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The notion that someone’s personal attire can disrupt someone else’s concentration in a learning environment is foolish to even consider. One dresses to fit ones personality, to boost ones confidence, and to make oneself feel original, not to be the top of their class. Material things such as clothes, piercing, and unnatural hair will only continue to cause a distraction when a teacher calls someone out for it being out of dress code. The distraction is not the dress code policy, it is the…

destroyed or until they have been obliged to go and settle outside the lands of the province.”(Etienne De Périer, 31.) From 1673 until 1763 the future state of Mississippi was part of the French colony of Louisiana. Men such as Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet were explorers in Mississippi. These two in…

Theology, an article stood out to me that I wanted to read further. That article was entitled Wisdom and/or Dementia: Is This the Choice American Society is Mired In? I have been working in Aging and Disability Services at Catholic Charities Diocese of Joliet for the past 7 months and have encountered my fair share of seniors with a variety of aging issues including dementia. Seniors have never been a popular age group for me personally because I have enjoyed working with children since my…

"This is one of the most brutal, heinous and upsetting things I've ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement. Not only the crime scene, but the disregard for common decency toward human beings." Joliet Illinois Police Chief Mike Trafton stated. Three people were robbed, brutally killed and dismembered for no apparent reason. Police said when they found the bodies, three other people were in the house playing video games and showing no remorse at all. Although all crime scenes can be tough to…

Most people don’t know why there in college, however, I know why I am in college. I graduate in a year, and since day one of college I’ve been dreaming about walking across the stage being proud of myself. I’m in college because I don’t want to struggle in the near future. I see myself working at State Farm in the near future, as I’ve always said. However, nothing comes easy, or go as planned. I will tell you this though; I’m not going to stop pushing myself until I reach where I want to be.…

Native Americans Before European Exploration Before the arrival of the Spanish, French, and English in the western hemisphere the Aztecs and Incas were prosperous civilization. The Aztecs were militaristic and ended up controlling most of central Mexico. The Inca were more peace like and economic. They established a highly developed farming civilization in present day Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The Inca became a massive empire that stretched along the Andes and Pacific Ocean by the mid­…

in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland failed. They would not establish a permanent colony until the seventeenth century. In 1608, Samuel de Champlain, while exploring for a French fur trading company, founded Quebec. In 1673, Jacque Marquette and Louis Joliet located the Mississippi River. In 1681 Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle descended to the Gulf of Mexico. France therefore claimed the entire Mississippi River Valley. New France encompassed the St Lawrence, Mississippi and Ohio rivers.…

The therapeutic benefits of marijuana have been known since 2700 B.C. in China. Truly contrary to what the opposition claims about marijuana’s effects on health, marijuana benefits an individual’s body more than it hurts them. At this time, there is an improved attentiveness of these therapeutic benefits and they are continually being discovered and examined all over the world. People with ileitis (Crohn’s disease), cancer, and migraine headaches also desire the pain alleviating abilities of…

Eliquis vs. Warfarin Jennifer Lockie Joliet Junior College According to the American Heart Association, there are, at minimum, 2.7 million Americans currently diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (a-fib). This condition accounts for 15-20% of strokes. As a result, patients are prescribed an anticoagulation therapy to decrease this risk (What is atrial fibrillation, 2016). While warfarin has been the medication of choice for decades, new anticoagulation medications have been approved in…

ground control. United Flight 718 took of from the same runway in Los Angeles at 9:04 a.m., only three minutes behind TWA Flight 2. 718 was to flight a VOR path from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, Needles to Durango, Pueblo to St. Joseph, and finally Joliet to Chicago Midway. The flight plan called for a true airspeed of 288 knots at an altitude of 21,000 ft. This was also a routine flight with 3,850 gallons of fuel and a takeoff weight of 105,835 pounds, well below that of the maximum allowable…