Sacagawea Sacagawea, Sacajawea, or Sakakawa was her name. She was a major contribution in one of America’s famous expeditions, and the only women of 33 who were in the group. “Corps of Discovery,” is what many called the westward expedition of the United States. Sacagawea now symbolizes U.S culture and female strength. Daughter of a Shoshone chief, Sacagawea was born in 1788 in Lemhi County, Idaho. Unfortunately most of her early years remains a mystery. At the young age of twelve she was…
Minority Health Care Access AnchorThe United States Government claims our medical health care is the best in the world. The can be no further from the truth. We as a country are less advanced than other nations because citizens of certain races, ethnicities and incomes experience less coverage than others. African Americans and Latinos are among the worse. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in 2014. It's goal is to expand health insurance coverage. Early evidence shows the uninsured…
Vulnerable population begins with people of different race, ethnicity and social minority groups. "Race is a category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that are obvious and considered important...ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage...and minority is any category of people distinguished by either a physical or cultural difference that society has subordinated” (Goodfriend, 2016). There are few examples of each, some are Latino, African American, Asian, Native American, and…
In the health care system, cost-effectiveness analysis is the most influential tools needed to reduce the burden of any diseases (Watkins, Mvundura, Nordet, & Mayosi, 2015). Economical costs are mostly impacted when the burden of a disease remains ultimately high with little budget to intervene from the public sectors (Watkins et al., 2015). Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which involves heart or blood vessels is known to cause coronary heart disease, stroke, and congestive heart failures…
peers and also try to make new life long friends. Proponents claim bilingual education is more of a secondary language is more of a tool to help with kids to be able to talk and understand what the other person is saying to them, without using an interpreter 24/7. Opponents claim that bilingual education is not effective in school systems because it's more a distraction to the…
Guest Speaker True Wallace Last week we had a very nice woman named True Wallace visit us in our PLC class to bring ideas and talk about what a leader is and what a leader needs to do. She first asked us what our idea of a leader was and who we pictured when you think of the word leader. That made me really think because everyone has a similar idea of what a leader is but then I had to ask myself if I had these qualities that were named. Some of these qualities consist of having followers,…
on how they view the story, and how they feel about each character in this case (reading 1) specially towards Hyde, this is because of the language that Robert Stevenson uses is a very strong vocabulary. So this of course affects how the reader interpreters the…
help them to translate and communicate with other people. That vulnerability makes them the perfect prey for Krajiek. As Jimmy describes: “The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family to come to this part of this country. Krajiek was their only interpreter, and could tell them anything he chose. They could not speak enough English to ask for advice (Cather p. 16).” The isolation in the new country affects Mr. Shimerdas more than any of the other member of the family. Mr. Shimerdas feels isolate…
open-endedness of the world” (Pearce, 1989, p. 84). “Evens and objects do not come ‘prepackaged’ with their own interpretation, and they are not incorporated into the human world until they are interpreted. Further, interpretation is an act by an interpreter, not an attribute of the event or object interpreted; as a result, there is no criterion by which one interpretation can be shown to be the ‘correct’ one” (Pearce, 1989, p. 84). “…liberation permits attention to the potential discrepancies…
The history of the U.S. starts with immigration. In 1821-30 there was 143,000 immigrants coming in a year. Now the U.S. gets 3,084,200 immigrants a year. So why get rid of immigration, princess hitch helped the United States get where it is today. In this essay you will see why the U.S. need immigrants. Since the beginning immigrants have brought something to the U.S. In the article “American innovation has been fueled by immigrant inventors” it says “Without immigrants and the influx of…