1965 births

Short Life, Lasting Impact “Some kids wish to be a cowboy, to be a princess, to be a chef, or a farmer, while other kids wish for a cure so they can grow up (Joe Wasser)”. Kyle Baker was one of the kids with the wish for a cure to demolish the sickness that ended up taking his life. Just a boy from Searcy, Arkansas who had to take on the world to overcome low survival rates of Pleomorphic Sarcoma, the monster that hid below where anyone could see. It was finalized that CIC-DUX4 Positive Round Sarcoma was his final diagnosis in July 2013 when he was sixteen years old which, started out as a swollen calf muscle. Kyle was a student at Pangburn High School, an active participant at the Gospel Church, and a member of their C.O.R.E drama team. Many people in his hometown know him from his bravery, big heart, and generous acts even through sickness. Heroes are symbolized with capes and superpowers but he was a true hero without all the fame. Kyle’s dedication to helping others, hunger to lend a hand through deadly battles, and forgetfulness of his own needs to instead worry about others, is what makes him a hero. Kyle’s many acts proving his drive to take others pain away while his last breath was pulling at him, makes him selfless. Many people, including his family, noticed that he would always want to help out in as many ways as he could: “The whole time Kyle was in the hospital he would always talk his mom into helping knit hats and blankets for the other cancer kids, and that’s…

I always thought I was normal, but on the seventh month of the 17th day in the year of 2414 my life changed I met a girl. I know you guys are thinking a girl really wow, but she was different she changed everything literally. Before I get carried away let me tell you how I met her it was a warm, but breezy day kind of like today funny how that stuff works, back to what I was saying me and some of my buddies were out on the beach because in California you surf end of story. We had just came in…

I used to think that giving birth was overrated and believed that the emotional rollercoaster leading up the birth was insincere. In my opinion, giving birth had always seemed frightening, long and most of all painful. Surprisingly, my whole outlook on giving birth and its emotional impact changed when I gave birth to my first child, Joy. I remember the day as if it was yesterday, despite the fact that it took place almost nine years ago. It was a rainy Sunday in February when I invited my best…

its operations in pursuit of profits for its corporate executives. They continue to brandish themselves under the guise of McDonalds brand only because of the cultural capital it has amassed makes it easier to make profits, but if the brand ever became too toxic it is simply expendable. There are some operations though that McDonaldization does seem to exist symbiotically with, this being the temporal expansion of McDonaldization into the sector birthing and life. It must be considered that…

childbearing years, which have had sexual intercourse, have used at least one type of contraceptive method. While four out of five sexually experienced women have used the pill, the use of the male condom has also increased from 52% in 1982 to 93% in 2006-2010 (Guttmacher Institute). In 1960, the FDA approved the first birth-control pill, Enovid; within two years, more than 1 million women were taking the new medication (Women’s Health). However while contraceptive methods were and are commonly…

killed some and severely burned many, but with these products the contraceptive market was still open. Finally, in 1914 an activist named Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. A year later she was arrested in Brooklyn and sentenced to 30 days in jail for maintaining a public nuisance. She was arrested multiple times after re opening her clinic and finally during her case in 1938, a judge lifted the federal ban on birth control. In the 1950’s Margaret finds…

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, women in most of the world dealt with huge changes. They were able to gain access to education as well as the right to vote. Birth rates were even reduced due to the new freedom that women were given. It can be debated that many societal roles of men began to slow down with the rise of women. This caused a vast change for the human condition. In some cases, men negatively reacted towards the new rights women were given. Some places made the…

Historically, "illegally induced abortion [was] the most prevalent method of birth control" (Viel V 286) and as of 2001 abortions occurred at a rate of one per every three live births (Blofield 16). The availability of contraceptives did not significantly decreased the amount of abortions since the 1970s, with the only change resulting as one more live birth per abortion in the country (Paxman et al. 206). However, during this time and until the beginning of the dictatorship contraception was…

any method of contraception, and the birth control pill. The pill and female sterilization have been the two most commonly used methods since 1982. Dating all the way back to the 1870’s, and more recently, the 1950’s, there have been many controversies over the birth control pill. Many religious people all over the United States sought to believe the birth control pill was a form of abortion, which has always been looked down upon. But there are also millions of women who take the pill, that…

Originally Cuba's abortion laws were subject to the "restrictive penal code of Spain" under which all forms of induced abortions were illegal (Bélanger and Flynn 15; UN Abortion Policy Cuba 2). The restrictions lifted slightly, "with the inception of the Social Defense Code in 1938, induced abortion became permissible in three situations", which were danger to the mother's life, presence of fetal birth defects, and when the pregnancy was the result of rape" (Bélanger and Flynn 15). However, by…