Hate crimes motivated by race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability have impacted the United States for decades and affected numerous marginalized groups. According to the United States Department of Justice, there have been 7,106 single-bias incidents of hate crimes totaling 8,493 victims in 2017. The most common motivation of hate crimes is race and ethnicity. In fact, 58.1% of those hate crimes were motivated by race and ethnicity (Justice.gov,2017). Hate crimes have a devastating impact on...
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Being “mentally alive” come in different forms. Many people define themselves as being “mentally alive” based on experiences that they went through or going through. For instance, some may go through terrible experiences which can affect them mentally. Therefore, many of them can be physically alive but not mentally alive. Others may feel being “mentally alive” due to a hobby they enjoy doing. The state of being “mentally alive” is more like a feeling where an individual is opened-minded and...
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Being born into a certain area, income, or skin color can either advantage or disadvantage you in today’s society, especially when talking about equal health rights. A public health initiative known as the human rights-based approach, HRBA, has a goal to support better sustainable development outcomes according to the World Health Organization. This approach “analyzes and addresses inequalities, discriminatory practices, and unjust power relations which are often at the heart of development problems.” (WHO, 2017). HRBA is a way of...
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It is often said that Facebook is taking advantage of teens and adults by giving them gift cards for installing apps that let companies collect data from their smartphones. On one side, I see that receiving gift cards simply for some information is quite an interesting concept. This is because one can make some fast, easy money. A few extra dollars for a few clicks with the once thought pristine reputable company of Facebook seemed to be so safe but...
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Recently in our world, the childhood obesity rate has sky rocketed and is becoming a problem. Nationally, obesity rates of children under the age of fifteen and under is averaged to 20.6% which may not be a high number but in reality, it is. In 1980, obesity rates were at a low of 5% and since then has quadrupled. The key to a healthy lifestyle is summed up in one saying, living a healthy life is 90% eating healthy and...
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The deep green pigment in the Salinas Valley River stained the future of Lennie Small and the image of the events that happened there left memories of the colorful scenery in black and white. The breaking of Curley’s bones prompted Lennie’s dreams to reside among the river. Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck encompassing the characters Lennie and Curley. Steinbeck was a Nobel Prize winning American writer. He is known for his realistic and elaborate writing...
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Introduction Numerous of studies prove that obesity becomes a worldwide epidemic. Popkin and Doak (1998) state that, in the last quarter of the 20th century, obesity emerged as a worldwide phenomenon in the developed and non-developed countries. It has been observed a huge increase in obesity proportion in many populations around the world regardless the differences in income, poverty, and education levels in these countries. Today, we will discuss the distinction between obesity and overweight, the globally extent of the...
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Authors reference other texts to construct emphasis on themes, bring out characterization and intrigue the reader on deeper meanings. Published in 1932, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” depicts a dystopian society composed on the reliance of drugs, production of new technology and efficiency of mass production. In the novel, there is constant reference to William Shakespeare including direct quotes from plays and poems. Huxley portrays the consequences of consumerism through a satirical comparison between the ridicule, advanced society against the...
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'In all the time of my solitary life, I never felt so earnest, so strong a desire after the society of my fellow-creatures, or so deep a regret at the want of it.' - (Robinson Crusoe). In Robinson Crusoe we can see Daniel Defoe wrestling with one of the framing questions of our course: how does one know? Within the novel we see the character Crusoe wrestling with matters of knowledge and truth. There is a continued emphasis on not...
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In The Things They Carried, Tim O’brien emphasizes that diverging into reality is far more difficult than adapting to war. As the story continues, a variety of themes are taking a large role into defining what it means to tell a true war story. The theme constantly shifts due to the portrayals of numerous characters being depicted. In the duration of the novel’s storytelling, O’brien answers what it means to tell a true war story using the character’s tones, the...
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Both The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Scarlet Letter written by Margaret Atwood, and Nathaniel Hawthorne respectively are novels that explore self-development within a dystopian society through a feminist lens. They also examine the idea of having self-consciousness under an extremely controlling and oppressive environments. Both of the protagonists, Offred from The Handmaid’s Tale and Hester from The Scarlet Letter derive their idea of the “self” and “self-consciousness” through more secular beliefs, over a higher spiritual world. R.D. Laing in Self...
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Hindus believe that while our mortal body is impermanent, our souls are eternal and after death, we are reborn again and again. This endless cycle of death, birth and rebirth is known as samsara. The ultimate goal of a Hindu is achieving moksha, which is to liberate their eternal souls from samsara by fulfilling their dharma and accumulating good karma. Aboriginals, on the other hand, believe themselves to be interconnected with their community and the nature around them. Thus, every...
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One of the Leading Health Indicators of Healthy People 2020 is nutrition, physical activity, and obesity. Throughout the progress of Healthy People 2020 from 2010 until now, the target for this indicator is 20.1% for Adults meeting physical activity and muscle-strengthening Federal guidelines, the rate in the most recent year is 20.6%. However, for obesity among adults, children, and adolescents’ rates have little to no detectable change. The target rate for adult obesity is 30.5%, the actual statistic is 35.3%....
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Sleeping in modern society is often connected with working late hours, technology among children, high stress level and bad immune, respiratory and digestive systems. Not getting enough sleep can cause a negative mood, low energy level, difficulty concentrating, and a general inability to function as usual. Significant lack of sleep exists when sleep is insufficient to support awakeness performance, and health. Chronic sleep insufficiency exists when an individual routinely sleeps less than the amount required for optimal functioning. To understand...
