Berkeley

No. Not at all. Tenure is the main form of security that teachers are offered. For any employed adult, it is important to have job security. A study conducted out of University of California, Berkeley concluded that performance is hindered in positions that have little job security. Therefore, eliminating tenure will breed more inadequate educators struggling to keep their jobs. Without security, many, including the LA Times and the Washington…

The principle of nonretaliation for personal injury permeates the entire New Testament. It provides guidance when life brings us up against those who care nothing for us and are in fact opposed to all that we stand for. Ask that they might enjoy the blessings of God! Love inevitably desires the best for other people regardless of who they may be. The old nature says, “Curse them”; God says, “Ask me to bless them.” God’s will is that his children become a family where the joys of one become the…

Thought-out history there has been many pioneers to law enforcement. From the Father of law enforcement August Vollmer and Jim Fisher, who created many criminal investigative techniques just to name a few. The different levels of law enforcement are very important aspect to consider, that being federal, state and local. Each level is just as important as the other is, but different at the same time. Nevertheless one cannot operate without the other which allows the criminal justice as a whole to…

Negligence occurs when a particular person fails to perform a duty that they are entitled to perform. According to laws.com, there are four things that must occur in or-der for a tort to be a negligence tort, “a person must owe a duty or service to the victim in question; the individual who owes the duty must violate the promise or obligation; an injury then must arise because of that specific violation; and the injury causes must have been reasonably foreseeable as a result of the person’s…

Power has the ability to corrupt, and blind those influenced by it. It has the potential to control the path of nations, whether the consequence is beneficial or detrimental to the fate of the society. Power gives confidence to those it possesses and magnifies the characteristics of its beholder. The theme of power is seen throughout Sophocles’ Antigone, through the character analysis of the play’s tragic hero, Creon. Creon is the play’s tragic hero due to the extreme loss, which is caused by…

The California legislature passed a bill that will make it legal for doctors to prescribe suicide medicines for terminally ill patients. The state Assembly approved the bill with a 42-33 votes, while senate passed it with 23-14. The End of Life Option Act now goes to Gov. Jerry Brown, who is a former Jesuit seminarian. He can approve or veto the bill within 30 days. If he fails to take any measure within the stipulated time frame, the bill will automatically become a law from January next year…

The history of vaccines and immunization began in 1796 when Edward Jenner, a doctor living in Berkeley, England, performed the world’s first vaccination (Stern & Markel, 2005). Jenner “took pus from a cow pox lesion on a milkmaid’s hand” and “inoculated an eight-year-old boy” (Stern & Markel, 2005, p.612). Six weeks later, Jenner again inoculated two sites on the boys arm and he was unaffected. This was the beginning of vaccines and expanded greatly in the late 19th and early twentieth…

band's second studio album, Kerplunk, in 1992. In 2012, guitarist Jason White became a full-time member after performing with the band and touring member since 1999. Green Day was originally part of the punk scene at the DIY 924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley, California. The band's early releases were with the independent record label Lookout! Records. In 1994, its major label debut Dookie (released through Reprise Records) became a huge success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in…

Margaret Mead once said to “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world” (“Quotes about activism”). Many students around the world wholeheartedly agree with Mrs. Mead, and two prime examples were youth activism in Vietnam Era and in the pro-democracy movement of China. The Vietnam Era in the United States got its name from the longest and most controversial war in American history. In the year 1955 president Lyndon B Johnson decided to send American…

Studying at Berkeley as a Political Science major allocated a lot of free range for me to cater my many research papers to whatever topic I desired. I used the opportunities to research, analyze, learn, and write about a number of varying human rights abuses internationally…