P. T. Barnum's Baby Show Debate

Blehm answers these questions, revealing how Brown was never seen as a lost cause, despite his self-destructive failures. The people in his life saw something great in him and trusted him to realize it, which Brown eventually did. And he paid

Sports broadcasting has come a long way from what it was during Cosell’s time. While the future was bright for Howard Cosell, there were other sportscasters that need to be recognized including those with similar practices than Cosell. Though Cosell was mainly known for his interviews with the late, great Mohammed Ali, he wasn’t the first broadcaster to focus on prize fighters.

In the excerpt “Electric Funeral”, Chuck Klosterman created a controversial argument of juxtaposition between right and wrong. These choices of right and wrong can be translated into mankind's struggle of good vs. evil decisions. Klosterman makes several claims throughout his passage recognizing public figures who each demonstrate the different sides of his good versus evil argument. Throughout the passage, the overall theme personifies how money will make one commit evil acts as a self-proclaimed right of fame. This is done by amplifying the mistakes of others while masking one’s own fault. An example that depicts (portrays) Klosterman’s argument would be Perez Hilton manipulation of the internet. Hilton is famous for his renowned voice of

On March 17, 2008, Eliot Spitzer resigned his post as New York governor in a desperate attempt to avoid impeachment. One week prior to his resignation, The New York Times reported a prostitution scandal that involved governor Spitzer frequenting Emperors Club, an elite escort service in New York city, where he is accused of spending a sum of $80,000 in a period of several years. ‘Enough Already, It’s Time We Decriminalize Prostitution’ is Patty Kelly’s response to the scandal, appealing to logos, in which she argues that prostitution is a common part of North American culture which will not soon resolve. At the time, Kelly was an assistant professor of anthropology and had recently returned from Tuxtla, Chiapas, a state in Mexico, where she spent one year working as an anthropologist at a

144). This statement shows how forms of racism contributed to the abusive of the boys, and served to the self- interest of the oppressors. To portray the boys as anything other than human, and justify it with science goes to show how insensitive and disrespectful blacks were treated. Even in the circus for that matter, black performers were treated unfairly. It was only when George and Willie became really popular, is when they were given equitable treatment. More importantly, a segment of this story that really places emphasis on the role racism had in lives of black people would be the custody battle Harriet had to get her boys out of the circus. As Malcom X said “The most disrespected people in America is the black woman”. That quote definitely applies to this situation- the fact that a mother had to put up a fight twice to win her boys back is ridiculous. In the case of “Harriet Muse vs. George and Willie Muse, Harriet petitioned a Roanoke court to have her son declared “practically imbeciles” (385). This was Harriet’s second time going to court with the boy’s circus managers of who made the boys look like a fool and refused to pay them or their mother. Fortunately, she won the case because of her good lawyer Austin, the same cannot be said for all the black

Nobody could have known that on September 20th, 1878 in Baltimore, a man who would eventually revolutionize the media and bring the term muckraking to the forefront of cultural perception would be born. At the time, America was still

Upon entering the room, visitors’ eyes dart to that mysteriously empty frame centered on the opposite wall. In such a painstakingly designed museum, this frame looks out of place. On these walls hang the memoirs of revered artists, but the empty frames scattered throughout remember something more tragic: the largest property theft in world history (Menconi, 2012). Head of security at the Gardner, Anthony Amore, refers to these empty frames as “placeholders, not memorials” and urges visitors to see them as a “testament” to their belief that they will reacquire the stolen paintings someday (Menconi, 2012). Whether they do or not, the 1990 Gardner theft greatly impacted

To sue or not to sue; this is Peggy Fischer 's dilemma. As the chairperson of the board (COB) of the Midwestern Contemporary Art (MCA) museum, Peggy is responsible for collecting a $5 million pledge from a former COB, Peter Smith. Mr. Smith and his wife have devoted many years of their lives to the arts, but a conflict in vision with the museum 's director, Ken Schmidt, has resulted in Mr. and Mrs. Smith withdrawing their participation from the museum along with their much-needed pledge. The board of

