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remained, but for how much longer? Almost seventy years ago the first atomic bomb was dropped on a sleeping Japanese city. By the end of the war between 100 000 and 150 000 civilians were dead. Imagine the person who gave the final order to drop these bombs. Imagine the people who made the bombs. Imagine what they felt, hearing about the damage that they had helped to cause. These Americans had the knowledge about the damage that the atomic bombs would cause. Together they had the power to…

under the law was a turning point for our country and it’s democracy. Without equal protection under the law it wouldn’t be looked as unconstitutional for the courts to discriminate against someone for their race, sexuality, religion, and so on. Imagine being looked at differently by a country that is just as much yours as it is the next person’s simply because you have a different skin tone? Luckily, due to the Equal Protection Clause that doesn’t happen as often as it would if Equal…

when Marilla’s death is near and Anne touches her hair. Montgomery says, ‘“Yes, indeed. I shall never forget it,” smiled Anne, touching the heavy braid of hair that was wound about her shapely head” (237). This description is easy for a reader to imagine touching because majority of people have hair and would be able to stroke their coarse hair while Anne was stroking her braid. It makes this description relatable even though it takes place in Canada, a place many readers have not traveled to.…

Imagine yourself at a technology section at the mall and you see advertisements of cute robots or the cool and futuristic virtual reality eyewear. You look at it more to learn about it because it’s something you couldn’t imagine or just by the fact it looks “cool”. Trends and business today go hand in hand helping each other prosper and grow. Today in the year of 2015 many trends like virtual reality, games, and robotics are popular among society. Many tech companies would use that trend to…

of Auschwitz Birkenau, remembers the high value placed on food, and so much wanted to survive the camps.” (“CNN Breaking News, Latest News and Videos”) It is crazy to think that anyone would do anything to have even a small piece of food. I can't imagine being that…

Imagine being 14 years old and being taken away from home and put into foster care. Now you’re not just any girl you’re that one girl that has no friends. To make matters worse, imagine you are constantly ridiculed for being overweight and humiliated because you grow enough hair to be labeled a “beast”. How would you feel if the “cool kids” asked you to go out partying? You would be exceedingly ecstatic! That was a day in the life of Reena Virk. It was a good day followed by a nightmare of a…

Throughout this semester, Diversity in the Criminal Justice System has taught me to think critically on the fact being presented to us on a daily basis. Mainstream media in America has influenced the way society has viewed race relations. Media, the platform controlled by a small group of corporate business entities, who are constantly lying and telling society what to think. Minorities, especially people of color are being told that they are the victims of mass racism nowadays. Problems such…

J.Cole’s album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, both challenged and surprised me. Initially, it was difficult to understand what Cole was going through as our lives contrast so much. For example, in “Adolescence ‘03” Cole considers selling drugs because that’s what everyone around him was doing. Personally, it was hard to relate as I’ve grown up in a safe environment where drug influence is less prominent. Additionally, I was surprised by the lucidness of the album, as Cole gives full disclosure of…

all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” Acts 2:17 AKJV. Imagine for a moment, as boy awakened early by his father: “Hey, buddy, you up for an adventure today?” Trusting his father, the son nervously with anticipation: says yeah dad, let’s go! Now imagine the son who says, Na. I’m tired, I just want to go back to bed, go without me! When God invites you into an adventure it’s a special moment, a…

In 2011, Kevin Chran wrote about Paul Ekman and his research on facial emotion measurement. As a matter of fact, when Ekman was fourteen in 1948 his mother committed suicide due to bipolar depression. Not only ... but also he wished that he could have seen the depression in her face but he couldn’t at the time. In the same fashion he wanted to find a way to help save more lives. Nevertheless, he ended up finding out that Darwin was right about emotions being universal. Until recently everybody…