Sam Miller, Giorgio Boggio, Catherine Cummings, Vianey Jimenez, and Casey Shubrook
Week 8 Presentation Project
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China Bends Vow, Using Prisoners’ Organs for Transplants
In this past week, an article was published regarding new laws about organ donation of prisoners on death row in China. It was…
Week Five-Contextualizing with Newspaper Research
In America, it often seems that the fight for women’s equality is over. However, it is a current and on going issue. Women make only 82% as much money only one year after graduating from college (taking into account women sometimes enter lower-paying professions). This…
Week 4
http://nyti.ms/1knjDR9 How Texas Teaches History
This article talked about how the grammar a textbook uses can change the overall effectiveness of a passage. The history textbook included in Texas’s curriculum tends to use passive language and avoid using people in sentences describing the…
Giorgio: I’d like to begin by pointing out two rather remarkable things about Tuesday’s debate. Firstly, as I’m sure everyone who watched it noticed, it was pleasantly (even surprisingly) civil- the candidates didn’t stray into personal attacks and even supported/agreed with one another on a regular basis. The civility was in such stark contrast to…
There has never been a time when the world’s progress is truly stagnant. Every day changes are occurring, and though sometimes they may be small, they can be the beginning to a motion with a much larger impact. From this week’s stories we drew multiple claims carrying this same theme of taking action to…