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McDonald’s, Burger King, Jack in the Box, and Wendy’s among others have become an acceptable replacement for a meal. When asked most Americans understand the dangers that consuming fast food brings. However, when asked if the knowledge of those risks will prompt them to stop dinning at their favorite fast food restaurant, the public almost unanimously answers a big fat no. It makes sense though, fast food restaurants are so abundant that there is almost a 2 to 1 ratio of people to branches of…

Bray Amaraos is an individual that for most of his life was in a vicious cycle of chaotic social and personal influences that Bandura called reciprocal determinism. That is, external factors, such as rewards and punishments, internal factors, such as beliefs or thoughts, and behavior as explained in chapter 13 in our textbook. He observed violence at a tender age and believed that the world operates as such. I rationalize that Bray’s behavior and cognitive process can be evaluated through social…

skin, as overshadowed and unacknowledged as the history of the Native American people. It is the topic of never ending conversation and the topic of no conversation at all. Racism has induced riots, murder, pain, and much suffering that continuously prompts individuals to speak out and fight. Sentiments about subjects such as these tend to reflect in the literature of the times. Unsurprisingly, the 19th and 20th century produced endless works…

The Power to Win must come from Within Before I entered the school I looked it up on a webpage Zillow.com. I know that my mom and my sister would use it a lot. Especially when they were looking into moving houses or buying a home. Tulip Grove Elementary school had a rating of 8 out of 10. For me that tells me that the school is considered as a school that is above average. The school has 307 students from K-5th grade. In addition, the student-teacher ratio was 15:1(awesome). I also saw that the…

At the end of the war and a successful Normandy landing, allied forces thought the war was close to over but they were soon to find out Hitler had other plans. On 16 December 1944 Hitler pushed for a massive attack which came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge located in the Ardennes forest near the city of Bastogne. This was Germany’s last real attempt to stop and hold the allied forces. Hitler pushed more than 400,000 German Soldiers and over 1000 tanks through to the Ardennes forest in…

I cannot believe that is has already been four weeks—four weeks of constant arduous work that keeps expanding my mind in dimensions I have never sought for before. This past week, it was the dimension of speech writing, the layer I have never thought I would be able to achieve because I am a terrible writer… Initially, I planned on writing about slavery as if I lived in the 19th century as a slave owner coming to a realization of how slaves impede the growth of this country morally.…

events which result in his death. In Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel”, the Swede’s death is inevitable due to his fear of the West, the acceptance of Scully’s drink, and his aura of misleading authority. The Swede’s belief that he would get killed prompts him to act strangely, leading the other men to believe his…

improved my writing in a somewhat roundabout way. By researching something that is relevant to me, I was more excited to do the research itself. Before this, I would get all kinds of ideas about what I wanted research, but they never seemed to fit the prompt or topic. Now that I have used the below life experience, from the This I Believe (or don’t) assignment, to decide on the research topic of sometimes it is okay to fail, I can use the same process in future classes and writing…

Mitchell Shapley Paper Prompt 4 “In the Saints and the Roughnecks” the deviant labeling by the community for the Roughnecks represented a barrier to accomplishment within the community. In a middle-class community, being poor and looking poor is already a barrier. The poor boys were already the “outside group,” while the majority middle class were “the inside group.” The boys had likely been receiving messages from early on that they were outgroup members of the community, who could be…

that acetic acid can effectively kill mycobacteria, even highly drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to Canada’s National Collaborating Centre for environmental health, the acid in vinegar crosses the cell membrane of bacteria and prompts a release of protons, which causes the cell to…