John Skorupski) The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with...