Op-ed

The 1980s were particularly glorious years for the United States. Jimmy Carter had just lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan, and “the Gipper” was set to govern the great fifty states. The once hollywood actor , turned sports commentator was determined to stimulate the american economy, and that he did. Throughout his eight years in office, Reagan took strides to simplify legislation and push the American economy to heights it had never seen before, which by 1989 he had accomplished. While…

heritability of IQ in family lines within each group, permits no automatic conclusion that truly equal opportunity might not raise the black average enough to equal or surpass the white mean” (Stephen Jay Gould (1995) “Curveball,” in Steven Fraser, Ed. The Bell Curve Wars: race, Intelligence, and the Future of America [NY: Basic Books], pp. 11-22). Robert J. Sternberg furthers Gould’s scenario. Sternberg describes a scenario of if higher education, such as colleges and graduate programs,…

8365561 Homelessness: Should They Be Criminalized? Every single day, when I’m in the car with my family member, we always see homeless people or families in the street holding a sign that they don’t have money for themselves to spend on the things that they can afford to get. Me and my family members are always generous to give them money so that they can buy food, some nice clothes, etc. My feeling about homelessness has a huge impact on me whenever I see homeless people almost everyday at…

ruining retirement,” explains how millennials are the worst generation. “Baby boomers are what’s wrong with America’s economy,” from The Washington Post describes how baby boomers represent everything that is wrong with America. Thousands of editorials, op-eds, and BuzzFeed lists tell different versions of the same story. An increasingly apparent divide exists between the nonconsecutive…

What is normal? Is there even such a thing? People define normal as those like themselves, gender and sexually “correct” to their biological preferences; although, that is far from correct. Since the beginning of time, there have been so many revelations to who one is, or can be. There have been those who come out sexually as: gay (males who like those of the same gender), lesbian (females who like those of the same gender), asexual (those who are not sexually attracted to either sex), bisexual…

Dear sir with reference to the above mentioned subject the information regarding existing business is as follows: While reviewing sales of company it is observed that our sales increases by 22% each year but that lead to increase in our expenses by the same percentage which leads us to be on loss side each year. Further the increase in sales is not consistent with increase in market, as market is expanding relatively more than our growth that results decrease in our market share year by year. On…

Once the patient advises of the diagnosis she or he schedule for surgery. The patient signs all necessary documentations and the surgeon explains any procedure and concerns the patient might have. The patient transport to pre-op lab and all the test perform before surgery. If requested the surgeon may give anxiety medication to…

The purpose of the Hollaback! Kickstarter project by Emily May and Oraia Reid is to promote the Hollaback! app. An example of the promotion of the app is in the mission statement of the project; it reads, “Hollaback! is a movement dedicated to ending street harassment and assault using mobile technology” (May and Reid para. 1). I want to bring your attention to how the author uses the keywords "mobile technology." Since there are other ways to combat street harassment, by including the terms…

Wealth inequality has increased drastically over the last decade. Inequality in itself is not necessarily a social problem. Some people will always have more than others. But when the wealth gap is so blatantly wide that it hinders our economy and negatively affects the majority of the population, it is obvious there needs to be reforms within the system that is unfairly rigged to help the wealthy accrue more and more while the poorest members of the population see their already meager…

Jaime as Debby, so there will not be any confusion. Impressions I learned many things with the vignette we did in class. Active listening is important be-cause it helped Debby see that I was listening and just focusing on her. Also, it gave me the op-portunity to clarify any misunderstanding. The assessment helped me to think critically and find out the reason why Debby came to therapy. When I was watching the video, I was impressed how easily Debby and I build a bond. I had the same…