Opening the Floodgates- Does Internet News Inform Better Than Print News?

While I'm in the habit of publishing obnoxiously long papers I've written, I decided I may as well throw this one into the mix- while I'm publishing this as post-dated, its date is about right, so it's all good. Enjoy!

Opening the Floodgates- Does Internet News Inform Better Than Print News?

In the last decade, the internet has brought us more than even Al Gore could have imagined in the early 1960's- our weather, entertainment, business, education and social lives will absolutely never be the same as they were before the explosion in internetusage. Now it is, quite literally, virtually impossible to engage in any kind of communication dialog without at least some mention of the internet- our lives have changed that drastically. However, despite hype about whether it causes psychological damage or disorders, this change is a positive and lasting feature which has still untapped potential, like some final frontier for communication which has yet to be fully explored.

Political Campaigning in a Web 2.0 World: Facebook and the Youth Vote

At the risk of seeming like I only publishing tediously long academic pieces, I will post my paper for Advanced Campaigns and Elections for critique and suggestion, primarily as it has to with online data collection and this kind of thing is ripe for it anyway. I promise I will return to my previous format of random rants regarding Republican realities, but in due time. So now, without further ado, my paper on what I'll be doing during most of next semester in American University. Enjoy!

Political Campaigning in a Web 2.0 World: Facebook and the Youth Vote

Introduction

The greatest goal of democracy is to empower the citizenry to work with its government for the greatest overall good. Until recently, this goal had to be met through the necessary compromise of representative majority, where in many cases, a few would represent many, usually in a manner which was necessarily fitted towards a trustee role rather than a pure delegate format. At bare minimum, there were relatively few instances where the representatives could reliably communicate with their constituents; as with any proportional representation, input would only be as fast as the communication that was available during that time. But now, as with every other area of communication, the face of political communication is changing like never before.

The United States as a Christian Nation

In keeping with my trend of writing exponentially long papers about highly controversial subjects, I've decided that this blog will detail a paper I've written largely under the guidance of recent comments about my posts and remarks that they might lack some degree of verifiability. Fortunately, I have a class that concerns this very matter, and a corresponding term paper I would love to see comments on. So, whether you feel this is good or bad, or if you have some sort of remark of any nature, I wold love to see comments. Hopefully I can one day use this as a writing sample. Enjoy!

Religion in American Politics -The Case for a Christian Nation

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity" (Kettler, 610). This quote from John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, clearly demonstrates an association often seen by many modern commentators as paradoxical at best and detrimental at worst. However it is the relationship between the church and the state, specifically Christianity and the federal government, which underlies the basis of many historical, foundational aspects of our nation. While it is clear to all that Christianity neither is or was an established national religion in America, the case can be made that Christianity is the common law moral foundation of the nation. This can still be seen in the underlying basis of the foundational institutions and policies of our country as well as the legacies left by our founding fathers. In examining the founding era for America- highlighting critical events from the Mayflower Compact to the treaty of Tripoli- it is most important to examine the impact of both nominal statements of founding fathers and the corresponding policies that went with those statements. In each area, the claims for and against the concept of a religiously founded nation will be judged in terms of basis, purpose and context.