Essays
Medical Marijuana: A Look at the Pros and Cons
At age five, Charlotte Figi was having three hundred seizures a week (average about one every 30 minutes) confined to a wheelchair and using a feeding tube as swallowing was difficult for her. Her frequent seizures represented a response to a rare form of epilepsy...
The Brain: A Complex, Ever-Evolving Organ
John Nash, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician made major contributions to various aspects of mathematics and economics, including game theory, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Aside from his intelligence, one notable...
Being Asexual: Is Love Without Sex Possible?
Staring across the room, the person who makes your heart beat a mile a minute catches your eye. Gathering your nerves, you walk up to them and start to talk. No one is perfect but you believe this person is. You have so much in common, it’s almost like it was meant to...
Be in the KNOW: Protecting Yourself from HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus, commonly known as HIV, is a virus that attacks the immune system. If not caught in time, HIV can develop into acquired immunodeficiency syndrome also known as AIDS, causing the immune system to fail at protecting the body from various...
And Still They Rise: Exploring the Complexity of Black Women in America
Black women have been the backdrop and blueprint of civil rights since the beginning of enslavement in America. Keeping the family together when men were sold off during slavery, leading the revolution to freedom, and building communities in the home, school, and...
Concussion: The NFL Shows How Little They Care
In 1991, Kansas Chief Hall of Famer Mike Webster retired from football after playing 245 games. According to the biography, Concussion, Webster started showing signs of brain deterioration as he developed dementia, depression, amnesia, and acute bone and muscle pain....