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aged 12 to 17 in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in the past year. They say 20 percent of teens will experience depression before they reach adulthood and 10 to 15 percent of teenagers have some symptoms of depression at any one time. Those numbers are upsetting. The number of teenagers suffering with depression is too…

Throughout my life, I have started from the bottom of the ladder and worked my way up time and time again. In middle school, I was told that although my performance on a “gifted and talented” test, I had the opportunity to take gifted and talented classes in a pilot program. Believing I had to prove myself, I pushed myself and earned the highest GPA of my entire middle school class. In high school, I discovered that I was able to repeat my success by earning valedictorian while realizing my love…

I was very familiar with. I knew that I owed it to myself and even my future patients to research the profession and make it a priority to shadow an osteopathic physician. It took many cold calls and emails, but through the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Mentor Program I was eventually able to find an osteopathic physician, specializing in family medicine, that was excited to share the profession with me. Dr. Phuc Huynh, DO, invited me to spend the morning with him as he visited his…

essay “Dumbing Us Down: Weapons Of Mass Instruction,” John argues that the current liberal state of the education system is in need of public reform and recognition. John explains that our current education system is structured to discourage self-discovery by cramming mind-numbing busy work down student’s throats, stifling creativity. John expounds the current education system is creating a quiet lower and middle class that keeps busy and helps capitalism maintains its influence by feeding the…

Declining Social Capital” of Robert D. Putnam, the United States has a strong and active civil society; however, it has been weakening over the past several decades. The civic engagement in the U.S. has witnessed significant drop on many factors, such as number of voters, number of public meetings, number of people who trust the government in Washington, and so on. However, new types of organization are growing rapidly including tertiary associations, non-profit organizations, and support…

Female Politician Outline Sandra Day O’Connor. Amani Elkhatib. October 7, 2015 Introduction: Introduce your selection and include why you chose this person for your case study. State your thesis in this paragraph. Nominated by Ronald Reagan, Sandra Day O’Connor faced much criticism from equal sides of the left and right. She was faced with lots of scorn and had many expectations on her shoulders. In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman justice to ever be appointed to the Supreme…

College tuition is rising faster than the rate of inflation. The Department of Education states “Between 2003–04 and 2013–14, prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board at public institutions rose 34 percent, and prices at private nonprofit institutions rose 25 percent, after adjustment for inflation” What is the reason for this increase? What can we fix? Can tuition increases be fixed? There are people who are looking into the reason tuition prices increase. Unfortunately, there is…

Lebanon and the African Union. And while his comments pertain to the people who he encountered while working in third world countries, his comments can be applied to America. The public school system was once the pride of our country, but now fails to prepare children for a life after school. The public school system is underfunded for the children without money, understaffed for the children who need special attention and under appreciated by families who need it most. Not only has it failed to…

cash. Prostitution is the point at which the pimp finds a young lady to turn trap, yet human trafficking is the point at which they can have a nearer association with…

officials use. Not only have these events personally affected the lives of many young men of middle eastern descent, but a boy as young as fourteen years old who is of middle eastern descent. Ahmed, a young Muslim boy living in Irving, Texas, was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school. School officials, as well as many Americans, assumed it was a homemade bomb. Police officers came to the school and arrested Ahmed on the spot without even trying to listen to his explanation of what…