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Accusations and Due Process
Jackson, , Biases, Fall 2019, Media and Message, Showcase, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 1Sexual misconduct has been a problem forever, but has only come to light in the last 20 years. There’s...
Unconscious Bias- Making Millions from Theory
Ari, , Biases, Showcase, Social Media, Spring 2019, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 0Now Comment Media manipulation most commonly if affected by individual unconscious biases that have been supported through social media...
Racial Stereotyping and Profiling
Olivia, , Biases, Incarceration, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Showcase, Spring 2018, Discrimination, stereotyping, 0Unit 3 Project Well, I focused on racial stereotyping and profiling for my project. Although the issue doesn’t directly...
Model Minority Myth: Helpful or Harmful?
Sarah Joy, , Biases, Race Relations, Showcase, Spring 2018, What do I stand for?, asian american, asian discrimination, Baccalaureate School for Global Education, minority equality, model minority, 0The “model minority” myth. What exactly is it? Is it something that someone made up in order to make...
The Lies of Multi Level Marketing
Maxwell, , American Dream, Biases, No Poverty (Economy), Politics, Showcase, Spring 2018, Business, corruption, economy, Lies, multi level marketing, pyramid scheme, 0In an article by Robert L. FitzPatrick, the president of the Pyramid Scheme Alert and co-author of False Profits:...
Medical Specialty Discrimination
Chloe, , Biases, Gender, Gender Equity (Women), Good Health and Well-Being, Showcase, Spring 2018, 1The only specialty that the number of women outweighed the number of men was pediatrics. This is stereotypical since...
Mental Health
Lexi, , Biases, Fall 2017, Good Health and Well-Being, Happiness, No Poverty (Economy), Showcase, Spring 2018, Inequality, mental health, 0The further society advances, the further it leaves behind those who cannot keep up. Mental disabilities are arguably the...
How mental health is viewed, and how society addresses it
Paul, , American Dream, Biases, Black Lives Matter, Call to Action, Community, Drugs, Fall 2017, Family, Goals, Good Health and Well-Being, Guns, Happiness, Showcase, Spring 2018, change, mental health, society, 0In my reserch, many things about mental health have become increasingly obvious. It is a far more prevalent problem...
Low class vs High class
Xin, , Biases, Good Health and Well-Being, biases, health, Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, power, 2In oakland we have had an issue for a awhile now. That problem is the difference between...
How Does Gentrification Affect Oakland and its Community?
Anthony, , Argument, Biases, Community, Gentrification, The Fifth Column, Blog Post, community, gentrification, Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, Oakland, 3Did you know that when asked, more Oakland community members believe that gentrification is shoddy for Oakland? Why...
Should the United States decriminalize Drugs?
Oliver, , 2nextprez, Biases, Debt, Decision Making, Drugs, Fall 2017, Family, Friendship, Good Health and Well-Being, Happiness, Incarceration, No Poverty (Economy), Politics, Prison, Protest, Research Help, Science, Showcase, Violence, Voting, War, 0The United States does not tolerate drugs at all, since Ronald Reagan started the war on drugs. If someone...
There’s nothing wrong with private prisons
Angelica, , Argument, Biases, Crime, Decision Making, Fall 2017, Incarceration, Prison, Research Help, Showcase, Prison system, 2Seems like a good idea at first glance. Too many prisoners, no money to build prisons. Let private companies...
Why Obesity is the worst problem in America today
Bobby, , Argument, Beauty, Biases, Decision Making, Fall 2017, Goals, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Beauty, Obesity, 13“Beauty on the outside doesn’t reflect how I am on the inside.” Is there truth in this? Yes. But nowadays...
The Achievement Gap
Ariel, , American Dream, Argument, Biases, Black Lives Matter, Call to Action, Community, Debt, Decision Making, Goals, Good Health and Well-Being, Housing, Latino Power, No Poverty (Economy), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Point of View, Politics, Quality Education, Race Relations, Showcase, The Fifth Column, Okemos High School, 1The achievement gap is the measurable disparity of the socioeconomic statuses and educational performance of different groups of people...
Lazy!
Zoe, , Biases, Fall 2017, Psychology, Showcase, Aldous Huxley, Inquiry, millennials, work, 4Everywhere you turn, you can see someone complaining about how lazy today’s young people are, how we were handed...
Reading Into Empathy
Hailey, , American Dream, Argument, Biases, Books or Plays, Call to Action, Community, Goals, Quality Education, Showcase, 2People each day are becoming more complacent about important issues in society. There is a lack of people willing...
Are Laws liberating?
PJ, , Argument, Biases, Community, Goals, Media, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Point of View, Politics, Quality Education, Showcase, #Trump, debate, laws and restrictions, philosophy, trump2017, your thoughts, 0“When is a train most free? Is it when it goes bouncing across the field off the track? No....
Geography and Political Opinions
Chloe, , Biases, Community, Decision Making, History, No Poverty (Economy), Point of View, Politics, Showcase, congregation, neighborhoods, opinions, Politics, red and blue, 1It seems that people tend to have similar beliefs as those who live in the same geographic area as...
Ethics of Metal, Glass, and Plastic
Eric, , Biases, Decision Making, Getting Started, Inquiry, Media, Point of View, Politics, Psychology, Rights, Showcase, Social Media, War, ethics, Morals, Robots, survey, 2A little while ago, I visited the Moral Machines website. It’s a study put out by MIT to see...
The Lower the Social Class, the Lower the Opportunities
Zoe, , Biases, Fall 2017, Getting Started, No Poverty (Economy), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Showcase, 5Think of all the inspiring movies you know about a rags to riches story; Someone that came from nothing...
Do people congregate with people who are like them?
Chloe, , Biases, Community, Fall 2017, Gender, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Race Relations, Rights, Showcase, Social Class, community, groups, people, 0The Telegraph states that, “Earlier research revealed that the lower portion of a brain region called the “medial prefrontal...
How do I define beauty?
Bobby, , Beauty, Biases, Fall 2017, Science, Showcase, Attractiveness, Beauty, Definition, Objectivity, 4Chosen Question: How do I define beauty? What I know: Beauty can be subjective to everyone. But I think...
Learning From the Past
Lexi, , Biases, Call to Action, Charlottesville, Fall 2017, History, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Showcase, Discrimination, history, learning, white supremacy, 1As a society, we have failed to learn from our past mistakes. We are still repeating the past, in...
what I feel about the ted talk and how it made me feel was kind of strange and deep. The...