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One of the most fundamental elements of knowledge—language. Our words are used to communicate and understand each other and create new meanings. With our words comes names and labels. Both the authors of “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and “She Unnames them” write about the inequality and harm labels can bring. The removal of labels allows us to see past a name that separates one another and brings us closer together. The “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes about…

BY Kareem Ahmed Mansour History of adhd The condition was first recognized as a disorder in 1902 by a British paediatrician Sir George Still. It was first named as "Defect of Moral Control." as most of the documented cases have the impulsive behaviour . Despite of that, Sir George Still believed that the disorder was a medical problem, not only a spiritual defect. The name Attention Deficit Disorder “ADD” was first introduced in 1980 In 1994, the name was changed and the "H" was added as the…

the narrator was objectifying the animals mentioned in a way that seemed like they had something to argue or a point to prove. “The councils of elderly females finally agreed that though the name might be useful to others it was so redundant from the yak point of view that they never spoke it themselves” (Leguin 1). At first, I found the narrator’s attitude toward the animals having a say in their names confusing, but I came to understand that language and naming can be a form of domination over…

In over 200 cultures, there are stories of a great ancient flood - the most familiar (in the Western community) being of Noah in the book of Genesis. As the story goes, God told Noah to build a massive wooden boat and load a male and female of every animal species into it. Then God flooded the earth by making it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, wiping away the wicked. Dealing with the flood story(-ies), there are some subjects that creationists fail to shine light upon - how was Noah and his sons…

human feces in a dorm bathroom” (Huffington Post). People were reprimanded and punished, but nothing stopped these incidents from getting progressively worse. Instead of pacifying the situation, internet users turned to a social media app called “Yik Yak” to instigate more racist acts against University of Missouri’s black students. An anonymous user wrote, “I’m going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.” This statement was a threat to the safety of African American…

The Clown Panic Seen from a Social Psychology Standpoint The article I chose was about the recent anxiety about clowns caused by the plague of aggressive individuals dressed as clowns in America. Ruben Castaneda, a staff writer of U.S. News, wrote this article on the 17th of October of this year. The best chapter to accompany this article would be chapter 12 Social Psychology. I used this chapter to understand why the mass hysteria has a spread, the reason behind people's behavior caused by the…

Reverence Reverence by Paul Woodruff is a study on how people, as a whole, view and display their reverence, or lack there of. Woodruff’s initial claim addressing the foundation of reverence is that “Reverence is the capacity to have feelings of awe, respect and shame when these things are the right feelings to have” (pg 6). Reverence is fundamental awareness that needs to be developed and thus he considers it a virtue. He goes into this main point extensively, making it sound as though…

These sites include Tinder, Yik Yak, Facebook, and Tumblr which all have some sort of instant messaging system. “Kraut, Patterson, Lundmark, Kelser, Mukopadhyay, and Scheliers reported that the time spent on the internet was positively associated with a decline in meaningful communication…

The United States Army Air Defense Artillery had small but important roles in the Korean War. Although most the units were filling non-Air Defense roles, there are a few that set themselves above and beyond their sister units due to their actions. These units fulfilling roles other than air defense were using the M19 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage, which was a self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon. This weapon was based upon the M5 light tank chassis, but modified to fulfill the air defense role.…

Many teachers around the United States deal with students that disrupt their class, or have behavior that is not appropriate on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately, many students are penalized because their unsettling behavior hinders their own and other students learning. These behaviors can include being disruptive, using their cell phone, sleeping in class, challenging the teacher/ instructors knowledge on a particular subject, and many more. Therefore, students should be penalized to a certain…