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The Pokemeboy PlantThe rapid growth of cities and urbanization occurring in all parts of the world has become obvious to be at nature's expense. Plant species everywhere are showing results of major declines in population and reaching the point of becoming endangered. The Acacia anegadensis, or more commonly known as the Pokemeboy is one of many plants experiencing these negative trends. While still found alive in few geographical locations, this plant is considered endangered and very rare to find. The native homeland for the Pokemeboy is strictly in the Anegada Island located in the British Virgin Islands. Due to a dangerous low estimate of only 200 individuals, the Pokemeboy is treated as one population with no subpopulations. Being located very close to the equator, this particular area is defined as having a tropical rainforest biome. Though tropical rainforest biomes are recognized as the most diverse biome and optimal for growth, the Pokemeboy is an exception. These climates are often known for their immense rainfall, h |
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Biography of Gail AndersonIntroduction In her early career, Gail Anderson was not an established name, but this does not mean she was not a magnificent artist. Typographically, she was incredibly creative. Anderson worked for Rolling Stone magazine at numerous positions, which I think was one of her major achievements. She first started as an associate and, after demonstrating a lot of skills and techniques, then became a senior art director (Heller, Steven(2010).Gail Anderson[blog post].Retrieved from www.aiga.org/medalist-gailanderson). Also, Anderson zeroed in on many of the concepts of typography that later would define the pages found in many magazines. She also contributed to the widespread electric typographic fashion throughout the 1990s (Heller, Steven(2010).Gail Anderson[blog post].Retrieved from www.aiga.org/medalist-gailanderson). (Images here to show Electric Typographic Fashion). Anderson Techniques While at Rolling Stone, Anderson could work with art director Fred Woodward (AIGA Medalist) and c |
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The Crime of Domestic ViolenceStudies have proven that one in four women will experience domestic violence at some point in her life. This is a starling fact from safehorizon.org, a leading website that provides much information to the public about domestic violence. This can be described as, "Domestic violence occurs when a person uses physical violence, coercion, threats, intimidation, isolation, stalking, emotional abuse, sexual abuse or economic abuse to control another partner in a relationship. Domestic violence can be a single act or a pattern of behavior in relationships, which encompass dating, marriage, family and roommate relationships. ." Anyone with any close relationship defined by law typically being a spouse, significant other, or child would fall into this category. Why does this happen? What has the American government done to decrease this problem? How can we as individuals make a difference? Questions that must be answered and will be detailed in the following essay. Why does domesti |
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Easy, Breezy, Beautiful...CovergirlThe February 2015 issue of Us Weekly magazine features a Covergirl advertisement with the actress Sofia Vergara. The target audience of the Us Weekly Magazine is persons falling in the age category of 18-49. In the Covergirl advertisement, Sofia has a very illuminating smile, flashing her perfectly straight teeth and her complimenting magenta lipstick. Her hazel brown eyes are seductively gazing towards the camera. Her long, vivacious eyelashes allow her eyes to pop and shine dramatically. Her honey blonde hair lies loose and curled around her flawless face. A silky magenta cloth is draped behind and around her, emphasizing her alluring eyes and inviting smile. Her hand is strategically placed upon her shoulder revealing her black bra strap. The word "Covergirl" is written at the top of the ad across the actress's forehead in all capital letters and white font. Under the title is the famous Covergirl slogan, "easy, breezy, beautiful." This text however, is fairly sm |
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Semi-Permeable Plasma Membrane - Undergoing DiffusionProperties of a Selectively Semi-Permeable Plasma Membrane While Undergoing Diffusion Angie Bittar Matthew Ki and Nicholas Puterbaugh Sylvania Southview High School Honors Biology Mrs. Abbey Cappel November 24, 2014 Abstract This experiment will examine properties of a semi-permeable plasma membrane by investigating how different solutions react when placed in a dialysis tube surrounded by another solution. One dialysis tube is filled with starch and placed into a beaker containing iodine, while the second tube is filled with glucose and placed into a beaker of water. In the first tube, the iodine diffuses through the membrane into the dialysis tube. For the second tube, glucose diffuses out of the tube through the membrane into the water and water molecules diffused into the tube. This signifies that starch molecules were too large to pass through the membrane while the other substances were small enough. This reflects the semi-permeable nature of cell's membrane. Key Words: sem |
