Dare County

What is the environmental cost of drilling? Do we dare touch such a fragile ecosystem that could never resurrect itself just because “gas prices are too high?” Is mankind so greedy and superficial that we have to take away one the most vast and unique areas of the world just for our own benefit? These are some of the many argumentative questions rational, environmentally aware individuals are asking after a significant amount oil has been recorded under the layers of the Arctic National Wildlife…

Courage: A Tribute to Moral Bravery Courage is not completing and succeeding at a task, but having the moral bravery to even risk the attempt. The definition of courage, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary is “mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.” In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the value of courage outshines any other theme presented. Taking place in the 1930’s in Alabama, prejudice is still alive and thriving. This…

Susan Glaspell, through her play outlines the truth about the current situation in the society where women were inglorious and judgmental taken to be insane. For example, Glaspell conveys “Well women are used to worrying about Trifles”(118). The County Attorney engages…

and he was nine years old. He disclosed that he performed cunnilingus and she penilingus between ten to twenty times over a three-month period, “almost weekly during the summer”. Mr. Lee disclosed that he manipulated “B” with games like truth or dare, brides, playing house, and Simon Says, to get her to go along with the sexual misconduct. Mr. Lee added that during this time period, an older boy who was babysitting him at the time was sexually molesting him, and he used the same games the…

Throughout the novel, Harper Lee displays various prime themes that array the segregation and setting in Maycomb, a fictional town in the heart of Alabama. This unforgettable story of a childhood in a quaint town and a watershed that changes everything, is compassionate, dramatic, whole hearted, and courageous. The coming of age symbolizes one of these many themes throughout this novel and is crucial to how the characters come together. Jem Finch is one of the significant examples that…

Substance use and abuse is considered a non-communicable disease; non-communicable diseases can be more difficult to treat than a communicable disease, but treatments do not have to be expensive. There are many cost effective interventions that can be implemented to treat and help prevent substance abuse. Cost effectiveness is defined in Public Health 101 (2015) as “a concept that combines issues of benefits and harms with issues of financial costs” (Riegelman & Kirkwood, p. 127). Three cost…

Empathy, a most basic human quality, but how many can define it. Empathy according to the Oxford Canadian dictionary empathy is the power of identifying oneself mentally with (and so fully comprehending) a person or object of contemplation, but what does this mean? In simpler terms empathy is the ability to share the thoughts and feelings of another being or object. So if that's the definition where can we find examples of this trait that has long been forgotten by society? In Harper Lee’s award…

In emotional situations, people often ask for advice or opinions from people who they trust. Despite their best intentions, advice or opinions given in the name of love, can often result in unintended consequences. In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, Nurse is faced with a difficult decision when Juliet seeks her advice on how to prevent an arranged marriage with Paris. Nurse’s loving advice for Juliet results in Juliet’s suicidal thoughts. Throughout the play Nurse’s…

When it snowed in Maycomb County, Jem had a plan to build snowmen but Atticus warned that there would probably not be enough snow. As Jem and Scout pondered on what they could do, Jem “produced the garden hoe and began digging quickly behind the woodpile….he went in the house, returned…

For my social worker interview assignment I chose to interview Betty Weber. She was a social worker at the Pontotoc County Health Department for nearly twenty two years. The agency is a federal run agency who serves the population of Pontotoc County. She is no longer in the profession, since she retired last June. Even though she is retired she till volunteers to help anytime that she is available. Betty Weber started her career by getting her bachelor’s degree at East Central University. It…