Chris Evans

Many people that have been affected by video games and do not know it. Some are affected more than others, but it’s starting to spiral out of control. Many families are being affected by these shooters that are getting out of control. People like Chris Harper-Mercer, who said “I’ve been waiting to do this for years” right before he killed and injured 17 people, including himself (Fletcher). What is going on in these shooter’s mind and how are video games correlated? How can you be so happy with…

The Gate Control and Specificity Theory were the two main descriptions relating to pain perception. Specificity was found much earlier, than Gate Control. Specificity revolves around the idea that every stimulus has a corresponding receptor. With the introduction of the cell theory, it determined that there are different sensory neurons for different stimuli. The pain fibers lead to a designated pain pathway. This was further researched and a new determination was made that the receptors must…

Ho Yen Dr. Fishman English Regular 11B 1/1/2015 Historicity of King Arthur Almost everyone’s childhood is filled with some kind of magical and heroic tales of the legendary King Arthur. These tales come in various versions from different time periods of our history. Some are passed down through folktales and some are specially crafted by poets for purposes such as moral lessons or tourism. Due to the varieties of the tales about King Arthur, scholars have been debating whether King Arthur was a…

With every given topic in every aspect of life, there are two sides: for and against. There is always a congregation of those who support the said topic, accompanied alternatively by those who hold opposing views. When addressed with the topic of the safety of football, many will argue that the game is safe because it is a very popular mass cultural pastime among many traditional American families. In my opinion, football is among some of the most dangerous sports that exist. The dangers of…

Snowpiercer: Determinism and the Self-Serving Hero The frozen wasteland that once was earth is the reality of the world of Snowpiercer. The chemical known as CW7, claimed to be a solution to global warming and created/manufactured by humans, was what brought the frozen wasteland to fruition in the year 2014. That it was humanity that brought on the ice age on as an effort to reduce earth temperatures introduces the prevailing idea of determinism in the film: humans were so determined to ‘save’…

are geared towards. During this same time period however, many other media outlets were doing the exact same thing. Marvel comics created the superhero Captain America to show the American people that you don’t need super powers to be a hero, and Chris Evans (aka Captain America) is literally punching Hitler in the face on the front cover of the first ever issue of the comic. That means that more companies than Disney were spreading propaganda around this time, and that along does not make this…

POL 1133.009 Cristina Doty Texas Politics and Society Spring 2015 QLP Paper Texas Legislation Senate Bill 14 POL 1133.009 The Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 14 in 2011 requiring voters to present a government issued photo identification. The U.S. Supreme Court ended any pending litigation with its decision in Shelby County v. Holder. As a result, people voting a person in all Texas elections can use the approved list of acceptable forms of identification: •Texas driver…

and alcoholism. The book, published in 1993, later was the inspiration for the 1998 movie Smoke Signals, starring Adam Beach and Evan Adams. Smoke Signals is about two young Native American men, Victor and Thomas, that embark on a road trip together from the Coeur D 'Alene…

The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Freedom of Speech is one of the core values that is proudly embedded in Americans. Although, some people wonder if there should be limits to this right that Americans have, Freedom of Speech. Many…

A great example of this is a recent performance by Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick. Following the NAMM show in 2011, writer evan Haga recounts the performance as, “primarily forward-looking jazz music—not even fusion, really—and the many metalheads in the house ate it up.” We can 't just talk about death metal without talking about other genres of metal. Metal itself is a very…