According to the humane society (2016), 36.1 million households in the United States have a cat as a pet, with an average of 2.58 people per household, so thirty percent of Americans have a cat as a pet (“Pets By The Numbers”, 2016). If an animal shelter mistakes a pet cat for a stray cat or a feral cat, what should they do with them? Should they wait the five days and euthanize them, or should they give them a chance? Should they let the cat live, and if so what is the difference between a…
workshop, and when I got back from my mission we did just that. We built a strong arm bell for a church activity where you hit the lever and it sends a nut up a rope and hits the bell. It was fun cause we had never built one and we had to work out the kinks, and we bounced ideas off each…
Reclaiming Power: The Effect of White Supremacy on Coloured/Black Womens' Hair Using the following quote by Bell Hooks, "In those days, this process of straightening black women’s hair with a hot comb (invented by Madame C. J. Walker) was not connected in my mind with the effort to look white, to live out standards of beauty set by white supremacy. It was connected solely with rites of initiation into womanhood. To arrive at that point where one’s hair could be straightened was to move from…
A Writer’s Greatest Tool Shakespeare is the most commonly known playwright in our world today. By High School, every student in the United States has heard of and most likely read one of his plays. Shakespeare has become part of the culture in America, as well as most of the world and that is a wonderful and interesting thing. One man in the 16th century wrote plays about topics that are still interesting and in some ways still prevalent. Shakespeare worked on his writing, improving on every…
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared,” Lois Lowry wrote in the book The Giver (154). The characters in this book live in a futuristic community that has eliminated everything causing pain. For example, there are strict rules governing rudeness, so the community does not allow community members to ask any question that will make anyone feel different. The characters do not feel emotions, or love, so they never feel hurt or…
In the beginning At 7am on 26th August 1943 in a place called Rose Cottage at School Green, Thornton, Bradford, something stirred. It was me. My mother, Hilda, had been waiting for my arrival for the past nine months and now was the time for my big entrance into the world, and, oh boy, I just couldn’t wait. My grandmother, Nellie, had held a deep fear of hospitals all her life and although my mother was an only child, she just could not bring herself to accompany my mother to hospital. So a…
It’s almost every little kid’s dream to have a puppy while growing up. I was lucky to be one of those kid’s. Before I was born my parents already had a chocolate lab named Abenea. She was the sweetest dog until she got hit by a car when I was 6. After that I was a dog less kid, which wasn’t bad thing, but I would always beg my parents for one. That all changed a couple of years after my sister was born. I didn’t think that the next dog I would get, would be the best friend I could have ever…
In the 1900s, cosmetic products, like the Sweet Georgia Brown Cleansing Lotion, were introduced to American culture and slowly began to replace the process of creating beauty products at home. The Sweet Georgia Brown Cleansing Lotion, made by Valmor Products Co., is an example of one of the new beauty products introduced at the end of the early 1900s. This product was specialized for African-American women, which can be understood from the image of the African-American woman featured on the…
How does the human genome sequence and more specifically the individual genes affect our response to medicine? Before this question can be answered you must know understand what the genome and the gene is exactly and what it does. A gene is the basic physical and fundamental unit of heredity, made up of deoxyribonucleic acid that carries a certain set of genetic instructions. The human genome is estimated to have up to 25,000 genes, varying in size with some carrying a few hundred DNA bases,…
I believe that the high courts should not require a specific standard for a citizen having to use deadly force to protect themselves.If you are to the point of your life where you are threatened by an outside force then you need to defend yourself by any means necessary.One case that I would like to go back to is the case where George Zimmerman saw a black male by the name of Trayvon Martin. He was unaware why Martin was in the area while it was dark out.He decided that he wanted to pursue him…