In the End

high volume, year-round abundance creates a schema so interdependent and thinly stretched that an outbreak of disease or other catastrophe would disrupt the ability of the system to respond to that stressor. In The End of Food, Paul Roberts, a reporter for Harper’s and author of The End of Oil, attempts to cut the food crisis into three digestible pieces for

a drought. During the drought, Elijah encounters a widow living outside of the city of Zarephath who is suffering from the drought. Both she and her son are at the brink of death because of the limited resources they have during the drought. In the end the widow learns a lesson in sharing her limited resources despite her sound reason of preserving both herself and her son. Although it is considered wise to preserve self, when the vulnerable consider to share their resources with others that are in

The only way this nation can move forward, to the benefit of all its citizens, is by eliminating the institutions of capital leeching off of our precious life-blood, the corporations that are truly behind apartheid, and only now seek to cast it aside to seek more subtle methods of slave-mastery. A strong central state with the interests of its workers and most exploited at the forefront of its thought is absolutely crucial. Eliminating apartheid without fighting off the true perpetrators of its extreme

In NPR’s article “The End of Gender,” they discuss the emergence and growth of gender neutrality. NPR goes in depth with various examples of how gender neutrality is slowly being implemented and first-hand accounts from individuals that are practicing gender neutrality. On a whole, I strongly agree with most of the major arguments that were brought up in NPR’s article. For one, I think that eliminating gender categorization record-keeping as well as applications as well as employment forms and loan

In the 1860’s there was an Era that started called the reconstruction. The main purpose for the reconstruction was to give African-American people full political and civil equality. However, it was very tough to do this, especially since most white in the south didn’t want the African-Americans to have the same rights as themselves. During this Era there were multiple good things that happened, yet, there were also many bad things that happened. For instance, during the reconstruction the 14th amendment

End of Segregation When African Americans first came to the United States, most of them were brought over to this land from their native homes as slaves, meant to do hard labor on farmlands owned by mostly wicked white plantation owners. They were not treated equally with white people in this country. In fact, African Americans were not even treated as people. Legislation in the United States after the American Revolution determined that a slave only counted as 2/3 of a person. The Dredd Scott

Respect the Constitution 1945. The end of the Holocaust. Total death: 6 million Jews. As tragic as it was, there was only one person behind it all; Adolf Hitler. Hitler, the dictator during the time, managed to transform peaceful and normal people into extreme haters towards the Jews. 158 years earlier, a man had introduced ideas that could have prevented these 6 million Jews from dying. That man was James Madison, also known as the Father of the US Constitution. In Philadelphia’s summer heat of

I was too tired and weak to bother protesting anymore. Long had it been since the fight had left me. Now I watched as if an outsider as my limp body was shoved onto a packed train that would take us to our deaths. If we didn't die on the way first. Time passed me without meaning and the train took off with a lurch. We flew over track, and the effect of so many bodies crammed together was stifling. Perhaps we weren't humans at all, but the other species the Germans talked about and said didn't deserve

There are 700,000 transgender people in the United States (Gates). Imagine you are one of them. You recently turned nineteen years old, and you are enrolled in university. You are among the luckiest transgender people. Your university chose not to discriminate against you because of your gender identity when you applied. You come from a supportive family, so you have the opportunity to attend university and eventually have a decent-paying job and the ability to support yourself, instead of being

Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus joined forces to form a triple leadership called the First Triumvirate. The rulers of Rome’s states and colonies suspected that one man would soon emerge as the complete ruler. Antipater, ruler of Idumea, played one ruler against the other to seek favor. Crassus invaded Jerusalem and stole the temple treasure while war broke out between Pompey and Caesar. Antipater sided with Pompey until Pompey was defeated, and then switched his loyalty to Caesar. Caesar abolished the