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Discrimination can be found everywhere and anywhere we look. Different generations have seen discrimination towards different groups. Starting with Native Americans, then continuing to African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Jewish-Americans, and as of most recently Arab-Americans. These ethnicities have one similarity; they are all humans with similar biological properties. There was a big increase in the screening of Arabs after the attacks on the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001.…

Khaled Hosseini’s life was not the easiest, but it was not as hard as those who grew up in Afghanistan during the wars. Luckily for him, he left the country at eleven, two years before Afghanistan’s president was assassinated by communists. This moment in history is not the main focus of 1000 Splendid Suns, but it does shape the way the characters are presented. Once the communists were overthrown, extremists took over the government and shoved the religion down everyone’s throats. Women now had…

ALLEN, FREDERICK. "Guns & America." Saturday Evening Post 283.6 (2011): 30-32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 22 Mar. 2016. PDF. This article gives us the history of guns, the protections of guns, and the creation of the Second Amendment and why it was created. The article’s most important piece of information is that it gives historical context of guns, the importance of them throughout American history and its political implications of the development of the nation. While accomplishing this, it…

Summary of Article In today’s day and age, the idea of being “not heterosexual” has become less taboo and more accepted. People of the LGBTQ+ community are able to live their lives easier and freer than ever before, or, one would think. However, almost the exact opposite exists in the younger LGBTQ+ community. Due to more acceptance of non-cis genders and non-heterosexual persons, society anticipated the suicide rates of the younger LGBTQ+ community to decrease; unfortunately, the statistics…

I am Gabrielle Mendoza, a first generation latino student. I come from a Latino background and was brought up in a very broken untraditional household. My grandmother alone raised me as my parents moved to a different home and raised my younger sister, leaving me with my grandmother. My grandmother was always at work making sure she kept food on the table for me. When she started working full time I was still very young, I had to learn to raise myself and do everything for myself. I took this…

Statistically, in this room at this very moment, one third of you will suffer from mental health issues at least once before the age of 25. Unfortunately, these grim statistics will not improve with age; 45% of the adult population, will experience a mental disorder at some stage in their life. These harrowing statistics are not something to look forward too and are indicative of the unfortunate prevalence of issues regarding the mental wellbeing of the populace of today. But despite the large…

Should The Drinking Age Be Lowered to 18? Tone= ardent and informative Out of the 115 countries in the world with an official Minimum Drinking Age, the U.S.A. is one of 12 with an MDA set at 21 years old, while the other countries are mostly set at 18 or 19. So in this uneven ratio, why is the U.S. one of the 12? Why are we being deprived of this simple commodity? A common argument for why the Drinking Age should be lowered to 18 in the U.S. is that 18 signifies coming into adulthood. Becoming…

In the past few years, the video game industry and gaming community has faced harsh criticism and backlash in response to the deeply rooted sexism that is apparent within industry practices and throughout the community. The proverbial “no-girls-allowed-sign” that looms over the video game industry has made it abundantly clear that the only way to combat the misogynistic and exclusionary attitudes that are so pervasive in gaming culture is for more women to become included in the industry. Gaming…

1. The leader chooses to go against stated practices or procedures. This particular factor stood out as the most intentional and the one factor that the leader is fully aware of his methods. In this case, the leader is choosing to make a decision that he or she is fully aware of going against the organization’s practices and that why I selected it as number one. 2. The leader lacks the experience/knowledge to deal with the task at hand. This is a factor that I feel I am currently experiencing…

Phases in the Life of Melinda Mr. Freeman said “Be the tree.” to Melinda in Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak. Melinda’s growth is described through her artwork, and other forms of the trees in this novel. In this story, Mr. Freeman, the art teacher, passes around a globe full of subjects for the students to work on for the entire year. Melinda reaches inside, and pulls out the slip of paper that says “tree”, at first she thinks that the subject is stupid and boring, but it ends up helping…