Consensus

The Ambassador Program held a can food drive throughout the months of November and January with the proceeds going to the Tarrant Area Food Bank. The volunteers come to a consensus every winter since 2012 to how to give back to the community and 2015 was no exception. They expect to collect an estimated 700 to 1,000 pounds in can goods and non-perishable items . Ambassador Program Shift Supervisor Cristina Fraker spearheaded the effort. She said it was something she became more passionate…

In this TED Talks video, presenter Alice Bows-Larkin presents statistics and consensus regarding climate change and the impact of greenhouse gases. Bows-Larkin presents that our actions, choices and behaviors are the reason greenhouse gasses are raising and there is a profound negative impact. We can choose to take climate change seriously and cut greenhouse gas emissions or ignore and choose to adapt in the future to the severity of issues that will arise from the ignorance. Likewise, we do not…

Canada is a large country filled with provinces that range in cultural distinctiveness, political life and overall economic goals. In a sense, each province is unique from one another and can be seen as a “small world” within a larger Canadian context. In the article titled: “Small Worlds of Diversity: Views Toward Immigration and Racial Minorities in Canadian Provinces”, Antoine Bilodeau, Luc Turgeon and Ekrem Karakoc examine each province’s views on immigration and racial minorities by…

(528, Writing About Writing, Shitty First Drafts) about a writer who doesn't follow her method, Lamott is encouraging the reader to not be that person that “we do not like very much”, the “we” meaning Lamott and other writers, who goes against the consensus, as in this case following a drafting method other than that of Lamott. Regarding the word choice of the general 'we' verses the personal 'I',…

Just as the physical world around us changes with time the morals and ethics of the general populace also changes, albiet gradually. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, written almost 700 years ago, was an important work as it explored the morals and ethics of society in his work, something that was just as uncommmon then as it is now. We know that the physical has changed, but just how much has the metaphysical changed? It is safe to say that the morals and ethics in our society has changed almost…

of objectivity, but he also warns of the opposite extreme of an equally dangerous subjectivity. “The claim that truth is personal must be defined and qualified with care, for the major movement against objectivism today…is a form of knowing that reduces personal truth to private terms” (Palmer 54). Root demonstrates the battle between objectivity and subjectivity through the character of Mrs. Richards. Mrs. Richards became so opposed to the subjectivity of hermeneutics that she as a result…

However, such unanimity seems precisely the kind of totalizing conformity which is dreaded under the heading of Utopianism. Oddly enough, the motto to this last fancy, occupying the same terminal position on plate 24 that the eager motto held on plate 20, can support this: “One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression.” A reading which, conversely, would ‘befriend’ text and motto recommends the new friendship of Angel/Devil, Devil and Narrator, in that all have escaped the ‘One Law’ of the Angel’s…

A study conducted by K. Michael Reynolds et. al (2012) on Contradictions and Consensus: Youths speak out about Juvenile curfews. This study examines the New Orleans juvenile curfew law through focus group discussions with youths in which they were entitled to express their experiences and reactions to this law. The major dimensions explored are the knowledge of the law, compliance with the law, reactions to the enforcement of the curfew and evaluation of the law among the respondents. The…

The National Institutes of Health has a printed consensus statement that clearly notes that the ideal treatment for these problems is total removal of the tumor. But there are other options including incomplete removal or stereotactic radiation therapy. Depending on the type of surgery done if the whole tumor is completely removed then the likelihood of it growing back decreases, but there can still be some down fall based on the type of surgery done. Some down falls include complete loss of…

Nothing can separate a room faster than the topic of abortion. For some, the protection of human life, regardless of form, should be considered as an endeavor of all persons. However, others argue that a person does not actually become a living being worthy of such protection until certain periods of development have passed. The determining factor for when life is established through various stages of development provides another opportunity for lengthy commentary with no conclusive results.…