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Policies are put into place by the government in order to help provide stability and safety for the mass public. In order to make sure that the people, corporations’, and organizations’ special interests are given to the governmental officials, people are hired to provide the officials with information. These people are known as lobbyists.  Read More »

For as long as man has been able to communicate in a written form and attempted to comprehend life around them, they have tried to standardize classification systems. As human beings, we are willing and able to rank everything – from the 250 best cities in the word to raise children to the 100 greatest movies (Williams, 2005). In some aspects, this standardization has worked for humans.  Read More »

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to an arm wrapping around you. Instantly, you are being dragged from your home by a man that you do not know. As you are leaving your hut, he shoots your mother and father, and several other men hack your baby sister to death.  Read More »

In 2005, in a small town in upstate New York, a teenage boy committed suicide. Students in the community were baffled as to how he could do such a thing. No one understood why he would allow himself to perform such a heinous act. Within a week, another teenage boy had killed himself.  Read More »

Imagine that you are seven years old. You’ve just been removed from your home because your father beat you to the point of hospitalization. You’re all alone, with no one to turn to. A strange woman tells you that you are going to stay with another family for the time being.  Read More »