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Renowned American author H. P. Lovecraft once wrote, “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent”. Presently, the earth is estimated to be around 70% water, yet humanity has only explored less than 5% of the oceans. Imagine what we could learn from the unknowns of the most treacherous depths, and to what possibilities could we utilize all the information gathered? One anomaly quite intriguing is the diverse sea-life, which proceeds to prosper by…

Signature behavior and modus operandi (MO) are the two tools used by Forensic psychology to identify unknown offenders who commit violent crimes. Signature behavior is an action by an offender that is not necessary to complete their crime. They are images and reproduction of the individual’s lifestyle, personality and evolving practice of the offender. These actions fulfils their emotional and psychological desires when they commit criminal behaviors. All offenders have a Modus Operandi…

Dahmer was your normal quiet nerdy kid growing up, besides the fact that he would go around collecting dead animals in the neighborhood and dissect them at his house. His later acts included the compulsive masturbating, and becoming a homosexual. He was kicked out from his house after being discharged from the military, and he moved to his grandparents. His grandmother admitted to routinely finding different weapons in his room and to him being very strange. Shortly after Dahmers second arrest…

So, we think about that 15 years ago we didn’t have iPhones and how that has dramatically hanged things and that my daughter who is three years old is just a wiz on technology. But, then goggle glass or oculus rift or all of these software’s where we can be connected in different ways, I think is going to completely change the way. Like, self-driving cars and I am fascinated by that and how that is going to – Male Participant 1: We are not going to have a garage in the future either. Female…

The electronic cigarette is the novel product to become ever more the focus for smoking prevention strategies among adolescents in high school. In one year alone between 2013 and 2014, the percentage and total number of students smoking e-cigarettes tripled from 4.5 to 13.4 percent of students and 660,000 to 2 million teenagers, respectively (Centers for Disease Control, 2015). E-cigarette use for the first time exceeded over the use of every other tobacco product, including conventional…

Fracking As shale and fracking is increasing, the International Energy Agency projects that the United States could become the world’s leading oil producer by 2015 (WhatIsFracking.com). Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is the process of drilling down into the earth. A high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Soon, water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at a high pressure, which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well (BBC.com).…

Do Vaccinations Help Or Harm You? A vaccine is a product designed by bio-chemists that produces immunity from a disease. Administration can be done orally, through needle injections, or by aerosol. Most people know what vaccinations are because they are typically given throughout a person’s life from the time of birth until the time death. They are also strongly encouraged by doctors, employers, schools, pharmacies, and the media. Some believe vaccinations should be mandatory for the greater…

cut into this thing that we never felt was human. My anatomy lab was Wednesday nights from five to seven forty-five on the top floor of Weyandt, the natural science building. As soon as you walked in the door you could smell her body. It wasn’t formaldehyde, which would have been much worse, but the scent wasn’t pleasant. Every time we were in the cadaver room, Dr. Schellinger would ask us if we could taste what we were smelling. She could always taste it, and I’m glad I never got to experience…

“396,000 smokers who started as teens die each year from smoking related diseases” (The Tragedy of Teen Smoking, 2016, para 2). Everyone should have an equal opportunity to live their life. Unfortunately, there are struggles we may face in life but we shouldn’t be encouraging the health problems. There are many reasons why people start smoking at a young age but instead of asking why, we should be doing more to prevent it. Many smokers begin at a young age and the younger they begin, the sooner…

Summer of 2014, my life was changing quite a bit. As I come back from my first year at school in U.S. and more than prepared to live away from home, I pack my bags and go to São Paulo. Although it is very close to my hometown, Santos, it was still a great change: new swim club, new city, new friends. São Paulo it is much known to be a complete chaos: anywhere with 12 million habitants has to be at least somehow different. With too many people comes too many problems: air and river pollution,…