The Ninety-Five Theses

introduced, “free basic education, brought high-speed internet to ninety-five percent of the population, slashed maternal and child mortality by more than fifty percent, boosted trade, reduced poverty, and fought corruption” (Onyulo). Some Rwandans believe that stability is worth the lack of freedom, and others think it is not worth the oppression they feel every day. In August Kagame won the presidential election with nearly ninety- nine percent of the votes. Critics believe that Kagame used…

For Elephants by Sara Gruen, I have decided to give it 4.5 out of five stars. Although this novel contains a lot of death and tragedy, it offers the reader a look into The Great Depression and how it affected the people living during that time period. One of the novel’s strengths was the way the author was able to almost effortlessly switch between past and present without confusing the reader. Gruen made sure to incorporate both ninety-three-year-old Jacob and twenty-year-old Jacob equally in a…

Imagine if there was a park somewhere in the United States that had a supervolcano, that is larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined (Park Facts), or a bird that can go 200 miles an hour or 320 kilometers an hour (Peregrine Falcon). Well now, stop imagining because you do not have to. You do not have to because Yellowstone National Park has a super volcano that is the strongest one, and is larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, and has the fastest bird in the world. It is…

rising life expectancy and decreased birth rates. Demography is based on the size, composition and distribution of population. Within the United States population the median age was seventeen in eighteen twenty and by two thousand it increased by thirty five years. Also, the older population continues to grow by twenty thirty the median age is expected to increase by forty two years. The increase in aging population has contribute to major factors such as decline in birth rates, improvement in…

would need. The article gives a striking example about when a patient has a ninety-five percent chance of death, the machine will not recommend treatment. Now if the patient’s chances of living are greater than five percent, the machine will recommend treatment. I like the use of the RIP machine and how much it can help medical personal make quick decisions, but I do not like the fact that in some instances the machine has a five percent margin of error in recommendations of treatment. The RIP…

they both compete with each other in scholastic sports. The Asbury Park School district has about 2,300 students which are comprised of four (4) schools, and the Rumson-Fair Heaven School district has roughly around 2,700 students with a total of five (5) schools. The difference between the two (2) school districts: Asbury…

Martin Luther was initially a typical Catholic monk, and his adversaries described young Luther as “a bright boy from a hard-working middle-rank family with a shrewd respect for education.” His recruitment into the monastery was rather unplanned and made with little reasoning. As a twenty-one year old student he was so terrified of thunderstorms, that when he was caught in one he “was so terrified that he vowed to St. Anne, the mother of Mary, that he would enter monastic life if he survived”,…

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf proposed the Pennsylvania Education Reinvestment Act, which includes a five percent severance tax on natural gas and charges 4.7 cents per thousand feet on the volume of natural gas extracted (Hartman). The United States gains revenue from oil and gas severance taxes and that money goes to conserving wildlife, education, and…

This theory claims that the bullet, which struck President Kennedy in the back of the throat, exited his throat at a forty-five degree angle then proceeded to make a series of turns eventually striking Governor Jack Connally through his shoulder and finally his hand. This theory is one that starts to question the credibility of the Warren Commission and starts to demonstrate…

“Miami isn’t too far; it is ninety-five miles away at the most…” Her cherubic features made it hard to fabricate an excuse for wanting to stay in Cuba. I knew that staying here, staying in poverty, predisposed me to a life of misery. The journey would be perilous and I wondered if it was worth it. I wanted to convince her to condone the actions of the corrupt government. I longed to voice my dissent, but I didn’t. I was tired of living life as nothing more than a pitiful pauper, salvaging and…