Essays on Politics Page 11

With the advent of new digital technologies, the power relationship of capitalism, which is accumulated and manifested through generations, has begun to emerge. How will mass media affect politicians and political systems as a window for voters to see the world? So far, many studies have shown that mass media framing issue opinions, but there…

The sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. They replace and expand on the United Nations’ previous road map, the Millennium Development Goals that were adopted in 2000 (Times). The SDGs are a collection of 17 interconnected goals to serve as a blueprint in addressing global development challenges,…

In the twentieth century, Guy Debord expressed alarming concerns with his text, the mass-media social manipulation and the spectacle’s influences over society. Starting in Debord era, the spectacle was a capitalist-driven trend used to exercise total economic control over society though mass media to influence their life-perceptions of consumption. In post-modern societies, the spectacle has…

The Reconstruction era was a period of tremendous political complexity and far-reaching consequences. We learn that it was the end of the suffering of an entire people. So much was promised to African Americans after the civil war, the Emancipation Proclamation sung. For formerly enslaved people, freedom meant an end to the whip, to the…

Foreign policies are created by two branches of government the executive (president) and Legislative (Congress). Enacted foreign policies focus on diminishing tension between two or more nations while empowering each owns military. Foreign policies include diplomacy, military, and security policy, international human rights policies, economic policies, and environmental policy. Each president, Washington, Lincoln, Truman, and…

It may seem as though the controversy between feeling and thought has only been explored in recent phenomena, but in reality, it has been a hot topic for centuries. Humans have the tendency to use their emotions as a way to argue political agendas, but the real question is if that is the right or…

Mass Incarceration is called many things from mass imprisonment to hyper-incarceration but all mean the same thing. Mass incarceration is referred to and can be defined to the extreme or high rates of imprisonment/concentration that many Americans experience especially those of color and the African-American community. The history of what is essentially known as today…

In a stump speech, Mexico’s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised potential voters “We’re going to end the corruption, the impunity, and the privileges enjoyed by a small élite. . .[so that] the leaders of this country can recover their moral and political authority” (Anderson 2018, 8). Obrador’s election in July marked a significant shift…

The logical fallacy is the failure in thinking in the structure of the argument that renders the statement invalid. Alas, fallacies may be very convincing and typically go to human nature. One shining example in world today is Donald Trump, who frequently take steps the underlying sense of his opposition by discrediting them as one…

Colonialism does not exist any longer, but neither does the economic self- sufficiency that they had hoped for. Fifty years after all of the tears, sweat and blood that went into for the African sovereignty, the continent has been infested with a huge array of issues and tragedies that endanger African peace and put a…