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Popular Songs Feature Commentary on Social Problems Today and What to Do About Them
In the early 1960s, folk singers like Woodie Guthrie wrote popular songs about the social issues facing America, and today, there seems to be a revival of these social message songs, sometimes in the form of video parodies. They are a response to the many problems we...
Videos
Why Are Attitudes Towards Cops So Divisive?
Why Are Attitudes towards Cops So Divisive is another video designed to promote American Leadership Books and its new book Crime in America. The discussion of attitudes towards cops reflects the divisions in American discussed in a chapter on the divisions in American Society. American Leadership Books specializes in books on the U.S. criminal justice system, the U.S. prison system, U.S. corrections system, and the U.S. courts, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. There is also a book on the American political system, dealing with the Great National Divides that have split the national based on racial, ethnic, and demographic characteristics, including occupation, income, education, and divisions between North and South, rural and urban America, and the Coast and Midwest. The book is written from a conservative perspective for those with conservative politics and suggests ways of fixing and reforming the system.
Media & Press Releases
How to Make a Song Go Viral – An Example of a Social Commentary Song
Sometimes songs by an unknown songwriter go viral, such as “Rich Men North of Richmond” about a working class man struggling to get by while rich enjoy their elite moneyed life. And now, another song is going viral: “I’m a Country Man in a Digital Age” which is about a man who wishes for a return to a simpler way of life where people were easy to meet and call. But now he feels the world is moving too fast, and there’s so much hatred and conflict.
He describes how the world is full of smart gadgets, such as phones and robots that can talk, and he worries about a future where AI’s all the rage, but it’s taking away the human touch.
Immigration Reform
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The Opioid Crisis
How China is Using the Death Penalty
Like Singapore, China has had a long history of capital punishment as a legal penalty for murder and drug trafficking, though unlike Singapore, China uses lethal injection or a gunshot.
China executes more prisoners than any other country each year, in part because it has such a large population. This video features the steps China has taken to combat drug abuse in China with the death penalty.
The Citizen-Police Divide
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Author Paul Brakke is a scientist based in Central Arkansas. He became interested in studying the criminal justice system when his life was turned upside down after his wife was falsely accused of aggravated assault