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Btyan, 2014). Public labels by an act of negativity or someone who feels they are helping you, better known as liberators or civil rights protectors, further disfigure or create labels of disabled people (Watermeyer, 2014). The negative impact can put an individual at…

Vivacious City Life vs Boring Country Life A rural area is classified as a town with fewer than 1,000 people per 2.6 square kilometers, and surrounding areas with fewer than 500 people per 2.6 square kilometers (“Rural Area”). This means that rural areas have people and buildings that are few and far between. An urban area, on the other hand, has homes and businesses located very close to one another in a small area (“Rural Area”). Cities are filled with more job opportunities, filled with more…

private prisons in the United States has been raging since 1983, when Corrections Corporation of America [CCA] received its first contract from the U.S. Department of Justice (“CCA - Our History,” 2013). Supporters of private prisons believe they save taxpayers money, but opposers claim that private prisons consistently have worse conditions than their public counterparts. Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) lead the charge to end private prisons in the house,…

future. Getting vaccinated, however, isn’t just important for your own health and safety; it is important for the wellbeing of everyone else around you. It’s much harder for a disease to spread…

passed the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 to better outline the farming techniques to prevent a recurrence of the Dust Bowl. Roosevelt also ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps to plant a large belt of over 200 million trees from Canada to Abilene, Texas as a way to break the wind and keep the soil and water in the soil in its place. Not only this, but the Roosevelt administration made an effort to better educate farmers on soil conservation and technique to decrease erosion such as crop…

John F. Kennedy Conspiracy Theories November 22, 1963, at approximately twelve thirty in the afternoon, America would add another chapter to the history book. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade campaign in Dallas, Texas. Stunned, Americans watched in horror and utter disbelief as the news of President Kennedy’s senseless murder traveled across the airways. Fear, panic, and unclear information tortured the minds of Americans. Countless investigations only added more…

U.S. Small Business Administration. (1999). "Americans with Disabilities Act: ADA guide for small businesses", U.S. Department of Justice, Fourth edition, June, pp. 1-15. 147. Vanderheiden, G. C. (1992). "Making software accessible for people with disabilities: a white paper on the design of software application programs to increase their accessibility for people with…

distractions (Jacobson and Goston 1419). I also plan to elaborate on the need of laws and education with the information from this source. Ferdinand, Alva O., et al. "GOVERNMENT, LAW, AND PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE. The Impact of Texting Bans On Motor Vehicle Crash-Related Hospitalizations." American Journal of Public Health 105.5 (2015): 859-865. EBSCOhost. Web. 26 July 2016. Research Question/ Hypothesis: The authors hypothesis suggests that the number of hospitalizations will decrease after…

On April 17, 2013, the citizens of West, Texas were shaken when a fertilizer plant exploded with a force equivalent to ten tons of TNT (McLaughlin). Unfortunately, the investigation of the blast yielded more questions than answers as the analysts were unable to pinpoint the exact cause of the fire that eventually lead to the massive explosion. The disastrous event claimed the lives of fifteen people, injured two-hundred and caused damage to over three-hundred homes (McLaughlin). Of the…

of the prison population (United States Census, 2015). Additionally, one in every fifteen African American men are imprisoned when compared to only one in every one hundred and six white men (United States Census, 2015). The American Journal of Public Health reports startling Bureau of Justice statistics which estimate the incarceration rate among African American males is approximately 95% in Washington D.C. (Hatzenbuehler, et al., 2015). Long after the end of segregation many African…