Concussions in Adolescents – A Brief History Contact sports in high school and college lead to many concussions in adolescents and young adults. One poll conducted by Tim McGuine, PhD showed that over a quarter of high school athletes surveyed had a concussion within the last couple of years. 261 athletes out of 973 to …
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Definition: Since 2004, only 6.3% of the airtime of three major television networks was devoted to women’s sports, the lowest proportion ever recorded in this study. In 2010, this number dropped to an astoundingly low 1.6%, while men garnered 96.3% of network airtime (Messner & Cooky 4). The literature review I wrote for English 225 explored …
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Maybe your parents were right about pot. Are your pot-head friends the brightest bulbs in the box? Maybe they are, but imagine how much brighter they’d be if they weren’t toking away brain cells. Like it or not, how Americans view pot has changed. Twenty-seven states have moved towards decriminalizing cannabis (Hartman, 2021). This has …
We’ve all seen Hunger Games and Divergent and The Maze Runner. Large young adult literature franchises that all shaped who our generation is and how we view the world. As an avid young adult literature fan, I wanted to know how this genre uses representation and what academics are saying about it, and how it …
By Max Ewing We need political diversity. Opposing ideas are the lifeblood of democracy. Without them, democracy isn’t democracy. With that being said, in recent years it has felt like the gap between the two parties in the United States has been growing wider and wider. The riots at the Capitol this January were a …
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Introduction: Public education in American high schools aims to give students a wide array of classes and knowledge to prep for graduation. For all future plans, the education that they have received will be following them. In most high schools, this vast array is decreasing. The schools are cutting the art programs and classes. This …
So, what is environmental injustice? A regular day for most people involves taking a shower using clean water and going outside and breathing in fresh air. We don’t think much of it because we expect to have clean water and air in the United States. Sometimes we will hear in the news about a community …
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Definition: The title of the literature review I wrote for English 225 reads as follows: “How does marginalization affect the portrayal and overall success of women in sports?” At first glance, it may seem to be a boring and complicated research topic. So, let’s break it down. First of all, What the heck does marginalization …
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The U.S.’s political climate today is extremely hostile and unwelcoming. People today don’t want to share their beliefs with one another because they don’t want to risk provoking people towards hatred of them. Much of this tends to come from the mainstream media and the way individual outlets decide to report the facts. However, media …
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Dominick Giudice 10/24/21 The academic success of college student athletes is a topic that is talked about at many levels across colleges. There are many thoughts around this topic. As a student athlete myself, I am able to see firsthand the success and failures from my own activities. One of the first points worth noting …
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