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It would be impossible to talk about serial killers without discussing Aileen Wuornos. “When humans are young, their world revolves around their parents or primary care-givers. Parents or care-givers are the primary source of safety, security, love, understanding, nurturance and support. Child abuse violates the trust at the core of a child’s relationship with the world” (Walker, 1994). Before Aileen Wuornos became known to be one of the first female serial killer she was a victim of child abuse…

The First Amendment will be examined for legal issues that may arise when a student submits an essay or drawing that is religious in nature, and how the First Amendment is applied to this essay or drawing within a classroom setting. Legal Issues Regarding Grading of Assignment The Constitutional Rights of the students does not stop at the school front door. Students have a right to freedom of speech, covered by the first amendment. The First Amendment protects students’ freedom of speech,…

1991). The Homestake formation is an iron and magnesium rich carbonate (Rye, Doe, and Delevaux 1974). The magnesium rich mineral is sideroplesite (magnesium sericite) (Norton 1971). There is also grunerite and cummingtonite found in the Homestake Formation (Morelli et al. 2010). The gold is hosted within a quartz veined sulfide rich segments of a carbonate iron formation, which are early Proterozoic in age (Caddey et al. 1991)…

In Joan Didion’s excerpt ‘The Promise of the Prison’, from The People and Promises of California, Didion talks about California and the hopes residents were instilled by the building of prisons. The prisons being built were going to provide protection and a substantial amount of job opportunities for residents. Didion mentioned that by the year 2000 California had over “33 penitentiaries and 162,000 inmates,the largest in the western hemisphere.” This number has increased since then not just in…

requirements of Title IX, black females often find themselves locked out of these sporting opportunities (Theune). In 1971, the year before Title IX legislation, fewer than 300,000 girls competed in high school sports compared with 3.6 million boys according to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS, 2011). Similarly, while more than 170,000 men played collegiate sports in 1971, fewer than 30,000 women participated in college athletics (NCAA, 2012). Few schools, except…

and I’d hate to find out that he was dead,” Mr. Steinwachs, a welder in the Ariel, Washington area, stated of the infamous hijacker Dan Cooper, who was believed to have parachuted down from the plane he commandeered to somewhere in the local area in 1971. Many others like Mr. Steinwachs still hold on to the hope that this anti-hero survived the landing and made it off with the money, however impossible it may seem. After all, nobody has ever found his body, and many people, including the Federal…

A metaphor is a word or phrase that describes an object, which content cannot be taken literal. An example of a metaphor is Liberty’s school motto, “Knowledge Aflame”. The school is not going to actually set knowledge on fire. The phrase represents the faculty’s goal is to spark an interest in education and learning among their students. Liberty University wants to provide the best education to its students and in return expects the attending and future students to come to be educationally…

The president I chose was Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter grew up in Plains, Georgia but didn’t realize he’d grow up to be the 39th president of the United States. Jimmy grew up, his name was James Carter after his dad. So he grew up with the name Jimmy When Jimmy was 5 he sold boiled peanuts for money, and when he was 9, he bought cotton and sold it for money for his family. Jimmy Carter lived an amazing life, young and old. He was an awesome kid, student, and president, and that's what made him our…

addition, she addressed the outbreaks in Tamil about adopting Hindi. She gained a lot of support because of her Gandhi-like persona. Even when she was hit in the face with a rock by an assailant, she scolded him like a mother and did not get upset. In 1971, she won the elections, at the height of her popularity, in the name of removing poverty (Butler). Gandhi’s influence on India was negative as she did harm the country in trying…

MISSISSIPPIAN BURIAL PRACTICES: Mississippian Burial Practices and How Various Society’s Burial Practices Differ and Relate At the first description of the Mississippian cultures, specifically the Cahokian, my interest with these people grew. In both lectures from this course and my world civilizations course, descriptions of these people varied in terms of focus, but nevertheless caught my attention. And while my experience with North American cultures has been limited up until now, I am…