The Bare Necessities

Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Debra Rose Wilson explains the necessity for professionals to be aware of the correlation between sexual abuse at an early age and the deteriorating health of adult survivors’. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA, 1996), includes using persuasion, enticement, and other inducements to coerce a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct or simulation of sexual acts” (Wilson 56). Children should never have to go through this, but…

Maule Earthquake One of the largest Earthquakes in the world occurred on February 27, 2010. This Earthquake, known as the Maule Earthquake, took place on the offshore of Bio-Bio Chile with a magnitude of 8.8 (“Aftershocks of Chilean Earthquake”). Even with all the damage and destruction caused by the earthquake, the offshore of Bio-Bio, Chile was in for more destruction by the tsunami that shortly followed Maule Earthquake. As a result, Chile was impacted by the earthquake politically,…

Homeland Security and the Critical Infrastructures it Protects Homeland security in itself is an over encompassing concept that includes many agencies that "prevent terrorist attacks, defend our borders, enforce immigration laws, secure cyberspace, and ensure resilience to disasters" (United States Department of Homeland Security [U.S. DHS], 2010). The missions of the DHS are critical and vast. I’m going to explain some of the basics of this organization in terms of internal and external…

‘And prithee, why not? Who helpeth them undress at night? Who attrieth them when they rise?’” (Twain 24). Twain does an excellent job of showing the difference between the rich and the poor by comparing the many luxuries of the wealthy to the bare necessities of the poor. Edward naively asks Tom the whereabouts of his servants because he is unaware of the fact that not everybody gets the luxury that he has experienced throughout his entire life. Edward has special servants to help him undress at…

aspects of many cultures around the world. An alpha of all of the included cultures tend to be “western culture.” Although Western culture, with its rigid bond with modernization, plays a dominant role in shaping world culture, such as creating necessity for freedom, nationalism, fashion styles, entertainment ie. music/movies/television, interconnections and individualism throughout the globe, is only possible due to technological advancements which allows for such supremacy. Western culture…

pierced the villager's skin as they sat on the environs of the bleak, and desolate Tutsi. Although there was a constant sense of gloom, the sky was always clear and vivid, and the sun would radiate, causing flaming rays of sunlight to dance on your bare skin. Often, the people of Tutsi would say the sun’s beams were like fingers extending in every direction. No plant life dared to grow because of the harsh weather conditions, acting as if they were frightened children, hiding behind their…

One of the most dreaded possibilities for slave on the market was to be sold to plantation owners in the Deep South. Some destinations, particularly on Louisiana farms harvesting sugar, had especially repulsive reputations. These slaves were often put on display in wealthy slave merchants’ homes to be examined by prospective owners, sometimes wearing as little clothing as loin clothes. But what made the slave trade so alarming was how destructive it was towards families. Generally, mothers and…

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a biography. A young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless takes a journey to Alaska to get away from the society and people in his life, like his family. Chris goes to Alaska with no money and the bare necessities to survive in the wilderness. Chris dies because he ended up needing the items he did not have, but Chris did and experienced a lot before he died. Chris makes an identity, which is being stubborn, ungrateful, and only depends on himself and that…

suffers the same sentence that Adam and Eve suffered. Not only does she feel disconnected from society and is essentially banished, she trudges through the labors of single motherhood, including her world spinning around her only companion and her necessities taking a back seat to the needs of others. An abundance of sins or one major sin can lead to guiltiness and bitterness, which in turn, suffocates all the glamor of socializing out of a person. Hester Prynne…

Steven Dykes English 2 Professor S. Dine October 7, 2017 Liberal or Conservative? Liberal thinking way of life has always been a huge influence in life, the lesser of two evils or the party that stands for unionization. While growing up, liberal versus conservative were not words readily used by media but the words used to describe my family’s values were democratic. A democrat which in today’s society is labeled…