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Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Ellen Degeneres Comedy is a tool that helps people to stay happy and positive despite hard times. People believe in the power of laughter, as it helps to reduce stress. Ellen DeGeneres is a well-known stand-up comedian that has become influential in the lives of many people. She uses comedy and humor to lead conversations about homosexuality (Neary). Being gay herself, she has used comedy to change how people view gay people since coming out in 1997. DeGeneres uses jokes and plays character that help to shed light on homosexuality, thereby enabling its visibility. It was hard to come out as she associated felt ashamed and hated herself because...

Name Instructor Course Date In Praise of the F word In the article, "in praise of the 'F' word," Sherry, faults the teachers and the education system. Students are passed from one grade to the next along the educational system and rarely do students master the content. This is unfair to the students and the job market they are being prepared for. She points out how the style of teaching alone not being enough to effectively capture the attention of students and encourages the use of the failure threat to ensure students are drawn to schoolwork. The school system, using excuses such as inadequate resources and budgeting allows students who are under qualified to pass. Overworked and underpaid...

Why Should Student Wear School UniformStudent’s Name Institutional Affiliation Why Should Student Wear School UniformDuring the years, there has been a debate on whether students should wear uniforms. Some schools in Jamaica have decided to make uniforms compulsory while others permit them to wear whatever they want. The heated discussion mainly targets the government, school principals and board of directors. This is because they are responsible for coming up with policies that govern the behavior of students. The paper discusses the reasons why students should wear uniforms. First, having a standard dressing code helps in the minimization of social conflicts among students. Students who...

Name Class Instructor Assignment U.S. Aid to Refugees According to U.S laws, a refugee is any person who has fled his or her motherland because of a well-defined fear of persecution. The US plan to settle a meager estimate of 21,000 refugees in 2018. This tally is the lowest since 1977 considering it is the midst of the World’s worst refugee crisis. According to a study by Shibley Telhami titled “American Attitudes on Refugees from the Middle East” 24% of the sampled individuals support taking in of refugees from the conflicts of Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, while an equal percentage oppose the idea. (Telhami 2). President Trump administration enacted an executive order...

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Mass deaths of children in Tuam Children home could have been avoided if the government and the society worked together to follow-up on the growth of the children (BBC 1). The case happened because the government was so complacent to the extent that many years later; there were no officials that had enquired on the progress of the children who were being brought up in the children home. The high number of children could not go unnoticed if the authority had regulated children’s home and ensure that they conform to the ethical standards (O'dowd 1). Furthermore, despite the children having birth certificates, no one was responsible enough to check on the babies...

Name Instructor Course Date Opinion on Immigration Immigration is a controversial issue in the United States with concerns arising from the impact it has on the security and economic stability of the nation. The history of the United States indicates that the immigrants are the founders of the sovereign country. People from different parts of the world immigrated into the nation and developed the country to its status. Legal immigration into the United States allows the local citizens to understand the cultures of these people's republic of origin. The essay seeks to assess the effect of immigration on the lives of American people (Suro). Although immigration is a great thing as it allows...

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Collecting Memories Collecting memories in the form of pictures, videos, and similar items is not a new phenomenon. In the days past, people used to keep photographs of themselves and their families in photo albums to remind them of the days past, as well as for posterity. The purpose of a person getting their life story is to enable them to paint a clear picture of whom they indeed are. However, the historical information should not merely be a haphazard collection of facts. Instead, these should be an account of a person’s life story that includes recurrent ideas and vital themes that are reflective of the development of the person’s personality, as well...

Student Professor Course Date How Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is related to Substance Abuse and Sexual Assault PTSD is a wearing mental illness that mostly affects persons who have lived through or experienced a disturbing event or extended trauma. Even though the number of persons who abuse drugs and other offenses like sexual assault is not known, several studies have acknowledged the existence of a correlation. As per a study by NCTRN.org, 59 percent of persons having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder usually go through problems to do with substance abuse later in their lives. Individuals who have PTSD have a high likelihood to develop substance abuse, and this contributes to sexual assault...