St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.” (Dunham, Lena). Equality is defined as “the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.” and in the recent decade gender, race and religious equality have been some of the most discussed topics in the the media, government and workplace. Many would believe from the media’s portraital…

Ezekiel Elliott, a natural athlete born in an athletic family, but now could be considered the best running back in the NFL, leading the NFL in most yards per carry after contact. Thanks to his offensive line, Zeke is just pure talent on the football field, if you ask any running back, fullback, quarterback, or anybody behind the offensive line before a play, they would tell you that the play would not ever succeed without those lineman protecting them. Zeke admits that that statement is true,…

Following World War One, the American people were sick and tired of Wilson’s moral crusade on the world and were eager to, “return to normalcy,” so when the twenties began, a new lifestyle did too, built on prohibition, having a good time, debt, and isolationism under President Harding’s administration. By 1929, the fun had come to an end when the ominous cloud of debt finally began to rain on the United States. As the Great Depression settled in with a new somber reality of life after the high…

Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1850, Kate’s family on her mother’s side was of French extraction, and Kate grew up speaking both French and English. Being in this bi-cultural environment had influence on her literature, and is quite noticeable throughout her fiction. From 1855 to 1868 Kate attended the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart, with one year at the Academy of the Visitation. Kate’s school experience…

The Awakening by Kate Chopin showcases the metaphorical awakening of a married woman named Edna. Throughout the novel, Edna deals with the temptation of her raging hormones and desires for other men. Edna also seeks to separate herself from the idea of a typical mother-woman and identify as equal to man. While I am all for the empowerment of women and equal rights, I feel that Enda fails to properly address pressing issues within herself. This leads to Chopin’s book leaving readers to shake…

or his liquor bills. The court also asked why him and Paul Powell were together a lot, but Hodge had no answer. Phil Brown took the stand and said that Hodge had came to him and asked him to ease up on the gambling spots in and around the East St. Louis area. When Hodge was the state auditor, he set a budget of two point five million dollar budget which was way too high. The investigators on this case tried to figure out what Hodge did with the money that he stole (Nunes Illinois 68). In a fraud…

Annotated Bibliography: Was dropping the atomic bombs in World War 11 justified? Atomic bomb article summary “Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb” citation: “Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.” National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm. Nps reports Harry Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb. The US and Japan were in World War 2 constantly fighting each other until the US found a deadly weapon to end the war. The US had created…

Until they heard the dispatch over the speakers and the call came in that said “Alert, Alert Man mid 30s opened mail found a white substance believed to be anthrax. 5217,5214,4152,7165 and al l hazmat techs to 1574 Lackland Blvd.” All of his co-workers and him ran out into the…

"Riding High in Ohio." St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1 July 2001, Travel & Leisure sec.: T1. Print. Ron Cobb focuses mainly on the grand opening of one of the best roller coasters, not only in Cedar Point, but in the world: Millennium Force. Cobb describes how a single roller coaster attracted…

Louis Post-Dispatch (2010) gives an interesting take on the topic of academic entitlement. It uses the term “mutual non-aggression pact” to describe the relationship between students giving their professors positive course evaluations and professors giving higher…