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The Suffocating Security BlanketEveryone has secrets. It's a part of human nature to keep some things to ourselves as a self-preservation tactic. Of course you don't want anyone to know that you have a third nipple, and yeah, you should probably keep that fact that you have a collection of toenail clippings on the down low. These secrets, while a little embarrassing (or disturbing), are relatively harmless. However, many people are plagued by one secret that is not only crippling, but can sometimes be deadly. Eating disorders in all their forms are a serious issue in today's society. They are not discriminatory diseases as some people may elect to think, and if not treated can do irreparable damage to the mind and body. These mental diseases (because yes, that is what they are) are often times held close to the vest. Unfortunately, the stigmas associated with eating disorders often prevent sufferers from seeking help. Just like you would feel shameful and a little bit more than embarrassed by someone finding your toe |
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Biography of Isadora DuncanIsadora Duncan was born in San Francisco and grew up within a family for which playing music, reading poetry and dancing were common activities. She expresses her love for dance from the age of five and since then she has gathered other kids to give them dance lessons. She started off taking ballet classes but learned that she hated ballet, arguing that she wants to create a different dance, free from the classical ballet and closer to her nature. This is how she starts an artistic journey that will last till the end of her life. Duncan faced horrible tragedies in her life, with her two children, Deirdre and Patrick, along with their nurse, who were drowned in the Seine River in Paris. The car they were riding in had stopped running. The driver got out to fix the engine, but he did not set the brakes. When the car suddenly started again, it ran down a bank into the river. This affected her so much to the point she didn't think she would dance again. In 1922, she married a Russian p |
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Biography of Mother TeresaMother Teresa (Agnes Bojaxiu) was born on August 26th 1910 and died on September 5th 1997 in Calcutta India. She was born an grew up in Uskub, Ottoman Empire, today it is known as Skopje and is the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Mother Teresa's Role Models and a bit about her Philosophy of Service, Mother Teresa's Philosophy of Service was that "No one should be forgotten". When asked where she found the strength and perseverance to place herself completely at the service of others or what influenced her philosophy of service she stated "I found it in prayer and in the silent contemplation of Jesus Christ, his Holy Face, his Sacred Heart." For Mother Teresa service allowed her to be self sacrificing. This is how her service created value in her life. By willingly giving of herself as a gift. Mother Teresa wanted to be a sign of "God's Love, God's presence and God's compassion" to remind all of us of the value and dignity of each of God's children." "We were created to love and be loved". Her work was to bring souls to God and |
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Teenagers and Social MediaWhat do teenagers spend a majority of their free time doing today? The answer to this question is most likely wasting time looking at pictures on Instagram, tweeting on Twitter, or posting a status on Facebook. If one were to ask this simple question ten or even just five short years ago the answers would be completely different, perhaps such as playing a pick of game of basketball, going to the mall with friends, or maybe even reading a good book. Most of todays generation of teenagers is entirely too wrapped up in the craze of all the different social networking sites being developed "[i]n fact, 95% of adolescents are connected to the Internet" (Nixon 143). It has become a major competition among the peers to see who can get the most likes on picture or the most retweets on a tweet. Most of the teenagers are so consumed into the social media world that they do not see any of the dangers or negative effects that it can possess. Although social media can have a few positive e |
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Should Student Athletes Be Paid?Over the years, college student athletes have gained somewhat of a celebrity status. Student athletes are seen as stars and hold the weight of the world on their shoulder. Often people lose the origination of the name student athlete. A student athlete is first a student and then an athlete. The student athlete is there to receive an education while playing a sport. They are privileged to play and be a role model to others. These athletes are given a higher education degree in return for using their talent and playing their favorite sport. If the students were given a paycheck, it would change the integrity of the game in college sports. Paying student athletes would change the focus of the game. Student athletes need to remain focused on being a student who is also an athlete, not a professional athlete who attends school. The opportunity to play at a prestigious university, or at any university, should be looked at as a privilege and honor to that athlete. Through many years of hard |
