Petra

More than thirteen years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq in March of 2003. This contentious decision has forever shifted U.S. foreign policy thus creating problems that will not be repaired easily, if at all. What grew into a full-blown war finally ended after Obama’s decision to bring troops back to the U.S., however the effects of the war are prominently evident in Iraq. The lack of any complete resolution for Iraq and its people has left many citizens of the United States,…

The article that I chose to read is called “Ethical Discourse on the Use of Genetically Modified Crops: A Review of Academic Publications in the Fields of Ecology and Environmental Ethics.” The authors, Daniel Gregorowius, Petra Lindemann-Matthies, and Markus Huppenbauer, discuss the ethical issues present in a multitude of academic articles in regards to the use of genetically modified crops. The authors of this article are all staff members at different universities and specialize in the…

blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for being transformed into a woman for seven years is one of those characters. Tiresias was a prominent character in the story of Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, where he served as a seer to the king, Petra Kuppers agrees by saying that the, “The project happens in the name of Tiresias: we claim Greek gods with a sarcastic eye, colonize the theatre of Dionysius, invade the outdoors of olive groves playfully. Disabled people and our fascinating…

“Recontouring teeth and closing diastemas with direct composite buildups: A 5-year follow-up” by Cornelia Frese, Petra Schiller, Hans Joerg Staehle, and Diana Wolff “Interaction between staining and degradation of a composite resin in contact with colored foods” by Debora Soares-Geraldo; Taís Scaramucci; Washington Steagall-Jr; Sheila Regina Maia Braga; Maria Angela Pita Sobral Clinical Question: Is composite subject to long term discoloration when used for diastema closures and what are…

A large institution that leads women to not be involved in engineering is that of the education system as a whole. First off, at the engineering department faculty level, female faculty are extremely underrepresented. The ratio of male to female professors and lecturers is one of the lowest compared to other departments. Even at top engineering schools such as Oxford University, which is ranked as the number seven engineering school in the world, there are only seven female members in the…

MRSA Effect Makaylah Hoang San Jose State University Ever since Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin in 1928 researchers and scientists have developed many different types of antibiotics to help fight off illness by killing bacteria. Yet with the development of antibiotics there has been a development of bacterium that have become antibiotic resistant. The danger of this one bacterium to become resistant to antibiotics raises the question of whether or not other bacterium are able to…

means covering up each other's mistakes, in order to help. “What! With the way she was yelling! I’d’ve thought anybody who was’nt deaf would have heard her halfway to Kentak”(Wyndham 84). In this quote Rosalind was covering up for Petra’s yelling. Petra telepathically caught the group’s attention causing a small gathering, some townspeople also followed them. The townspeople questioned why they did not hear the yelling and how the two knew the exact location. In order to save the group Rosalind…

developing countries. Many developed countries have become a deposit box for dirty money from the developing world. According to James Petras, U.S. banks have established an “elaborate set of policies for transferring illicit funds to the United States and “laundering” those funds by investing them in legitimate businesses or U.S. government bonds.” James Petras states that the current global financial system “is a major factor in their (developing country’s) economic instability and mass…

I still remember when I played with my younger brother and sister a game called, “escuelita” (little school). I always told them that I wanted to be the teacher. As I was learning more in my elementary school years, what it was a great game for me, began to turn into a goal for my life. I think in some way I always wanted to be a teacher, I remember how I liked helping my younger brothers and sister with their homework and review with them their lessons so they could have good grades. As I was…

rollies are a bit more natural tasting and … yeah, and they’re just … lighter than you know, tailies that are all compact down, all the chopped up bits and it’s like just nicer to have like … feels just a bit more natural than tailies so … I think. (Petra, p4) Participants described RYO tobacco as more moist and leafy than the tobacco in TM cigarettes, which they described as dry and processed. Tailor-made cigarettes are quite dry relative to roll-your-own tobacco. (Charlie, p5) The tobacco…