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King 's College London (KCL) is very much focused on the importance of an international student experience. Please talk about internationalization from your own perspective and how having an international experience at KCL would contribute towards you becoming a ‘global citizen’. I was not sure what to expect when I accepted a summer internship at a small law firm in Boston. On the website, there were attorneys for just about every type of practice; you could finance a start-up and begin…

Gun control is a topic that is been on a serious debate for the past couple of years due to unfortunate events that had happen around cities all over the US. From the East coast to the West Massacres in CT or in the movie theater in Aurora are now in the minds of residents in the states that are concern about this subject. It is now a political issue because apparently laws in some states are not strict enough to try to control people of purchasing a gun. Even our current president has tried to…

officers should be obligated to wear body cameras for the well-being of the public and the officers themselves. There has been many cases where officers have used excessive amounts of force when dealing with people, cases such as Walter Scott in North Charleston, and the death of Freddie Gray. Officers are too easily let go for things like police brutality, at most the police officers will get a slap on wrist and a “Don’t…

have faced college admission as universities in Virginia State have adopted the top ten percent rule that only guarantees students who graduated in the top ten percentile from their high schools to get an automatic admission to public universities (Charleston 2). This law serves as a transition from a race- based policy that had been in use known as the affirmative action. This rule has shown to benefit the minority in the American states. The supporters of this law argue that it ensures…

One of Barack’s problems was racism. It is believed that if Obama wasn't president, most racial issues wouldn’t have occurred. Another problem was the shootings and the gun violence. From the Trayvon Martin shooting to the Charleston church massacre, Obama was placed in a tough spot because of the police force and African American shootings. He reassured the African American community that everything is alright. Now brilliant Donald Trump comes into office with grand ideas,…

Jackson’s home Robert passed away. He was the third Jackson family member to die in America and the second Jackson casualty of the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth nursed her now only son back to health; but before Jackson was fully recovered she left for Charleston, after receiving a message the British captured…

He then moved to Norfolk where his mother raised him after his father left. Later, he moved to Charleston. His mother died in Charleston, leaving him orphaned. Rosalie suffered a violent death, which later influenced Poe’s writing. Poe witnessed “…her slightness and beauty; her illness and consumption; her pallor and wasting; her blood-spittings and finally her cold…

This article was in response to the Charleston church shooting that happened in June of this year. Dylan Roof entered the church and joined African Americans in a group study for an amount of time before shooting and killing nine of them. As of July, it was unsure whether Roof would be charged…

in almost every aspect of your daily life. From using your alarm clock to wake up, to cooking your food, driving to and from work, and then finally settling down in the evening, you will use some form of energy with almost every task. Living in Charleston, SC there are several forms of renewable energy. A large amount of people do conserve energy through various means to save money and help the ecosystem. Everyone starts their day one way or another but most people use an alarm clock to stay…

Hate crimes occur all over the United States all the time, and whether it be because of race, sexual preference, or religion, they always make an impact on society. For example, on September 15, 1963, four members of the Ku Klux Klan violently stated their racist beliefs against African Americans in the Birmingham Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama (“Birmingham Church Bombing”). As stated in a 2013 Newscurrents article, “The bombing took place because the church was a center of civil rights…