What is there to say about Betsy Devos? She has no teaching experience, or maybe how she donated money to Trumps campaign. That last point be especially insulting considering he accused Hillary of doing the same thing if she won. Maybe it's the conflict theorist in me, but Trump's cabinet will probably be as corrupt as any other.
People in our country do not get equal education, and if we move towards more privatized schools than less people will get good educations. Charter schools can successfully be a great education for some schools, but making more and more kids do them will permanently damage our education system. Betsy Devos isn't the only terrible pick for the cabinet, but she's by far the least qualified and the choice who will hurt future generations the most. I am very fearful for the education system, but I hope people more experienced can control her actions.
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Even from an outsiders perspectives, 2016 will be a year to remember. Obviously the cubs winning the world series, which was thought to be some impossible , them not winning was practically a norm.
Colin Kapernick's form of protest, which was kneeing during the national anthem, was a perfectly legal in the eyes of the bill of rights. Despite these basic facts I don't like people who hate the concept of taxes, but those are going to massively hurt people's total income in the coming years. Job's will stay in America, but the government will use tax payer money as incentive to keep them. Anyway rant out of the way, but I thought I should point that out before hand.
The lower class and bottom half of the middle class our suffering. My family, while not doing to bad, has brought in lower income. The people of our country have blamed many things for this happening to our country. I think that while working for change is good, Americans are putting our country back in the past. Racism will never die, but these days we are allowing it to prosper in a way that it hasn't in years. Minorities are facing economic struggles as well, but they are also getting the short end of the stick from white america. The military has never been a organization to associate with equality. African american soldiers were always put on the front lines until the government did away with segregated military units.Of course that's not even taking in the experiments dome on them against their knowledge in world war two. What females can do in the military is still a major restriction. Of course I would be at fault if I didn't mention the idiocy of don't ask, don't tell program. And of course before now the parenting programs just weren't good. The article is right in they still have a long way to go though. However I'm glad that this we are digging away at the misogyny that the military has built in. My parents aren't in the military, but if I was I would be happy with this new process that has been made. However the future goes down, we need more legislative like this act.
I love reading comics, now more specifically I love super hero comics but that's just one genre. As a medium, comics are great because they are made with using images. but being able to provide narration and the thoughts of characters. I'm also a bit of a history buff, so if you see this graphic novel in my possession at some point don't be surprised. However I think the real reason that this graphic novel is interesting, is that the subject is relevant to our country at this point. Our president-elect' transition manager is a literal antisemitic. I think a lot of people had tricked themselves into thinking that america was an ideal place where the civil rights act had defeated slavery. The truth couldn't be more of a polar opposite. Racism in our country won't end in my lifetime, in fact in might even prosper, but we can fight it. I won't face the hate that minorties in our country do, and I fear for them. If we want to stop hate we have to come together.
Controversy always a funny thing when it doesn't involve you personally. I feel like while people may have strong opinions of certain news headlines flashing on TV, they never take it personally until someone they know is involved. That's how I felt when I heard about the supreme court case. I don't know a single transgender person well enough to understand their struggle.However despite that I support them and their cause. People talk about people of other genders raping the opposite gender, but rape if confined to being heterosexual anyway. That being said I feel like this court case will not go in favor of the LGBT side. President-elect Trump is going to appoint a conservative judge to the court. Even if this doesn't happen till after the decision is made they have other things going against them.Title 9 specifically says sex not gender, and those are two different things. I'm interested on how the court will rule on this.
For once and for all, mass voting fraud isn't something that will affect the outcome of an election. Donald Trump railed on about voter fraud all along the campaign trail about voter fraud. The reason that we have the electoral college as dumb as it is, is so fraud won't happen. Now I know that many people have a problem with the electoral college, that are a convoluted system that needs to be fixed. Their should be a revised system that guarantees that when a candidate wins by a large majority, their opponent doesn't mock the democratic system and win. We need to work up a way, that will count up votes in a timely, accurate system.The next four years our going to be a time of dramatic time, and I'm worried about will occur in that time. But whatever happens, part of the blame lies on how this election was handled.
Disney making progress against racism is an odd idea. Their most famous bout of offensive was the horrible dated "Song of the South". Movies have always been very arrian based in America. From The Birth of a Nation to the Jazz Singer we have never given minorities a fair chance. While it isn't live action, this allows for more creative ideas and talent. I think Moana's animation looks really good from the trailer, and I think I will support both for it's diversity and the beauty it is to the eye.
This article has proven to me that traditions of Halloween have greatly changed overtime. Back then Halloween was treated more in a religious sence which we don't do much these days. Even holidays based on religion like Christmas or Easter, have become more of a commercial enterprise. Maybe because Halloween first started getting celebrated when being christian was almost more mandatory than just a norm. W
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