Event

I chose to read the book A Series of Unfortunate Events because of a few reasons. One reason is because I started watching the new Netflix series based around this book. The season ended at this book, so I decided to read it. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy is the fifth book in the series out of thirteen. This series follows a group of three children, named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, whose parents were killed in a fire. The parents left behind an enormous fortune,…

similar legal drama shows has had a negative impact on the legal system in the United States because viewers believe the events that occur are factual. According to Neubauer and Fradella (2014), “Professors have to help students unlearn information that they have inaccurately learned from viewing television shows, such as Law & Order. This paper will examine how real the portrayal of events are in Law & Order using current laws and criminal procedures. For…

The gender-focused event that I attended was ‘Girlfriends Guide to Mental Health: From self-loathing to self-loving’. The sold out event was presented by The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center; a mental health care center devoted to creating faster recoveries for those suffering with mental illness. The goal of the presentation was to teach participants to “silence the malicious voice in [their] head[s], the one that says you will never be good enough, loved enough or valued enough”, as well as…

Emerging in 1855 was a series of violent events that broke out in present day Kansas. These events came to be known as Bleeding Kansas. In the years of 1854 to 1857 Kansas was being disputed over in regards to it being a free soil or slave state through popular sovereignty. In order for Kansas to be a slave state pro- slavery people from Missouri came to vote in its favor. As a result of this, the New England Emigrant Aid Company was organized and sent thousands of people out to Kansas to vote…

Formative Events in United States History During the formative period of American history, there are three large events that stand out in comparison to the rest in the way they affected the nation as a whole. Without the revolution, America would not have begun. Without the expansion to the west, the United States would not be the large size that it is today, and would not be able to have such a large and growing population. Finally, without the Civil War, the nation may still have slavery as a…

Introduction The following investigation examines the methodology and results of two studies looking at adverse childhood events (ACE), also referred to as childhood stressors, and their potential association to later alcohol use problems. This article will also include further investigation into the design quality and ensuing level of validity found in the studies. Sher, Gershuny, Peterson, and Raskin (1997) present their findings in “The Role of Childhood Stressors in the Intergenerational…

time again in history that can be expressed as art or text. Some people dwell on propaganda because they think it is an art of persuasion while others think it is used as a way of demoralization. Even though we often relate propaganda to historical events, it is also contemporary as well as it is often portrayed in social media. Fig. 1 Ron, Click On. "From Trump to Clinton to Russia: These Political Cartoons Go for the Olympic Gold Https://t.co/36BBPI7BTE Pic.twitter.com/OVkaAY7YUa."…

decreasing the amount of information about events before reconstruction. I made this change, because the focus of this class was on events that occurred past the Civil War. With the extra space I made multiple changes. In particular I included information about events and policies and still affect the United States today, such as programs created in the New Deal and immigration after the Hart-Cellar act. This information was added because history is just not events that occurred in the past, but…

still argued because of certain accounts of history it speaks of. Numerous ancient poems for example the Iliad consist of bloodshed and in quarrels, the book talks of things and how it started. There are different events that take place in book 1, 9, and 24. Each of the books are events that took place starting with arguments over deaths, kidnaps, and heroism. The whole book Iliad was written of arguments and honor that everyone wanted to have at a certain time. Homer’s the Iliad has a deep…

Cultural Event: Who are the Undocumented? For this cultural event, I attended one of “The Freedom School” sessions on January 26th. The sessions all focused on different aspects of social justice in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and his mission for equality. The talk that I attended focused on the specific issue of undocumented immigrants and was entitled “Who are the undocumented?”. Two speakers, Dr. Silvia Nagy–Zekmi and her invitee, Obed Arango Hisijara, presented their findings and…