November 2, 2012

Celebrities Know Best


A quick scan of Barack Obama's official YouTube channel reveals, among other things, Jennifer Lopez speaking in "Join Latinos for Obama" or Lena Dunham's infamous Your First Time, an allegory relating losing virginity to voting for the first time, and emphasizing how it "needs to be special" and the way to make it special is to vote for Obama.


Hypocritical Media



Why do we feed the destruction? We play violent video games about war and expect peace. We watch television shows about dysfunctional families and assume our own will stay together. We attend PG movies full of violence, drug usage, swearing, and sexual content; and suppose our lives will not be affected ("Opposing Viewpoints in Context").

The truth, however, is bad media is crafting a deteriorating society. I believe that our rating systems, especially for television, are no longer effective and should be replaced with a new system immediately.

Additive Invasion


America’s already poor health is declining. A major contributor to this problem is the artificial food additives in processed food. The negative effects of food additives on the human body have been studied for decades and it is time to remove them from our diet.  However, it will be difficult since they have infiltrated nearly every food.