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Music education is a profession that is often overlooked—there are no Common Core standards, many programs are being cut all over the nation, and many see it as an exclusive field, solely for the “exceptionally artistic”. However, the philosophy behind music education only goes to further prove the importance of the subject matter, and why everyone should be involved in some way, shape or form. Many people—from students, to teachers, to scholars have defined the philosophy of music education,…

how sociology is seen in society. One such movie that clearly illustrates sociological perspectives is Erin Brockovich. This movie was based on a true story that describes one woman’s will to fight for the injustice brought to the common people of Hinkley, California. Erin Brockovich was an uneducated jobless mother of three young children. One day after a disastrous day of interviews, a car speeding in the opposite direction of an intersection slams into her car and injures her. She sees this…

performed an analysis from 1999 to 2000, where “prescriptions written for the top 50 most heavily advertised drugs rose 24.6 percent, compared to 4.3 percent for all other drugs combined. At an estimated annual cost of $2.5 billion”. . (Cauchi & Hinkley) The drug company marketing to consumers made drug companies and their brand products improved conversations with patients, improved the understanding of their sickness and treatment, and improved the chances that patients were taking their…

theatrically speaking help me kill two birds with one stone. One program that helped me realize this now new dream of mine and is helping me achieve it, is Hinkley High Schools concurrent enrollment with the Community College of Aurora. This concurrent enrollment program helps me take college courses from the Community College of Aurora while still attending Hinkley High School. This allows me to receive credit for high school and for college at the same time. So far with this program, I have…

much less be involved in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects for the betterment of society. This new business obligation then leads the consumer(s) to require corporations to have integrity steering their actions and own “good behavior” (Hinkley, 2012 p 271). “As agents of global change, multinational firms are acting not simply as economic agents but also as moral agents” (Chiara, & Spena, 2011, p 62). Mattel Inc. has been fighting a type of a ‘perception war’ since 1996, when a…

Every day in the field of science is a new day filled with new discoveries. Along with these discoveries we are slowly being able to better understand the world around us and make cures for the incurable along the way. Within the past couple of decades, science has advanced so fast that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with all the changes and to be able to accept them as reality. However, when there are new scientific discoveries there are often debates on its reliability and whether or not it’s…

competency. Many cases of the time dealt with pleas of insanity that called for the McNaughton rule, which tested someone for criminal insanity at the time of the crime (Wexler 1992). Much of the scrutiny around the insanity defense came after John Hinkley Jr. was acquitted by reason of insanity after his attempt assassination of President Ronald Reagan (Jennings 2009). Insanity laws have become much stricter after the public outrage that that case…

and leave the Sydney swans he retires after 372 games across 17 seasons. There has been a many tweet to Adam supporting him after he announced that he will retire. As well has the hates he has also had a lot of supporters Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley said: “When you see what it is doing to Adam, you have got to be able to stand up and understand that is somewhere we shouldn’t go.” This shows that this has had an impact on the whole AFL community. Adam Goodes also has received the Australian…

Steven Soderbegh’s “Erin Brockovich”, based on the autobiography of herself and her involvement in arguably one of the biggest direct-case action lawsuits in the United States. Despite a lack of formal education and law experience, Brockovich proves to be the key element to winning a plaintiff case against multi-billon dollar industry, Pacific Gas and Energy (PG&E). Despite law being recognized as a tool to provide ultimate justice, it often serves to silence others. In this film, PG&E…

I had never bothered to learn to read. I didn’t need to. The pigs knew how to read, they told us what the wall on the barn said. They told us what it meant too, so I didn’t need to figure it out for myself, the pigs knew what they were talking about. All that I had to do was repeat what they told me, but that was just what sheep did. Things are great! That’s what the pigs tell us, so things must be great. (Orwell 1945) George Orwell’s Animal Farm is about a farm run by pigs. The book begins with…