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According to Pitts (2008), the UK and the USA have seen dramatic changes in the economy which have greatly affected many families residing in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. In particular, the BME community has seen an increase in their young males left redundant and stagnant at the bottom of the social class ladder and excluded from the values of society. In their response to their lack of status, respect and power with frustration, black youths have ostensibly resulted to anger and also the…

Who is not pro-choice and who is not pro-life? These are just two terms politicians use in their campaigns to sum up their view on abortion. Isn’t everybody pro-choice? Doesn’t everyone like the idea of making choices? Comparatively, everyone is pro-life. Almost everyone supports the right for people to live. There is much more meaning to these terms than they portray at first read. The pro-choice community is in favor of a woman’s right to choose what she does with her body. Specifically…

Introduction It is not fully understood by a large portion of the population, that each and every person is truly biologically unique, from our fingerprint to our genome (Topol, 2014, p. 241). This has now been made abundantly clear through the use of compressive ‘omic’ assessments of individuals, including DNA and RNA sequencing, and to a lesser extent the metabolone, proteome, and even the microbiome, autoantibodies and epigenome (Topol, 2014, p. 241). This information can now give rise to…

The 2000 Presidential election was the first time George W. Bush ran for president. He ran against Dick Cheney and won. The electoral votes were 271-266 with George having more. This was a significant election because it was the 4th election in all of American history where the candidate that had more electoral votes did not have more popular votes. In the 2008 Presidential Election first time candidate Barack Obama went against John McCain. Obama was the democratic candidate and John was the…

Introduction Oncology services in the United States are rising dramatically. In 2014, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 20.3 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer. A study performed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) reported that the number of individuals diagnosed with cancer will increase 55% by 2020, and that oncology visits will increase from 38 million in 2005 to 57 million in 2020 (Warren, Mariotto, Meekins, Topor, & Brown, 2008). As a…

INTRODUCTION Cancer can be defined as a special kind of illness that occurs when the cells in a given part of a body begin to grow out of proportion than is normal. Currently, in the United States, this disease is the second leading cause of deaths. Human beings over the history have had tumors and remedies have been implemented, and others continue to be performed and studied over time (American Cancer Society, 2010). These methods of treatment include chemo-preventive methods and of late…