In a world where people have access to anything, diversity is slowly dying. In Feed by M.T. Anderson, the death of diversity is correlated with the death of a character. Most characters have similar ideology and tendency, but one character dares to be different. The advertisement is correlated to real life attitudes of the character. I argue that the “everything most go” advertisement symbolized the death of diversity and the return of Titus’ status quo bias. More specifically, I argue that the advertisement represents the death of different ideas to move the society into a tunnel vision created by the Feed™. First, I will discuss echo chambers and status quo bias, particularly throughout the novel and today’s media. Then I will evaluate Titus’

deeply submerged in controversy. There was a bold claim by some of Brown’s critics that he was

In “Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth,” author Wai-Chee Dimock argues that the society portrayed in the novel, which is a reflection of 19th century upper class New York, revolves around the idea that the business ethics of the economic “marketplace” determines all aspects of the culture. More specifically, this causes all forms of social interactions to be viewed as “currency,” with the precise value of a certain act or relationship determined by whoever possesses the most power. As Dimock herself puts it, “as a controlling logic, a mode of human conduct and human association, the marketplace is everywhere and nowhere, ubiquitous and invisible” (375). While some might wonder whether the marketplace really is the ultimate guiding structure for this particular fictionalized society, Dimock contends nevertheless that this interpretation is a viable one, due to the marketplace’s “ability to reproduce itself,” and thus “assimilate everything… into its domain” (375). I myself find Dimock’s argument both interesting and useful in interpreting The House of Mirth because of the clarity with which she presents the often complicated, critical lens of Marxism.

There has been a major discussion recently if a college athlete should earn money while they are in school. Many people think that College athletes , but it is better for college athletes to paid for many reasons. College athletes should be paid because the NCAA is a billion dollar enterprise. Moreover College players should earn revenue because of how much time and effort they spend trying to get better and help their team win. When athletes do well in a sport they bring a great deal of attention to the school. Student athletes aren’t just regular students, they are people who help generate money and market for schools. Even though student -athletes generates tons of money for the school, none of that money ever trickles down to them.

The humor presented in the exhibit, “Git on Board,” gives the audience insight into the reality of the terrible conditions of blacks in America. In the scene, Miss Pat is incredibly enthusiastic and overjoyed which is ironic since she is referencing the hardships of African Americans. When Miss Pat recites the line, “any baggage you don’t claim, we trash” is heartbreaking to hear that their heritage is compared to baggage being thrown away. However, her enormous smile makes the statement ironic. The events flashed before the audience’s eyes are ideally impactful when the slave ship is going through a time warp. In addition, when Miss Pat stands up and continues to be comical, the audience is stunned at how such traumatic events can be colored by a positive attitude. This parody lightens up the situation for the audience while making a statement about how African Americans had to get accustomed to rough conditions. When Miss Pat pulled out a basketball and

How can two people watch or read the same story and yet, interpret it completely differently? Does it have to do with the author’s intentions, or maybe it has to do with the viewers’ own backgrounds and ideologies? Whatever the case may be, viewing one piece of work can lead to a wide array of opinions and critiques. It is through the diversity of such lenses that Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller has become one of the most well-known plays in modern history. There are many different ways in which a play can be criticized, however, criticisms from the approaches of a Marxist and reader-response will be utilized to further dissect Death of a Salesman. Marxist criticism sees pieces of works as a struggle between different socioeconomic classes; what better way to see Miller’s play than for what it is at face value, the struggle of a middle-class man trying to achieve the American dream (1750). On the other hand, a reader-response criticism comes from either an objective or subjective view; in this case Death of a Salesman will be viewed with a subjective lens based on Willy’s deteriorating mental health (1746).

Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘A Doll’s House’, written in 1879, and Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’, written in 1862, both demonstrate that an appetite for power, knowledge, sex, and money have an ultimately destructive affect upon their characters.