1976

In another case determining whether a minor was sophisticated and mature enough to stand trial as an adult who had a mental illness, Meza v. State, 543 S.W. 2d 189 (1976), Meza, a minor and committed aggravated robbery at a convenience store and shot the manager. The juvenile court waived its exclusive original jurisdiction, and Meza’s case was transferred to the district court. Meza appealed the decision. One of Meza’s points of error was of the sufficient of the evidence concerning his…

The topic of Crisis Intervention Training is relevant to psychiatric mental health nursing as there have been numerous reports of injuries and safety issues being perpetrated against individuals with mental illnesses by police officers. Nurses are trained on how to handle individuals with a mental illness, unlike police officers, whose lack of understanding of mental illnesses is a primary aggression, which can cause them to believe that everyone with a mental illness is a threat (Canada,…

My first blog will be about the the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets original name was actually the San Diego Rockets from about 1968- 1971, until in 1972 they renamed the team as the Houston Rockets. The color of there jerseys are red for road games,white for home games, and black as an alternate. From all the 47 and plus years they have been playing, they have only won the champions two times in 1986 and 1995.In 1984, the Rockets drafted center Hakeem Olajuwon who would be paired with…

This can be termed as the need to eradicate violence was ignited by the realization by the Women’s Country members that their present state was precipitated by the violent past of their culture, as such for the sake of self-preservation and the preservation of future generations. This is further initiated through selective bleeding. This can be realized as a civic engagement as it instills notions in the participants that selective breeding could raise a desired society at their will. It is so…

Zande’s understanding. He states that the Zande knew that the granary was compromised by a termite infestation and that the people willingly sat under it for shade, but that witchcraft was the reason why the two events coincided together (Evans-Pritchard 1976: 23). We can see here that witchcraft provides the Zande a rational explanation in their…

My Guitar Early one Christmas morning in 1976 towards the end of Elvis’s life, career, I was gifted my very first acoustic guitar. Maybe it was because I was born in Tupelo, Mississippi some thirty-six years after Elvis Presley, that made me suited to play and sing with a guitar. Or perhaps because I was born on the same day as the legendary Johnny Cash, exactly thirty- nine years later, to the day, that I would inherit the intense desire to play, write, and sing with a guitar. After an…

Being transgender in America has become more prevalent in recent years. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of transgender is, “of relating to, or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person’s sex at birth.” Famous former Olympian Bruce Jenner, more recently known as Caitlyn Jenner, has emerged as a popular transgender activist. Issues surrounding transgender athletes’ dates back to 1932 with Babe Didrikson…

Further Readings” 1). About 600 children were born between 1976 and 1988 to surrogate mothers in the United States (“Surrogate Motherhood - Does Surrogacy Involve Making Families or Selling Babies? Further Readings.” 1). Surrogacy has been more common since the late 1980s (“Surrogate Motherhood - Does Surrogacy…

foremost, a lesson. The partition of the Korean peninsula into North and South has created endless division. The heir of division is anger and antipathy, which oftentimes boils into bloodshed, as witnessed in the events of August 18, 1976. Though the world avoided war in 1976, the persistent presence of the divide invites future incidents like that of the poplar tree, and thus invites war. Only in a world defined by peace and harmony can future incidents like the skirmish which nearly dragged…

On July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, Leslie Lynch King, Jr. was born to his abusive father, Leslie Lynch King, and his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner. Two weeks after his birth, his parents divorced and him and his mother moved to Grand Rapids, MI. While in Grand Rapids, his mother met a businessman named Gerald R. Ford. Dorothy and Gerald soon got married. Gerald was immediately nicknamed “Jerry” Ford and in 1935 officially changed his name to Gerald R. Ford Jr. Gerald was a successful athlete…