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In “Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire,” Michael Eric Dyson explores Michael Jordan’s impact on African American culture and society. He discusses Michael Jordan’s success as an athlete calling him, “perhaps the best, and best known, athlete in the world today” (1). He also points out his role as a positive influence, and a success in both marketing and business, specifically referring to his impact in the “sneaker” world. The audience for this article is specifically…

problem at Mercer University. Purpose This proposal was written in response to RFP No. MU-2014-03. In this RFP, Dr. Pam Brewer identified a problem with the current recycling and sustainability program at Mercer University and requested that the program be improved and expanded upon. As students of industrial management, marketing, and mechanical engineering we feel that we are capable and competent to respond to this request. Currently, the recycling program at Mercer University lacks unity…

Tenzin Namdul HIU 310 Professor Andrew Robertson Jim Crow, what is it? Or who is it? Jim Crow may sound like a person’s name but it is the racial law that segregated among the blacks and whites and it arose after Reconstruction that ended in 1877 and continued until the mid 1960s. Jim Crow laws were primarily seen in southern and border states. The African Americans were always looked down upon as second class citizens. The whites thought that they were superior to blacks in all ways and even…

Specific Aims / Statement of Hypotheses Aim 1: To determine the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on health related quality of life (HRQoL) in adolescents with and without chronic illnesses. Hypothesis: We hypothesize that ACEs, as a precipitating factor, will decrease the quality of life in adolescents regardless of having a chronic illness or not. However, we suspect that there will be a differential effect between the two groups as we expect the presence of ACEs will exacerbate…

"Women in the Colonial-Era" Annotated Bibliography Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Brown is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who focuses on gender and race in early America, and I believe that due to that and the advanced language used in this text that it is geared towards scholars. Brown chooses to narrow her focus to solely colonial Virginia…

and in whole year it come out that they have watched 3,300 fast food commercials. It explains how 15 percent of the 6 to 9 year olds in The United States are overweight. This essay comes from the Nevada Journal of Public Health a journal from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. To write his paper it took him 12 reference that took doctors and some work from US Department of Health and Human Services. This is a fairly current article from 2008. This article’s goal is to educate other on…

Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. Many may think trafficking doesn’t happen in the United States, but it does. According to Human Trafficking Resource Center (HTRC), 2,795 cases of trafficking have been reporting thus far in 2015 in the United States alone. Many aren’t aware because this is looked at as less of a problem than it really is. It is essential to stay informed on human trafficking because each and every person could come in contact with at least one…

Alcohol is a socially accepted drink, but too often people take it too far. Although alcoholism isn 't a disease, it can certainly cause many severe health problems. Alcohol is considered to be a gateway drug, and can lead to an addiction. the definition of a gateway drug is a habit-forming drug that, while not itself addictive, may lead to the use of other addictive drugs. A recent study shows the first drug used amount 12th graders consist of alcohol, tobacco or marijuana. The results had…

Coronavirus comes from the family of coronaviridae, they are pathogens found in birds and mammals. Coronaviruses is a positive sense RNA virus and it was classified into four genera: Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Gammacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus. There are many human types of the virus, for example, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV is a Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The Severe acute respiratory was found in 2003 when it first hit China and caused a big outbreak. Studies have shown…

Conservatives believe the life begins at conception; thus abortion is murder. On the other hand, liberals believe that life does not begin until birth and a woman may do what she pleases with her body. Jane English, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill believes that the concept of a person is not clear enough to resolve the debate on abortion.…