According to Alexander, “Nearly every state allows private employers to discriminate on the basis of past criminal convictions. In fact, employers in most states can deny jobs to people who were arrested but never convicted of any crime.”. She explains that ex-convicts find it…
I arrived at camp half blood weak and scared and do not no where I am at. I was going on a trip and we had a car wreck and I walked to this born. It was camp half blood and they took me in and seid I was a god.…
Don’t we all want a perfect life? Drive the fastest cars, own the latest fashions, having the newest of the new. That is what we all do. We try our hardest to be better or just like everyone else in life. But in reality are our lives really better?…
For the past year, I have hidden behind a wall of insecurity. Being a Mexican-American in today's politically charged society has separated me from the rest of the country. It is now evident that racism is well and alive in our country and was merely concealed for years until now. Now, Mexicans and other various ethnic groups are oppressed daily and labeled as “unfit” and “unwanted”. As for Mexicans, President Donald Trump thinks he has a good solution.…
Silent Throughout high school the fine arts hall had always been my safe place. Whether I was playing my clarinet in the band room, learning a new instrument in the orchestra room, or working on a new creation in the art room, I have always felt welcomed and safe. My junior year of high school, I was doing extremely well. I eagerly took the new academic opportunities offered to me and finally started to overcome my anxiety disorder. In addition to my perfect attendance, my hard work prior to that year paid off and I had been inducted into National Honor Society.…
I was raised my entire life as a Roman Catholic. However, my curious nature led me to always take its teaching with a grain of salt. In Catholicism, there is a sacrament called Confirmation, intended to strengthen a Catholic’s faith and relationship with God. Part of this holy sacrament required me to attend a retreat with other fellow teenagers who were also on the journey to becoming closer to God.…
The room was extremely quiet as my team and I walked in. Everyone in the room turned their eyes to look at us. I was terrified of what this trial would entail, but I didn’t let my face show it. My team and I were about to face the defending champions of Empire Atlanta and I didn’t know if we could pull off the win. These were the people standing in the way of my team getting to the finals of the competition.…
A few years ago I remember walking home from school. Mind you I thought I was very handsome back in those days, I had soft, dark brown hair, I went to the gym every day, I was fit and healthy, personally I thought I was a ladies man and I still am (I think). Anyways, I was almost home…
Let's get one thing straight. We are not the Breakfast Club. We did not meet by chance, and we did not leave whether or not we would always be friends a mystery to those who were watching us. As far as I know, we will always be friends, and if we are not, I’ll always try to remember what made us, us.…
It was barely 7 PM, yet I was already worn out, the day had been long and tiring, and I was just about to call it a night. I crawled into bed, ready for sleep, but then I heard the "whoosh" that signalled an email being sent to me on my phone. I retrieved my phone and was just about to click the mail icon before a shiver went down my spine. It felt as though someone was staring at me, grieving for me, so I looked at my surroundings, half expecting to spot a ghost smiling eerily at me. There was no malevolent spirit to be seen, obviously, so I just shrugged the feeling off and checked the message.…
Annie a 27 year old woman with a family had surgery and they found cancer. Her husband decided not to tell her and her doctor went along with that decision. She died a few months later not knowing she had cancer. My personal code of ethics would not allow this doctor to go along with the husband’s decision to not tell his wife the truth. The reason behind my thoughts on needing to tell the mother of two children is she could try surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy any medical treatments to extend her life to spend time with her children before she passes away.…
I have said on multiple occasions that I pride myself on having a strong ethical base. I have thought of the phrase, “doing the right thing when no one is watching” as a measure of that claim. However, this class has me thinking how I determine what right and wrong is. Writing my code of ethics was not tremendously difficult, I feel I have a pretty good understanding of who I am and what is important.…
The phone rang, I got up to answer it quickly, like I was running the marathon because I knew it was Jackie. Although I knew who it was, what came next I wasn’t prepared for. “Joe, Joe, help me,” cried Jackie helplessly on the phone. I tried to ask her where she was but by the time the words came out of my mouth she hung up the phone. She was supposed to come over, but now she needs my help and I don’t know what to do.…
I am the only boy child in my family, so that all my family members like me like their own child. When I told the plan, go to study abroad, to my parents. My parents just told me the choice is mine. But my grandmother and other my relatives did not allow me go to America along except my big cousin who wants to study abroad. They all think the America is too dangerous for me, and also I can not take care about myself very well.…
My family has always been very accepting and respectful of everyone. However “the fat cousin”, which was what my cousins referred to me my whole childhood, left a scar in me that I can still feel to this day. An example of this was the winter of 2009; I was eight-years-old, and my mother and I went to visit my cousins in Virginia for Christmas break. Every Christmas we go up to Virginia and have traditional evenings with the whole family. We always gathered together around the fireplace, sinking ourselves into cushions with blankets and cups of hot chocolate to sip on to toast our hands.…