Dane County

One of the reasons for this is the PACT model which is in effect in Dane County, Wisconsin. This model was defined as means to transition mental health patients from a mental health institute to the community with the hopes that they could learn and adapt to life as normal citizens in society. The basic idea of PACT is that…

During the 1700s and 1900s Europeans were expanding all around the world. Some counties had a lust for exploration while others lusted for colonization and larger markets. The force behind European expansion during this time was, Europe’s early commercial revolution. This expansion lead to new and unknown goods being brought into the European markets. Expansion lead Europe to acquire a global empire that resulted in a world defined by a transcultural phenomena. The world’s reaction to this…

Progress Report #2 (INTRO) Two years, two officer involved shootings, two suspects dead, and a community upinarms, post Rodney King protests, claiming it was a racially motivated killing. This was the nightmare Officer Paul Smith, of the Madison Police Department, found himself in during the spring of 1994. Even though he had been cleared of all wrong doings for both of the shootings, the community he had sworn to protect was turning against him. Not long after, Officer Smith started showing…

It was founded in memory of Floyd Mike McBurney, who injured his cervical spinal cord at sixteen and still enrolled at UW-Madison the year after his accident. He earned a law degree and went on to be elected as Dane County District Attorney. Tragically, he passed before taking office, but he paved the way for some really important changes on campus. The resource center was created to provide a long list of services for any student with any sort of disability. From…

“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world”, Mishnah Sanhedrin Rescue in Albania Introduction The Holocaust was the biggest disaster in modern Jewish history, and the largest genocide in the 20th century; the Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in…