Julianna Winter's Blog

In response to my fellow classmates, "The Dream Land" article, I have to respectfully disagree with you when you say, "This country is a dream country for those with money and power" . This is simply not true in so many ways. The 1%'ers who do not have to work as hard to survive are out there, yet 14.6% of White people are poverty ridden in the U.S, African Americans at 33.0%, American Indians at 31.8%, and Hispanics at 25.9%. People deserting their countries are usually leaving due to financial distress, corruption through government, war, banana republics, no work, and so forth. A country currently going through many of these examples is Venezuela where President, Nicolas Maduro is moving towards dictatorship and has left the country in such an economic disaster. Now these are real issues, when people have to trespass zoo's and eat animals because their President is doing nothing about the lack of food provided. The U.S struggles with it's own r...

Sandee LaMotte, a writer for CNN discusses the topic about fear ridden Americans when it comes to nuclear war with the U.S and North Korea in her latest article, "How to cope with fears of a nuclear disaster". LaMotte discusses the influences people may have by simply turning on the television and how they may perceive information, which in all honesty may not even be factual information half of the time. A Harvard public health expert, Suzet McKinney says, "People are very concerned, and I worry some of our most vulnerable may begin to have difficulty in coping with that level of fear", this clearly states the negative affects on how falsified or dramatized news can take on those who believe anything/everything they read or hear. Those who usually fall into an anxiety driven attitude towards the world are the plebeians or "average Joe's" who already do not know much about politics and believe anything they read or listen to. LaMotte discussed th...