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The Trayvon Martin case is a challenge to psychological Science. It is hard to say if implicit bias played a role on Trayvon Martin’s death. Geraldo Rivera who is the host of Fox news stated that Martin died because he had a sweatshirt hoodie on when he was shot. Rivera’s remarks started criticism for indicating that black individuals who wear hoodies are thugs, and that this is the reason why Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin. Psychological studies have showed stereotyped cooperation’s connecting…

Healthcare Finance: Ongoing Change Healthcare in the United States (US) is a progressive movement that is constantly changing. Some may say these changes occur in hopes of providing the highest quality of care without causing undue financial burden to the largest group of citizens. Unfortunately, potential changes brought on by the American Health Care Act (AHCA) may be a step backwards when considering financial hardship to the most vulnerable of society. When comparing the Affordable Care Act…

attacks, but soon dwindled. The governmental surveillance, combined with the 2008 recession, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the growing political divide made the people’s trust in the government fall beneath 20 percent by 2013. In 2014, a Gallup poll put this number at 24…

Truman’s Final Decision: Was it Right or Wrong? Truman’s decision of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima wreaked havoc across the United States. While being in office for only three months before he had to make this decision, Truman knew it was going to be an important and life changing choice. Some people believe that it was one of the worst decisions he could have made. On the other hand, I believe that dropping the bomb was beneficial to not only then, but to today’s society as well. By dropping…

Why is the Topic of Gun Control So Widely Debated? December 15, 1791; The Bill of Rights was passed, which contained an amendment that protects the U.S. citizens’ rights to bear arms. In a nation that was built on the foundation of fighting, a law that allows citizens to own a weapon is important to maintaining the identity of America. The second amendment can be interpreted in many ways. Of course, this is an amendment that was created when guns fired a single shot and took multiple minutes to…

According to the Gallup Polls in 2005, 90% of the respondents responded that the most important issue was to close the achievement gap between white and minority students (Goertz, 2005). For many decades, teachers, paraprofessionals, and schools were not held strictly accountable…

Earlier this year on January 5, President Barack Obama sought to close the “gun show loophole” by stating that “Anybody in the business of selling firearms must get a license and conduct background checks or be subject to criminal prosecution.” (Watch) This sounds like a feasible plan and it would be except for one thing; President Obama did not specify what qualifies as being in the business of selling firearms. Does he mean all gun dealers who sell firearms as a career or is he implying that…

Islam is one of the largest monotheistic religions in the world. A religion of peace, it is practiced by over “1.6 billion people around the world” (Lipka) and dominant in 50 countries (Wikipedia)no wikipedia. The word Islam means submission or surrender; however, it was derived from the root word “Salam”. Unfortunately, the message of Islam has been distorted by acts of violent radicalism. Good sentence!. Radical extremists who use the religion of Islam as a weapon of war against non-Muslims,…

While examining the argument against euthanasia (defined as “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma”), nearly all of the disagreement stems from religious beliefs; specifically, the Christian right-to-life movement (also known as the Christian pro-life movement which advocates the legal protection of human embryos and fetuses, especially by favoring the outlawing of abortion on the ground that it is the taking of a human life.…

Kennedy was hit in the head and neck shattering a large portion of his skull and killing him. That imagery is burned into the collective mind of the American public, and has contributed to the mythology created about the Kennedy presidency. In a Gallup poll conducted in 2011, Kennedy…