Freakonomics

Over three thousand human beings each day in the United States are being deprived of experiencing life due to abortion. The procedure involves terminating a pregnancy so that the baby is not born. Medical abortion requires taking an abortion pill while surgical abortion involves an operation to remove the fetus from the uterus. Even through the heavy controversy, 1.21 million women today are taking part in the process every year. The fact that women have the right to decide what to do with…

Adam Hussein Ms.Craig Senior Thesis 17 February 2015 Think or Kill In seconds a persons life can be taken by gun, one rash decision can never be changed. In modern society it seems to be a reoccurring decision to just pull the trigger, some people have lost the concept of thinking before doing and now it has taken its tole. People see that it takes less time to actually think about pulling the trigger, than to actually do it. Over eleven thousand people a year suffer this fatal death, one that…

Music v. the Brain A famous quote by William Congreve reads, “Music hath charms to soothe a savage Breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” Congreve is trying to exude the idea that music has the power to do anything. Furthermore, music can impact the brain in a variety of different ways. Depending on the type of music an individual listens to, it can manipulate the brain to change his or her mood and improve cognitive skills. The various genres of music provide a large quantity of…

Our health care system in this country is a joke! First of all, the title is misleading because healthy people don 't need doctors and medicine. They should rename it to sick care, because that 's what this industry is. It 's filled with sick people, looking for help from the "experts" only to get shoved pills that don 't work, get their symptoms masked, and get procedures they don 't need all so the industry can profit. A client of mine is a hospital administrator at a large hospital and we…

Cosmetically perfect food, also known as genetically engineered food or GEF, are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally according to the World Health Organization. ("Food, Genetically Modified." WHO. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2015. http://www.who.int/topics/food_genetically_modified/en/). It has led to the waste of aesthetically unappealing food as the trend of “perfect” food has grown. However, there are organizations now that…

“My eyes see nothing but crosshairs. My right-hand does nothing but clicks. In this cyberspace with no cares, finally, happiness sticks. My ears hear nothing but bullets. My left-hand does nothing but W, A, S, D. An experience that's as good as it gets, for at least a few hours, I'm free! My feelings are nothing but joy. My thoughts are nothing but video games. A place I can dominate a boy without having to say any names.” (Outcast). This poem portrays the feelings of most video gamers, who find…

Title; Richard Dawkins letter to his 10 year old daughter (how to warn your child about this irrational world) Claim: Richard Dawkins’ claim throughout the letter is the importance of evidence. He elaborates why it is important to not blindly believe something through authority, tradition,and revelation. The importance of deciphering who, why, and when a claim was made also if there is any evidence to further back up this claim. The point of this letter is to ensure that his daughter and the…

Abortion has become the current hot topic in the United States due to its divisiveness. It is such a controversial topic because of the various norms, values, and institutions that society has constructed. The social norm of getting married and raising children has a heavy influence upon the many young girls that visit the abortion clinics. Furthermore, it is scandalous to be a young single parent. One also has to take into account the difficulty of raising a child on one income. Many girls…

Why does Mr. Steven Levitt and Stephen Dunbner not like realtors? In a book filled with so many interesting questions, this would be the one I would ask the authors directly. This book by economist Steven D. Levitt, co-authored with Stephen J. Dubner, fuses together stories, anecdotes, data analyses, and discussions of unusually linked phenomena as it ask its readers to think more critically about the things that occur in everyday life. Things like how birth control has stemmed the crime rate,…

Badass U Articles Summary How to Succeed in College (The 5 Badass Ways)! Are you going to college or going to be going to college? Let me give you this warning: you only get one shot to do it right! Who am I to say this? I have been to several huge universities (University of Texas and Arizona State University), I started over several times, went to several community colleges, strictly online colleges, joined all different kind of clubs, lived in different dorms, apartments, and at my parents…