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Life and Followers of Siddhartha GautamaHow do you feel about the practice of buddhism and how they worship their god? The way that they worship shows dedication, and many other things. So, what is religion and how they worship their god? To understand Buddhism it is important to understand the history, the beginnings, the common misconceptions, and the present day trends. There are 5 different types versions of buddha; Vairocana; a celestial buddha who is often interpreted as the bliss body of the historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). Akshobhya; a product of the Adibuddha, who represents consciousness as an aspect of reality. Ratnasambhava; Ratnasambhava's mandalas and mantras focus on developing equanimity and equality. Amoghasiddhi; associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. Buddhism was formed in 520 BCE in northern India. The founder of buddhism was Siddhartha Gautama, or as you may know him, buddha. Bauddha Dharma (Buddhism) can be translated as "re |
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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwiftIn Swift's essay A Modest Proposal he uses diction, assumption and organization to develop his position. In this essay Swift is attempting to bring to light the awful treatment the Irish were receiving after the drought. Swifts choice if words among the essay helps reveal to the reader the point he is trying to make. In paragraph 21 he says "papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principle breeders of the nation." The quote clearly shows, through the use of the words "overrun" and "breeders" that he thinks of families as just a unit to provide more people. By using overrun it seems as though he is considering the population as papist and Protestants, and that there needs to be more Protestants if not a balanced population. Overrun also implies a relation to beings more like animals. Instead of using words like "overpopulated" and "out numbered" Swift chooses to use "overrun" to show the lack of emotion towards the papists besides hate. Another choice of words that show Swifts diction is the use of the word emulation. Emulation by definition m |
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Subliminal Perceptions in the MediaSubliminal Perception is a signal or message embedded in another object, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception or the threshold of sensation of one's consciousness. The threshold that is being referred to is an individual's absolute threshold. The absolute threshold is the smallest level of energy required by an external stimulus to be detectable by the human senses, including vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch. This tends to vary amongst many different people. These messages are invisible by the conscious mind, but supposedly affect the subconscious or deeper mind. Subliminal techniques have occasionally been used in advertising, but the purpose, effectiveness and frequency of such techniques have been debated for years. It is proven that stimulation below the level of a person's conscious awareness can be shown to have on some aspects of behavior. How can something we do not notice affect our behavior? Subliminal messaging was made to affect part of the mind, w |
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Emergency Preservation and ResuccitationThe 1960's was the decade of the first heart transplant, the release of the first birth control pill and cryogenics. Based on medical advancements, Robert Ettinger proposed the bold idea that death was possibly just a disease. He theorized that by freezing someone at the precise moment of clinical death, we could later revive them. This was the birth of cryogenics. Turns out that freezing people is a bit harder than it sounds. 40 years after the birth of cryogenics, freezing people for indefinite periods of time is just as implausible, but freezing them for a few hours to postpone death is becoming a very likely reality. Suspended Animation, otherwise called Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, or EPR is a medical procedure which, according to a March 26, 2014 report in New Scientist can "preserve human lives by suspending them between life and death." In order to understand EPR, let's first delve into some background information, then examine future trials and applic |
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Social Norms of the 1950s and 1960sThe 1950's is known as a sterile, homogenized, consensus-driven society. This image, however, changed in the period of 1952 to 1966 when America experienced a shift in the social norms and civil unrest. Social norms between the suburban families and middle class families changed as well as stereotypes and the mass media and popular culture. After the war the suburban population in America was changing increasingly. The 1950's mostly consisted of small towns and suburbs as shown on page 823(Document A). This is due to the statistics stating that 37.5% of the population lived in rural or small towns and 35.5% were suburbs. Although these numbers suggest that a large amount of the population lived in most of the middle class families who lived in a suburb struggled to maintain those houses. These families could not rely on a single income so most women had jobs. This meant that the mothers would be at work all day and the children would have to be in some sort of child care or left at home. This meant "latchkey" children and an increase in child delinquents. Women were given jobs in low paying positions with no chance of moving ahe |
