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emphasizes that the concept of volunteering is slowly being lost, and in this case, it is merging with the concept of free labor, which undermines the true purpose of every human being’s natural moral duty: helping others. Moreover, in the University of Wisconsin-Madison News, Dennis Chaptman states that “resume padding is a symptom of the extraordinary…

Ms. Shive/Reading Comprehensive Level-headedness My siblings and I all have a common trait: level-headedness. Level-headedness helps us remain calm, understanding, and helpful to others. "We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own." - This quotation from Stoic Marcus Aurelius relates to us because we all want to hear people’s opinions, and we always tend to the needs of other people before our own. My sister Freya is the oldest of the bunch, and…

To put it simply, I am a white, teenage, American girl from just outside Chicago, living in Wisconsin, and attending UW-Madison. There is no getting around the color of my skin being a major aspect of the opportunities life has given not just me, but the entirety of my family—who have all been white. I consider my background European, although I have never looked deep within my ancestry past the point of knowing I am at least one-quarter Danish and partly Irish. My being white, Caucasian,…

after the incident, he resigns from his position. It is disgusting that people can no longer use a perfectly clean English word without negative effects. The circumstances that occurred in Washington DC are not isolated events. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison there was a similar altercation. During a discussion of The Canterbury Tales, a classic work by Chaucer, the professor used the term niggardly to describe the actions of a character. However, a student found the term offensives…

and accountable. The journal later mentioned that specifically in Africa, the internet is expanding. Therefore, the opportunity to implement these e-books is much greater than ever. Myers (2009) added in this journal that a colleague from the University of Namibia mentioned that their available computer stations limit students to about one hour of weekly Internet. As this accessibility expands, a foundation for teaching psychology in this capacity can be…

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…

Living in an advanced modern society, it is hard to believe that civilizations are capable of collapse. Many think that the rise of civilization is an impressive feat. However, in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond outlines the five main factors that cause an entire civilization to fall. The Maya collapse is an example of a society that characterizes four of these factors. The first of these main factors is environmental damage that the inhabitants inflict upon…

While Foucault identifies history with the past and the documents containing such information, Taylor (n.d) identifies history as a field correlated to the trauma that forms part of human existence. According to Taylor (n.d) history is part of human existence and it should be referenced according to the events that took part in the past years. This means that it should never be separated in terms of durations of discontinuities, but it should rather form part of the existence. Unlike Foucault…

In Western society video games have become a dominant source of entertainment for youth. Positive side effects of video game use are brain stimulation, medical advancement and therapy but the negative connotations are children exhibiting violence, maladaptive social tendencies and addictions to gaming. Video games are defined as “electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device” according to AllAfrica.com’s article “The negative…

Schizophrenia is known to cause social deficits in some people; they keep to themselves, and their face is often seen as unapproachable. Researchers at the Universities of Montreal, Quebec, and Sherbrooke studied psychosocial help as a way to help manage the symptoms of schizophrenia. A new approach to treat the symptoms is cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), which is also known as therapy with a trained psychologist…