… Flint with an abundance of jobs and a seemingly secure economic environment. However, this all changed in the early 1980's when GM's chairman, Roger Smith, decided to lay off thousands of Flint employees. As a result of Smith's decision, GM…

… college and university life surrounds itself by athletics. This remains a known fact. Anyone who attends college can tell you the same. On Saturdays, groups of fans dress up or paint themselves and march down to the stadium in order to demonstrate…

… in 1996, praised student uniforms as a way to promote safety and discipline in public schools. Ms. Moore and others, the principal and attendants of Will Rogers Middle School, felt a particular satisfaction in this endorsement" (Ms. Moore). On top of…

… Mary Crow Dog showcases a typical Indian childhood, a more unique adulthood, and the many struggles found within Native American life. One might find that these experiences are still very typical in the lives of young children, teenagers, adults,…

… the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. Most of us know it. There is the waste we can see: traffic jams, irreparable VCRs, Styrofoam coffee cups, landfills; the waste we can't see: Superfund sites, greenhouse gases, radioactive…

… Violence in and around school buildings is on the rise. As each year progresses more and more students are reported to be involved in some form of conflict; whether it is petty or serious. Yet, these problems are not a concern only to the students,…

… on a case that would change the face of American schools forever. For months the Court endlessly debated the pros and cons of either outcome. On June 25 of that year, the Court made its decision, and the class-wide activity of Bible reading was…

… In the simplest language, cloning is the process in which the DNA from some cell of a body is put by electrical shock into a female egg cell whose DNA has been removed. Then the egg cell is implanted into a womb, and after that it grows the same…

… in, you would think that people would learn to be more accepting of others. Nevertheless, there are still those who simply cannot. In his essay Black Men and Public Space, Brent Staples describes something that most young black men experience on more…

… a controversial issue lately, both in Massachusetts and nation-wide. I feel some type of dress code would cut down some of the everyday problems that schools have today. A dress code in public schooling would be a good idea because it would reduce…