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Racisms by Kwame Anthony AppiahIn the work entitled "Racisms", Kwame Anthony Appiah explains the heart of racism as to be a doctrine called racialism. Racialism is the belief that there are different sets of races, which are established by groups of people sharing common, unique heritable characteristics. This leads to these groups becoming exclusive and not including other members of the species who do not share the common characteristics. These unique traits create the "racial essence" as Appiah calls it. The racial essence is the basis of making moral judgments and that there is more to a person other than just using morphological characteristics to classify which race they belong to. Appiah indicates that there is two forms that exist based on the doctrine of racialism. These two forms are called extrinsic racism and intrinsic racism. He describes extrinsic racists as "people who make moral distinctions between members of different races because they believe that the racial essence ent |
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Social Scrutiny in A Clockwork OrangeSocieties structure their ideas based off of groups' or individuals' vision of what is considered the good life. In a repressive and totalitarian government, people lose the ability to exercise free will. The thought of free will derives from the capability to voluntarily make decisions whether they be good or bad, right or wrong, in the eyes of oneself and others. Stanley Kubrick in a Clockwork Orange attempts to properly analyze an artifact that demonstrates the downfalls of ignoring moral structures by conveying to the audience that when someone is obstructed from free will, their ability to be human is also taken away. The good life in A Clockwork Orange is implied by the main character Alex. He perceives the good life as having the ability to do whatever he wishes by participating in evil acts as a means of fulfilling his contentment. However, the good life portrayed in the film's constructed society is perceived differently through lenses that contradict each other. The totali |
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Letter of Intent to UniversityThis past semester was one of the toughest I have ever experienced throughout my college career. As a student maintain g my grades and understanding the material is my main focus. Throughout my past two semesters you could see that I always maintained the academic standard for the graduate program. If I ever needed help I was very outspoken about it. I meet with my professors numerous of times to receive the help needed. I always strived for the best and trying to excel in this program. But this past semester I had more to deal with than the usual projects, tests, and homework's. The spring semester of 2014 I lost my living arrangement in Erie and moved in with my best friend in Edinboro, Pa and agreed to stay there until I finished graduate school. So when my best friend/ roommate |
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Movie Summary - Coach CarterFrom day one, education is the most important thing to Coach Carter. Based on the true story of Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) and high school basketball team the Richmond Oilers, Coach Carter centers on a reluctant coach as he takes the job as the team's skipper. Coach Carter, alongside his freshman, ex-prep school son (Robert Richard), slowly begins to turn the team from inner city losers into student athletes. Carter's rigorous workout routine not only stretches the boundaries of the human body but also the mind. When the team and their parents cause a stir concerning how grades are not as important as a little "hoops", Carter locks down the gym, canceling practices and games in an attempt to make the Oilers winners both on and off the court. In the film, Coach Carter demonstrated values such as liberty, equality, and justice when he allowed the players on his team the liberty to choose to play, to choose to achieve, to choose to sign the contract of behavior. He showed respect and high expectations instilling equality among the team. Coach Carter also demonstrated justice when he expected and upheld the contract and |
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1776 by David McCulloughDavid McCullough closely examines a year of near-mythic status in the American collective memory: 1776. It was the year that the Continental Congress, meeting in steamy Philadelphia, decided, "these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states." It was also the year that the American Revolution began in earnest and was nearly lost. With his strong sense of narrative and his gift for capturing the humanity of his subjects, McCullough leads readers through a well-known story with both style and grace. McCullough structures the book into three large subdivisions. The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. McCullough takes issue with the commonly held notions of the king, often more known for the madness of his later years than for his intelligence and hardworking leadership of his country. McCullough offers the British perspective on the ev |
