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As the elected leader of the United States, the President’s job is to represent the nation as well as the American people. Chief of state, chief executive, chief diplomat, and chief administrator define just a few of the various capacities the president is required to fill, all while maintaining a solid reputation and serving as a quintessential example of what it means to be an American. The citizens of the United States have consistently proven to have high expectations of the president,…

was my first choice of school. The academic was challenging but being a student there was everything I hoped and dreamed, and so much more. There was so much going on around campus, so there was always something to do! I cannot imagine a better university. What was the most difficult part of your nursing school experience? The most difficult part of my nursing school experience was staying up late working on stuff to prepare for clinical, then getting up at 5:30 for clinical the next morning,…

Introduction Legally pedestrians in the United States always have the “right of way” when interacting with vehicle traffic, and therefore factors like location should not impact pedestrian safety. We wanted to observe if there are any location-based norms of pedestrian-driver interactions and assess whether these differences suggest different allocations of road sharing between pedestrians and drivers. A 2005 paper by Kameda, Takezawa, and Hastie, examines an adaptationist approach to social…

Inside Your Brain,” Claire Maldarelli explains the neurological effects of LSD and highlights a new study about potential pharmacological advances due to LSD. Brian Roth, one of the study’s authors, is a pharmacology professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is studying the neurological effects of LSD and the drug’s properties. LSD is unique among other hallucinogen drugs; its effects are last the longest, clocking in at 12 to 18 hours. Roth and his colleagues have found that…

and no one truly knows what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. In 1585, around 20 years before the famous settlement of Jamestown, the first English settlement happened. This settlement was called the colony of Roanoke which is modern day North Carolina. Roanoke like most colonies had a rough start when they suffered from Indian attacks and lack of food. The colony decided to send their mayor, John White, back to England to get more food for the colony. When White returned to the colony in…

Researchers have to take unparalleled precautions in their endeavors to ensure that they are being historically accurate with their current project. When a historian is faced with several unsure accounts of a singular period, they recognize this as a problem. This is how Richard Levis McCormick felt when attempting to discover more about the political parties and elections of our nation’s past. With his article “The Party Period and Public Policy” McCormick conquers the looming task of sifting…

(2015). A Cold, Hard Look: Focus Group Analysis of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Honor’s Thesis, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (-- removed HTML --) . Easley, D. and Kleinberg, J. (2010). Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cambridge University Press. Garcia, A. (2015). Content Marketing Campaigns vs. Programs: What You Need to Know, Red Bamboo Marketing,Red Bank,New Jersey…

1. Your research paper is due at the end of this week. What did you learn about your research topic? Share your major findings with the class. I learned many things from my research topic that about terrorism and its effects domestically & abroad from many respects (impact on nations, financially, policy, etc.) Yet, the main things I truly learned about my topic is how the prevalence of terrorism can truly setback a nation financially for many, many years. On top of that, terrorism can be…

On October 27th, 2016, I attended the lecture "Healthcare Reform and the 2016 Elections: What Happens to Obamacare After Obama?" delivered by Dr. Jonathan Oberlander from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Dr. Oberlander was brought to FSU through the combined efforts of the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy and the Pepper Institute to share his expertise in the topic. He is a professor of Health Policy & Management and is the chair of Social Medicine and his talk…

The brain is one of the most perplexing organs of the body and concussions, since the first diagnosis have been one of the most puzzling injuries that human’s experience. There has not been a lot of research done to find out the extent of damage they cause on the human brain or why they can cause the variety of symptoms that they do, especially in sports. Many trainers have begun to have their players wear mouthguards, due to research leading doctors to believe that mouthguards can help to…