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Margaret Sanger was an early feminist who created the term “birth control” and fought for its cause. Margaret Sanger was born on September 14, 1879 to a Roman Catholic working class Irish American family (“Margaret Sanger”). She attended school Claverack College and Hudson River institute. She also studied nursing for four years at White Plains Hospital. As a nurse Margaret treated many women who had just undergone back alley abortions or tried to self-terminate their pregnancies. This…

The Royal College of Art has been named the world's driving college of Art and Design in the 2016 QS World University Subject Rankings. The RCA takes the top spot over top-positioning colleges including MIT, Stanford, Yale and Rhode Island School of Design. This is the second support of the RCA in the same number of weeks: the Chancellor George Osborne promised £54 million in a week ago's financial plan to manufacture another Royal College of Art (RCA) grounds in north Battersea including a…

rehabilitate soldiers there. The approach proved to be beneficial to the Army, so the demand for services increased as the war went on. More and more schools started adding training courses that consisted of arts and crafts, medical lectures, hospital etiquette, and practical experience. The only thing required for the training program was a high school diploma. Some people like Susan Cox Johnson were concerned that the programs were put together to quickly and were not concerned about the…

April twenty-fifth, 1599 in Huntingdon, United Kingdom, a small town near Cambridge. He was baptised four days after his birth at the church of St John. Oliver’s ancestors were distant relatives of Thomas Cromwell, who was a very powerful man in England and permanently changed the course of English history. Thomas was King Henry VII’s chancellor, and was known as a logical man who did not allow emotions to dictate his actions. Because of their distant relation to Thomas, Oliver’s ancestors had…

From the beginning Aaron Hernandez was destined to be a great football player. He had all the athletic skill in the world and had the physical size to back it up. He had made a name for himself since his high school days, breaking and setting state records, and then in college he boasted that he would eventually make it into the NFL. That day did come but in a matter of seconds Aaron Hernandez threw that privilege all away; one bad decision has now altered his life path. He had gone from a $40…

definition of ALS is, “a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. As motor neurons degenerate, they can no longer send impulses to the muscle fibers that normally result in muscle movement.” (ALS Association) In other words it means…

Collegiate athletes are some of the most important students at every university. They represent their school, and they are highly valued by the university they attend. “University of Missouri Campus Protests: ‘This is Just a Beginning’” explains that about thirty black Missouri University football players stated via Twitter that they would not participate in football activities until their president, Tim Wolfe, resigned for his recent mishandling of racial issues at the university. Soon after…

social views. Another sister Isabella became a leader of the women’s rights movement.Harriet enrolled in a school run by Catharine, following the traditional course of classical learning usually reserved for young men. At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father had become the head of the Lane Theological Seminary. Stowe, found like minded friends in a local literary association called semi-colon club.Here she formed a friendship with fellow member and seminary teacher…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Ifemelu is a young, educated Nigerian woman who satisfies her yearning to travel, abandons her childhood sweetheart Obinze and goes to America without a Green Card to attend college. The story skips between her point of view and Obinze's, yet we are mostly with Ifemelu as she explores her new life in the States. In Nigeria, everybody is dark. There is no separation over race. What she encounters in the US – and after that archives in her blog – is the way racism makes…

pioneering case-control study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005 by Maxine Papadakis, that investigated the association between disciplinary actions against practicing physicians with prior instances of unprofessional behavior while in medical school.4 This study found that physicians who were subject to disciplinary action in there fields were more likely to have had prior instances of unprofessional behavior while in medical school than control physicians (OR = 3). 4…