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Apples, avocados, cucumbers, onions, almonds, cranberries - what do they share in common? Besides the fact that they are examples of popular, everyday foods, they also share another theme: their production, as well as the production of several other foods, depends on pollination from bees. Logic says that without the presence of bees, agriculture would be intensely impacted. Yet, this very issue has begun to occur. In 2006, it was first reported that large numbers of seemingly healthy bees…

Technology is ever growing within our society we as the consumers must be the ones to ensure that technology can be used to benefit society. The primary use of social media may be to create profiles of ourselves and share things we like while following other people who we may or may not know. It can be used to allow our friends to know any personal information we may want to share. We can display ourselves any way we want. It allows us to feel important and connect with people, but it has the…

Alex Galbreath Professor Breslin MCO 300A November 21, 2016 Internet Censorship The Constitution’s First Amendment protects five fundamental freedoms under its application: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to peacefully assemble, freedom of the press, and freedom to petition the government. With this being known, freedom of speech is arguably the most commonly practiced openly among the aforementioned five. Speech is a broad term, though. In our modern era, speech is equivalent…

and socio-economic and political ties being made across borders, interventions and involvements are in many senses inevitable. REFERENCES Chesterman, S., Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 pg 45-73 Clarke, W., and Herbst, J., Somalia and the Future of Humanitarian: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1996), Council on Foreign Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20047489 Accessed:…

conducted at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign concluded that adolescent female involvement in gangs is significantly more present in homes where the children were subjected to greater levels of aggressive physical and verbal abuse, delinquency, family gang involvement, and house ejection. Female gang members reported having experienced greater levels of sexual abuse, family divergence, and less parental attention than girls who were recruited but resisted due to a strong support…

revolved around technology, but what made him different was that his passion was working and inventing one of the world’s best communication devices. Early Life Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who surprisingly gave him up for adoption not knowing his son…

brain abnormality predominantly affects their callous behavior. Kent Kiehl, a psychologist at the University of New Mexico, has scanned the brains of hundreds of inmates and chronicled the neutral differences between average violent convicts and psychopaths (Hagerty 4). In his study, he had found that the psychopathic brain has at least two natural abnormalities, the first appearing in the limbic system that processes the emotions (Hagerty 4-5). Someone with an oversized or under active amygdala…

Campus Life A student’s senior year of high school seems to be the busiest ever. Senior year comes with the task of filling out hundreds of scholarship applications, applying to any and every college, while still keeping up the attendance and grades in classes. When a student finally gets accepted to the school they want to go to, it seems that there is just even more to do. When it comes to housing at college, there are many different choices. For me, living off campus wasn’t even…

Jim Fallon, a neuroscientist and professor at the University of California has been studying the brain for more than 35 years. He did research on the brains of psychopathic killers that lead him to the reason why serial killer are serial killers. He studied the brain of killers like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson…

Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States: History, Trends, and Challenges Ellana S. Black St. Cloud State University Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States: History, Trends, and Challenges Higher education has long sought to prepare students for a successful future. However, as a reaction to the ever-changing and increasingly globalized world, United States’ higher education institutions recognized the need to craft more internationally-minded…