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Who is Actually in Control? “Willpower is what researchers call[...][the ability to] control thoughts, emotions and feelings, restrain impulses, and perform tasks and duties” (Baumeister 1), an individual’s willpower against others can dictate the amount of success an individual procures during their life. Through the choices they make, the people they befriend, and the situations they position themselves in. In The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the ambitious Macbeth battles…

This person will never learn to be like the rest of us. He has no conscience, he only looks out for himself and is wholly incapable of feeling empathy. It is a sad tale. People like him exist and there is no treatment for it. Most people cannot protect themselves from people like Danny because so few people are like Danny. Conscience is so inherent, so automatic that even when we try to put ourselves first in life we will often look back. We can connect the dots to understand the world around us…

James Alefantis was just an average restaurant owner. He had some quirky concepts and a politically significant ex-husband, but nothing alarming. That all changed with “Pizzagate,” a political scandal surrounding his pizzeria, Comet Ping Pong. At first glance, Comet Pizza is nothing special. It is described as a “hipster-heavy pizza parlor in the Upper Northwest with rough concrete walls, bathrooms hidden behind secret panels, and table tennis galore” (qtd. in Comet Ping Pong), but Comet Pizza…

Throughout American history we as citizens have been able to possess and purchase firearms. Consequently, with the ownership of firearms just like the ownership of anything else, it is abused. Through this abuse there has been only one irrational reaction and that would be stricter gun control laws. However, the government, ill-advised on what to do about it imposes stricter and stricter laws but what they do not realize is that they are taking them away from those who are truly responsible…

The pantheon was first built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa under the commission of emperor Augustus in 27 B.C. The word pantheon derives from the Greek words pan which means for al or very and theos for god. It was later burned down in the great fire in the year of 80 A.D and rebuilt again by emperor Domitian. Later, it was struck by lightning and burned again in the year in 110 A.D. in which was later rebuilt in 120 A.D. by Emperor Hadrian. The word pantheon come from a Greek word meaning “honor…

The American dream of equal rights an opportunity for all races is not yet a reality. Historically local attempts at segregation have been met with resistance, they also recently have been too. Study show that black students don't have the same opportunities as white students also black people have been targeted by the police but the Black Lives Matter movement has been taking steps to fix this. The South African apartheid lasted for over 50 years, this gave black people no political rights, a…

Chiara Del Vecchio Film IS Dissociative Identity Disorder in Films Rationale: My documentary examines how directors have used cinematic elements and techniques to demonstrate the Dissociative Identity Disorder of some characters but also how every character is actually duplicitous. Through some cinematic elements, such as framing, staging positions, the directors show how everybody in the end is split between their good self and their bad self, not just people who suffer from D.I.D.T The films…

The 2007 rampage at Virginia Tech, in which 32 people died, was marked as the country's worst mass shooting until, a local gay nightclub called Pulse in Orlando, Florida had a shooting riot occur on Sunday at 2 a.m. A man named Omar Mateen is fully responsible for the shooting, he entered the nightclub and randomly open fired. He pressured people to drop to the floor and others to crawl and scramble to the back entrance of the nightclub to escape. He then held a hostage standoff, which lasted…

General Strain Theory Wilson Sele California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) May 29, 2018 General Strain Theory The school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the recent school shootings of 2018 in the United States. The shooting claimed at least 17 people, 14 were students and three members of staff. The shooting was termed as the most deadly school massacres in the last decade. The suspect was identified by the witnesses and…

following the recent attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Nineteen year old, expelled student Nikolas Cruz pulled the fire alarm to lure students and staff out into the hallways where he opened fire on the victims using an AR-15 assault rifle. Cruz took the lives of 17 and wounded another 14 others before being subdued and arrested. This violence has reignited the national debate on what the country should be doing to stop this type of violence. The first things…