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How many books are banned every year? In 2004, the American Library Association estimated that 547 books were banned or challenged in schools and libraries primarily in the US. Parents challenge books because they believe all explicit material will have a negative effect on their children. Explicit material can include anything from violence, harsh language, drugs, sexual situations and death, some of which are present in The Secret Life of Bees. Despite the scenes portraying racism, suicide,…

Becoming a leader takes more than just natural skill. There are those who are natural born leaders and are destined to be that outspoken person that commands a rooms, and there are those who are more introverted and require some coaching from other leaders. As a society leader are everywhere we turn. They are in our families as parents or siblings, older and younger, they could be our neighbors, bosses at our job, teachers, even people we elect to run the great country we call the United…

criminal justice first. Then I will go to a police academy and learn what I need to, in order to become a Patrol man. I would like to learn and fulfill the duties of this job for a few years then move on. Every job you have to start at the bottom of the totem pole and in my case the Patrol man would be it. According to this quote, “About 70% of the millions of daily calls to 9-1-1 systems across the country are directed to the police” (Schmalleger, 2015, p. 165). What I hate about the Patrol…

and gave me a strong sense of where I was lacking. I don’t want to dwell on this but build myself up around areas I am strong (Bethel, 2014). Knowing the good, the bad and the middling can help more than we appreciate. Areas low on the totem for me were areas that are usually high for happy people, like myself. Optimism, time management and energy were some of the lowest scores on my self-assessment test…

Are women regarded the same in the Quran as in Exodus? Both of these religious texts seem to say they are not to be equal to men. In Exodus, the role of women is similar to surrogate mother, while the Quran has them resembling a blow up sex doll. Exodus says women are regarded more as property than as people, while the Quran labeled them as half of a man. The Quran pictures women as a dirty thing that you can marry as you please; Exodus has a similar outlook on women showing them as a tool to…

become a reality. It is going to impact Kansas in a bad way, and does not make any sense. Brownback is cutting the jobs for the poor, making the top 1% of Kansans more wealthy than they already are, which is making the poor even lower on the economic totem pole. Our education budget is already low, and continues to be cut each year, and why would he think it is okay to experiment on Kansas. He just seems like a very hard-headed, dominant, individual. We should not re-elect Sam Brownback to be…

Reading Questions: 3. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major piece of immigration legislation in the United States and set a path for immigration in the 20th century. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was created and it only affected Chinese Laborers. This act made it illegal for Chinese laborers to enter the United States, but continued to allow merchants and teachers from China into the country. The textbook stated that the act was renewed in 1892, and made permanent in 1902, and…

During World War II men were expected to bring in all the finances to ensure that all family living expenses were taking care of. If the family was not wealthy they were looked down upon as less fortunate. John Steinbeck develops the character of Kino in The Pearl through the themes of good vs. evil, knowledge and ignorance and individual vs. society. However, Kino an Indian pearl diver who is less fortunate cannot afford a doctor for his son Coyotito who was stung by a scorpion. Families who…

Islamic history, alcohol was not prohibited until God ordered Mohammed to inform Muslims around about the dangers of alcohol consumption. In the Quran (the holy book of Islam), it is stated in different ways that consuming alcohol is on the top of the totem pole of the major sins. “They ask you about alcohol […] say in it is a great sin {yet, some} benefit for people, but its sin is greater than its benefit […]. (The Qur’an, Al-bqrah, 219). The effects on health, bad influence on youth, relation…

easy to test the skills that children learn from the arts, but that doesn’t make them any less important.” While doctors who have proven that arts help students just as much as normal subjects, the schools still think of art as a low point on the totem pole of importance. Most public schools spend their time focusing on the left side of the brain, which is more analytical and logic based. But even though the right side of the brain is mostly expressed through creative means, the right side is…