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Biography of Susan Brownell AnthonySusan Brownell Anthony was the first American activist who played a significant role in eliminating women's suffering in the United States. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was raised in a religious family with an activist tradition. At the age of 49, with a friend of hers, they inaugurate a new society called the National Woman's Suffrage Association; together they have worked for over fifty years. They distributed a weekly journal called "The Revolution" telling the movement of women suffrage for approximately two years. She traveled to other countries giving speeches, joined political and social parties. Not long she became the founder of the International Council of Woman, which brought international attention to women's suffrage. The beginning of Anthony's lifelong career in reform all started when her father's business failed and family members moved to Rochester, New York in 1845. Anthony took part of head of the girls' division at Cana |
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Computer Science Diversity GapSome alarming statistics find that, in 2013, not a single African American students took AP computer science exam in 11 states and no Hispanic students tested in 8 states. Among the 30,000 students who took AP computer science test, only around 10 percent of them are African American and Hispanic students (Heitin, 2014, para.2-3). The statistics are alarming but unsurprising, because computer science is historically dominated by White and Asian males. Although everyone knows that computer science industry is one of the most promising area, we may want to figure out why so few students of color are taking computer science classes. Is it simply due to the boring material and unqualified teacher? Or the race gap reflects bigger problem embedded in our education system. Most students of color are not well prepared for college computer science learning due to the structural barriers in educational access and opportunities. According to Margolis's study in three schools in the Los Angles, students of color are lack of access to equitable school funding, facilities, skilled teacher. So schools predominated by Latino and black st |
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Ethics of the Death PenaltyDeath Penalty Ever since we were young, we were taught that violence and murder are wrong. Our peers and the prominent figures in our lives would often remind us of the negative effects and moral codes that conspire around violence. So what makes it okay for people to preach for the innocence of their children but then encourage the act of capital punishment? Capital punishment is defined as the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. Throughout time, advocates and protesters of capital punishment have equally petitioned to gain support for their beliefs. The capital itself has not made any definite rulings as to whether or not they want to allow capital punishment to continue. States alone have made decisions upon the act though, as thirty-six states allow the death penalty, meaning fourteen states have made the verdict to abolish the death penalty. I believe allowing the death penalty leaves too much room for constant error, and could not possibly be admi |
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Homosexual Couples and Legal Adoption1. Today, opinion polls consistently reveal that a majority of people in Western countries respect and endorse homosexual marriage. For instance, in US, among those aged 18 - 32, support is as high as 70 percent (West, 2013, para.5). Along with the support of homosexual marriage is the request of children. However, when homosexual parenting became visible to the public, negative opinions about their parent eligibility were commonplace, partially because heterosexual parenting has been taken as a norm. Hence, deviations from the norm have been implicitly represented as undesirable. Opponents against homosexual parenting have used religious, moral, and philosophical claims to assert that every child needs a mom and a dad, and homosexual parenting is innately harmful to children. However, a large number of academic studies suggested that no significant differences in psychological adjustment, academic achievement, and social function could be found among children reared by homosexual pare |
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Desdemona and OthelloIn "Othello," by William Shakespeare, it can be observed that even though Othello appears to be of good nature, his race affects how some of the other characters behave towards him. Othello's race affects how the play develops, especially in regards to his relationship with Desdemona. While the Venetians do not appear to have any issue with having a black high ranking soldier, some do appear to have an issue with a white woman marrying a black man. In Othello, Iago and Roderigo go to Brabantio to explain that Othello has stolen his daughter, Desdemona. They don't tell Brabantio that Othello and Desdemona have gotten married, the way that they portray it is as if the only way Desdemona would have gone with Othello is by trickery; ultimately leading to that she would not have gone with Othello willing because it is wrong. In fact, Brabantio goes to the senate because he believes them. B |
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