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Individual awareness concerning the current condition of the environment has risen to the attention of psychologists in recent years, their curiosity concerning what personality traits entice a person’s awareness, concern, and intentions to act on environmental needs. An individual’s self-awareness, or self-construal, towards the environmental decay brought on heavily due to destructive human behaviors, could stem from how the individual views themselves and their actions in relation to others…

Members: Adriana Alvizo, Selena Contreras, Serena Hempstead. 1. Writer's Background: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine in 1807 February 27. He is an American professor and wrote poets. Henry’s first poet was called “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond” in November 17, 1820. When longfellow was just 15 years old he was then enrolled at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Later in his senior year he wrote to his father about his goals in literacy , then he started to pursue his…

Glory & Honor is a historical drama that focuses on Robert Peary (Henry Czerny) and his assistant Matthew Henson (Delroy Lindo). Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania on May 6, 1856, but moved to Portland, Maine where he grew up and went to Bodowin College in Brunswick, Maine. He then became a civil engineer for the United States Navy who was held in the highest regard due to his “exceptional talents” (Robinson 118). It was these talents that would lead him to be the first man to claim…

Imagine seeing a dog left in the LA river, how would you feel? Imagine being told you have to hurt a harmless kitten, would you? Animals don’t put themselves in the river, people did. An innocent kitten couldn’t beat itself, only a person could. Some people find it okay for animals to be harmed for human gain. When really, animals should not be abused, abandoned, or killed for human gains. Lots of people don’t realize how much there really is to animal abuse. Animal is legally defined as any…

Throughout the United States, are individuals who are underpaid and are abused in the labor force. These individuals take it because they have no choice and it is an ultimate necessity. The minimum wage they earn is barely getting them by every single day. The upper and middle class are not aware of their circumstances because their situation is distinctly different. They are distinctly different due to their level of education, but what happens when an upper class person decides to become and…

My second hometown, Fuzhou, was one of the five “treaty ports” in the 1842’s Treaty of Nanjing signed between China and the United Kingdom. British merchandise flooded into China through these five ports, Qing dynasty’s seclusion policy which functioned as the national defense system was forced to collapse. In the meantime, missionaries also came to China and built churches, hospitals and schools. My home church in Fuzhou was built in this time (1856) by Rev. Robert Samuel Maclay and other…

interpreted in English classes in recent years. Pauline Hopkins should be included the next time English 215: 20th Century Black Women Writers. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was a writer, editor, playwright, singer and actress. Hopkins was born in Portland, Maine on August 13, 1859 (Pauline E. Hopkins Biography). She was born to free parents who raised…

Do you remember where you were when the world stopped that day on September 11, 2001? Most people over the age of 20 would probably answer yes to that question. The fact of the matter is, September 11, 2001 was a day that will never be forgotten. Not only were the September 11, terrorist attacks hurtful to the United States from a death toll standpoint, but they also hurt America from an economic and political standpoint as well. The attacks caused life as Americans once knew it to come to a…

The Phonograph and Gender Introduction The year was 1977. Thomas Edison created the phonograph, a device he thought would be used for business and preserving important figures’ last words. Instead, it became the first music playing device. The phonograph is the Walkman 's, the CD player’s, the boombox’s, and the mp3 player’s ancestor. It was the very first. Although it was a machine, something women of the time were not typically associated with, they influenced the phonograph much more than…

of use and scalability that meet the dynamic needs of a growing practice. Cornerstone is created by IDEXX labs (IDEXX Laboratories. 2016). IDEXX Laboratories was founded by David Shaw in 1983 with five employees in the Old Port neighborhood of Portland, Maine. They were specializing in the detection of diseases in livestock and poultry animals such as cows, pigs, and chickens. They are now known for their SNAP tests, among other industry renowned feats (IDEXX Laboratories, 2016). The IDEXX…