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As the young girl sat down in the dining room table with her family, she’s choked up, barely being able to breathe, her heart beating out of her chest, the room slowly closing in on her. She’s been trying to build up the courage to tell her mother for weeks now but, she knew that it would only break her heart. At the delicate age of 15, she is 5 weeks pregnant. A child herself is now going to be responsible for another life before she could even start her own. Hundreds of thousands of teenage…

The road to the legalization of birth control was not easy. Activists such as Margaret Sanger devoted their entire lives to the legalization and implementation of birth control. While the FDA made various forms of birth control accessible throughout the twentieth century, the turning point was when the FDA approved “the pill” in 1960. The pill was a pivotal invention because it made birth control more accessible and applicable; rather than using difficult processes to prevent child-bearing,…

When it comes to the Korean Comfort Women reading, Pyong Gap Min’s objective involves explaining the sufferings of the Korean victims (Min, 2003, p. 940). Her article opts for an “intersectional analysis” and includes three factors for the analysis: colonization, gender hierarchy, and social class (Min, 2003, p. 940). If the objective is to understand the suffering of the victims, this response argues that the aforementioned variables are the wrong variables to focus on. To put it simply, using…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday prohibiting nongovernmental agencies abroad which receive U.S. funding from promoting abortion or discussing it as an option in family planning. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is already prohibited from providing U.S. funds to provide abortions in any country. However, this policy would freeze U.S. funding from the organizations that advocate for abortion rights or promote it as a family planning option, even if…

Program evaluation is a system that measures the effectiveness and efficiency of a program or a policy, through collecting and analyzing data and information. Program evaluations are used to determine whether or not a policy or program is worth it. Originally in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the approach to social problem solving was through operations research and planning programming budgeting systems. During President John F. Kennedy and President Johnson’s terms, there was the antipoverty movement…

2016 Birth Control: Should it be Sold Over the Counter? Birth Control and whether or not it should be sold over the counter is a very debatable issue. This issue involves teens, parents, teachers, young adults, and congress people. This topic is so controversial because certain groups of people believe oral contraceptives should be sold over the counter and the opposing group believes that oral contraceptives should not be sold over the counter. The supporting group believes that making birth…

This birth control method is 99.83% effective when all the steps are met and followed by the patient. Also it doesn’t require the use of anesthesia, although local anesthetic are usually used for mild pain and discomforts. It doesn’t contain any hormones. And the recovery process is quicker than any other procedure. The patient getting Essure will most likely return to normal activity in less than 2 days after procedure is successful and done. (Essure permanent birth control, 2015) There is no…

Description: A rare disorder, Cockayne Syndrome, has diagnostic criteria which includes: small head size, insufficient growth in weight and height (dwarfism), sensitivity to sunlight, hearing loss, tooth decay, bone abnormalities, aged appearance, and cold hands and feet. Changes in the brain viewed by a cat scan are also evidence of the disorder. There are four different types of Cockayne Syndrome which are defined by when the onset of the disease appears. CS Type I: CS Type I is the most…

With the number of people attending college rising every year a topic of concern, which is most commonly found in the college environment is the addiction to sex. One can generally be misguided on sex due to the pleasure that it comes with but the abuse of such a practice can have a negative impact on one’s life. It’s important to understand what is exactly involved in such an addiction and how it develops. While psychologists have struggled to arrive at a precise definition for sex addiction,…

My mom didn’t raise my sisters and I like a traditional mexican mother. Of course she made us speak spanish and made sure we respected her or else we knew the consequences . But since I can remember my mom has always worked more than one job. Being a single parent she had to work to or more jobs to provide for her girls. With her always working , we all had to do play our part and make it work. My older sister ,Tatiana, played a major part in raising my younger sister and me. She had to take us…