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What Pride Month Means in the Age of Trump
We're halfway through Pride Month in America, and it's time to take our temperature or run the risk of burning out. The current administration has recognized June as National Ocean Month, National Carribean-American Heritage Month, National African-American Music Appreciation Music Month, and a number of other 30-day recognition, but has failed to use their stature to officially recognize Pride Month.
By Stephen Walden8 years ago in The Swamp
President Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Two Norwegian lawmakers have nominated United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination comes on the heels of President Trump’s role in the summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
By Brian Dollard8 years ago in The Swamp
Film: 'White Right: Meeting The Enemy'
Deeyah Khan is everything a right-wing white supremacist hates. She is a Norwegian-British woman of Pujabi/Pashtun descent and therefore, a person of colour. She is a Muslim, a feminist, and a left-wing liberal who is not just a filmmaker but a dedicated activist.
By Heavenly Peachy8 years ago in The Swamp
Grenfell Tower Burned a Year Ago
When I found out what had happened, I was with my mum. We sat in silence for ten minutes before she turned to me and said, "We used to live in the borough when you were first born. In a building near there. Before we got the flat in Clapham. They were death traps then, too."
By Peyton Rose8 years ago in The Swamp
Gun Control
For an average child in America in 2018, being in a school where at any moment a kid can pull out his father’s handgun is scary. For the average adult, a grown man pulling out a new AR-15 on the entire mall crowd has a higher chance than what it may seem. The events are real, they have happened, they will happen again. Either a lost, damaged child is bullied until he feels as if the only option left is to slay 20 children in his own classroom. Or maybe, a grown man, 18 or 19, was tortured as a child, abused and scared deathly of everyone since his whole life he has taken mental abuse from his old classmates, and decided to buy a new AR-15 to approach his old school and kill 17 innocent, loving teenagers without any mercy. Living a day knowing that dying is a legitimate fear is not a world any American should live in. Going to school and getting an education should not be scary. Whether someone’s daughter will live through the day safely at school should NOT be a worry. Therefore, this paper will further in-depth explain why things should change, maybe why they should not, and how these issues correlate with everyone on a daily basis.
By Makaio Carter8 years ago in The Swamp
Winston Churchill - The Fraud
Winston Churchill’s demigod-like status is unrivaled in the field of British political history; he was a personification of "Britishness" encompassing the very values that put the "Great" in Great Britain. It is wholly unsurprising that in 2002 he was declared the "Greatest Briton" via a BBC nationwide poll, beating such luminaries as Shakespeare, Brunel, and Cromwell. However, is Winston Churchill’s prodigious legacy well deserved? Or are our impressions of him distorted; a mere propaganda-funded stratagem designed to dress up the atrocities of our modern history in the form of strong leadership.
By T.P Schofield8 years ago in The Swamp
Gun Control
What About Stricter Gun Control? In America, a staggering amount of crimes are committed with the assistance of deadly, and often military grade weaponry. Whether it’s a brutal, malevolent murder, or one of the dozen and a half senseless, bloody school shootings that have the entire nation in shock three months into 2018, guns are owned by 42% of Americans, yet 67% of all homicides committed by the use of a firearm. In America, the process to get a gun can take a mere three days, and background checks can take only minutes, allowing basically anybody without too severe of a criminal history to get a gun on demand. In Japan, where violent crime rate in relation to guns is significantly lower, the process to achieve the title of a gun owner can take up to around four months full of interviewing, inspecting, and learning. Due to that, the aforementioned crime rate relation to a gun control issue is substantially low compared to here in America. With that knowledge and comparison, should gun control strictness be increased? The answer: definitely. Many people try to argue their second amendment rights; despite the fact that the only goal of gun control advocates is to bring an end to the NRA’s blatant disregard for sensible gun regulation. In short- the time to do something about gun violence, was yesterday.
By Makaio Carter8 years ago in The Swamp
How John F. Kennedy Became a Cultural Icon. Top Story - June 2018.
Tensions reached new heights due to marches on civil rights, women’s rights, the never-ending war in Vietnam and farmworker conditions. Although the majority of these movements began peacefully, the ongoing hostility from those opposing made violence inevitable.
By Shandi Pace8 years ago in The Swamp
If You Are Not Multi-Lingual, Shut Your Mouth
Picking on bilingual people for speaking their own language is racist and silly. Hey evil racists, se habla español jerks, and I’m fluent from high school Spanish, my easy A. You see, you people thrive on hating minorities. Native Americans are also bullied for speaking their language in public since they are truly the ones who were here first when the United States was a mere colony. Don’t shame bilingual people into speaking in English, losers. You do not speak another language, at all, period. So who is ignorant and who is not?
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
I Wish I Knew How to Quit You
In the last sequence that ends the haunting finale of The Americans, the car carrying former Soviet spies Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, who have fled back to their homeland after years of posing and living as suburbanites in the United States, all while carrying out their (at times) murderous mission, are finally coming home. Years after Mischa and Nadezhda arrive in the United States to become Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, it has all finally fallen apart.
By Karen Goldfarb8 years ago in The Swamp
