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personal and political tensions between the northern and southern United States. The difficulties of blacks amid the racist violence of post-Civil War America provided a theme for her first novel, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. The novel is about a mixed-race family from early 19th-century slavery in the West Indies and the southern United States to early 20th-century Massachusetts. “Hopkins’ novel gained instant attention, as well as a certain amount of…

There is such a loud heated discussion about the idea of abortion in the United States in whether it is the right decision or if it is morally wrong. Imagine being a woman in such a tough situation, having to walk into an abortion clinic while being screamed at by protestors and being tormented by the decision you’re making. Brianne Cain became pregnant when she had just graduated high school and was a heavy drinker and drug user. Her decision was based off the fact that she was not ready and…

“Young women who avoid unintended pregnancy are more likely to stay in school, participate in the work force and have healthier, better-educated children.” – Unknown. Although the teen pregnancy rate in the U.S. has fallen within the last two decades, in “2004 it was more than twice that of Canada and Australia, more than 50% higher than Great Britain’s and seven times higher than Japan” (“Does learning about birth control in school help prevent teen pregnancy?”). Experts need to come to an…

Physically attractive individuals are often viewed more favourably than unattractive people on dimensions that are weakly related or unrelated to physical looks, glamorized such as intelligence, sociability, and morality (Smith, McIntosh and Bazzini, 1999). The fact that Hollywood culture is predominantly white, Caucasian and that it has such power over people, shows how it is considered to be the mainstream standard of beauty. Celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Ritchie, both nothing…

Fuqua Duke Fuqua, pronounced “Duke Few-Kwa,” as opposed to “Duke Foo-Kwa, is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It was established in 1969. In 1980, the school was named after J. B. Fuqua (1918-2006), who gifted it $10 million. Duke University was a sort of alma mater to Fuqua—as a teenager, he had borrowed books on finance and banking from the university library, getting them delivered by post. Fuqua never went to college but taught himself. Duke’s support was…

multinational group of experts in aging who are dedicated to promoting the use of technology to solve global aging challenges (Gillings School of Global Public Health, 2016). The group is comprised of scientists and professors from organizations and universities that are well recognized worldwide. The group explained that mobility is essential for older adults in order to remain active and avoid stagnation. The group recognized that it is a challenge for people to maintain the same level of…

Princeton University, (1996): 33-79. Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Web. 3 Oct. 2015. In this dissertation, Lopez evaluates the success of bilingual education from the creation of the EOEA (1974) as a longitudinal study over generations as it applies to ELL students by evaluating…

Emerald City is a polarizing and courageous piece from Matthew Klingle. Matthew Klingle had explored the functions of nature in the development of Seattle as from the early days when settlement began to the present time. The book has made a combination of environmental history, human geography, urban history, among others, as he tries to attempt to reshape how nature looks like within the period of ecological disaster and social inequality. Matthew Klingle has explored many things that are…

One might argue the Second World War was the greatest and most horrific war in the history of this world and a major impact to modern everyday life. It was the most international and fatal war in history with many detrimental causes to many countries. Thus, proving how crucial it is to know about specific historical events in history and to apply past mistakes to future decisions. Leon Trotsky says, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” This quote signifies the…

the nation’s economy and ecology. This paper will examine what CCD is, what the possible causes of CCD are, its impact on the nation’s economy and ecology, different treatment options, how this impacts the local area around the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and what the future might hold for bees in the United States. Colony collapse disorder is a disease that causes worker bees to inexplicably not return to the hive resulting in abandonment and eventual death of the hive (PR…