Yellow journalism is a style of reporting in which sensationalism is emphasized over facts. Much of its history leads back to being the cause of the rise of much international conflict, especially in the war of Cuba and the sinking of the U.S. battleship the Maine. Today, yellow journalism is used a lot to attract attention […]
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The Kawaraban emerged during the Edo period of Japan (1603-1867). This was a time in which Japan was in a period of peace, political stability under military dictatorship (shogunate), and economic growth. Though this sounds like it was already a great and smooth sailing time for Japan, being under the dictatorship of the shogunate had […]
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‘#NeverTrump’: Marco Rubio’s attack on Donald Trump
Posted by: karajin | March 1, 2016 | No Comment |February 19, 2016 brought on a brisk morning, in which when you exhaled, you could see puffs of your own breath in the air. Little did we know when we woke up, that we would come about the news that beloved author, Harper Lee, or full name, Nelle Harper Lee, had passed away. The news came to us […]
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When a well-known figure is as prolific as these two were and are, it isn’t hard to compare them both. When you think about it this way, 16th century Martin Luther and 21st century Donald Trump do bear some kind of resemblance. Not only in the way they addressed the public in either writing or […]
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A Place for Both Beauty and Brains: French Salons
Posted by: karajin | February 2, 2016 | No Comment |Today when you think about salons, you probably think about places people go to have their hair polished and styled for a price. However this is not the case for what salons were in the 17th and 18th centuries. Early French salons served as a sort of haven for exchanging and receiving information. Though salons were […]