How can a Coventry High School student effectively raise awareness about the disease leukemia? The Capstone project is a very exciting and scary project to be starting. I know once I complete my project, I will be one step closer towards successfully graduating from high school, but there is a lot of work to be done before that. Right now I am in the process of trying to gat the ball rolling on my capstone. So far I have figured out my core question and I have gotten it approved as well....

Persuasive Essay on the Carolina Driver's License System Many students disagree with the graduated license system that the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has implemented. This is true in Ayden Grifton High School but is it really wrong the answer isn’t as clear cut as it might seem. To find an answer to a complicated question such as this one must look at it from many perspectives. There are three main view points on this matter the young driver, the parents, and the...

Colombia Columbia is a country wrought with poverty, corruption, and violence. It has gained notoriety for its drug trafficking and the scandalous dealings by the military. Five percent of Columbia (1.9 million people, 1.1 million of them children) have been displaced due to the fighting in a four decade old civil war. Columbia will need some serious rearranging politically, socially, and overall to get back on their feet. Columbia is located in the very northern part of South America, it...

Cyber-Squatting Cyber-squatting is a derogatory term and means registering, selling or using a domain name with the intent of profiting from the goodwill of someone else's trademark. It generally refers to the practice of buying up domain names that use the names of existing businesses with the intent to sell the names for a profit to those businesses. Cyber-squatters usually ask for prices far greater than that at which they purchased it. Some cyber-squatters put up derogatory remarks about...

Ballisic Missile Defense Recently I have been reading articles in the New York Times on the subject of the building of a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system by the United States government. If the Pentagon builds such a system, it will clearly violate the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty. The idea of building such a system has begun to trouble me greatly on two levels; one is that nations such as Russia and China are adamantly opposed to the building of such a defense system, and two that...

Legality of Same-Sex Marriages The proposed legalization of same-sex marriage is one of the most significant issues in contemporary American family law. Presently, it is one of the most vigorously advocated reforms discussed in law reviews, one of the most explosive political questions facing lawmakers, and one of the most provocative issues emerging before American courts. If same-sex marriage is legalized, it could be one of the most revolutionary policy decisions in the history of American...

Analysis of Modern Video Game Rating Systems Before 1994 video game companies put their own age rating to show what kind of age category the game was for. In 1994 Electronic Systems Rating Board (ESRB), a rating system company decided that they could help the companies by establishing a standard and rating the game for the companies. ESRB’s rating went as follows, K-A meaning kids to adult (ages 7 and up, similar to the movie rating of G), E for everybody (ages 7 and up, similar to the...

When you think of anthrax, you think of terrorists. However, terrorists are not the main cause of anthrax. Anthrax occurs in some animals like cattle, sheep, and goats. It is also soil borne. Anthrax is more common in places without veterinarian programs. Anthrax’s scientific name is bacillus anthracis. There are 89 strains of anthrax. One of the strains used in the 2001 anthrax attack on the nation is Ames strain. The Ames strain is extremely dangerous. It is the most dangerous type. ...

Homeless People There are millions of homeless people in the United States. In 1998, there were about 3 million. New York alone contains 60,000 homeless. In Chicago, in1981 50 homeless people died due to freezing to death. In December 1982, Chicago shelters turned down around 30-50 people a night because there was no room. From 1982-84 in Detroit, there was a 300 percent increase in homelessness. In 1983 in Seattle, shelters turned down around 4,000 families, or roughly 16,000 people. Even in...

Global Warming Long ago the earth was conceived in a fiery blast of volcanoes and molten lava. The earth cooled and life was spawned. From the first bacterium that swam in a new ocean thru just before the industrial revolution climate, lacking any external factors, has steadily changed. But since the industrialization of civilization, the climate of the earth has faced an ever growing foreign factor. This factor is the emissions of the so called “greenhouse gases” that have caused...