City of Angels 2019-20

Sontag argues against the widespread and historical use of metaphors that people have used to talk about TB, cancer and other terminal illnesses/diseases. She brings to light the many negative metaphors associated with cancer, which allowed the word cancer to shape into a negative idea. Sontag also describes how in the case of TB once science and medicine were able to catch up to TB the negative metaphors melted away. Eventually, Sontag goes on to claim that the negative metaphorical language surrounding cancer would only go away when more scientific and medical information was made about it.   I believe that Sontag was correct. Today unlike in 1978, when Sontag wrote the book, the intense personal negative metaphorical language surrounding cancer has at least shifted. Now cancer is seen as a fight or battle, the blame is not put on the patient but the idea of cancer as a nebulous and mysterious evil entity still prevails.   I wonder what disease, movement ...

The World Cup has been the biggest and most popular competition in the world since its inaugural campaign in 1930, with the last World Cup having an estimated 3.572 billion viewers from around the world. For some background, this tournament takes place every 4 years and is in a different country each time. With the popularity of the World Cup, it brings the host country millions of tourists each time, usually helping their economy. However as was shown in the 2014 World Cup, this is not always the case. The 2014 World Cup, which was held in Brazil, was an economic failure as it caused Brazil to go into a recession. Along with being an economic failure, Brazil forcibly displaced around 250,000 people for the construction of their stadiums. Sadly, this is not even that much compared to other countries, with China displacing 1.25 million people for the 2008 Olympics.  All of this information made me think about the similarities between the construction of the stadiums in Brazil a...