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Overview of Whistleblowers During class, we discussed the idea of whistleblowers and their prevalence in our society. In my years past, I have thought about whistleblowers being essentially bodyguards and serving as a positive benefit to our society, but my knowledge and opinion on them changed drastically after having a whole class discussion about. The official term of a whistleblower is "Someone who works in the government that leaks the information to the public." This act has a correlation with the Espionage Act which was enacted during World War I as an act that used to "punish acts of interference with foreign relations."  Its crazy to think that these are literally government employees leaking information to everybody else. With politics changing by the minute it seems in today's society, there are many controversies on the government and how much one can trust it in today's world. Oftentimes, the government tries to manipulate U.S. citizens and cont...

 Introduction 2021. Here we are already nearly a full 22 years into the 21st century and it seems like year after year, this world is changing more and more. A lot of those changes have come to fruition due to social media and the evolution that social media has made since the early 2000's is surreal. The crazy thing is that the first ever social media platform actually was created in 1997 and it was a platform called "Six Degrees" which included features like profiles, friends, list, etc. However, during this time lots of people were not fully connected to the internet which created problems for the site to ever really expand and by 2000, the site was shut down. It was not until 2003 when MySpace came to existence, an app which allowed users to create their own profiles that would play their favorite tunes and have numerous areas of customization with things like their background. Then of course, other social media sites that are still very relevant today like Facebook,...