The Battle of Gallipoli   David Cumo Ms. Beck Honors World Cultures Period 7 19 May 2017 The Battle of Gallipoli, also referred to as The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16 or the Dardanelles Campaign, was a decisive battle in World War One during which Allied Powers attempted to take control over the sea route between Europe and Russia. Overall, the battle is largely considered a […]

Shakespeare is one of the most famous authors in the history of old and modern english texts. While living through the 1500s-1600s, and having very little knowledge of psychological issues, Shakespeare portrayed mental illnesses in Macbeth fairly accurately. The characters in the tragedy of Macbeth show many characteristics and warning signs of mental disorders such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia and depression. Since […]

Everyday birds fly in the sky. They leave the ground of reality and escape to the portal of the spirit world- the sky. Birds are prominent figures in Native American cultures. The significance and spirituality of birds in Native American culture is translated into Native American literature. In Monkey Beach, The Lesser Blessed, and Flight the main characters experience traumatizing events. As indigenous characters, the […]

The Scottsboro Boys Have you ever heard of the Scottsboro Boys or wondered about the early Jim Crow South? Well, the Scottsboro Boys were a group of black youths that got into a fight with white boys in a freight car on a train going from Chattanooga, TN south to Alabama. After the white boys told officers about the fight, the Boys were taken into […]

The Advancement of Racial Equality   Since the beginning of the United States of America becoming one union has been the driving force in the lives of many people. Major Ownes, who was a New York politician as well as a member of the Democratic Party once said, “What is our biggest enemy? Segregation.” However, what he failed to put into his quote was the […]

Throughout the history of United States we have had different views of racial leadership in Afro American political thought from W.E.B Du Bois to Booker T. Washington to Marcus Garvey who sought to lead African-Americans from the oppression they face. All three of these historical figures had different views on racial leadership and politics as well as the vision and direction that racial emancipation should […]

This program will consist of 500 Hispanic women age 25 to 34 years. We will recruit our participants from Planned Parenthood clinics and low-income communities. Using the Social Determinants of Health concept, we will identify who will be recruited, how we will apply our intervention, and why it will be effective. Recruitment will be based on income earned and education level as they are often […]

James Begun and Janet Malcolm define public health leadership as “the practice of mobilizing people, organizations, and communities to effectively tackle tough public health challenges”(loc568). Several characteristics of the Begun and Malcolm approach are useful to this study. First, the approach recognizes that the USA context is not supportive of public health leadership (Bambra 2011); second, it recognizes that public health leaders may originate from […]