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For miles different parts of the sky are lit by the glow of flares. These flares come from the flare pits in which excess gas is burned from fracking stations spread across the area. Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota, the Bakken, is where you can watch these flares burn. This is an area of one of the biggest oil booms in the United States. Seeking the high paying jobs and the possibility of getting ahead after being hit by the recession people from all over the country come to work. My…

Most of Ducasse’s recent work is mixed media on wood. “The art budget wouldn’t permit me to ship all those wooden pieces,” says Ducasse. So Ducasse gathered everything he could had on canvas by contacting collectors that owned his pieces. Photographer Doug Eng took photos of some of the work and “reproduced them on canvas and he did such a phenomenal job,” says Ducasse. “In Bristol, they provided me a residency at Spike Island (spikeisland.org.uk), which is very similar to CoRK, but like on a…

I Promise All around me, men and women of different rankings pass by the ER with varying levels of urgency. Bouncing a tennis ball, I stared through the glass door of my office, labeled “Doug P Mills, M.D., Head of Diagnostic Medicine. The passages of this hospital cried with emotional distress. Patients, doctors, nurses, and visitors all share one thing in common: empathy. The walls reek of tears and hope. For me, I’m amused at the doctors that lose sleep over their patients. Emotion is just a…

such as grocery, discount departments, and hypermarket. Its headquarters is in Bentoville, Akansas and it has expanded its operations globally with numerous stores being operated by the company (Wal-Mart Annual Report 2016). The CEO of the company is Doug McMillon and he has been influential in meeting the changing needs and dynamic nature of the consumer behavior. Some of the products offered include electronics, movies and music, party supplies, health and beauty, clothing, and jewelry among…

This projection from the article “Poverty and Homelessness” is a prime example of an argument that would be made in favor of an increase in minimum wage. According to article author Doug Hall, an increase of over two dollars to the minimum wage would put more money in the pockets of workers earning low hourly wages. He makes the argument that this increased income for the workers would, in-turn, lead to them spending the extra earnings…

Christos Tsiolkas is a homosexual Greek Australian writer, born in Richmond and studied at Melbourne University as an editor in the student union. Tsiolkas is known to be a shocking, controversial writer basing his work on social and political issues surrounding the Australia of today including family, class, friendship and ethnicity in the typical suburban setting. Tsioklas is not afraid to bring up the controversial topics ‘ he calls racism by its name, but not ashamed to dig around the…

Challenges in Providing Food for the Growing Population Today, humans face many problems in the world: ocean acidification, extreme weather events, decrease in biodiversity, increase in greenhouse gases and more. All of these issues are connected and stem from one source: humans. Humans are the causes of many of these problems; however, humans have vast intelligence and have made incredible technological and industrial advances over time. Humans are the only ones who can solve the problems that…

program (Reeves, pg. 2). Effective professional development is not about the programs it is the people and the practices that make the impact and transforms student learning. In the book, Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results, Doug Reeves discusses what is wrong with professional learning, how to create high-impact professional learning and most importantly, how to sustain it. In the early part of the book Reeves does an effective job of explaining several of the problems…

In “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” Malcolm Gladwell makes a case against social media in regards to how it is effecting activism. He uses social movements as an example, stating that social media creates a chasm or between the movement and the person. Prior to social media, activists were involved first hand in the movement but social media has inserted itself as a protective barrier, allowing people to be involved, but not vulnerable to the success or failure of the…

The term evangelism has a lot of stigmas attached to it. Some people (some believers (not all)) see it as a great and very necessary thing that we all are called to practice and do everyday. While other people (non-believers and believers alike) view evangelism as street preachers telling passerby that they are heathens and they are going to hell if they don’t get Jesus. When it comes to evangelism, obviously you want to do the first one and not the second. But how do you properly do it? What do…