Op-ed

Salami Tell You About Steiner “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable” is an op-ed guest column published in the New York Times in 2009, written by Gary Steiner. Steiner is a philosophy professor at Bucknell University who has published other animal rights books including Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents and Animals and the Moral Community. He attempts to open the minds of the readers to learn about their “normal” behavior. Things such as eating meat, going to zoos, or even enjoying circuses are…

Organization and Rhetoric in “Is the Business World All About Greed?” Nicholas Kristof is a bi-weekly, periodic op-ed columnist for the New York Times. His articles focus on social issues, ranging from women’s rights to health care, and global affairs including those in third world countries. Kristof is a Harvard graduate, and he has studied and lived abroad and speaks multiple languages. Also, he is a recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes. In the article “Is the Business World All About Greed?”…

With bags of camera equipment in her hands, Joana Gerbi slid into the backseat of a London cab and prepared for her final video shoot. She glanced out the streaked window, recollecting how familiar her surroundings had become in the past two months. Her American lifestyle had been replaced with narrow roads, an edgy cultural vibe, and upscale British cuisine. In the 25-minutes it took to reach BNY Mellon, Gerbi brushed up on the company’s history and familiarized herself with the agenda of…

PHYT 6311 Clinical Pathology – Fall 2017 Assignment Due date: Monday 11/16/17 – turn a copy of the following questions/answers and a copy of the article in to my box (in the PT main office) by 5:00. Be sure to write your name on the assignment text and article. Assignment and rubric: Choose a disease, syndrome, or other pathology that has relevance to the practice of Physical Therapy to cover for this assignment. You can choose one from the book or journal article or from a class…

Off-duty in the United States “Every officer knows or at least should know by now that they live in a fishbowl” (Roufa). This is a fishbowl that anyone can peer at to cast judgment at any given time. Society is ruled by universal ideals such as honesty, integrity, sympathy, compassion, and justice (Roufa). Police officers need to embody these ideas to serve their precinct. Now, what happens when those tasked with upholding these ideals are above reproach? An imbalance of society occurs resulting…

Nickesha Findley-Thompson Professor: Alejandro Leopardi IERW002 Date: 10-30-17 Our Life is the Ocean’s There is an enormous amount of people on earth and the number gets larger by the second. Let’s imagine the amount of waste that is accumulated by us on average, then think about where it ends up. In our oceans that’s where. The ocean has become a dumping zone for our personal waste. Most of us think of the ocean as an irrelevant element in our existence but our future is solely dependent on the…

Obviously, for many users, OxyContin serves merely as a substitute for heroin, but many people with legitimate pain problems were duped into taking the drug. For instance, that was seemingly the case with Rush Limbaugh who started taking the drug after back surgery. After all, most patients trust their doctor’s word as the gospel and the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, convinced doctors that it had “reduced addiction risk.” That was a completely false marketing claim as OxyContin is just as…

We hear broad opinions from individuals with different standpoints on life whose socio-economic and political position, religious beliefs, and customs are not the same. These people want to share and express what they think in the media, websites, and news because it is crucial as human beings to communicate; however, some of them are more flexible while others are authoritarian. Some of them are more extremist and fanatical. When it comes to the liberal power of the media, persuasive sarcasm…

According to a 2007-2008 study, made by the National Center for Educational Statistics, 16.5% of all schools in the United States wear uniforms; while 54% have a strict dress code. Proponents of uniforms agree with the rise of uniforms (Fast Facts). They believe uniforms improve schools. Opponents believe the rise of uniforms is a problem. What most adults do not realize is how much students dislike uniforms. Middle school students should not have to wear school uniforms because this takes away…

Professor of Economics, Paul Krugman speaks of solar power in the United States and it’s rise above fossil power in his New York Times op-ed, “Here Comes the Sun.” Is solar power really better than fossil power? Even though solar energy has a variety of benefits such as being abundant, environmentally friendly and also is declining in cost, it still has a few issues. One case of these issues is implementing that solar energy into the US electrical grid. According to the article “Green energy…