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Is Marriage Bad for Us? Laurie Essig and Lynn Owens assert at the end of their article “Is Marriage Really Bad for Us?” that “Americans haven’t failed at marriage. Marriage has failed us” (163). Their main point in the article seems to be that marriage is indeed bad for us (a claim of value in the terminology of the Toulmin model). They support this overall claim with these sub-claims: marriage does not make you rich and may actually make you poorer; marriage has changed over time; marriage

there are four types of linkage institutions. Interest groups and political parties are said to be ‘linkage institutions’. In this essay, I will be addressing why it is exactly that interest groups and political parties fall under the category of linkage institutions, the similarities and differences between interest groups and political parties, the differences in the roles that interest groups and political parties play, and which of the two linkage institutions is most important to the democratic

Many different museums surround the West Michigan area and are the storage centers of the history of our counties, state, and country. When visiting a museum many people take in the sights and displays but never understand the work behind the scenes that when into providing the great historic exhibits. Many of museums are free admission or a slight admission fee but that small amount of profit is barely enough to keep the lights on. So one may ask how do museum economically survive if there is very

The ocean in its vast mystique contains millions of species and covers most of our planet. Unfortunately, many people do not truly grasp the gravity of the depletion of biodiversity that has occurred over the years. This is due to shifting baseline syndrome and its prevalence in today’s society. What is shifting baseline syndrome, how does the exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History teach visitors the concept of “shifting baselines” and “shifting baseline syndrome” as it relates to conservation

I walked through the familiar doorway of Microsoft on a brisk Thursday morning. I made my way to my office and sank into the new desk chair I had bought the day before. The rain pitter-pattering on the windows and the cool air made my morning much more relaxing than it usually would be thanks to some of my coworkers. Since I had my own office to myself after my promotion, I didn’t have to deal with all of their remarkably unintelligent comments. The morning seemed to fly by. Eventually the sun started

been missed during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Oahu. They developed “Operation K” – a series of continued strikes and reconnaissance missions over Pearl Harbor targeting the untouched shipyards, maintenance shops, and fuel-reserve facilities. The Roosevelt administration understood the growing possibility of America’s involvement in WWII as hostilities expanded through Europe and Asia. Many different American companies quickly converted to aviation war production during WWII. Especially a lot of Detroit

I am currently a sophomore undergraduate archaeology major at the University of Evansville, who plans to use my degree to pursue museum studies. When I was young, I discovered that I wanted to be an archaeologist, prompting me to visit many fascinating museums, such as the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Louvre. In preparation for this dig, I currently hold a part-time job as a team member, at a local fast-food pizza establishment. However, this scholarship can also help aid

including name, address, telephone number, email address and Chase internal system related information could had been stolen by hackers. In October 9th, 2014, another nine major financial institutions had been attacked by hackers. This was the largest case in Wall Street history that hackers hacked a financial institution. According to Bloomberg reports, the two insider of JP Morgan stated that from June 2014, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation

I was originally planning on spending my time observing and participating in different museum locations, but with the two education classes I was taking, I also ended up learning a lot about different school settings as well. And what was most interesting was comparing them and seeing where the similarities were. I would have categorized them as schools and museums, but those would be false categories. I spent time at three different museums for my service hours, the Bangor Discovery Museum, the

Overview of the Organisation Toitū Otago Settlers Museum (TOSM) is a regional museum that focuses on the history of the early settlers to Otago. As New Zealand’s first great city, Dunedin holds a lot of history and was one of the main settlement sites of New Zealand. Toitū is considered a Dunedin City Council facility and underwent a redevelopment several years ago. The museum reopened its doors in December of 2012 and has since seen a large increase of visitor numbers in comparison to the ‘old’