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This act states that mentally competent adults who have a terminal illness with a confirmed prognosis of having 6 or fewer months to live can voluntarily request and receive medication to hasten their inevitable death. Competence plays a huge part in any person’s…

grocery merchants in America. Wal-Mart consistently forces other companies out of business and causes job loss across the country (Rowell). In the decade following Wal-Mart’s move into Iowa 7,326 businesses were lost (Rowell). When Wal-Mart moved into California, there was a large strike involving fifty-nine thousand supermarket workers whose employers had reduced their wages, retirement plans, and benefits to try to compete with Wal-Mart (Lichtenstein, 305). Wal-Mart has been proud and public…

Research Indeed, there must be a connection between crime rates and incarceration rates. Whether the problem of mass incarceration tends to lower the rate of crime is up for discussion. It is only logical to think that when people are behind bars they are no longer able to contribute to crime and raise the crime rate. The more people that are incarcerated must mean that crime rates are expected to fall as a result; studies have shown that this statement is false. An explanation for this could…

On Friday, November 25, 2016, at 8pm, I attended the Mozart and Brahms’ concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California. This was a very nice venue with a mixed crowd. They offered a student rush discount ticket which was amazing because they were pretty good seats for $10. The concert was held on “casual Friday.” People were still a little over dressed for being a casual night. As soon as I walked into the concert hall, I noticed an organ straight…

changes and victories. He also learned to face responsibility of his own life. Plot: A Lesson Before Dying is about an innocent black man in his mid-twenties whose been accused of murder. His side of the story was that he was going to the bar, but decided that he would join two strange men who were going to the liquor store. When they arrived, the two men, one called Brother and the other called Bear started arguing…

While the cultural narrative divides refugees from nativists and finds reasons to bar refugees from entry to countries, Mohsin Hamid not only reveals the refugee perspective, but also questions the idea of nativism itself as a legitimate reason for division. While Exit West follows the story of Nadia and Saeed, it also includes the many other refugees that the couple run into, and the doors present opportunities not only for refugees fleeing war and persecution, but also for everyday people that…

Perkins Gilman uses a collection of literary techniques to convey the critical state of the protagonist. Firstly, the setting and the symbols in the novelle help create a rather creepy mood. The wallpaper is described as scary, horrid, the pattern reminds of a face; Gilman wrote: “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” (Gilman 3). Also, the bars on the window, the…

During the summer of 1969 the Berkeley Barb, a newspaper based out of Berkeley California wrote, “Homosexuals took to the streets in New York City last weekend and joined the revolution.” On June 28, 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was raided by police officers setting off a global revolution. Within a day, riots spread across the city, eventually starting a nationwide movement of political activism and pride. Although the fight for gay rights had been going on for…

Over twenty states in the U.S. agree with juvenile death penalty and the minimum age to be sentenced to death in the U.S. is at the age sixteen. Through history the total juvenile Offenders executed in the U.S. is over three hundred and sixty-five and the youngest offender sentenced to death in the U.S. was at age ten. The death penalty on juvenile offenders should be abolished. Youth offenders do not have the same knowledge and experience as an adult offender who has lived more and knows the…

experience the joy of enjoying the thrill of reading a new book all over again. That is how reading Ann Patchett’s book State of Wonder made me feel. The Chicago Tribune describes State of Wonder as, “Ann…