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benefitted from medical marijuana. There are many states that have already legalized this for medical purposes, but there are still many who have not. Many people are worried that legalizing medical marijuana will cause other health related problems, but the good outweighs the bad. Considering that marijuana has been proven to help with medical issues, and has not caused any proven deaths, why would we not legalize it all over…

During my formative years, I was fortunate enough to have had a mother who chose to treat her seventeen-year battle with cancer as if it were one of life's unique teaching opportunities. I sincerely believe that my passionate interest in mental health and wellness is due in part to the residual effect of spending my youth in and out of doctor's offices, cancer centers, and emergency rooms. Certainly my presence in these settings and role as a primary caretaker allowed me to both witnesses and…

such as public or private? large or small? Ivy League or HBCU? This research project will observe, compare, and contrast the differences between the advantages and disadvantages of attending Ivy League schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities(HBCUs). The research and its conclusions will help give insight into which type of higher education is better than the other and give future students the tools they need to make good decisions to help their paths to success. The results…

gentler nation, meaning he wanted a nation without discrimination, or a nation where any unhappy child from any unhappy home could learn to read,or where any child could become President of the United States.George HW Bush changed politics in the United States because it showed that he wanted equal opportunities for any type of people regardless of race or income. George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12 1924 in Milton,Massachusetts.His parents…

taking his own life. April 2007 - Student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and wounded 15 others at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, before shooting himself, making it the deadliest mass shooting in the United States after 2000. August 2007 - Three Delaware State University students were shot and killed in “execution style” by a 28-year-old and two 15-year-old boys. A fourth student was shot and stabbed. December 2007 - A 20-year-old man killed nine people and injured five others in…

Attending Waterbury Career Academy Waterbury Career Academy High School will help benefit me in my future success because it will help me to pursue my desired career, prepare me for college, and it will inspire me to do other things later in my life. I have had some experience with working with some machines and the safety requirements. My technology education teacher, Ms. Foulds, took a small group of students into the workshop and we used machines and learned specific safety requirements.…

opportunities. Her father, a professor eventually became a Dean at Ohio University. Her mother Julia was also a professor at Ohio University where she taught literature. Since both of her parents were professors, much of Maya’s early life was spent in classrooms. A love of education and creativity was fundamental in Maya’s upbringing. After graduating high school Maya left Ohio and moved to Connecticut to attend Yale University. There she would earn her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981. After…

The author of the book A Brilliant Solution, Carol Berkin, a successful American historian that was born in 1942 in Alabama and was awarded the Bancroft Dissertation Award, from her college at Columbia University where she was awarded and an M.A. and a Ph.D. He has written many books In her book, she summarizes the key elements in the creation of our current government and constitution. She goes into detail factoring in people's beliefs and views to help generalize an individual's standpoint on…

The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution Cristina Sanchez Devry University To have an effective system to govern the entire nation, the United States went through several debates. On November 15, 1777, the Congress of the United States adopted the Articles of Confederations. The document was the first law that governed the United States. Each state remained sovereign and independent under the articles of confederation. The article provided several options and process of…

Alan Stuart Franken, better known as ‘Al’ was born on May 21st, 1951 in New York City, and graduated Harvard University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts with a cum laude degree in government (Biography). This degree is one of many qualifications which Franken has that validates his expertise to discuss the subjects in his book Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell them. Franken began his comedic career as an entertainer and writer for Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980, and later became a…