The House of Representatives has 435 members, whilst the Senate has only 100. Yet the Senate holds more power individually because there are fewer senators in number. The House is divided into territory of states by population, and represents the local population at the federal level. The Senate represents the states' interests at the federal level. Read More »
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Congress
Congress consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Congress has a bicameral legislature for many different reasons: historical ~ parliamentary government used as an example; practical ~ compromises such as the New Jersey and Virgina plans/resolutions; theoretical ~ popular sovereignty. The terms of Congress are determined by the 20th Amendment of the Constitution. Read More »
Bridging the Gap
I recently traveled to Kenya with a group of 14 American college students from top universities in our state. While we all come from middle- class families, some had been on missions before, but all were taken aback by what we met in Kenya. During my stay, my team worked with a community called Ngaamba. Read More »

Smoking While Pregnant Increases Risks
During pregnancy the baby that is being harbored is a very vulnerable being. What the mother eats, the baby eats; what the mother breathes, the baby breathes. Read More »

They Don't Just Chop it Off!
A million years ago, during my undergraduate years, one of my assignments was to watch a surgery (pre-op, intra-op, and post-op) and write about it.
My class mates jumped at the first appendectomies they could find, but I wanted something interesting. I asked around about upcoming events and one nurse failed to let me down.
“There’s a vaginoplasty happening in about an hour.” Read More »

Lesson Learned
I just learned a very important lesson in blogging and am blogging about this to hopefully help anyone else avoid this mistake. Read More »

The Age of Information
Emilie and I were talking the other day about people's knowledge nowadays. She was having issues with someone at work. She told a fork-truck driver to do something because another one of her fork-truck drivers was going to be leaving in 10 minutes. He said something to the order of "He can do it, it'll take less than 10 minutes to do." She told him it didn't matter, she asked him to do it. Read More »

Silent Information?
So, I was taking the FCAT SSS Mathematics today. Afterwards, the teacher and the whole class was having a talk and honestly, I can't blame older people.
There is so much information people need to know before they even enter High School, in my opinion. I try to be informed. I don't see out information unless I'm seriously interested, or it comes to me; but that isn't seeking, is it? Read More »


