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professionals. Bartholomew attended the civil engineering program at Rutgers University but never graduated (Lovelace, 1993). It wouldn’t be until Bartholomew became an authority in his profession that Rutgers University would present Bartholomew with an honorary degree in Civil Engineering (1921) and a honorary Doctor of Science degree (1952) (Lovelace, 1993). Bartholomew’s lack of a degree did not keep the University of Illinois from offering Bartholomew a non-resident professorship after the…

type of person did not just disappear as the times went on, in modern society we have people just as important and memorable who we call contemporary Renaissance men or women. A great example would be Maya Angelou. She was born April 4, 1928 in St. Missouri, was sexually abused at…

Mentally Ill individuals have been dramatically increasing inside the Corrections System of the United States and have become a great problem for all prison institutions. According to a piece of writing written by Roy Walmsley titled “[The] World Prison Population List” states that the United States holds approximately 2,239,751 prisoners in penal institutions including pre-trial detainees as of late 2011 (3). That’s almost 22% of people incarcerated world-wide, which is roughly 10.2 million…

The existing storage environment and furniture are located in a semi-secure classroom located in Carnahan Hall on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Presently most of the Jaycees Collection is stored in cardboard boxes whereas some artifacts are not due to their size. The collection is located on the shelving in the back of the classroom. The temperature of the room where the collection is currently housed is controlled by a central thermostat of the building and is impacted by the…

muckraking does still exist in 2016 in newspaper as demonstrated by Chris Hamby’s article “Breathless and Burdened”. Chris Hamby is the author of “Breathless and Burdened” and a noted journalist. Chris Hamby went to the University of Missouri and he got a bachelor degree from the University of Richmond. He also has a master’s degree in journalism. He has won countless of reporting awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the Harvard Goldsmith Prize, awards from the National Press foundation, the…

The higher education system in the United States has been evolving for decades. During the seventies, from the after effect of multiple US conflicts and invasions, second wave feminism, social protest, and globalization, going to a college or university after high school was slowly becoming the norm. Today, the vast majority of kids are planning on continuing their education after high school. When students are coming out of college with thousands of dollars in debt, it begs the question, is the…

Shingles 1 JoAnne O’Brien-Wallace Shingles Everest University Mod G: Nervous System, Law and Ethics, Psychology, and Therapeutic Procedures Mr. Todd 3/14/2017 Shingles 2 Shingles is an acute infection which is caused by the reactivation of the latent varicella zoster virus, which mainly affects adults. The cause of the reactivation is unknown, but it is linked to stress, aging, and or immune impairment. Shingles are characterized by the development of painful vesicular skin eruptions that…

Cedreana Hoover The African Community as a whole has been fighting for freedom and equality for generations. From the 17th and 18th century when African-Americans weren't even treated like humans and instead aminals, they were constantly running away in hopes for freedom, in the 1800’s when slavery was finally abolished they had nowhere to go nor were they wanted, during the civil rights movement African Americans died for justice and equality and now today African Americans may be equal in…

Bill is made up of the most basic rights Americans have. America’s constitutional rights are majorly important to them, and rightfully so, but what about when American’s get too extreme? Take an example of the Ferguson riots. The riots in Ferguson, Missouri were started on August 9, 2014 because a white cop shot a black teenager. The people of Ferguson began rioting and in that they stole things such as televisions and tennis shoes, because they believed that the officer committed murder and…

Standardized tests have haunted students across the country for the past decade. Students tremble as they walk into the test rooms to somehow prove that they have what it takes to make it in the world by filling in circles. Teachers reflect on how their schools prepared for the test, “The faculty shepherded the entire student body into the gym to cheer for the students to ‘Do your best’ and sing, to the tune of ‘Ghostbusters,’ that they were ‘test crushers,’” (William). Is this what schools have…