A Journal of the Plague Year

Topic: School cafeterias contribute to obesity in children and they should only offer healthy food options. It’s not a lifestyle choice when people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids (and this is the problem with school lunches right now) are getting sugar, fat, empty calories- lots of calories- but no nutrition. Words by Tom Colicchio. Obesity is affecting people worldwide, especially the younger generation. One of the major causes of obesity in children is food high in…

could find a more detailed description of the planet by reading a report of the American west made in the year 1806. In that year American explorer Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, was sent on an expedition to survey the newly purchased Louisiana Territory where he traversed up the uncharted Arkansas River into what is present day Colorado. After pike returned from the expedition, he published a journal of his expedition giving the world the first written…

Megan Bernard Carrington College As the respiratory, lymphatic, and circulatory systems have been explored through the years, we have learned of the importance of their functions in the body. In more recent years there have been studies to try and understand the effects that massage may have on these different systems and the known pathologies that plague them. We will be looking at some of these studies and decipher weather the benefits of massage out way the risks, or if there is…

Shakespearean Sonnets and Modern Day Love Songs Shakespeare’s is a very well-known British poet, playwright, etc. that wrote a majority of the plays that we all read in school. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, all with no name. All 154 sonnets were published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe, most likely without Shakespeare’s consent. Speculation says that the first 126 sonnets are about a young man that he was in love with. The final 28 sonnets are about a promiscuous woman that is known as “The Dark…

to achieve greatness and ultimate power in Jewish society. This glorifies the male as the superior figure, and is a strong presence in many religions including Judaism. Not only were women treated as lower class; they were often treated like the plague during certain stages of their lives. In the 14th century women also were often…

a farmer. That ultimately fail, and with the help of the headmaster, Isaac was able to return to school and finished it. Afterward, he attended to Trinity College, Cambridge during 1661 to 1665. In addition, the college was closed for two years due to a plague epidemic, however, Newton still continues his studying in Woolsthorpe. He single out his next 18 months as his “prime age of invention, and minded mathematics and philosophy more than anytime since.” Newton received his bachelor's degree…

Eliot in his 1925 poem, as if predicting how we might come to act with more modernism. As Aitao Lu noted in his February 2015 Journal of Adolescence article, it wasn’t until the late 1990s into the 2000s that parents and teachers started to teach and preach to the notion that you can never praise a child too much. In fact as Lu noted, the concept became a cornerstone of education;…

Designer Babies If a parent could insure that their child was born healthy, why should they not? Over the past few years science has progressed in the fields of medical science, and genetic understanding. It is do to these advances that the human race is presented with the choice; alter the path of future generations, or let natural selection continue to reign supreme. Clearly parents-to-be need to take advantage of the medical know-how and worked to strengthen the human race. Even though…

For thousands of years China relied on traditional, “spiritual” medical techniques to heal any ailment. When Europeans began trading with and bringing Western influence to China, medicine was one of the last areas to change. Many Chinese people were reluctant to take part in Western medicine due to the vast differences between Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine and strength of tradition, as traditional medicine had been passed down for generations. However, Chinese medicine underwent a…

Floppy disks, hairspray and death were all common staples of the 1980s. The 80’s gay youth carry the title of being the Aids Generation as it saw the evolution of a disease into a worldwide plague. As entire communities were stricken with death and despair, homosexuals and heterosexuals alike faced the issue of cultural taboos when discussing their condition. The inspired shame and consequent silence slowed the healing and prevention of the HIV-Virus among the victimized communities. To fight…