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Police officers killed at least 37% of unarmed african americans in 2015, more than any other nationality, despite african americans being only 13% of the United States population. Only nine of the 102 cases concerning with police brutality resulted in officers being charged with crime. Police Officers should go to jail for their crime for their actions such as brutal abuse, murder and/or racial profiling. Police brutality is a serious cause in the United States that most of the community is…

Career Narrative Making $66,640 for the rest of my life promoting health, preventing diseases, and helping patients cope with illness. Might not sound like much fun to you but me I’m all in for it you can call me nurse Ford. Ever since I was in my younger days I always told myself I wanted to be a nurse or doctor it wasn’t until around like six grade when I finally sat down and said okay I wanna be a nurse that’s what I wanna do for the rest for my life help people when they or ill. I didn’t…

Bernie Sanders gave a speech at the National Nurses United Endorsement in Oakland, California on August 10th, 2015. During his speech he engages his audience by using pathos which is talking to the audience by making it feel personal and caring. By this making his speech rhetorically effective due to the excellent use of pathos throughout the speech and effective overall because the use of logos which was developed in a great way which led to an excellent sense of ethos. Bernie used pathos in…

Jack London was an American writer, author and journalist who lived from 1876 to 1916. Some of his famous works include The Sea Wolf and Call of the Wild. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, he was raised in Oakland, California, by his mother and stepfather. Jack London is considered to be a great writer. In his teenage years, he worked many different jobs. In his spare time, he read travel books and novels at the library. Eventually, he told his mother a story of what happened one day…

decided that becoming a police officer is what he wanted to do in life because he enjoyed it when he was in the Navy. He then transferred to Oakland Community College and received an associate degree in criminal justice. After graduating with his degree he then joined the Oakland police academy. He worked hard and studied hard and eventually graduated from the Oakland police…

The Role of Statistics. A game of numbers, the Moneyball effect is considered start of professional baseball statistics. Statistics play the main role in baseball. It’s made a huge change in the way baseball runs and how players are evaluated and could be rated to be drafted. Every team uses statistics and it is not an even playing field. There are high salary cap teams and there are low salary cap teams. When statistic first became a huge role in baseball because low salary cap teams…

I am applying to the masters of Public Health program at Oakland University because I believe that this is the field that satiate my zeal to working for prevention and health promotion of community. Since my early childhood, I am inclined towards the applied aspects of medical field. Being motivated internally towards medical field, I choose Biology as a major in higher secondary education. Afterwards, to be more specific, I selected Bachelor of Science in Nursing as a pathway to lead to my…

Located about fifteen miles from the City of San Francisco is the Chevron Richmond Refinery, a 2900 acre facility that processes a quarter of a million barrels of crude oil every day (Chevron, n.d.). The SF Bay Area is also home to the Port of Oakland, ranked in 2013 as the fifth busiest container port in the United States. California’s freight system, which includes maritime shipping, is the “…single largest contributor of diesel particulate matter (soot) and smog-forming nitrogen-oxide…

When asked why she flew, Amelia Earhart answered, “My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes” (Quotes, n.p). Amelia Earhart was easily one of the best pilots in aviation history. On July 3, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, disappeared during their attempt to circumnavigate the globe. If successful, Earhart could have been the first woman to accomplish the feat,…

Protection Gun control laws in the United States has little effect and they permit the citizens to carry their own weaponry, which has made the U.S into the most violent country in the world. Gun violence has been a serious issue especially in the city of Oakland, California. Residents in some areas do not dare to leave their house after sunset because they are afraid to be another victim in the gunfights. According to Anthony Braga, in the “Center for Problem-Oriented Policing,” places such as…