June 2022

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A new bill on gun violence adopted in Congress

After the Senate Thursday, the House Friday gave approval to bipartisan agreement to control certain aspect in acquiring firearms. The United States Congress approved on Thursday and Friday a bipartisan regulation aiming to refrain people considered dangerous from accessing firearms. The compromise implemented by a group of 20 Democrats and Republicans senators will require background …

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Love not hate

UN calls “everyone” to action as part of its first International Day to Counter Hate Speech.

“Hate speech is a danger to everyone and fighting it is a job for everyone,” said the General Secretary António Guterres. June 18, 2022 recalled the first International Day to Counter Hate Speech, which offered the opportunity to UN General-Secretary António Guterres to call everyone’s attention to the need to work towards the eradication of …

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Two CUNY’s entities among the 10 finalists for Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence 2023

The prize honors outstanding works in the areas that include retention, completion, and transfer, improvement in performance over time, and equity. It is equivalent of 1 million distributed between a winner and four finalists and rising stars. The Aspen Institute announced last week the 10 finalists for the 2023 Aspen prize College Excellence, which awards …

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Alexis Caribbean Cuisine has lost over 40% of its customers during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Alexis Caribbean Cuisine failed to achieve its goal of getting back 60 percent of its basic clientele two years after the reopening in July 2020. Many of its customers before the pandemic are still working remotely and the main façade of the building it is located in is under repair. The restaurant is now moving …

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Letter on my cognitive dissonance while self-actualizing

I have been dealing with symptoms of dissonance cognitive in the crossroads of what society wants me to do and what my inner self expects me to choose.   I already dealt with both Maslow’s theory of needs and Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance theories. Six years ago, I have engaged into a process of self-actualization. I …

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Was January 6 riot a result of persuasive or propagandist initiative?

Both propaganda and persuasion focus upon the audience. Lillian L. Beeson (2015) defines persuasion as “a form of communication that employs both verbal and nonverbal symbols that intend to influence receivers to voluntary change attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors to agree with those supported by the advocate of the message.” Therefore, persuasion would be an …

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The coach as a football manager favors competition in England…

Presidents as a manager tends to compile great players . Coach as a manager buys players that is missing for his team to play well. Three main models of leadership have been prevailing in the European football over the last four decades. One of them features a powerful president, who attracts all the spotlight at …

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An Alfred Hitchcock different presentation of women in Shadow of Doubt

The character Little Charlie rehabilitates women through her strongness and way of dealing with a man which she desacralizes the egoistical social function.    Films are media that inform us, drive us into ideas and places, and get us used to new ways of life. Filmmakers expose viewers to their own experience and to those …

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Da Mayor, my hero in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing

Only Da Mayor got a defined goal which he achieves in having Mother Sister being nice to him. Critics unanimously admit that Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) is a depictionof racial tension in the United States. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (2008) group the film among “the social problem film”. However, the authors …

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