Blogcritics Author: Sarah Elizabeth Hill

It's Time For Everyone To Take A Bath

Sarah Elizabeth Hill — Fri, 2 May 2008 19:18:43 EDT

Who is going to come out of this mud-match of an election race clean? The candidates have lost their focus.
According to my latest news sources, it’s an election year. But, despite the bombardment of election information I hear, I do not believe it is. So tell your friends 2008 is no longer an election year. Instead let’s think of the U.S. Presidential election as a mud-wrestling match. I find this term appropriate because the election...

Mental Illness in America: Did You Know?

Sarah Elizabeth Hill — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:51:48 EST

It is crucial for members of society to become familiar with ways to interact with the many people affected by these diseases.
As of November 19, 2007, The United States Census Bureau's POPClock (a clock that measures the American population based on some sort of ingenious calculation) states that the American population is currently 303, 409, 035. Given the grand scale of things, I find it appropriate to say we are for the most part, a social country. Our days rely on...

Only Time Will Tell: TIME Magazine Publication Analysis

Sarah Elizabeth Hill — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:28:52 EST

History has treated the magazine well. It has managed to prosper in every decade since its birth. However, it is time for TIME to readjust.
History in TIMETIME magazine was created in 1923 by former Yale students Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. The pair originally worked as chairman and managing editor of the Yale Daily Newspaper. TIME was the first weekly news magazine for the United States. The magazine's original intention can best be explained by the anachronism many, including TIME,...

Climbing the Monkey Bars and Not the Polls, Are We?

Sarah Elizabeth Hill — Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:06:13 EST

Be careful when absorbing information from polls that so confidently predict the future and the favorite. They are missing and underestimating the power of an important demographic.
2008 is an election year. Anyone who flips on a television, turns a radio dial, opens a newspaper, or presses power on a computer would know this. It seems that everybody wants to know who America's presidential "hero" will be. And since everybody wants to know who it will be, everybody wants to tell who it will be. In a society ruled by the fast...