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status; 23 million Americans are uninsured despite the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) expanded coverage (source?), resulting in necessary healthcare services not being utilized. Smoking, as another barrier, contributes due to its easy access and close association with the low socio-economic class as well as the smokers’ lack of education about smoking cessation and the consequences of smoking. As pharmacists, we must take on the role being an advocate and educator for those who do not have easy…

time job during high school or college or volunteering whenever you possible can. If you want to get into an Optometry school most of the schools require twenty to thirty hours of doctor shadowing” (Bingham). Foremost, one needs a to acquire a license to even become an Optometrist. That is the main goal. So before entering Optometry school a bachelor’s degree is required. At least three to four years of pre Optometric study are required. To be admitted into an Optometry school, an Optometry…

Gentrification, as an idea, seems good and philanthropic. The goal is beneficial for the community in most economical, political, and social aspects. Everybody wants to live in a safe, economically stable, and thriving neighborhood and to be able to provide that same lifestyle to others. However, the process of gentrification, and actually putting those ideas into practice, have been met with unfavorable protests, backlash, and seen some negative results. I vote No on Proposition 555 for a few…

Across the United States, there is a huge demand for women of all ages in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) based careers. Many corporations have created programs to help generate more interest in women, especially at a young age. Learning the basics of STEM, demand for engineers, and programs for women have been essential to the development of keeping the attention from women. Consequently, the problem for a career in secondary education in math is the lack of interest…

Martin Luther King Jr. “The final section of Martin Luther King Jr.’s eloquent and iconic ‘ I Have a Dream’ speech is believed to have been largely improvised.” The writers of The History Channel Website, a commonly used website, state, “Even though King’s “I Have a Dream” speech has changed how most people feel, not everyone agrees with him. Some feel the speech was a great accomplishment of King, not all did. Even though we all have different feelings, we still have to live with how his…

nowadays, they could still face workplace discrimination of executive positions. Such phenomenon is also termed as “bamboo ceiling”. She states that Asian Americans have become a “model minority” in regards to high average wage and education level. She supports this claim by presenting several studies and statistics. Buchannan then shifts the focus to introducing the term “bamboo ceiling”…

first mayor of New Haven Connecticut and served on the committee of five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and was also a representative and senator in the new republic. He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the US; the continental association; the Declaration of Independence; the articles of confederation; and the constitution. Roger Sherman represented Connecticut in the US house of representatives from 1781 to 1791 and then in the US senate from 1791 until…

Either Mexico’s healthcare is extremely cheap or the United States’ healthcare is extremely expensive to justify travelling that far for a dentist appointment and for that to be economically viable. I suspect it’s a mixture of the former and the latter, although honestly the violence between drug cartels in Mexico would make me too nervous to ever travel there. I’m sure many Europeans feel the same way about traveling to the United States when they read up on the country’s gun violence…

educators must first provide them with service opportunities focused on global mindedness during the high school years. Attitudes towards others start in the classroom; it is here that students develop a sense of self and others. The International Baccalaureate Programmes focus on developing the mindset of students so that they are thinking on a more international scale. ¹ Rampart High School should focus on incorporating more globally minded volunteer opportunities in order to help develop…

Time in class is saved due to school uniforms. The dress codes at school can cause students that violate them to leave school due to getting in trouble. School uniforms can take care of this problem completely. Tracey Marinell, Lyndhurst, NJ school district superintendent states in the article "Uniform policies save valuable class time because they are easier to enforce than a standard dress code" that before the school had a uniform policy, "Kids were spending time in the office because they…