Truth In The Colbert Report

Everything is a lie. Every spoken word is false, every written text is fallacious, and every form of media is erroneous. The speed and ease of information sharing has allowed people to submit anything they want into the mass jumble of online data called the Web. In his article, “Truth Lies Here,” Michael Hirschorn argues that the Web has become a place of fabricated facts and because of the massive amount of false information on the internet, nobody believes anything. “[D]isturbances in politics and media feel like symptoms of a larger epistemological, even civilizational, rot” (Hirschorn 64). Though this article may support Hirschorn’s argument, it is not strong, to say the least. This article lacks originality nor is it informative, it does little in addressing the opposition, and it contains numerous logical fallacies. All in all, this article is not persuasive.

In today's society there's a new update on how journalism is delivered and written. Through the power of the cyber world new context is being uploaded and videos are being uploaded to video websites such as YouTube. Three authors express their thoughts about this modern-day problem in a traditional way, via textbook. They discuss how social media websites deliver messages that are not very accurate and informative. These messages usually target certain groups to create a community of its own.

Gaining the realization of self and community is not one of easy process. Through the influences of an environment, one may at times be restrained to only one way of thinking. To find a deeper or true understanding of awareness, a person must explore the worldliness of life and define the world for one’s own self. Adichie mentions in her speech, “What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story…” At this part of her speech, Adichie is

They are matters which have literally torn our country apart and utterly divided the American people. Adichie urgently seeks an equal yet peaceful world, powerfully declaring, “The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar” (Adichie). This is imperative in regards to creating a new standard; furthermore, to persuade others to look at the world with an open mind. Adichie further urges, “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a person, but stories can also repair that broken dignity” (Adichie). The significance of Adichie’s speech thus reaches a pivotal peak. Adichie is referring to the sources in which we receive our one sided story. Sources such as television, radio stations, newspapers, social media, all of which are considered normal entertainment, but are in fact broadcasting stories that are not told from all involved participants thus leaving a fixated conviction. Therefore, it is difficult to disregard the single story when it is constantly in our presence. Through words, Adichie hopes to alter the strong influence of said

In her 2009 TED talks presentation,” The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains how a single story presented by the media and books can affect the way a person may perceive others, places, and cultures (Adichie). She goes into details explaining her point through personal experiences where she falsely misunderstood someone based on a single word she heard numerously, and how she was a victim of a common stereotype. According to Adichie, there is never a single story and that people can go through a mental shift of their perspective if they considered various alternatives that differ from the same story that is commonly told.

Native American names and symbols can be seen in many different facets of North American society from the “Mohawk” Carpet Company, to the women on the “Land-O-Lakes” butter container, and sports teams like the Washington “Redskins” all have an American Indian rendering incorporated in their brands. The history of the NFL (National Football League) dates back to the early 1920s, where the league was started in Canton Ohio. Teams like the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants and Washington Redskins are considered charter members, because of their early inception into the professional sports league. The Washington Redskins, located in Washington D.C., are known for their distinctive burgundy and gold colors and Native American head

College Athletes Getting Paid? Recently, the debate over whether college athletes should get paid has been seriously heating up. In October of 2017, University of Louisville Men’s Basketball Coach Rick Pitino was fired from his job under the accusation of bribery to ensure a top-recruit high school player would come to his team. This led the F.B.I to take a look into NCAA College Basketball.

In Adichie’s remarks, she explains the effects of single stories through forms of racism. While racism is a huge issue, I wanted to bring in a different example of when single stories were used in my life. These were connected with my religion and the religion of others.

In July 2009, at a TED conference, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author, gave a stunning speech about “the Danger of a Single Story”. In her speech, she mentioned about negative consequences happening when people tend to form stereotypes based on a single story, the one-sided argument. The single story blindfolds our eyes and prevents us from seeing the complexity, diversity, and similarities that construct our world, just as Adichie says “these negative stories is to flatten my experience and overlook the many other stories that formed me” (12:56). Listening to all her own personal experience and argument, I have become fully convinced and also see myself reflected in her stories. The single story can cause underlying and harmful impacts not only on personal issues but also on the global scale.

In her presentation on TED talk (2009), “The Danger of a Single Story”, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes how stories and how they matter. Adichie’s main idea on her speech is that there is power in a single story and once that story is being told to the public, it becomes predominance, making those who receive the message to believe without proving the idea. In her speech, Adichie describes the reason why a single story of a certain country, or culture could be deceptive. Adichie portrays her message by narrating how she grew up as a child reading American and British literature and could still not attach with the elements of the stories as they were not what she was experiencing at the time. Adichie mentions that she had s perception

The first issue is what actually is truth? There are many things that we perceive to be true, depending on perspective or our beliefs, which differ from one person to the next, known as

Personal statement: Social Service Management “ I can’t promise to fix all your problems but I can promise, you won’t have to face them alone”. This is something my boarding school housemother told me when I was in grade 8. Throughout my 5 years in Canada, I stayed at a boarding

Truth can be defined as conformity to reality or actuality and in order for something to be “true” it must be public, eternal, and independent. If the “truth” does not follow these guidelines then it cannot be “true.” Obviously in contrary anything that goes against the boundaries of “truth” is inevitably false. True and false, in many cases does not seem to be a simple black and white situation, there could sometimes be no grounds to decide what is true and what is false. All truths are a matter of opinion. Truth is relative to culture, historical era, language, and society. All the truths that we know are subjective truths (i.e. mind-dependent truths) and there is nothing more to truth than what we are willing to assert as true

The recent surge in popularity of social media comes with a price: fake news. Fake news is defined as news or media that has been altered or modified. Journalists have begun to analyze why that fake news exists and why it continues exist. Two authors, Eoin O’Carroll and Kevin D. Williamson, both have written articles about fake news. Eoin O’Carroll’s article “How Information Overload Helps Spread Fake News,” discusses how the media has bombarded us with news stories, blurring the distinct lines between real and fake news. Kevin D. Williamson, a journalist for the National Review, writes in his article “‘Fake News, Media and Voters: Shared Reality Must Be Acknowledged” that the news is not fake; it just does not align with one’s personal beliefs. Both authors successfully appeal to their audiences’ emotions and feelings, but O’Carroll is more likely to succeed than Williamson in persuading his audience to try and combat fake news because the writer presents himself as someone the intended readers will more readily identify with and offers evidence that his readers will find more compelling.

Phaedo, the second dialogue of Plato’s theory, states that only through the forms and absolutes, an individual can have knowledge. It has been questioned how society can have the knowledge of an absolute if we haven’t discovered said absolute. Socrates reflects, “The thing which I see aims at being like some other thing, but falls short of and cannot be like that other thing, and is inferior” (The Philosophical Journey 90). That is to say that in order to have the understanding of an absolute of something, we can derive its meaning from the things that do not meet the requirements. In addition, to derive the conceptualization of an absolute, an individual can only use the senses one is given. As well, Socrates declares, “From the senses then is derived the conception that all sensible equals aim at an absolute equality of which they fall short” (The Philosophical Journey 90). As a result, the senses can only see