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Arming Teachers: Protecting America’s Assets December 14, 2012 marks a day when America was shocked by the unexpected crime that took place on our own back porch. Twenty year old Adam Lanza made his way onto the Sandy Hook Elementary School campus and began to open fire on teachers and students, murdering 26 people total. According to a website that focuses on gun safety called “everytownresearch”, there have been 176 school shootings in America since the Newtown massacre. A question I have is…

Milton ACORN (1923-1986) The Island Means Minago (POETRY 1975) CHARLOTTETOWN / A World War II veteran and a carpenter by trade, Acorn was nicknamed the People’s Poet by his fellow poets after he failed to win a Governor General’s Literary Award in 1969 for I’ve Tasted My Blood. He won the award six years later for his unofficial folk history of Prince Edward Island. The subject of two National Film Board documentaries, Acorn was also the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of…

are like mini burgers.” Ashley: “Mini burgers!? They are so tiny!” (Eats 5 of them) Women look at the portion size of food that tempts them to eat foods they usually do not eat. The foods that men and women eat are pretty much socially constructed. Danielle Paquette, says in her article “Why men and Women treat food differently,” “They also served identical muffins in six different types of packaging. One arrived in a “feminine” exterior, with the word “health” and an image of a ballerina. One,…

"Symbols really do matter. Symbols should reflect who we really are as a people. We have never been a culture, in essence, that revered war rather than peace, division rather than unity." Mayor Mitch Landrieu, standing in front of a large pillar topped with an imposing 18-foot bronze statue, said these words on June 24th, 2015, in front of dozens of dozens gathered there to hear him speak. The subject of his speech was the same statue towering above him: the monument to Robert E. Lee at the…

When I found this next source, by typing “Human genetic engineering” into google and 18,700,000 results popped up. Genetic inequality: Human genetic engineering by Danielle Simmons Ph.D. a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, her article was the first result after the scholarly article on the page. I clicked on the link because the title interested me. The article talks mainly about how…

In the world of psychiatry nearly all drugs in use today were created between 1950 and 1969. It’s hard to imagine with so many drug commercials on TV revealing new and groundbreaking products, that the same products being advertised today were actually created based on chemistry performed more than 60 years ago (Klein, p.259, 2014). The reason behind this is simple. The creation of new drugs based on finding new molecular entities is extremely costly. For the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)…

Euthanasia Should Euthanasia be legalized? “To keep someone alive against their wishes is the ultimate indignity” (“Final Certainty”). People suffer everyday from different illnesses. Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The practice is illegal in most countries. In the United States, Oregon was the first state to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide. As Carey says, “Laws in the United States, passed in five states,…

Brave enough to see it: Perrault, Andersen, Disney and the Stigma of Inevitable Heteronormativity in Fairy Tales ‘Fairy tale’ is a genre of storytelling that is deeply ingrained into our persons and cultures. In this essay I will expose the idea that heteronormative ‘happy endings’ are their inevitable conclusion. My main points of reference will be Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, both Hans Christian Andersen and Walt Disney’s versions of The Little Mermaid, as well as Disney’s more…

The Cherokee Indians Forced Removal: Concentration Camps and Conditions Danielle Warren HIST3000: The Professional Historian: Historical Study and Writing Professor Martin Dotterweich October 26, 2014 The early 1800s were devastating times for the American Indians. They were forcibly removed from their lands and sent across the country on a journey that became known as The Trail of Tears. Schools across America study this journey in history classes. This exodus to the lands west of…

Occupational Therapists Make People Normal Again Merriam Webster defines occupational therapy (OT) as a therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities in daily life. Occupational therapists find themselves doing jobs most people do not have the patience for. These therapists have traits of caring, patience, and love. This practice of therapy has not existed forever. Like everything else in the world someone has to have the idea for something(s). Just like people need doctors, people need…