When Romney attacked Obama for hindering the use of coal, the President recalled an appearance of Romney as governor of Massachusetts, where he vowed to shut down a coal-fired power plant. He also referred to Romney’s tax plan, the fact that the Republican presidential nominee paid a lower rate on his millions than ordinary working-class does, the fact that Romney has invested heavily in China. Romney went at Obama with almost the exact same. “…have you checked your pension?” Obama responded “I haven’t looked at my pension; it’s not as big as
South Park provides us with in your face politics with no apologies. For example, in season fifteen episode nine called “The Last of the Meheecans” South Park makes fun of the country’s current economy. In the episode the economy is so awful that the hispanic immigrants that once traveled to our country in hopes of a new start have decided to run back to their country of origin. Furthermore, South Park demonstrates the diversity that exists in our country. Just in the .little town of Colorado the characters of South Park reside in there are Caucasians, Hispanics, African-Americans, Jewish people, Christians, Muslims, Homosexuals, the one percent, the
| |The 11th Hour |PG |A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for | | | |restoring the planet's ecosystems | |Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism|NR |Documentary on reported Conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel (FNC), | | | |which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced". Material includes interviews with former FNC | | | |employees and the inter-office memos they provided. | |Taxi to the Dark Side |R (disturbing |Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this
With Roy descending from the pinnacle of Tyrell Corporations after killing Tyrell, and Roy’s deliberate misquote of William Blake’s America: A Prophecy in Chewy’s Laboratory scene -”Fiery the angels rose” to :Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shoulders”- is reminiscent of John Milton’s Paradise Lose in which Roy resembles the fallen angel, Satan. The low camera shot of Roy as he saves Deckard establishes his humanity as it reaffirms that he is more humane and moral than Tyrell. With the economic rationalism and mass consumerism encouraged people to spend and earn money. With the intoxication of money, obsession, greed and a detachment
Curran S. Lee September 10th 2007 Dr. Chris Haley FYE 101 Writing Assignment 1 Summary of the Last Refuge David W. Orr is an accomplished and reputable environmentalist that has been on the cutting edge of ecological and political change throughout the world to date. In Orr’s novel The Last Refuge: Patriotism, politics and the environment in an age of terror” the pressing and controversial issues of environmentalism, slander and corrupt politics are analyzed in a truly refreshing manner. David Orr begins his novel by first addressing the issues which he believes have led America to the unfortunate state that it currently resides in. This problem is essentially the adoption of religion into matters that would regularly be dealt with by the state only. More specifically he targets the group that he believes has been a detrimental factor to the Bush administration; Evangelists.
Pablo Neruda’s poem is a very vivid statement against the multinational company, United Fruit Company -- to which the author names the poem itself. He begins with a sardonic tone mocking the Creation, as God purposely bestowing the earth to multinational companies like Coca-Cola Inc and Anaconda Mining: “When the trumpet sounded, it was/ All prepared on the earth, /And Jehovah parceled out the earth” (1-3) Notice how the word “earth” is in small letter ‘e’ which pertains to land, as oppose to world. Neruda goes on to accuse United Fruit Company of neocolonialism—acquiring bountiful portions of his “own land” (8), Latin America, by hiding behind the term “Banana Republics”—seemingly helping the impoverished countries but is truly a self-serving entity that bred the rise of “flies”, the dictators such as Rafael Trujillo, Maximiliano Martinez and Jorge Ubico; and even those “damp flies of modest blood and marmalade” pertaining, perhaps, to the corruption of the common people as well. (6-24) He alludes to the process as a “comic opera” (16), a humorous musical drama or show implying that it is all just a façade; and calling it as such reverts to the ironic tone of the poem. The poem ends with the death of the Indian, referred to by Neruda as “a thing” and “a fallen cipher” (38-39).
6) Hoovervilles were named after Herbert Hoover because he was the president at the time of the great depression. The American people felt like he was to blame for the terrible economy because he raised taxes when he promised that he wouldn't as well as creating the Smoot Hawley tariff which eventually cut America off from foreign trade, tightening the grasp that the depression already had on the U.S. The negative view that the American people had of Hoover was not fair because he put forth more effort than any other president before him to pull America out of a
Distressed by this unprecedented upsurge of mass fury, which needed federal troops at some places to establish peace, the then President, Lyndon Johnson, set up an enquiry commission formally known as the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which later on became more popular as the Kerner Commission, after its chairman, Otto J. Kerner Jr. While ruling out any conspiracy, the commission identified racial discrimination, poverty, high unemployment, poor & inadequate schools, poor health care and sanitation as major contributing factors to the United States’ racial apartheid. The early & selective leakage of this report incited ferocious criticism from the White community. Critics argued, that the report has blamed everyone except the rioters. The opposition was so strong and intense that, Johnson not only declined the request by commission members, but also took additional six months to disseminate its findings to the public at large and put the issue in right perspective, but he himself failed to act upon it.
In an attempt to make a name for himself, Coughlin set up the National Union for Justice and bashed Roosevelt, claiming he was “anti-God". Coughlin wanted what he described as a "fair wage" to be paid to those who were less well off. During this strive, Coughlin partnered up with Frances Townsend who opposed the New Deal as well. Townsend argued that the federal government should give citizens aged 60 and above $200 a month to be financed by a 2% sales tax. After Huey Long’s death, these 2 men teamed themselves up with one of his loyal followers, Gerald Smith, and these three men planned to reach out to the less fortunate of America in hopes of rallying a group large enough to enact
1919-The year of Savage Peace The year 1818 was the year of ‘savage peace’ even though the world thought that the United States was a peaceful and prosperous nation. There were many reasons it was considered ‘savage’. People were fearful of communism. Terrorists’ bombs were exploding on the doorstep of the U S Attorney Generals Office, J. Edgar Hoover had just established the ‘FBI’ which was initially used to spy on suspicious people, and the League of Nations failed among other things that went wrong. One problem that caught my eye was the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed so many during that time.