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This article determines the rates of concurrent use of nicotine and tobacco products among homeless adults who regularly smoke. It also differentiates the characteristics of concurrent users and non-concurrent users in regard to their reliance on cigarettes, awareness of smoking hazards, willingness to stop smoking, and receiving smoking cessation services. The outcome of this study intends to broaden knowledge in this field of study and achieve a clear grasp of the various components that could impact smoking cessation programs for...
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WHO describes malnutrition as imbalance, deficiency or excesses in a person’s diet in context of nutrients and energy. The statement covers two wider groups, one being under-nutrition, which is caused due to insufficiency and or inadequacy in the food source resulting in stunting, underweight, deficiency diseases, wasting, etc. While the other one being dietary diseases like obesity, diabetes and cancers in the alimentary canal. Malnutrition affects people all around the globe hence we need to tackle it like a species....
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The journal article that I chose to do a journal review on is written by Guido Eibl, Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, Murray Korc, Maxim S. Petrov, Mark O. Goodarzi, William E. Fisher, Aida Habtezion, Aurelia Lugea, Stephen J. Pandol, Phil A. Hart, Dana K. Andersen, published in 2017. The title of the article is called “Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity as Risk Factors for Pancreatic Cancer”, sourced from Journal of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The main objective of this journal article is...
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A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, is representative of the southern gothic as the themes of love, lost, death and murder are included in the story. Gothic nature was hinted in the story by the descriptions of emily's house and the poison she purchased. Emily, who is the protagonist, was a perfect young lady, who was wealthy and lived a happy life with her father. Times have changed and now she is currently an elderly woman living alone in...
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'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' is amusing to its name in light of the fact that the historical backdrop of the occasions that prompted the murder of Santiago Nasar and furthermore chronicles the social surroundings where the occasion occurred. In the novel, the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reports through the depravity of the events that prevailed in Colombia during that time. Marquez utilizes the social foundation and morals as a clarification for the murder of Santiago Nasar. Along these lines,...
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Major depressive disorder is a mood disorder that has a major impact on the American population. From 2013-2016 it was reported that about 8.1% of American adults over the age of 20 were diagnosed with depression (CDC). Depression as a mental illness is very difficult to identify because it affects a person’s feelings, thinking, and behavior. This heavyweight feeling of sadness and hopelessness is able to last a few days to chronic depression. Causes of major depressive disorder includes dysfunctional...
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Abstract This paper explores three published articles on Ethics and Safety of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These three articles present the main problems and challenges in terms of safety and ethics of AI and solutions for some of them. By presenting us with different scenarios these articles are giving us a better idea of what exactly AI is now and what it is going to be in the future we are given the opportunity to improve our awareness on the mentioned....
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Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” is an examination of human connection, a comparison of talking vs. communicating. The story’s setting, repetition of words, spare dialogue, and use of cognitive verbs establishes a textual pattern that develops the narrative's dilemma. The text further explores the power of dialect crashing down between two people and how what is unsaid or what is unspeakable can define and disconnect individuals. Hemingway exhibits deficiency in language by the use of unnamed characters...
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I think we can all agree that heavy censorship as in Fahrenheit 451 is bad and not a society we want to live in. We see that when most individuals are limited in this way it brings not just themselves down, but the whole society and culture. This novel makes it fairly obvious what is happening. What is less obvious is that in today’s Google Search dominated world, and a world where everyone is staring at their phone, we are...
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Psychological disorders, just like any physical illness, are present everywhere and among all age groups. Favoritism is very common too and it destroys the lives of many every day. Just like age discrimination and gender discrimination are seen in the workplace, so is mental health discrimination. Narrow-minded people tend to discriminate very often as those individuals cannot accept that people are different. One might think that mental health issues are not very common but in fact, according to the World...
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Due to the unconventional way that Tim O’Brien writes his novel, The Things They Carried, many cannot decide which genre it belongs to. The debate lies in the argument of whether the collection of short stories that are part of the book are of fiction, or true to word memoir. While reading the book, the reader has no way of knowing what is real and what is made up as they are exposed to a way of writing that is...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, a great famous writer in the United Stated, was born a serious Puritanism family, his ancestors are prominent in the Puritan theocracy of 17th New England, thus readers can know Puritanism in his work. However, he expressed his different viewpoint in his works like The Scarlet Letter, the book’ plot develop in accordance with a beautiful wife derailed to a much-admired brilliant young clergyman, then the crime of adultery violate the mainstream consciousness of the society at that...
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`Hamlet'' was completed in the English Renaissance in the early seventeenth century. Its creative process took three years. It is also the longest of all of Shakespeare's dramatic works. The book is set in the medieval Danish royal court as the background. The protagonist Hamlet investigates the murderer and launches a vengeance after his father was murdered by his uncle, hence the name 'Prince's Revenge'. The play is a true reproduction of European society in the late Renaissance, and it...
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The legalization and decriminalization of cannabis especially marijuana has received a great deal of media attention across various countries in recent times. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Governors Highway Safety Association, & the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 2017). According to Miron (2008), Decriminalization means that possession is not subject to criminal sanctions but instead punishable only by a civil fine. Trafficking, and selling or distributing to minors, remain subject to standard criminal penalties. Initiation of cannabis use is typically...
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In coming of age novels, the protagonist faces many hardships and obstacles before they mature and realize where they stand in the world. The story of Jane Eyre follows this same path as Jane evolves from youth to adulthood. During this time, she lives at five different places: Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, Marsh End, and Ferndean. Each one shapes a bit of her personality and changes the way she thinks about certain topics, such as religion and infidelity. As the novel...
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Sad and broken, the emotions many of the people in this dystopian society experience, is due to an unhealthy amount of technology that distracts from the real world. These people are deprived of the social skills they need, they are incredibly lonely because they have no human compassion. All they have is a three sided TV in which they can interact with. The domino effect in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag goes on an awakening journey...
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