The Slippery Slope

Brittany Maynard is an ordinary 29 year old woman. Her and her husband, Dan Diaz, is trying to start a family after being married for a little over a year. After months of enduring unbearable headaches, Brittany has learned that she has brain cancer. After undergoing two surgeries to stop the growth of the tumor, Brittany learns that the tumor has returned. However, the tumor is more aggressive upon its return. Doctors give the newlywed only six months to live. Brittany considers many…

What are eating disorders? Eating disorders can be hard to explain sometimes. They could be a disturbance to the diet, or unknown because many individuals do not seek treatment. There are a dozen types of eating disorders but the four most common athletes suffer from are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, anorexia athletica . Anorexia Athletica, which have striking similarities to both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. This term arose after an Olympic gymnast, Christy Henrich, died from…

The subject of euthanasia is a heated debate in which lines have been drawn between social and political groups. Many people want this controversial situation removed from the volumes of lawful medicine, but others say we should be able to choose our fates in extreme cases. Neither the law makers of this country nor the people have found a fair solution to this debate. The question still lies unanswered. Should assisted-suicide be permitted? It is believed by a vast majority that everyone…

Nowadays, exactly everyone has to go anywhere all the time, whether to go to work, study or travel. Certainly, a lot of people have to travel by road as the main route inevitably. Since people have to take the road on a regular basis, they deserve to be safe in using the road. In Thailand, there are about around 5 million people use vehicles on the road which is quite a lot ever. Moreover, in Thailand, every hour an accident on the road killed 1 million people in the country 70 million people…

The Bahamas is recognized as a popular tourist destination. Each year hundreds of foreigners from America, and other parts of the world flock to its shores and Bahamians are notorious for treating their guest like royalty. Haitians are another group of foreigners also flock to the shores of the Bahamas. However, only a few of these people receive open arms of love and affection like the Americans or other nationalities that visit the Bahamas. In Fredrick Smith’s article “Discrimination is the…

things go wrong just acknowledge the situation, find solutions and move on. Blaming people does nothing but bring negativity into the work place. If the work place becomes a negative space the morale will go down as well as job performance. It is a slippery slope. Next do not fight your boss, while you may disagree with some of their decisions, you are the subordinate in the situation and should follow orders up to a certain extent (unless the boss’s instructions are a threat to life and limb…

life and death. Dignity has become a clear buzzword for the insistence that euthanasia is a way in which people can die on their own terms without losing their freedom of choice. The dangers warned of by people against euthanasia are in fear of a slippery slope that inevitably leads to a sort of death by proxy and the determination of a person’s worth. Euthanasia will only be understood holistically if there is an attempt to understand both sides of the argument, a realization that this is a…

Profanity roams the world at different degrees in different places and situations. Under college policy, professors are allowed to use profane words; however, there should be limitations as to how far it should be used. Professors using profanity should be limited to use it in aiding to provide clarity to ideas, to help keep the class engaging, while simultaneously prioritizing their students’ comfortability and learning experience. Professors should be allowed to use profanity in their classes…

I find this time period very interesting, personally, because I feel that a lot of the actions that Hitler took in his early stages have similarities to things that people in our society and even people in government positions still do regarding the treatment of people and the use of propaganda. This is why one of the interesting facts that I built more knowledge upon is that the Nazis killed a lot more people than just the Jews. Almost 6 million Jews were killed, and anti-semitic remarks are…

The smell of chalk and anticipation filled the air. It was the first meet of my senior year. “I’m about SICK of your attitude.” My coach snapped at me in front of my entire team. All seven girls fell silent, their eyes slowly slid to mine and then instantly to the ground. How was I supposed to take this? I’ve always been the “cookie-cutter” kid. I’ve never been in trouble, always finish my workouts, and do what’s expected. That type of “attitude” is how I earned my spot as captain of…