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Last November, I attended a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden. My friends and I stuck around after the game to try and get as close as we can to the ice as the remainder of the celebrating fans flooded out of the stadium. We realized how late we were to our train so we…

NTRODUCTION Planning involves the decision making process, which aims to control development, design the environment, and develop communication networks and other facilities to create a community that is both livable and workable. Planning as a profession has the primary goal of enhancing the communities we reside in. While planners address the current state of the…

To me, justice means defining what is right and what is wrong. In our everyday life, rules and laws govern our world. The purpose of these laws, are to enforce mandatory rules for acceptable behaviour where justice prevails and conflicts are avoided. If justice doesn t succeed, it hurts society because the right decision hasn…

Today with all the technology we have, it is increasingly easy for teenagers to intimidate people without confrontation. This is called accessibility. It is said that forty-three percent of adolescents were victims of accessibility , with the results as it must be asked , “Is that accessibility should be a crime ? ” I think…

In Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day,” a group of schoolchildren on the planet Venus eagerly awaits a rare occurrence: a brief moment of sunlight amidst constant rain and darkness. However, the protagonist, Margot, becomes the victim of bullying and exclusion by her classmates, ultimately missing the moment of sunlight due to…

Paradigms of how men and women have to dress, behave and should be portrayed in society are basically established by sexism in advertisement, which means a prejudice based on gender division. These ideologies are negatively affecting and having consequences on the average citizens who do not fall into those standards. One of the widespread stereotypes…

Gender wage gap is a relatively loose concept, but it is defined as the gap between what men and women earn. Most commonly it refers to the annual pay of women who work full time compared to the pay of men. Other definitions of gender wage gap are based on hourly or weekly earnings. Being…

Healthcare, as it is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, means the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services (Merriam-Webster). When someone provides health care to a patient, they do not only help with the physical ailment, but they must also attend to the person as a whole….

According to an interactive article by the New York Times, the number of Americans who have died from overdoses has increased by 650% since 1990. In October, President Trump announced declared the opioid epidemic a national health emergency and he talked about the $80 million initiative that will go towards pain management research and an…

There is an exaggerated amount of stereotypes about various groups of people brought up and supported by our society. The most common and most unnoticed stereotypes are gendered stereotypes. Day to day we subconsciously expect males and females to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct themselves based upon their assigned sex. An example of this…