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article is on a study called “Sexual Orientation Identity Change and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Analysis” which is on people whose sexual identities changed towards same-sex attraction in early childhood and how they are more likely to experience more depressive symptoms than others. A sociologist named Bethany Everett at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) conducted the study. The study includes bisexual, gay, and lesbian individuals who initially identified as heterosexual…

this being positive to increase their bottom line, Southern Illinois University needs the downtown to enhance its ability to attract and retain students, faculty and staff. Downtown Carbondale serves a variety of roles within the community that should be recognized and enhanced throughout this revitalization efforts. Also, other towns and cities nearby are aggressive competitors for business attraction and they also draw attention from residential pools. What impact does downtown revitalization…

“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men,” said Lyndon Baynes Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, in a speech at Washington, D.C. ("The Voting Rights Act of 1965"). Ever since the adoption of the 15th Amendment in 1870, African Americans have been denied their constitutional right to vote, despite federal policies. This discrimination was…

sharecroppers and his grandparents were slaves. Owens was often sick suffering from chronic bronchial congestion and pneumonia. Still, at an early age, Owens was expected to work, picking up 100 pounds of cotton despite the fact that he a frail child, in order to help in providing for the family. At the age of 9 in 1922, Owens family decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. There he learned that life was very much different from the “slower, southern life” that he’d known. School seemed to be one of…

Great Communicator.” Ronald Reagan was the second child of John Edward Reagan, a struggling shoe salesman, and Nelle Wilson Reagan. Reagan’s nickname, Dutch, derived from his father’s habit of referring to his infant son as his “fat little Dutchman.” After several years of moving from town to town their family settled in Dixon, Illinois, in 1920. Despite their near poverty and his father’s drinking problem, Reagan later recalled his childhood in Dixon as the happiest period of his life. At…

which four author’s I wanted to write about. I narrowed it down by the unique and special traits they each have. My four authors I picked to write about are Anthony Burgess, Louise Erdrich, Lorraine Hansberry, and Helen Keller. All of the authors come from different backgrounds and have very interesting poems, and unique trades in their life. Out of the four authors I picked, I only knew one of the four and decided to choose three other authors with totally different backgrounds.…

Bleeding America The Kansas-Nebraska Act, a act proposed by "Senator Stephen Douglas, a Democratic Senator from Illinois who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act"1 in hopes for the nation to build a transcontinental-railroad, hopefully having the eastern terminus in Chicago, but the railroad needed to be secure as it was going to go through the Kansas and Nebraska territories, preferably as states. Being a personal advocate of popular sovereignty, Stephen A. Douglas disliked the Missouri…

The Cosmos is a fast food restaurant based in Chicago, Illinois, the U.S.A. The restaurant is one among many franchises in the country, which shows that it is a fairly well-established company. It specializes in the sale of grilled chicken and beef, sandwiches, burgers, salads, and hot and cold beverages. I work in the hotel's branch in Chicago as an assistant sales and marketing director. As an employee in this department, I am required to ensure that the company is meeting is set target and…

probably shipwrecked or kept in England because of the war it was in with France. But before he left, William Sr. left this advice for his children: “Let Truth and Honesty be your guide & on no pretense Deviate from…

names but one that stands out the most is ‘melting pot’. This name was given to the United States in 1908 after it was used as a metaphor describing the combination of nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities in a play know by the same name. All people come from somewhere and in the United States during the four waves of immigration this was the case along with many European immigrants. Looking at the history of German immigrants coming to the United States the sources found gave the reader a…