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Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates once stated, “We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism.” Dismally, the effect of racism on the legal system is a rampant issue through society, so people, such as poet Larry Levis, spread awareness of this issue using literature as an outlet. In his poem “Make a Law So That the Spine Remembers Wings”, Levis employs allusions, sound devices…

and coordinator for one of these camps, I was in charge of ensuring the safety of as many as 21 children while also organizing the materials and experiments needed for the day. These organization skills bled over to my work in retail as a sales associate for both DSW and Aeropostale. I worked for both of these stores while in my senior year of high school. I developed and learned how to balance the aspects of my life. Currently, outside of work and classes, I enjoy reading, exercising and…

researchers have suggested that the mistrust that African Americans' have in the health care system may affect their decisions about seeking medical care, how they interact with medical providers, and their overall satisfaction with health care (LaVeist TA, Carroll T,…

Stereotypes and the trauma of being a black male in American society Black men are constantly depicted by the media to fit into thin, cliché parts. They are appeared to be less perplexing, and two dimensional instead of the more extensive scope of Caucasian parts and portrayals that the media embodies. I think this is of extraordinary result to society, in light of the fact that it impacts how society sees black men, as well as how they see themselves, and how they think they should be…

convinced that Pecola is the ugliest girl possible. The town’s ideologies stem from white beliefs and actions, therefore the shameful act of becoming pregnant is considered black so it must be ugly. Between the World and Me depicts a tale of the author Ta-Nehisi Coates surviving in the modern…

in girls. The author states that according to Laura Bardbour, a counselor at Stafford Primary School in West Linn, Ore. Children may forget scuffles on playgrounds but they don’t forget mean words and being left out. Reddy states Jamie Ostrov, an associate professor of psychology…

Introduction Eastern Kentucky University. This essay covers the faculty shadowing report. Dr.Martin Brock was contacted for the shadowing assignment from the department of chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). The visit was paid on Wednesday, December 2nd 2015. EKU is a regional comprehensive university located in the Richmond, Kentucky. It has around 16,000 students and out of which around 2000 are postgraduate students. Department of Chemistry Chemistry department has 400…

Surfactant Agents I. Definitions a. Surfactant: A surface-active agent that lowers surface tension i. Examples 1. soap 2. detergent b. Surface Tension: Force caused by attraction between like molecules that occurs at liquid-gas interfaces and that holds the liquid surface intact i. Units of Measure: dynes/centimeter (dyn/cm) 1. the force required to cause a 1 cm rupture in the surface film ii. a droplet forms because a liquid’s molecules are more attracted to each other than the surrounding…

The Face of a Movement Let’s begin with two images. The first is of a mother with her three small children closely surrounding her that is plastered on the front page of Susan G. Komen’s webpage. They delicately kiss her bald head—an apparent mark of her rounds of chemo and an emblem of her battle against breast cancer. Beside the image text reads, “Breast cancer touches us all. It’s a journey we take together” (Susan G. Komen Foundation). The tiny hands and lips that touch the barren surface…

Cognition has an impact on a lot of different areas such as: attention, perception, memory, problem solving and even production of language. This process focuses on the human behavior and how we think and behave. Psychologists often attempt to come up with an explanation for human behavior and then try to generalize that behavior to fit them with everyone’s behavior. However, people who have schizophrenia have a harder time to showing the basics of social cognition. Schizophrenia patients have…