Washington and Lee University

how to read and write, providing knowledge that would set him apart from others. In 1799 John Chavis became the first African American to attend college in America although there is no document recording him earning a degree. He attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. This was the beginning to new opportunities for African…

Side B, on the other hand, believes that child predators are using social media to target children. “The Internet is quickly becoming another place for sexual predators to prey on unsuspecting children” (Long). “CyberTipline, the nation 's hotline for reporting sexual exploitation of children, received 223,374 reports in 2010, nearly double the 2009 number” (Acohido). Byron Acohido states in his article, “Sexual predators, pornographers and prostitution rings are capitalizing on the rising…

No one had known that on August 4th, 1961, an individual was born that would one day inspire the world. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to parents Ann Dunham, an elementary teacher whom later on received her PhD in anthropology, and Barack Hussein Obama Sr., an economist in the Kenyan government. Mr. Obama Jr. is a descendent of a line of strong, independent people. His grandfather, Stanly Dunham, was a World War II veteran and his grandmother worked to become the first…

The article, Vietnam veterans’ rapid recovery from heroin addiction: A fluke or normal expectation, was conducted by Lee N. Robins at the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. The researcher discuss a drug addiction issue that affected the Vietnam veterans who were in deployment. The author was assigned by Dr. Jaffe in 1973-1974 to investigate the rumors about the servicemen doing different kinds of drugs. Afterwards, the author conducted an…

1848 and went on to practice law in Port Washington, Wisconsin. In 1852 his law library burned in a fire and he moved to California with his brothers, where he got into the business world by running a general store that sold mining supplies. This was a very intelligent order of business because of the demand for mining supplies during the Gold Rush. This was just one example of his hard work and industriousness. Later he founded the well known Stanford University. Thus showing us that he worked…

began to renege on its promises and sold Taiwan 150 F-16 planes. Two years later this was followed by the U.S. allowing Lee Teng-hui to visit Cornell university. (Ross 2000: 87-91) This was one state testing the waters, and exploring the response they would receive in the post cold war world. The F-16 sales was allowed by Bush simply because he thought he could get away with it. Lee 's visa was approved not because Clinton thought it would be a smart move internationally, but because he gave in…

LBW infants are susceptible to many risk-factors such as mortality, developmental delays, maltreatment, health problems. They are twice as probable to land in the foster care system compared to babies born in the normal weight range (Lee et al., 2009). In a study by Lee et al. (2009), 501 women were divided randomly into two groups. 90% of these women were unmarried and living in poverty with at-risk factors. The intervention group consisting of 236 women, were enrolled in Healthy Families New…

The Death Penalty: Justified for Limited Reasons Capital Punishment is considered to be a controversial topic in the United States and will continue to be for many years. Surely some states do not agree with the death penalty, but there are certain types of murderers who should receive capital punishment. The death of numerous people at once or a killer who murders a large number of people at different times are considered to be heinous and should receive capital punishment. Murders involving…

escape.” (Veronica Loveday, Edgar Allan Poe). On October 3, Poe found himself in Washington College Hospital, where he later passed. On October 7, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe died from congestion of the brain. Others will argue that it was due to his alcoholic tendencies but no other theories have been proved. In a life time Edgar Allan Poe wrote plenty of literature. Only a handful of his work such as “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” are known around the world, yet Poe was noticed as a literary genius…

Do you think guns make people safe? When you think about a gun, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? When I think of guns, I can imagine negative words like crime into my mind. There are some fact of gun. More Guns Don’t Make You Safer. Mass shootings also took place in 25 other wealthy nations between 1983 and 2013, but the number of mass shootings in the United States far surpasses that of any other country included in the study during the same period of time. The U.S. had 78 mass…