Underclass

Although there is not an omniscient, single definition of transnational criminal organizations, many of the popular definitions share characteristics. The diction of transnational criminal organizations highlights the word transnational, meaning across country boundaries. Therefore, these organizations have to be active and operational across multiple countries. For example, a gang member commits a crime in one country from the orders of a leader in another. Upward mobility is essential for…

Research Questions: What are people’s attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide? Participants: I will survey the general population. I want to find out if average people know about Physician-assisted suicide, as well as their attitudes towards this treatment option. In asking the general population, more specifically college students, assuming they are all of voting age they can help inspire a change to the current regulation. Average people as participants are relevant since their survey…

Within the Jamaican society music plays an integral role in the shaping of the everyday lives of most individuals. It is through this medium that some individuals are able share their day to day experiences. In Jamaica there is a strong bond with music and film; some film directors started their career with directing music videos before making their debut on the big screen and as such music becomes the background on which many scripts are created. There is a long history with the Jamaican…

Until recently, I worked as a physician at a primary care clinic one day a week in addition to my job as a science reporter for a newspaper. In two decades, I had only one patient taking opioids long term. She was in her 50s when I met her. She’d spent many years working in factories making cups, boxes, and other things, until they’d all closed down. She ended up at a commercial laundry, on her feet eight hours a day. Of her many medical problems, the one that concerned her most was low-back…

Marijuana is one of the most popular drugs in America, followed by alcohol and tobacco, and it has been popular since 2737 B.C. Its use spread from China and reached Europe in A.D. 500. (Guyette) At first, marijuana was used as an agent for achieving euphoria; the mystical Emperor Shen Neng of China was prescribing marijuana tea for the treatment of gout, rheumatism, malaria and poor memory. (Guyette) Ancient physicians prescribed marijuana for everything from pain relief to earache to…

For many years people have been programmed to believe that everything that was taught in a classroom would lead us to a bright and youthful future. But, time and time again, research has proven otherwise when being compared to other countries. Not to mention, being a subject of these institutions of higher learning and growing up in the public school systems, I have come the realization that the public schools were intentionally designed for those who are not at the aristocratic level to fail.…

Drug courts emerged as a direct response from the government, after they introduced and escalated their campaign of the War on Drugs in the 1980s and 1990s. This era exposed bipartisan support of the enforcement of drug laws, and its effect on low level drug offenses and harsher criminal penalties for possession and/or sale of small amounts of substances. Due to this, millions of cases flooded the court system, charging people with minor drug law violations, drastically increasing the number of…

Just because it is possible, should we do it? Imagine that one day you find out that your parents have used PGD technology to select specific characteristics for you to have as you grow up. How would you feel about it? I would feel that my whole life has been a lie. I would not know if the things I like are because of who I really am, or because I have been artificially modified. I can understand that parents want the best for their children, but there are limits. The desire to control life and…

change. After Hamsterdam’s discovery, it brought to light the real problems of Baltimore to the public. During Carcetti’s speech regarding Hamsterdam, he says,“we turned away from those streets in West Baltimore. The poor, the sick, the swollen underclass of our city trapped in the wreckage of neighborhoods which were once so prized”(The Wire, Part 3). Hamsterdam made such a strong impact on Councilman Carcetti that he makes a speech about how everyone needs to step up take responsibility for…

The Influences of Charles Dickens Although it was a time for peace, prosperity, and freedom, the Victorian era did not come without hardships and doubt. In the age of Queen Victoria, otherwise known as the Victorian era, the British people’s long struggle for personal liberty was accomplished and democratic government became fully entrenched (qtd. by McCoy and Harlan, The Victorian Age, 99). The Victorian culture could be seen as a “fiercely contested imagine space,” as well as fraught with…