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The US won’t change even after the election.
The Trump era is finally coming to an end. What’s next for America? It doesn’t look too promising. As someone who has been following the 2020 Presidential Election for 2 years now, I’ve seen the ups and downs of the Biden campaign, from his terrible showing in almost all Democratic Primary Debates to the even worse results in the 1st 3 states of voting (4th in Iowa, 5th in New Hampshire, 2nd in Nevada LOL), to the sudden rise of the Moderate Candidates and finally, his historic win against the worst president in the history of the US. While I’m relieved that Trump has finally been defeated, the future still looks bleak with Biden in office. After analysing the election for quite some time, here are my reasons why I feel the US would not see much change under a Biden cabinet. As this is written from the perspective of a Singaporean, I may not get all the facts on the ground right, but these findings certainly came from a lot of research in the field.
By Eugene Low4 years ago in The Swamp
The political turning over in Latin America while the AI revolution reshapes Eastern Asia
Bolivia changed their political course in a historic presidential election last Sunday. The economist Luis Arce Catacora, former Evo Morales economy secretary, is the country’s new president. The former president Morales resigns under the military and opposition in November of 2015.
By Fred Costa 4 years ago in The Swamp
Terrorism and Islam
Terrorism has been among the most discussed issues in the world. Terrorist-associated bombings and brutal killings have been experienced for many years, which have consequently led to strong feelings of hostility and fear towards terrorism among the general population. In many cases, the public has closely associated terrorism with Islam. In a recent incident of Boston bombings the suspect was in many cases described as a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day. In Logan International Airport, Boston, two men were removed from a plane by the rest of passengers when they overheard those two conversing in Arabic. Many people take Islam as terrorist religion and Muslims have often faced segregation and discrimination in working and social places. As they interrelate the two, they completely disregard personalities of terrorists. They also disregard the fact that there are many serial killers that are not Muslim, yet their actions have never related to their religion. Many people who associate themselves with Islam might have been the followers of this religion, but this does not guarantee the fact that their personal motives are fueled by their religion.
By Lily Johnson4 years ago in The Swamp
Ending Racism in America
Ending Racism Will Greatly Impact the Black Family- An ESSAY Racism has influenced politics for decades. White middle class values overrode black family values even with World War II, where the economy favored whites and progress was given over to white majority. One of the values of the white middle class was males being the breadwinner of the household. The black family had to survive in poverty with kin networking. The war was supposed to bring the country together and bring equality, yet racism kept the divide. Some whites did not want to be considered equal to blacks. Jim Crow laws in the South and ghettos in the North oppressed the black family. The Jim Crow laws would instill fear into the black family, which made them give in to racism. Racism prevailed in the country, and it greatly impacted the black family. They were seen as second-class citizens until the civil rights legislation, which ended this status. Moynihan diverted attention to the black family structure with his report entitled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action. Moynihan in his report stated that the black family was a pathology, which was racist because he did not take the time to understand their culture and the environmental factors that influence their lives. Education, wealth and income inequity, and sexuality were influenced by racism, therefore ending racism is a solution that will greatly impact the black family.
By Matthew Primous4 years ago in The Swamp
The Hotel Homeless
tomorrow I’ll be homeless. Technically, I suppose I’m homeless right now, but it’s easier on the eyes if I’m tucked away in a motel somewhere not peddling myself on the street making those without the worry of shelter or transportation feel uncomfortable. I agree, trust me I agree more than you know. Being outside on a curb, begging people for change, and hearing “get a job” for the ump-teen millionth time as if the piece-of-work touting it at the top of his lungs just came up with it right then and there. Well, Sir, allow me to be the first to say: well said! It stung appropriately, your bootstrap story is protected. However, I feel the need to interject, I never asked you for your thoughts on my circumstances, actually I never approached you in the sense that if you taught me to fish I could stain my Armani suit the same way you have done. Your change Mr. Sir without the unsolicited bad advise would go much further to getting me out of immediate need which, by the way, still exists immediately even If I get that job you proposed I need so badly, and find me out of your sight so you may save up your altruism for your once-a-year donation to whichever trendy charity exists with the highest advertising budget and makes you like less like the “get a job” type.
By Brenton Hayes-Way4 years ago in The Swamp
Flooding Caskets and Floating Corpses
Casket flooding has been a problem in Louisiana longer than climate change, but as sea levels rise and hurricanes become more powerful and frequent, burial solutions in the state need to evolve — and fast. Louisiana loses land the size of a football field to the rising tide every hour. But for Louisiana’s dead, the rising tides of climate change isn’t a nebulous prediction but a current reality.
By Raisa Nastukova4 years ago in The Swamp
Resistance Literature is Blooming in Kashmir
A poet famously wrote of Kashmir, “if there is a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here.” The steep, icy slopes of Sonmarg or the soaring Himalayan views are the sights that inspire poets and tourism magazines alike, but Kashmir is having a surge in a different kind of writing: passionate resistance literature against Indian occupation.
By Raisa Nastukova4 years ago in The Swamp
Irrational Trump supporters threaten the lives of Georgia Secretary of State and his wife
GOP Georgia Secretary of State Ben Rafensberger and his wife have had their lives threatened by irrational Trump supporters who will not accept that Joe Biden won the election. Rafensberger says he will not back down from telling the truth that there is no evidence of voter fraud. He added that he will not be deterred from running for re-election. Trump supporters will not accept the reality that Joe Biden will be president number 46. In Boonesmill Va. there is a shop running a television advertisement about Trump memorabilia for Christmas gifts. Make America great again hats, Tshirts, and other items. In my lifetime I have never seen Americans behave this way regarding an outgoing president. There have been some who have voiced that they wished Obama was still in office, and pictures of number 44 and his wife Michelle randomly appear on Facebook. Trump supporter, however, are in a league of their own.
By Cheryl E Preston4 years ago in The Swamp
In Defence of the Online Bully
One of the most powerful rhetorical devices ever accidentally developed is the epistle. A message ostensibly intended for one audience, but read by another makes the other feel like an eavesdropper, as if they are accessing secret knowledge, not intended for them and therefore more true, more real than the direct approach. A person might lie to you, but we assume they would not lie to that other person or that other group. We are the spy, learning secrets. This approach bypasses our normal social filters and we learn often more than we intended by its use.
By David Bulley4 years ago in The Swamp
Louisiana’s First Climate Change Refugees
The residents of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana’s southeastern bayous are the first trickle in the coming wave of climate change refugees. For decades, the tribes (Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and United Houma Nations) who once called the isle home have been relocating to safer land. 98 percent of the isle’s land has sunk under the rising tide since 1955, with nothing but a thin strip of land left.
By Raisa Nastukova4 years ago in The Swamp
Houseboats of Srinagar
At the base of the Himalayas near India’s border with Pakistan, Kashmir is a deeply troubled region that, despite oft-violent political turmoil and destitute poverty, still captures the fantasies of tourists. The mystical land, sometimes called “India’s answer to Switzerland”, is known as an exotic getaway, far from the unbearable heat of Delhi or Mumbai, that was especially loved by Bollywood icons. There were once over a dozen theaters screening Bollywood flicks. Those are gone now, all closed by 1990 after threats against “un-Islamic” bars and cinemas by a militant Islamic group called the Allah Tigers.
By Raisa Nastukova4 years ago in The Swamp