It follows the story of the most average man the American government could find; for an experiment, they freeze him, and he wakes up 500 years later. What’s interesting is that although in our time he has average intelligence, in the future the human race has degraded so much that the is the pinnacle of intellectual superiority. Idiocracy plays off the idea that pop culture is going to diminish the intelligence and civilized nature of humanity, and God Bless America plays off the idea that it already has. God Bless America covers a lot of today’s most despicable pop culture icons, and fulfills at least one fantasy of yours, regardless of what it is. This film kills off Simon Cowell, Bill O’Riley, Westboro Baptist Church, and snobby T.V.
A week later he did the same thing when he met 27 year old Eddie Smith. A few months later and his next victim was 22 year old Ernest Miller. Jeffrey had told him that he would pay him $50 to pose nude so he could take photos of him. This time he had drugged him and cut his throat. He also saved his skeleton and put in his closet and had cut off his biceps and was put in his freezer to eat at a later time.
China is just as bad with there one child only law. “If you're going to wipe out 20 percent of your population, nature is not going to sit by and watch.” (Freiberg 13) The part about nature not just sitting by and watch reminds me of Jurassic Park. In the movie the dinosaurs where to be all female but eggs were found, nature found a way to rebalance the dinosaurs by changing the sex of some of them. This was due to the amphibian DNA that was used to fill in some of the genetic code. Amphibians are prone to changing sexes in an unbalanced environment.
While the accounting was marked to market, it wasn’t being handle the traditional fashion way with trading prices dictating its value. Instead Enron used its own projections to account in the first year anticipated income from contracts that were a decade or more long. This caused the increase of the stock price without a solid base to justify its true value. This action set up the course for them to lie on every subsequent year to cover up the lies from the prior year. It became such a big snow ball of lies that it took down one of the biggest corporations in American history.
As the 12th year of the post-9/11 wars begins, the toll of war in human lives and US federal dollars continues to grow. When President Barack Obama withdrew uniformed American troops from Iraq last year and announced substantial troop withdrawals in Afghanistan, he concluded in a UN speech that “The tide of war is receding.” Hundreds of billions of dollars, however, will continue to be allocated for or because of the wars. So, too, will the human costs of these conflicts reverberate for years to come in the United States and the war zones. There is no turning the page on the wars, and there is even more need as a result to understand what those wars’ consequences are and will be. What we do know, without debate, is that the wars begun eleven years ago have been tremendously painful for millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, and the United States, and economically costly as well.
Since the time when the “Plague” caused so much death in Europe the human race has accumulated a vast volume of knowledge that would have been unthinkable as recent as a century ago. President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address on January 20, 1961 said: “The world is a very different one now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life” (Kennedy par. 4). With the advances that have been made in science it is plausible that a disease could be genetically engineered and if introduced either accidently or intentionally into the populace could have a devastating effect on
Marx opined that conflict holds society in order by a wealthy and powerful few that dominates and control the poorer and weaker masses. There is a clear cut parallel to Conflict Theory and the government shutdown that happened this October. 536 people- the 100 senators, the 435 congressmen and resident in the White House controlled the lives of millions of furloughed employees, the military and many more civilians because they had a visceral disagreement about the funding of the uninsured citizenry. A shutdown that happened because of Obamacare that did not even shutdown Obamacare, a crisis where millions of the poor and disenfranchised were used as pawns in a chess game of politics. No matter what one’s ideology is, some will blame a chamber of Congress, the other will blame the White House.
Notable world events happen every day and depending on how well you related to it decided how well you remembered the event and what you doing at the time. For me the event that affected me personally the most was the Anthrax Scare immediately following the 9/11 attack on the U.S. Two other earth shattering events that really took me off my feet were the Columbia Space Shuttle accident and the tsunami in Asia that killed over 225 thousand people. Natural world disasters are truly terrifying in the fact that no one has control of anything that made that made them happen. If you are an American and alive and well today you know about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Fast forwarding a month would be the anthrax scare postal workers faced in October.
The book “The Hunger Games” is about a society in which the citizens are sectioned off into 12 districts. The capitol does all they can to control them and one of the primary methods is the hunger games. In the hunger games the capitol annually enters all the children’s names ages 12-18 into a lottery, where one girl and one boy will be randomly selected to compete. The ones that are chosen will have to battle against each other till the death in treacherous conditions while the whole country of Panem watches on television. In the book the characters were revolutionary and took risk, they didn’t let the capitol (no matter how much they attempted to) control their every thought and action and sometimes stood up for what they believed was the
Obama pledges federal aid on Colorado wildfire visit. On Friday President Barack Obama promised federal assistance for Colorado’s worst-ever wildfire as he toured damage caused by the blaze, which has killed at least two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and forced the evacuation of 35,000 residents in and around the State’s second-largest city. President Obama began his three to four hour visit to the areas that were devastated by a still largely uncontrolled fire with a fly-over in Air Force one, surveying part of the Rocky mountains where smoke could be seen rising from what officials say is the most destructive blaze in state history. The so called Waldo Canyon Fire, fanned by strong, erratic winds, roared Tuesday night through foothill communities in the northwestern corner