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If a picture says a thousand words, so how many words does a meme equal? Numerous people in today’s society are not in favor of the Obama era, so various jokes and stabs in the form of memes are targeted toward our 44th president. The memes listed above are both categorized as amusing because of several unique factors that we will discuss later, and how these details allow them to be entertaining. This paper shall explore how the fun factor is achieved by the history of the allusions featured,…

THE VIRTUAL SOCIETY In recent years, our lives have been accompanied by various technology that helps us in maintaining our daily lives. But these technology start to maintain our social life where social media plays their part. Social media allows people to connect themselves with others from around the world. People don’t have to worry about distance or time since social media only requires small amount of time to communicate with other in different places. Especially with smartphones, people…

America’s Most Disrespected President Barack Obama came onto the political stage in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Before this momentous occasion very few people had heard of the Junior Senator from Illinois – he had only been in the Senate for eight months. He titled the speech “The Audacity of Hope” to highlight the strength and resilience of the country and to encourage people struggling to rise out of poverty and despair and help them…

In February 13, 2009 they have such a long debate which President Barack Obama “referred to the need to reduce the force structure of our strategic military systems by cutting the number of deployed nuclear weapons”. In this debate he spoke about why we should reduce our nuclear weapon and what it will be cause of reducing it. He also mentions that military civilian leaders have make plan to reduce nuclear weapons, the main question is what if United State reduce nuclear weapon and what will be…

In addition to having a system that no longer excludes people and forgets about them, the Pope also believes that the world should be tackling the environmental destruction of the planet, particularly climate change. Both the President and the Pope agree on this notion, but each brings with them a different perspective on the issue. The President focus is on curbing climate change in regards to collective security, which thus helps ensure that all the world inhabitants are healthy. Pope Francis…

In today’s society, information gets shared by billions of people every day through different means of social media. Whether they are qualified or not, people always tend to share the opinions on social media, usually on events that are happing in our world. This creates a variety of opinions that people from all over the world can see, however, sometimes these opinions effect people, perspectives and can have a really big influence on them. Bullying for example, someone that might have a huge…

It is widely accepted that, for a democratic society to merely exist, let alone effectively function or flourish, the media and government must co-exist, while retaining independence, and healthy levels of scepticism. This symbiotic relationship informs the general public of significant issues, and, theoretically, safeguards against power or influence corrupting either of these institutions. Politicians rely on the media to relay their policies, values, and actions, to wider audiences, while the…

Dorothea Dix is an American social reformer with a huge impact of saving lives before and during The Civil War. In her early life, she opened a school for children including poor and neglected to help out on their reading and writing. Dix is more compassionate to teach the poor and neglected children, who can’t afford or able to make it to school, by coming to their houses because she felt the same connection during her childhood years under her strict and alcoholic father. Luckily her wealthy…

Courtroom 302 provides the reader with a real time view of criminal processing. Steve Bogira begins this work from the earliest moment that a person is entered into the criminal justice system, the arrest. Bogira then takes the reader on a step by step reading tour of criminal processing, following alleged offenders as they progress through the system. Bogira introduces the reader to every character that he follows, sharing with them a background of the character, perhaps in an attempt to…

It is important to be an effective intercultural communicator to some degree. An effective intercultural communicator is able to share information across different cultures and different groups. They have to communicate in a way that is appropriate and effective to different cultures (Johnson, Lenartowicz, & Apud, 2006, p. 529). The United States is becoming more and more culturally diverse by the day. Most people would think that politicians are great at intercultural communication because of…