I wrote an Op-Ed article to The Daily Nexus‚ the UCSB-run campus newspaper. I discussed the topic of antibiotic resistance and how bacteria’s resistance to antibiotics is on the rise. Various strains of bacteria are no longer affected by some antibiotics‚ which could become a significant threat in the future if modern antibiotics are ineffective. We as humans rely heavily on antibiotics and other medications to deal with diseases and other illnesses. Modern medicine was one of the greatest advancements
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Preventing Columbine Over the past decade‚ there has been a spike in school shootings‚ one the most infamous took place at Columbine High School. This shooting has been spoken about across the globe because of the brutal killings two high school students engaged in. The two students committed an act so horrifying it shocked the nation. This tragedy has been contemplated for almost twenty years. The Columbine High School shooting is one of the deadliest school shootings in history‚ but it’s recently
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Colorado‚ United States. Two senior students‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold aged 18‚ embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly‚ with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide. Both students were average people with normal lives. Eric was a son to a U.S. Air Force transport pilot called Wayne Harris and His mum was a Housewife. The family moved
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the Vietnam War‚ every one of those soldiers fought the same war‚ but for different reasons. The actions took by the United States during the Vietnam War created major controversy throughout the people of the U.S. As a navy soldier in the Vietnam War‚ Ed Shottenbauer told his story on what he thought about the war and how the war changed his life after coming back to the U.S. The process of becoming a soldier can be difficult and can affect one’s life during and after war. The nature of war causes a
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Ed doesn’t care. He has lived long enough to realize it doesn’t matter what people think. His hair is balding on the top‚ goes down to about his shoulders‚ and is as white as snow. He wears the same outfit everyday: a battered pair of jeans‚ ford belt buckle‚ and boots. He doesn’t wear a shirt‚ I always think he wakes up and can’t find a shirt so he makes himself just decent enough to go outside. He has tattoos all over his chest‚ and could be the scariest looking person I have ever seen. When we
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as Ed Metatawabin’s in “Up Ghost River”‚ to understand how education‚ abuse of group identity‚ and silencing of voices allow individual behaviours to reify into the structural imbalances of power that maintain this hierarchy. In order for an arbitrarily-set hierarchy to be successful‚ fundamental narratives must be ingrained into the education system. Canada’s attempt to push this narrative was the residential schooling system‚ and its outcome‚ the demoralising of generations of First
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explain Cho’s case on wanting to shoot up his university as The Denver Post claimed that Cho idolized the Columbine shooters‚ Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Cho had done a video manifesto‚ much like Harris and Klebold did before their shootings (called the “Basement Tapes”). It is possible that he wanted to create a manifesto much like Klebold and Harris because that is what he learned by observing their actions. Additionally‚ in his manifesto he mentions that it was basically the world’s fault for
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Columbine Essay Columbine is based upon years of research and hundreds of eyewitness accounts in an attempt to recreate the lives of the two perpetrators who carried out one of the worst school massacres in American history: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. On April 20th‚ 1999‚ before turning their weapons on themselves‚ Eric and Dylan managed to kill 13 people and wound dozens of others in the horrific tragedy. Dave Cullen spent years of research and interviewing in a hope to shed light on the
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many get lost between their two worlds. When an individual struggles with their own ambition and tries to balance this with self and others‚ they often get lost and as a result create conflicts between their personal and academic lives‚ as shown in Ed Kleiman’s short story North End Faust. This story depicts a man‚ Alex‚ who struggles to balance his ambition with his personal life and‚ as a result‚ grows overly fond of isolation‚ even though he knows the damage it can cause. Alex is a passionate
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entertainment‚ “They can also give us in-deep‚ unforgettable view of human life‚ including moral issues” (p.23). These give the audience perfect illustration of moral problems and what the solutions could be. 2. Let’s repeat the question: Was everything Old Ed told true? Or has Will discovered the poetic truth behind the improbable stories? In fact‚ all the stories
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