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The Brooklyn author has been a freelance writer for seven years and her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Slate, Esquire, and Nature. Her most recent feature was for Popular Science about the 2014 Winter Olympics. The educational background of Erica is quite impressive she has bachelors in Biochemistry from Malbro College and a Masters in Neuroscience from Case…

The NBA’s All Star Weekend has come and gone and the second half of the regular season gets underway again on Thursday. The days that follow the weekends slate of activities are dedicated to one thing and one thing only (other than practice of course), TRADE RUMORS. In this social media age, everybody and their mother has a trade rumor that they “heard”, that will most likely never come true. ESPN.com even has their own “NBA Trade Machine” where fans can arrange different…

Assignment 001- Unbroken Make a copy of this assignment, complete questions, and submit to Slate. 1. When Louie, Phil and Mac were on the raft, a key factor in their survival was optimism. All three men were young and able-bodied, veterans of the same training, experiencing the same hardships and traumas, yet Louie and Phil remained optimistic while Mac was hopeless, seemingly doomed by his pessimism. Why are some people hopeful, and others not? How important is attitude and mindset in…

force between human behavior. Although the term wasn't coined until 1869 by, Francis Galton. Plato believing that knowledge was present at birth, and that environment did not teach anything new. Aristotle theorized that humans are born with a clean slate, and everything about their behavior comes from their experiences. Both opinions are easily disproved in today's world but they lay the groundwork for what is still a ongoing discussion. Nurture- care for and encourage the growth or…

The soul, an air that carries a person to the end. A light in the darkness, yet, it is covered by a impermeable burlap canvas. All humans are born as individuals with unfound, beautiful souls. Discovering ones soul proves to be a noble task. To truly find oneself, man must go on a quest. This is no ordinary endeavor, no, it is an extravagant adventure. The quest mostly consist of creating relationships with others and helping them on their own journeys. Working with others is an irreplaceable…

Essays, Not Rants! 198: Diversity: It’s That Easy! Claire Temple, played by Rosario Dawson, shows up in the last episode of Jessica Jones, providing a quiet link between that show and Daredevil. She tends to a wounded Luke Cage, because it takes a special kind of doctor to treat an (incredibly hot) man with unbreakable skin. Malcolm, Jessica’s neighbor, shows up too and the three share a scene. And suddenly there are more (important) people of color interacting on screen than in any other…

sociological realm coined “Social Learning Theory”, for Aker wanted to update Edwin Sutherland’s “Differential Association Theory”. Ronald Aker believed in two assumptions regarding human nature. First, Aker believed that “Humans are born with a ‘blank slate’”, which is similar to the assumptions about humans held by Edwin Sutherland. Also, Aker believed that there were no real differences between individuals, but Aker believed these assumptions about humans could be relaxed in reference to…

5 cents or their equivalent after removing their smallest denomination of currency and none of them saw a decrease in donations to charitable foundations after they chose to stop producing worthless coins. The story of the penny begins as a blank-slate zinc core to be sent to a minting factory to have Lincoln’s face plastered onto it. Afterwards, the newly made pennies are sent to banks to be exchanged to the hands of a store. Later a consumer enters the store and purchases enough goods to make…

“We’re moving.” How many times had I heard this already? I vividly recollect the times my parents had informed me we were going to move. It seemed like we had just finished unpacking the boxes that were covering the house. I lived in Florida at the time, where the weather could not become any better. There was always a comfortable wind blowing, always a radiant sun in the sky. There were beaches an hour away, huge lakes, and alluring rivers with crystal clear water all around. I tried to…

the other more. In the past, theorist has been usually on one side or the other on if children are a product of their environment or genes. In Theories of Development by William Crain, John Locke’s theory was “to think of a child’s mind as a blank slate (p. 7)” therefore believing that the children’s environment was the major influence on how the child would develop. He goes on to explain that people should only give children attention for good behavior and not use physical punishment for bad…