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Recently, a Missouri man named Jeff Mizanskey walked free after spending almost a third of his life behind bars. Mizanskey had been sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for possession of marijuana. Continued outrage over the sentence led to a petition drive seeking clemency. Nearly 400,000 signatures were received, and Missouri’s governor eventually commuted Mizanskey’s life sentence . As the case illustrated, attitudes about marijuana have softened over the past two decades. Yet many drug laws…

Paul Krugman’s “Ricardo’s Difficult Idea” is a play on that of a book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. This book is an examination of the reasons why so many scholars remain unfavorable to the idea of evolution through natural selection. The idea that seems simple to those who understand it, but scholars somehow manage to get confused. The book explains the idea of comparative advantage, meaning a trade between two countries that…

Rape Culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and sexual violence against women is normalized by societal attitudes. Due to the accusatory nature of rape culture, the validity of its existence in American society is often doubted, but when popular culture, the judicial system, and institutional misogyny are all thoroughly examined, the facts prove rape culture’s undeniable place in both the minds and institutions of America. There are many instances of pop culture’s perpetuation of…

Anesthesiology is a necessity in surgery. Anesthesia is a medicine that is used in most cases to paralyze or numb a patient that is undergoing surgery. The medicine is used on patients while under surgery to help them not feel the pain from the type of procedure being done at the time, also so they aren’t aware and helps ease their worries while under. Are there other Anesthetic alternatives that result in a better and faster recovery other than the normal General Anesthesia? On average 1 to 2…

Treatment Inside the War on Drugs Drug addiction is a problem in America. To combat the problem, the United States Government, President Richard Nixon waged a war on drugs (qtd. In US War on Drug). The war on drugs capitalizes on every aspect of the issues except one, which has been left out of the equation. Billions of dollars annually are disbursed for things such as police enforcement and in turn they have focused most of their attention on nonviolent offenders rather than violent criminals.…

The Journey of Amy Lowell’s Life Stood only five feet tall and weighed as much as 250 pounds. Who is this woman? She published many of famously known poems around the world. Who is this woman? She was left alone in her early adulthood after her parents’ death. Who is this woman? Even after her death, she remains a legend. This woman spoken so highly of is Amy Lowell. Amy Lowell’s family surrounded her with poetry throughout her childhood which influenced her to become a poet. Personal Life…

Northern Baroque: Baroque Art was the principal European style of art in the 17th century. Although encapsulating the whole of Europe, Baroque art greatly varied from region to region. Having been divided into two separate spheres, the Northern countries who turned Protestant, and the Southern countries who remained Catholic, developed two distinctive artistic styles. In Italy and Spain, the Counter-Reformation was in full swing, promoting complex and dramatic paintings and sculptures such as…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a novel written by L. Frank Baum, originally published on May 17, 1900. The novel tells the story of a young girl by the name of Dorothy and her journey through the world of Oz to find her way home. The novel has been connected to political topics by indirectly referencing the Populist Party, bimetallism, and Washington DC. The novel begins with a description of Dorothy’s life. She lives with her aunt and uncle in a small gray house, surrounded by gray fields in…

The culture of Ukraine is unique and different from each other, but among years it has been affected by its eastern and western neighbors, which is shown in its structure. The geographical conditions influenced the Ukrainian culture, curiosity of the historical procedure, as well as relations with other ethnic cultures. An important historical period in the Ukrainian culture was after independence. Ukrainian national identity exist from personal self-determination shared with others in the basis…

Mexico and the U.S. have had a long history of collaboration. In the 1970's, the U.S. began to provide Mexico with equipment to eliminate marijuana and opium poppy fields. Because the U.S. was the highest consumer of drugs, they did not ignore the uncontrollable international drug trafficking affairs in Mexico. Former Mexican President, Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), got the U.S. to accept the war on drugs as a…