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Women in aviation take an important role in women’s respect in the world. Amelia Earhart and Blanche Stuart Scott are two significant people who take part in women’s history of aviation. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Blanche Stuart Scott was the first woman to do a long distance flight and when she retired from flying she wrote and produced for the big five studios of Hollywood's golden age. Women’s role in aviation has been difficult for some but often…

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun Throughout history there have been, and always will be, artistic groups with differing ideas and morals, which causes them to clash. The art produced by these groups offer a visual representation of their beliefs, along with other insight on the social issues of the time period they are associated with. Women’s and human rights have been some of the most prevalent issues throughout history, and continue to be today. Artists tended to create artwork that reflected…

Bio II Bacteria Paper: Clostridium Botulinum Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium that causes the illness, in humans known as botulism (Smith and Sugiyama, 1988). It produces a potent neurotoxin called botulinum toxin that causes botulism or foodborne botulism. The spores are heat resistant and can survive in foods that are incorrectly or poorly processed (FDA). There are seven recognized types of botulism (A-G) but only A, B, E, and F cause human…

Failure Mindsets affect how students perceive failure. Someone with a growth mindset sees failure as a setback and an opportunity to learn. Someone with a fixed mindset may let failure define them and react negatively with apathy, blame, excuses, and depression. Dweck’s research showed that when such people were taught growth mindset skills, their reactions changed (Dweck, 2006) According to Wormeli, recording student scores of “Fs, zeroes, and other indicators of failures” and “spending…

Society follows a norm that requires a general agreement between groups, in order to function as a whole. Human beings are social “group animals” (Lessing 1) and need each other to survive, with the intention to get along or fit in. The role of media comes into play because it pressure individuals to give in, since they appeal to our needs, which is our needs to be accepted. This desire to conform “influence our idea about ourselves” (Lessing 1) that people loses a sense of their inner self…

friends walked in, compared to how a women would feel. Rubin talks about how women have been excluded from the modern sexual system, which could result in men feeling more confident doing a self-examination. (Rubin 111) In Myth of the Perfect Body, Roberta talks about a disabled woman’s body not meeting the standards of “perfection” and she is not seen as sexy but a sexless object. (Galler 167) I cannot fathom how a disabled woman would feel doing this with the stereotypes they already have…

The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7th, 1941. The effects of the attack were devastating. The U.S. had not seen such a heavy loss of men and equipment in such a short period of time. The United States lost 2,403 personnel in the attack with another 1,246 wounded. Three battleships, and two destroyers were sunk. Six additional battleships, a destroyer, a mineslayer, and two service ships were also damaged during the attack. 188 planes were destroyed and an additional 159 were…

The Blues and the British Boom Many of the most popular and best-selling musicians of the twentieth century were part of a movement called the British Invasion. The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones, most notably, are all household names to those with any interest in popular music since the 1960s. Past the initial Invasion, artists such as Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd also had immense success after traveling across the pond to perform in the United States. Even with the…

article, “Rethinking Weight”, senior writer Amanda Spake directs attention to the barriers our society has built for obesity treatment. Through this attention, it becomes evident these barriers have developed from changing ideals in our society. Roberta Seid, a lecturer at the University of Southern California, argues in “Too “Close to the Bone”: The Historical Context…

Church, Diana S., and Martin K. Church. "Pharmacology of Antihistamines." World Allergy Organization Journal. March 15, 2011. Accessed April 19, 2017. https://waojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1939-4551-4-S3-S22. The main components of this article are the descriptions of first and second-generation antihistamines. This is fruitful information because my thesis needs further expansion on the statement about how antihistamines have specific targeted receptors throughout the body.…