Freedom of religion and Freedom of Speech and Expression: Both are critical cornerstones of the United States constitution. So, what happens when those two come head to head? Well, they did just that when Saturday Night Live, the long-running celebrity sketch show, published a segment that created outrage and asked
Remember when marijuana was legalized in California and that was considered a controversy? Ha, yeah so now according to an article by Aaron Kase in Vice, “Monterrey-area medical marijuana advocate Kevin Saunders and his fiancée, Kitty Merchant, filed a ballot initiative with the state attorney general this past August that
They’re so majestic, so smooth, so elegant. They are the masters of their medium, moving at remarkable speed, propelling themselves through the air, entertaining their audiences. The bond between these performers and their trainers can’t be described in words. If you have ever been to SeaWorld and seen the killer
In the current world, social media has begun to take over not only the lives of viewers but also the lives of the so called ‘instafamous’. Current studies have shown that Instagram is one of the most popular sites, and is constantly used to mask the real lives of its
What is more important, culture or law? Would you rather stick to the law and be an outsider in your culture or break a law and be accepted among your culture? Everyone has a cultural lens of their own that they use to view the world. A huge issue arises
Through the use of advertising, there has been an idealized body type for women in regards to fashion and beauty. Advertisements involved pictures of models with unrealistic body types wearing expensive and high-end fashion, and this is what the average woman sees all around them. It is seemed as desirable,
Many of us have heard the historic story of Pompeii—the ancient Roman city buried under volcanic ash in 79 AD. As a result of being buried, the city was actually preserved and protected. It has now become popular tourist destination in Italy, where people from all over the world come
When I was about seven years old, I remember walking into our local Round Table pizza parlor with my soccer teammates and rushing to the arcade area to see all the toys I could buy with my saved up quarters. While my parents would start to order pizza, my teammates
For a moment, I’d like you, the reader, to imagine yourself as an artist. You are more than likely an intellectual, capable of viewing the world from a multitude of perspectives beyond that of the average person. Perhaps you are conservative in your work, meticulous in planning, and take months