Category: Stories
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Media Bias
When people think of media bias, they often think of partisan media bias – that is, liberal versus conservative reporting tendencies. Partisan media bias is a very real and predominant issue, but there are other forms of equally important bias – such as affective bias and informational bias. Affective bias happens whenever pressures to grab…
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Social Media Censorship
Media censorship is an increasingly complex issue, especially with an expanding world online. Censorship happens in a complex and multi-faceted manner, requiring some form of enabling, ignorance, or intention from several different parties in several different chains of command or power. Media today, as a whole, is like an ecosystem within an ecosystem; other issues…
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Lessons from Cold War Latin America
Written December 2022 The United States’ intervention in Guatemala directly led to the Cuban Revolution, but the way in which this happened teaches an imperative lesson for modern society. By analyzing events, revolutionary leaders, and influential philosophical ideology during this time, we find something that holds relevance for all. A note for reference: it is…
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Latin America from 1850-1950; Identity, Foreign Interference, and Revolutions Shape Dispositions
Once the majority of Latin American was free from Spanish control, freshly liberated countries began developing their unique personalities. Sometime near 1850, many started pondering and debating how to cohesively name what we now know to be “Latin America.” Nearly all major countries south of the United States gained Independence in the same interval, but…
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Hopi Prophecy of Emergence to the Fifth World
Written May 2021 The prophetic Native American myth of Emergence to the Fifth world is something worthy of deep consideration and thought, even for the most skeptical individuals. This prophecy includes philosophical insights into death, rebirth, evolution, spiritualism, nuance, and balance. In Emergence to the Fifth World, America will be destroyed by nuclear war; only…