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It seems that today we can not get through a single news cycle with out hearing “Shooting in ”. In the two years since the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, and over 82,000 Americans have died due to gun violence but little to zero action has been taken to prevent gun violence. This is a clear failure of the system of gun regulation. No person should have to live in fear of gun violence. To understand the problem of gun violence and create a policy solution…

Theories of a “third gender” have become prominent in New Kingdom Egypt case studies in the last few decades. However, Matić argues otherwise on any evidence for ambiguous genders outside the dichotomy. From the New Kingdom ancient Egyptian era comes the Tale of Two Brothers (Matić 2016, 177). The story explicates how a figurehead named Bata describes himself as a woman after cutting off his own penis after having been accused of adultery (Matić 2016, 177). Matić concludes that binary gender…

One aspect of Art Spiegelman’s post-memory is that he feels guilty about not being able to relate to his father’s, Vladek’s, traumatic memories of the Holocaust. Although memories and stories had been passed down to him through his parents and relatives, Art obviously cannot completely understand what surviving the Holocaust must have been like. In Maus II, Artie tells his wife Françoise that he feels guilty about having an easier life in the United States than his parents did in Poland and in…

“The Girl Who Howled Human” Wolves are loyal, compassionate, and would do anything for the ones they love. And, humans on the other hand? Not so much. In the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, Claudette, the narrator, through the so-called ‘stages of human development’ by adapting to human culture from lycanthropy , and soon acquired the ways of homo sapiens lifestyle and the many differences in the civilizations. This story is about her and the rest of the…

Farmers use pesticides to destroy pests that harm the plants by taking the crop’s space, nutrients, and water. (Whitford, 7) On average, pests destroy 37% of all potential crops. Pests are classified as insects, plant pathogens, and weeds. (Pimental, 229) Altogether, each dollar invested in pesticides returns about $4 in protected crops. (Pimental,…

The circular economy is defined as an economic system that revolves around the processes of recycling, reusing and recovery of materials (Kirchherr J, Reike D, Hekkert M 229.) CE (circular economy) was first introduced as a concept in 1989 by environmental economists David W. Pearce and R. Kerry Turner and has recently been adopted by a number of countries. In 2015, Denmark, Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and Scotland agreed on CE legislation (Braw. E). The circular economy is a relatively new…

Marla Runyan: A Visually Impaired Athlete Marla Runyan is a world-class track and field athlete, who competed for the United States Olympic Team in 2000. She also happens to have Stargardt’s disease, which makes her legally blind. Marla once said, “If I break a national record, maybe they will stop writing about my eyes” (LaFontaine 228). There are 285 million people that are visually impaired in the world (WHO). Of those people, 248 million have low vision and thirty-nine million are blind…

last chapter “what sort of guide book could I write? To what place and time would I bring my readers? A guide book should be about the present, above all about the present. It cannot only be about the past, the distant past, and recent past.” (Tzalas 229) Although he succeeded in writing such a book, he considered himself not a good author. He believed that he “was not an author… if I succeed, it will be my first and probably my only book.” (Tzalas 29) Cavafy believes that Alexandria’s past is…

In the essay “Why Abortion is Immoral,” philosopher Don Marquis uses utilitarian principles to argue that “abortion is, except in rare cases, seriously immoral…[and] in the same category as killing an innocent human being” (223). However, he deliberately avoids relating his thesis to abortion in the specific contexts of rape, maternal death, and severe postpartum health complications. Thus, in my analysis of his claim, I plan on adopting Marquis’ utilitarian perspective to evaluate the…

Chapter seven is titled “Waging War on Civilians” (171). This chapter talks about the rules of war, targeting civilians, Sherman, and Sheridan’s burning of the Shenandoah Valley (174, 176, 180, 195). In the beginning of this chapter, DiLorenzo discusses what is considered a war crime and describes how it can be punishable to imprisonment or even death (174).One rule of war was that the fight is to be between soldiers and not include civilians; however, Lincoln had been waging war on civilians…