A Journal of the Plague Year

on Poinsett to replace Wilkes with a naval officer of higher rank, which then began the underlying reason for relationship and discipline problems that would plague the Ex.Ex. voyage during its’ entirety and beyond. Despite intense criticism, Wilkes achieved in five months of planning and organization what others had failed to do in two years, but despite his progress, his rank was a matter of deep concern with the navy. Wilkes assumed that Poinsett would appoint him as captain, a rank higher…

commentary from peers and professors we have identified some core issues that HBCUs may face and how we can address them to adapt HBCUs to fit the modern societal construct. We examined several academic journals…

bouncer to get their friends into a club they gave a bribe to the judges to bring in more prisoners. Suddenly judges had a zero tolerance policy equal to a principal in the ghetto, but unlike a principal giving detention they were giving out 10 to 20 year sentences. What is the most remarkable about this practice is that kids are a casualty as well, but, unlike adults, it causes the children to not be able to get an education. The incarceration rate in America is rapidly rising more than any…

stereotypical behaviors which are associated with a person of color, or a different background than that of the educator. These behaviors can be identified by how an individual walks, talks, or even interacts with his fellow students. The question that plagues this writer is simply “can this be achieved?” Eliot Aronson, a prominent social psychologist, thought that it was more important to prevent ethnic hostility than to control it. He stressed that the reward structure of the classrooms needed…

third writer, Max Rose and Frank R. Baumgartner, states that a public policy toward the poor has shifted from an initial optimism during the War on Poverty to an ever-increasing pessimism. In their first two statements, "Beginning in the earliest years, but accelerating in the 1970s, public discussion of the poor began to focus on the poor as cheaters, as lazy or unwilling to work, and on the dysfunctions of government efforts to help them." and in the second statement, "Advocates for greater…

Soomin Olivia Noh David Clark British Literature 12B 9 May 2016 The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe In the 18th century England, anybody talked about novel. No one in anybody disagreed that Robinson Crusoe, the art of Daniel Defoe, made the trend of having anybody be interested in the novel. From this point, books were not the exclusive property of the privileged class, but what many citizens enjoyed in their daily lives. The lifetime of Daniel Defoe was not only shared as…

America, the land of the poor, and the home of the obese. A far more accurate title than the one sung in the national anthem. The United States of America, one of the fattest countries in the world, has a ridiculously high poverty rate. For a country supposedly filled with opportunities, there are thousands of Americans unemployed. There is a significant tie between the high obesity rate in the United States and the high poverty rate, which this paper will prove. Before the problem presented…

Introducing the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) posed unprecedented challenges to the U.S. betting market. Yet, consumers' and vendors' interest in sports betting is growing continuously as there is nearly $4 billion is legally bet per year in Nevada compared to an estimated $80 to $380 billion bet illegally through the black market and offshore gambling websites (The Washington…

Within the past decade, concerned parents researched on how effective and save vaccines are. Thomas Gale said, “Vaccines are the best defense we have against infectious diseases. However, no vaccine is 100% safe or effective.” Throughout history, plagues and epidemics lead to millions of deaths and the world was in need of vaccines. Vaccines are injections that comprise of reduced amounts of particular diseases. If doctors are injecting children with the disease they are trying to prevent them…

Implementation of a Standardized Handoff Procedure in Surgical Patients Communication errors continue to plague healthcare and can lead to increased morbidity and mortality in patients. Staggers & Blaz (2012) acknowledge that “important information gaps, omissions, and errors” related to patient care can occur in the handoff process (p. 247). Inconsistencies, including information loss and misunderstanding, in the report process between providers are factors that may lead to an…