Toledo

Choosing the person to interview for this assignment was difficult at first, trying to determine which sport and how to contact that person. I first started with the Toledo Mud Hens, but didn’t receive any call backs. I also contacted the Lansing Lugnuts and the West Michigan White Caps and again no call backs. So I looked up minor league baseball teams and the name El Paso Chihuahuas caught my attention. Looking up their front office staff on their website I seen that Angela Olivas is the…

“Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally.” This world today is filled with people who sex traffic young and older girls. In most cases girls are forced into slavery. They can be bought and sold throughout the United States. Victims of sex trafficking can be citizens, foreign countries, women, men, children. Sex traffickers usually target people who are more vulnerable. Such as runaway and homeless children, as well as victims of domestic…

Observational Experience: Inside a Zen Buddhism Temple For my observational experience I went to the Great Heartland Buddhist Temple of Toledo in Holland, Ohio. This experience was very eye opening, but I felt so at peace afterwards. I learned that Buddhism itself is more broad than what I could have imagined after learning about it in class. There are many different forms of Buddhism, but this particular temple focused on Zen. Zen Buddhism focuses on the meditation aspects. They strive…

Two courses of action, it was argued, were required. First, crypto-Judaism could only be overcome by the introduction of an Inquisition; second, Jewish influence over the conversos could only be overcome by their expulsion. These ideas, adumbrated in works such as Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei, continued to gain ground, and on 27 September 1480 the Catholic Monarchs appointed Inquisitors in Castile who began their work in Seville shortly after (1481). Conversos, often subjected to torture…

It is very accurate and honest and precise to the writer knowledge like the Code of Ethic require of the journalist to do, but this article has a negative tone toward the Vietnam War by writing that the bombing of the Vietnam was a failure. As this article was written by someone in the Associated Press, it upholds the Code of Ethic of Journalism. The article was candid about the war and bombing. At this point of the Vietnam War America, a citizen was starting to want nothing to do with the…

Social media is currently taking over the world, and that it is brutally damaging our society. In today’s day and age, it is extremely hard to find someone who is not a registered user of any type of social media website, including Facebook, Twitter, and numerous other Websites. As a matter of fact, the Internet has been introduced to almost all the nations around the world due to which access to social media is becoming easier and easier. Internet has brought adverse changes in the forms of…

will have seen 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence depicted in violent video games, movies, and television. In a study of 150 fourth and fifth graders by Jeanne Funk, PhD, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo, violent video games were the only type of media associated with lower empathy. Studies suggest that when violence is rewarded in video games, players exhibit increased aggressive behavior compared to players of video games where violence is…

With mass shooting such as the one at Umpqua Community College in Oregon becoming a regular occurrence, we must ask ourselves why people resort to gun violence instead of finding other ways to solve whatever problem they may be facing. The ATF estimates that there are 300 million guns in circulation while 20 years ago it was around 200 million. The GSS estimates that one-third of households have guns (Mantel 237). Every year, on average, 32,000 people die and 74,000 people suffer injuries…

Industrial Pollution in the Great Lakes Pollution within the Great Lakes region has been an issue since before the 1970s, when pollution in this area caused concern, resulting in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the United States. This was in place to improve water quality of the Great Lakes region. However, we are still struggling with pollution in the Great Lakes- and all over the world. As countries develop, they become more industrial to meet high market demands of…

The Trip July 9th, 2017. This was the beginning of my biggest trip around the U.S., the Midwest specifically. I headed to Oxford, OH, for a hockey camp on the Miami University campus. The drive there was probably the most boring drive of all time. Cornfield, after cornfield, after cornfield, then a soybean field, then more corn fields. Conversation was sparse, only talking in an actual conversation once we stopped for lunch and met up with some friends. Once we got there, it was time to say…