controversies
It seems every time one racially-charged incident ends, a gender or religious controversy takes its place; Ruminate on the issues dividing our nation and world.
Racism: The Anxiety of Black Men in America
Blue Magic is a soul singing group from Philadelphia, PA, and they are known for their hit singles “Slideshow,” “Stop to Start,” “Chasing Rainbows,” “Love Has Found its Way to Me,” and “Spell,” during the soulful 1970s.
By Darryl C. Richie8 years ago in The Swamp
Is Gun Control Really the Problem?
Students deserve the most nurturing care that American schools have to offer. Imagine accommodating these students’ needs by creating an atmosphere for children that is similar to the comfort they feel in their own home. Undying feelings of security would drive students to attend school with carefree attitudes ready to learn. Ideally, schools are a safe place for parents to send their children during the day. However, due to recent events of school shootings, these ideals seem to become a fantasy.
By cayleerose8 years ago in The Swamp
America & the Arms- Ageddon
In current times, we face many different threats to our way of life, as well as how we operate globally. Not only on a physical level either, as with advancements in technology we've become at risk to a whole catalouge of new weapons. The increasing risk of Artificial intelligence (AI) being weaponized, the prospect of nuclear war and many others. But it seems that we still have a lot to acomplish with our 'traditional' issues - such as the ongoing firearms issues that we continuously see in the United States of America.
By Ryan McGregor8 years ago in The Swamp
How Philip May's Company Benefits From the Syria Strikes: Lockheed Martin, the JASSM, and the Capital Group. Top Story - April 2018.
Philip May married the future 81st Prime Minister of the UK, then Theresa Brasier, on September 6th, 1980, at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Wheatley, Oxfordshire. They had been introduced to each other by the late Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, during a Conservative Party student disco at Oxford University.
By Johnny Vedmore8 years ago in The Swamp
Possible Gun Control Solutions
America's epidemic of gun violence is easily solved. There are plenty of gun control solutions and the public is hungry to see those solutions implemented. The problem is that there are too many politicians who benefit from the status quo and the various legal and psychological machinations that keep those politicians in power.
By Ben Kharakh8 years ago in The Swamp
Opioid Abuse. Top Story - March 2018.
That there is an opioid epidemic is indisputable. I remember as an anesthesia technician a member of the nursing staff had been dismissed because she was caught in an operating room with her hands in a used needle bin, trying to steal syringes with left over fentanyl.
By Jerame Lang8 years ago in The Swamp
The Real Problem Underlying Representative King’s Criticism of Emma Gonzalez
On Sunday, March 25, the campaign of Iowa Congressman Steve King shared a meme that criticized Parkland shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez for expressing her heritage with a Cuban flag patch during her speech at Sunday’s March for Our Lives.
By Nicole Cocuy8 years ago in The Swamp
World War 2 and World War 3
World wars usually get started because one country is busy invading another country. World War 2 happened because Hitler got intense about his desire for global domination, which resulted in how he signed treaties with Mussolini and Japan, other fascist world powers at the time. Hitler decided he was Führer (supreme leader). Hitler was a delusional occultist and statesman because he wanted power unto himself. He wanted to take away the powers of the common people in his bid for global domination. Hitler roped the former Soviet Union into helping him by signing a treaty with the Soviets since Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
Modern Genocide
This article covers genocide after 1970 as per from 1975-1979 Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge, which brutalized Cambodia, resulting in the deaths of 25 percent of the population from starving them, overwork, and execution. The 1975 withdrawal of U.S troops from Vietnam led to a vacuum that Pol Pot took advantage of in order to rid Cambodia of western influences such as Western culture, city life, and religion, since he was inspired by the Mao Cultural Revolution in China to go after intellectuals, former government officials, as well as Buddhist monks. In 1992, other genocidal situations included the Bosnia and Herzegovina ethnic cleansing by the Serbians because of Slobodan Milosevic.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
The Rise of the Fourth Reich
Neo-Nazis view the 4th Reich as the rise of neo-Nazi Germany into power once again. They actually look forward to this. Some theorists believe that Germany is into a covert rise of the neo-Nazi agenda (Wikipedia). Neo-Nazis want the Aryan race to be at the forefront of anything they do. The German neo-Nazis want Germany to acquire nuclear weapons, which sets Germany back to its ways in 1937. Nazis would like a “pan-Aryan world empire” which encompasses all land populated by predominantly European-descended peoples from Europe to Russia, white people’s America, Australia, the Southern Cone of South America, New Zealand, and South Africa; basically anywhere there are white people. The Fourth Reich has risen without many shots being fired, if you believe the paranoia.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
Is Abortion Morally Right?
Abortion has been legal in England, Scotland, and Wales when the Abortion Act was passed in 1967. Changes were made under the Human Fertilisation And Embryology Act of 1990—bringing in a new upper time limit, allowing most abortions to take place up to 24 weeks. This suggests that although the fertilised egg is potential life, scientific evidence shows that the foetus is not viable (capable of independent life) in the early stages of pregnancy and is still a part of its mother. The law in England, Scotland, and Wales states that: "An abortion can be performed before the 24th week of pregnancy if two doctors agree that there is a risk to the mental and physical health to the mother and any other children in the family." This backs up the idea that if women are to lead healthy, happy lives and offer the same to any children they may have, they need to exercise control over their reproductive lives. I agree with this argument because I feel it is considerate of all possible situations—whether or not the mother is mentally or physically stable to have the child, the financial situation, how the child was conceived e.g. rape, non-consensual. Abortion is a highly controversial topic, everyone having their own individual thoughts and feelings on it. Abortion is so controversial is because it raises the fundamental question; when does human life actually begin?
By Ailey Marshall8 years ago in The Swamp
