Publication

At stake are careers, departmental funds and perks, friendships, and journal publications. And best of all you get to go on all those expense paid trips to Zurich and Hawaii to present your paper, the one that so beautifully supports the current paradigm. Political agendas and Noble Causes. Scientists have just as firm commitment…

position. The Canadian government addressed the issue of unfair advantage by (a) passing Bill C-58. Advertising expenses of Canadian firms would not qualify for tax deductions unless those firms had advertised in Canadian-owned and Canadian-based publications (p. 185). (b) passing Customs Tariff Code 9958. This was a law passed against "split-run" magazines. To make a Canadian edition of a magazine, US publishers would often remove the American advertisements and put Canadian advertising in…

“The Jungle”, written by Upton Sinclair, was one of the most well known books to emerge during the Progressive Era. The publication of this piece is known to have influenced the passing of two federal laws concerning food health and safety, the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906, and the Federal Meat Inspection Act. During the time of its' publication, it had evoked an immediate and powerful effect on Americans and federal policy. It had paved the way for federal laws regarding food health and…

Beth Bailey’s work Sex in the Heartland goes into a deep analysis of sexual revolution throughout America in the 1960s. Using Lawrence, Kansas as a representation of the rest of the country, Bailey argues that the sexual revolution emerged from both sexual and non-sexual changes during the Second World War, and continued to grow as repressive elites attempted to halt the growth of sexual culture through Kansas University administration, the distribution of an oral contraception for unmarried…

ideas presented by Darwin and use them to justify their own cause. One of these was the use of Darwin’s work to say that women were inferior to men. In his private life Darwin saw women as having potential but in the public sphere, via his later publications, he said women were inferior to men, which could have been caused by the want to be published.…

Some of the first anti-slavery societies in America were predominantly founded by Quakers in the 1770’s and 1780’s, insisting on the maxim of moral reciprocity found in the Bible: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.” In New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, where the movement was most influential in the early republic, forms of emancipation were adopted. However, because of respect for private property rights, they argued for gradual emancipation and advocated…

I chose to do my rhetorical analysis on how esports have a potential to be featured in the 2024 Olympics because videogames are a big form of entertainment across the world and are played by millions of people. According to the Entertainment Software Association a report was made in 2015 stating that more than 150 million Americans play video games and that forty two percent of Americans play video games regularly, or at least three hours per week. I also chose this topic because I’ve been…

forth by W.E.B. Du Bois, introduces one of the many complexities that surround African-American identity. Upon exploring this topic, this two-word phrase becomes a model of both significance and complexity. Du Bois introduced this in his 1903 publication, “The Souls of Black Folk”, which would influence many writers of the Harlem Renaissance. While works such as “To the White Fiends” by McKay and “Incident” by Cullen willfully reinforces the notion Du Bois set forth, other writers offered a…

Bored of Bulger After reading Adam Bulger’s piece, “How addictive is social media, really?” on BTRtoday.com, I found myself feeling disoriented and confused. His article is filled with empty allegations, statements oozing with bitterness, and references to a few random pop culture references (Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man”, and “Black Mirror”) which required me to fire up the Google machine. Allow me to analyze this article, and save you the headache of reading it. Bulger relies, on more than…

Principal Clarence Burton the ||| deemed the article to mature for the for the Falconer's teen and yanked it from publication in March." Children in the Fanquier school were already trying this, and if Principal Clarence Burton ||| did not pull the article from publication, he could have never been able to know what the students are doing. From the principals point of view he should censor the newspaper, the yearbook, etc.. To prevent that…