Online Resources

I want to remind everyone that there are a few great online resources for MLA documentation that may be helpful additions to the Thomson Handbook.

First, there is the Online Writing Lab (OWL) which is hosted at Purdue University. It’s MLA Style Guide is very useful.

Also, there is Diana Hacker’s Research and Documentation website which can likely answer any question you have about documenting your research sources for a paper. The MLA section is here.

Body Image – Human Genetic Engineering

Research into human genetic engineering should be conducted responsibly with effective societal governance that opposes applications that commodify human life and threaten to divide human society.

Social Impact on Body Image : Thesis

The positive and negative impacts of society, history and region on the Body Image of people.

Effects of Marijuana Decriminalization: Thesis

Reformation of U.S. marijuana laws, specifically decriminalization, would positively effect our economy and prevent inhumane imprisonment and penalties for recreational users.

Illegal Immigration- Healthcare

In America illegal immigration has posed an enormous problem not only on our job market and education system, but our healthcare system as well in the past two decades. This is forcing many Americans  to pay for health care bills that are not their own.

Oil, Energy, and Green Technology

Through the different porcesses of alternative energy such as, renewable energy and nuclear power, the people of the world will be able to produce cleaner energy, while helping to reduce global warming and the consumption of earth’s natural resources.

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General topic: Illegal Immigration

Already present laws regarding illegal immigrant employment need to be more strictly enforced, and the laws made should be left and enforced by the federal government, so, state legislatures cant change the laws.

Alternative Energy and Natural Resources

The depletion of energy resources will lead to eventual demise of Earth and society as we know it.

Mini-America

I grew up and lived in the city of Evansville, Indiana.  Although some residents may complain and say that there is nothing to do, I take some pride in coming from Evansville.  Evansville is a city of about 120,000 residents in the limits, and 350,000 metro.  It has also been known as an “all-american” meaning that it has a wide variety of economic classes and types of people.  Many companies actually use test-markets in Evansville because it serves as sort of a “mini-America” or small representation of the country as a whole.  Growing up in Evansville, I believe, has made me into an experienced and somewhat worldly adult.

The influence of class in a “classless” society

In my experiences as a student that has attended public school, class has always be observed in my life.  As you walk down the hallway from class you might see a student who might have some worn clothes or not the newest pair of shoes.  These students might also get picked on by others such as the jocks or the preps.  High school is a place of cliques that are often decided by a person’s class.  If you don’t wear the right clothes, play the right sport, or even say the right things, you might be excluded from a certain group.  People within those groups often sit together at lunch, have the same classes, or hang out with each other.

A common experience with students throughout their school days areplaying sports and standing in line, waiting to get picked for teams. Many of these decisions were based upon class or the group of people that you are assossciated with.   The jocks or sports kids were always picked first.  Then it was a matter of who looked like they could play the sport or was friends with someone.  The kids who were poor and unathletic were often picked last.  This can be translated directly to society.  Those people who are well connected are selected for succes.  Those who are poor and underprivileged are at a dissadvantage.

Despite this, I feel that the American society allows for social mobility which would allow people to obtain a higher class.  The path to that success may be more difficult depending upon your situation but it is possible.  Returning to the situation of picking teams, it is true that those who have connections and the right skills will often be picked first and those that are not will be picked last.  But there is the chance for a kid who might be pisked last to practice and work on that sport and be picked closer to the front because he has skills that are wanted.  A way that a lucky few people circumvent this route are those that may win the lottery or a game show.  These are the people who are often from the middle to lower classes who have gained newfound wealth.  With this new found wealth, they are able to move up into the class goal of many people, the upper class.