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When federal funding for the initiative expired in 2001 despite the overwhelmingly positive effects (“School to Work”), some states passively allowed the School-to-Work momentum to slow while other states took initiative to continue investing in vocational education. South Carolina, for example, began an initiative called Apprenticeship Carolina that gave one million dollars to the state’s technical college and offered a one thousand dollar subsidy per apprentice per year to businesses willing…

There are many influential writers that have come throughout the years. To name a few specifically some such as Aristotle, Plato, as well as Dante but few are as influential on the world of writing as William Shakespeare. His story of Hamlet contains a variety of different emotions and truly conveys a story that is a tragedy at its finest. Who exactly was William Shakespeare and, what made him one of the most influential writers of his time. As well as one of the most influential writers in…

Dame Muriel Spark (Feb. 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) “an arcane puzzle in the mapping of contemporary literature” (Sawada 11), occupies an important place among the post-war British novelists. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Quite early in her life she decided to adopt writing as a profession and began writing seriously after the war. Spark started her writing career with poetry and literary criticism, under her married name.…

word “propaganda” gets thrown about quite a lot. For example, a politician may discredit an opposing politician’s campaign videos (a form of advertising) by calling it propaganda. That’s not entirely false technically, as propaganda is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as: “chiefly derogatory information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.” Now think of this: politician John A. Smith runs an advertisement during a…

More recently Wilkinson (1996) has proposed that income inequality has a greater impact on individual health than income itself. Income inequality may have some self-sufficient impact on health, or it may function through problems of control and stress this relates to the example from Brown and Harris, 1978, “Parenting on low incomes has been shown to be associated with stress and depression among women” (Citied in Acheson, 1996; 76). Low incomes may lead to withdrawals of essential services…

Extraordinarily Classical Frost His words were a magnificent work of art, Robert Lee Frost, the poet who revolutionized poetry with his seminal talent. Although widely known, Frost is still an unsolved mystery to most today. Robert Frost one of the greatest American poets of his time and honored to this day, through an unconventional life, he has become a notable writer. The reason of writing can be quite uncertain for many, but for Frost the spark that ignited his urge to write can be compared…

Gazing at your phone all day has triggered people to wreck their spines. When you tilt your head 60 degrees to stare at your phone, you’re putting 60 pounds of pressure on your neck. Sitting in front of computers all day can negatively affect our stature, causing a bad back (Holmes). Too much technology use also has led people to strain their eyes. Too…

Also, gave a few ideas about both pros and cons of rights Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. University of California Press. Berkeley, Los Angeles. 1983. -Since Regan is very pro-rights, his book helped with that part of the paper. Rodd, Rosemary. Biology, Ethics, and Animals. Oxford University Press. New York, New York. 1990. -Helped with the ethical aspect of the paper (part b). Also contains values of animals and humans. Rollin…

It is important for people to make the right choice when voting for political figures. Who people vote for effects everyone. The people we elect to office are going to be there for a while so it’s important that they stand for the right values. The only way we are going to know what they stand for is if we are willing to take the time to research it and find out. If we are going to vote we need to make sure we make an informed vote otherwise we should not vote at all. It is important to know…

The sun rises every day. This is not debatable. Each and every day as the sun rises, it enriches the earth in numerous ways. A corresponding paradigm occurs when individuals perform service. People who are continually in the service of others recognize that they are improving the lives of others; however, they also often recognize that the service they perform is not only benefitting those they serve. Unlike the one-way benefit exchange between the sun and earth, service is a two-way exchange.…