Background Substance abuse has been called an “urgent and growing threat”. This threat to our nation’s public health is a crisis of epidemic proportions. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans used illicit drugs. Some sources approximate 6.8 million Americans engage in non-medical prescription drug abuse (Abramowitz, 2014). A diverse cross-section of Americans from every region, state, background, and walk of life are touched by this plague. The United States Department of Justice…
Music censorship is a very controversial issue in America because parents believe there are certain things that their kids should not be exposed to, and these parents possess the right to control it. Pediatricians and parents across the nation are concerned for the mental health of young Americans when they entertain themselves with vulgar music lyrics and music videos. Many people believe it is the parent’s responsibility to set their own limits for what things their children encounter as they…
been known to affect the workforce. “There is great concern that emerging technologies such as computers, robotics, and artificial intelligence are displacing human jobs, creating an epidemic of technological unemployment” (Marchant, Stevens, and Hennessy, 2014). With this rise in technological advancement, less manpower is needed causing people to be displaced from their jobs. Another reason for unemployment is the recession. When a country is going through a recession, business and companies…
For example, a video from the popular YouTube artist, Hennessy Youngman’s Art Thoughtz, addresses “how to become a successful black artist, wryly suggesting black people’s anger is marketable. He advises black artists to cultivate ‘an angry nigger exterior’” (Rankine 23). This readily available advice is very…
Robert Kennedy use his position power words to pursued people as he state it, “Hand in hand with freedom of speech and goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.” (BrainyQuotes, 2017) First, I will discuss three things that connect President Abraham Lincoln and Baptist Minister Mr. Luther M. King Jr. between the President Lincoln’s addressee in his second term inauguration and Dr. King’s letter while he was Birmingham jail. Secondly, how the…
Police Body Cameras: Police officers are receiving more criticism recently than they have ever had before. This recent distrust comes from the events in Ferguson, Missouri when an unarmed black man was shot by a white police officer. The public believes that the black man (Michael Brown) was shot because of race. Many people believe that if the police officer was wearing a body camera then the true story could have been caught on film and the outcome would have been different. Due to these…
and controversy in situations where a white person would not be. Specifically, everything a black person says or does in this setting is automatically correlated with race, and the historical role of African Americans in society. The author uses Hennessy Youngman’s quote “…a nigger paints a flower it becomes a slavery flower” to explicitly state that black people cannot act or express themselves without having a…
increase might be acceptable if the expected return is increased sufficiently. Hennessy could contain the increase in risk by making sure that he maintains reasonable diversification among the 20 stocks that remain in his portfolio. This entails maintaining a low correlation among the remaining stocks. For example, in part (a), with ρ = 0.2, the increase in portfolio risk was minimal. As a practical matter, this means that Hennessy would have to spread his portfolio among many industries;…
Laila Durham English 9B Ms. Sofich April 16th 2024 Is cheering a sport? Many studies have found that cheerleading accounted for 70.5% of all female catastrophic sports injuries in high schools. In 2016, the International Olympic Committee designated cheer leading as a sport, although many people still believe cheer isn’t a sport. However, many states and committees have stated that cheer is a sport, including California, Alaska, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma,…
war was a 19-year long battle that took place in North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. To Harry G. Summer, the conflict had the 18th century stylistic fighting and war strategy so many causalities of Men, Women and Children. And to Michael Hennessy the vietnam war was a strategic war that started peaceful and ended as not so peaceful. I find myself wondering what the advantage of the Vietnam war was to america. Our two Historians , as well as others, will help us find the reasonings…