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about when it occurs on college campuses. “One in four college women report surviving rape or attempted rape at some point in their lifetime” (Sexual Assault Statistics). It’s not just women though, about “11.2 percent of all college students, men and women, experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation” (Campus Sexual Violence: Statistics). Rape is such an extravagant issue in just about every college and university in the United States; however, many…

Charles Person The Freedom rides played an important role in the development of the Civil Rights Movements in the United States. Several people were involved because they believed that every citizen regardless of race, creed or color should have equal access to public transportation. A young man in the person of Charles Person and others believed that the laws were unfair and unconstitutional, so they decided to protest and started a movement that was referred to as; The Freedom Riders. A…

problem at Mercer University. Purpose This proposal was written in response to RFP No. MU-2014-03. In this RFP, Dr. Pam Brewer identified a problem with the current recycling and sustainability program at Mercer University and requested that the program be improved and expanded upon. As students of industrial management, marketing, and mechanical engineering we feel that we are capable and competent to respond to this request. Currently, the recycling program at Mercer University lacks unity…

creates a certain level of comfortability with sportsmanship and competitiveness. For every Team A, there is a Team B who wants to defeat it and in essence that is how sport rivalries are born. While exploring through research of the Eastern United States, strong evidence stuck out that sports rivalries in these communities played a large role in how they were shaped. Furthermore, Appalachian communities thrive off of sports rivalries and within those rivalries the communities unify and become…

Arbor, Michigan are the archives for the University of Michigan. There you can find the Final Four, “... banners from 1992 and 1993” (Thamel). The Fab Five, known as “The Greatest Class Ever Recruited” had bald heads, sagging shorts, black socks, and an attitude that changed College Basketball forever. “They don’t care how they were perceived” (Hehir). They had a journey to get to the point of the Chris Webber scandal. The Fab Five’s revolutionized college basketball during the 1991-92…

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1928 to Vivian Baxter and Bailey Johnson. When her parents divorce, Angelou and her brother were sent to live with their grandmother, Annie Henderson, in Stamps,Arkansas. Angelou’s grandmother, who she called “Momma,” was the stable force in Angelou’s early life. Annie Henderson was a strong religious woman who made sure that the family went to church every Sunday. Religion and spiritual music were important in the Johnson…

over time. Upon completion of high school I realized that I really had no idea what I truly wanted to do, and while a firefighting or EMT career seemed appealing, it didn’t feel like the fit for me. Since I did not possess the resources to go to college, spending all of the money and working so…

Community College Access” There is a bill that is being proposed and that is to give free tuition for community colleges, but there is an argument that since tuition is averaged around $3300 they also give pell grants and other grants to poor and working class students that they get more out of it. When you talk about money it plays a big role. There is money being involved and when there is it will have an affect how education is maintained. There are students who go to college and when…

valuable lessons from watching her as we set up her classroom or worked before and after school. These lessons of loving what you do, working hard and being dedicated helped me achieve success in elementary, middle and high school, but when I went to college I had to decide “what I wanted to be when…

Religion was a large part of North Americans’ lives during colonial times. Many different groups moved to North America to escape religious persecution in their home countries. However, “freedom of religion” did not always exist in the present-day United States. While many groups came to North America to escape religious persecution, they only wanted the freedom to practice their own religion and did not necessarily want everyone to be able to practice their own religion. Until the Bill of…