The Birth of a Nation

US women and accepted by most of the world’s religions, birth control, and access to it, is still a hot-button topic. Extensive research has been conducted studying the effects of birth control across many fields, and the results all seem to agree. Recent research seems to have shown that access to affordable birth control is directly tied to positive effects for the individual, the child, and the economy as a whole. Access to affordable birth control has many benefits for the individual in…

Imagine a place where children, white or black, don’t have to be taught since birth that there is a difference between people with different skin colors. Imagine your kid getting up to go to school, not even knowing or caring about racism. Also imagine your kids not having to hate black or white children just because they are the opposite skin color. Some kids grow up thinking, because they are not the same skin color they are less important than him or her. (McWhorter 38) Presidents Nixon and…

begin, end, and the reasons why the vicious cycle is one of the only constants in history. It is well known that war never changes, but what can be done to make a nation change? In an excerpt from Liu E’s The Travels of Lao Can, a humble, traveling doctor - Lao Can - attempts to right injustices against innocent citizens of the nation, promote modernism and spirituality through his position of prestige amongst the elite. In this excerpt, he has encounters with Wang, an everyday businessmen, Lao…

am guilty The tears come My heart breaks and tells me that this is all wrong and I grieve some more. I grieve for my brothers and sisters of the First Nations Their history is a culture that uses a rolling tongue that remembers everything and unites a community by the careful telling of the journeys of the First Nations since the birth of the world. Every word Every moment Every feeling Every truth Everything that is theirs, they remember including the pain and suffering…

She was then using the names of these patients as well as their date of birth and social security numbers to commit identity theft. By Law this is HIPAA violation of privacy the lady should have not been going through any of the patient’s records without a valid reason. The second story I found very interesting was about a man named Huping Zhou 47 years old from Los Angeles. He was the first person in the nation to receive…

Is any job more important than being at your child’s birth? I leave the reader to decide, as each person would have a different opinion. As for me I was out of town, taken the responsibility for finishing the target that would give me an early promotion, thereby missing the most wonderful thing happened in that absence, my wife who was almost near her delivery date gave birth to a beautiful daughter. I chose work over this occasion, even though I planned to be back…

While white middle-class mothers challenge their rights to not give birth, women of color face challenges to have children. One of her points is that there has been a history of devaluating of black motherhood that traces all the way back to slavery. Black women were valued for labor and producing more workers but were still…

Round and Round it Goes: Will the Cycle Ever End? Today, teenage pregnancy seems to be glorified in shows like 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom, and the movie Juno, just to mention a few. These shows do not always correctly portray how difficult teenage girls can have it when they have children at such a young age. Not to mention the fact that even though the show allows the audience a “glimpse” into the girls’ lives, the girls still get paid for being on the show which offers them support that other…

Planned Parenthood is a center designed to be a resource and safe haven for young people and women seeking help with preparing for the responsibilities and risks that come with sexual intercourse. Besides abortions, they offer many services such as birth control, counseling, physical examinations (that less costly than most clinics), and pre-natal care. There are not too many Planned Parenthood centers that actually perform abortions. If they do not perform such procedures, they are willing to…

among other topics, Religion and Politics talks about the flood of religious sects and movements that were formed and the issues entering politics as a result, State and Nation examined the origins of the divide that would eventually led to the birth of the Confederacy, and finally Machines and Nature, which talked about the birth of the locomotion revolution and the interactions between Americans and their natural surroundings. The short answer to Masur’s question is that it was the…