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The stars we see during the night — well, the few that we can see here in Vegas — are invisible to us during the day. The science majors in the audience will tell you that this is because of our Sun’s luminescence, how the sunlight hits our atmosphere and how light refracts around the air. I don’t know about you, but I do love a good blue sky. But the nighttime stars don’t disappear during the day. The Sun’s brilliance doesn’t impact how bright other stars in our universe shine — they are unaffected. They keep on shining. And when the Sun leaves us for a time, retreating below the Vegas Valley mountains, and the night sky chases the Moon, the stars we admire return to us — their light passing once again through our atmosphere. It just takes some time. The concept of love and the idea of unity is very similar. When we truly love someone, or when we have a healthy and unifying relationship, it’s not like the value of those people ever diminishes or goes away. But there are times when the...

Two predominant theories of partisanship include the psychological theory and the retrospective theory. The psychological theory would say that partisanship is formed early in a person's life through socialization. Friends, family, peers, and so on are all included. All of this implies that a person's partisanship is developed before they even can vote. That being said, a person may develop a psychological connection to a party. It is more concerned with social identity than with policy. As a result, it produces a lens through which a person might interpret politics, which is prone to prejudice. The retrospective theory emphasizes that humans are constantly acquiring information, allowing them to keep track of all good and bad interactions with each party. As a result, under the retrospective hypothesis, an individual's party ID is likely to alter dependent on policy and agenda. Factors that might affect people's party identification would have them assess what each par...

Prior to the Nixon administration, the prisonized system was apparent. The attempt may be seen in the incarceration of California's landscape. "The first state jail in California was San Quentin, which opened in 1852," and by 1955, a total of nine prisons had been built. Then, "a massive project of prison construction was initiated by during the 1980s—during the Reagan Presidency," and by the time Angela Davis's book was released in 2003, there were "thirty-three prisons, thirty-eight camps, sixteen community correctional facilities, and five tiny prisoner mother facilities in California" (Davis 13).   Angela Davis emphasizes the importance of understanding how it was so simple to construct a gigantic framework of mass imprisonment with the public's implicit approval. California's legislature gained permission for the jail construction by pledging to promote economic growth and job creation. The issue that arises as a result of such accepta...

The housing bubble, subprime lending, increasing rates and growing defaults, securitization, financial upheaval, and oil prices are some of the causes of the Great Recession. Housing prices rose then dropped, owing primarily to the subprime mortgage crisis. The banks then plunged into crisis because house prices were falling and mortgage-backed securities were plainly no longer the solid gold investment they had looked to be, so banks stopped lending to one other out of fear of being trapped with subprime mortgages as collateral.