Reagan's views on politics on America

     So for my final blog, I want to write about the wage gap. Mainly for the reason I didn't understand it while I was researching about elections. It really caught my eye and confused the hell out of me. While I was reading about it initially, all I could find about it was how it was a huge deal, but nothing told me why it existed or what caused it. So, I continued my research and found some answers.       I first had to start with, "what is a gender wage gap?"  The story almost everyone hears is, "Gender wage gap is that women make 78 cents to the dollar compared to men" but that doesn't give the full story.  That stat only represents uncontrolled  gender pay gap, which looks at a median salary for all men and women regardless of job type or worker seniority.  What often gets lost in translation with uncontrolled pay gaps is the women are less likely to hold high level or high paying jobs. I see that there is more of an opportun...

I am going to do this one on the most recent election. Trump vs. Clinton To start with the first questions, how do elections influence an individual  political beliefs? Well I think campaigns are targeted a lot at young voters. In a sense, there is a generational gap between the older population and now. I think that life experience and age can make a difference on your voting preferences. Also the campaigns can really influence the younger generation that  may not have a side yet so those campaigns can (poorly) direct their mind in the direction that speaks to them. What have recent elections shown about the political beliefs of the American public? Well, I think it is all in the was they campaign, and what they stand for. For example, Hillary Clinton's political promises as president were: Free college tuition, Affordable health care, to close wage gaps, increased minimum wage and gun control. Trump on the other hand wanted to promise : Limit and or end immigration, incr...

Media.  I chose FOX and CNN as my two news sources. I chose the very broad event of whats is going on with North Korea.  I have found headlines from each on the front pages.  Fox is known to be the more republican news.  The First headline that pops up is : Threat of war with North Korea growin g" They say "president Trump will handle it." Trump says he will not allow N. Korea. It says that this pushes Korea to the brink of nuclear war. Also labeling Trump as insane.    CNN's headline was "  N. Korean missile images appear to have been tampered with"        O ddly enough the title was a bit misleading. It showed videos of the North Korean missile launching and also talked about how much bigger it was that the last. Concerns of Kim Jong-un developing a long distance missile are definitely floating around.  So these two are not super different. The biggest difference I saw while I was readi...