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Contributing to greenhouse gases

In October of 2018, the United Nations released a report from the world’s leading climate scientists warning that we (human beings) have only twelve years to dramatically slow the pace of climate change if we want to avoid environmental catastrophe: flooding of coastal cities, wildfires, violent storms and weather extremes, extinction of many species, dwindling […]

Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”

Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus” has nothing to do with climate change, but it presents an interesting philosophy: in the face of an impossible (or near impossible) task, hope is irrelevant. It ultimately doesn’t matter if we have hope or not in accomplishing a goal (in Camus’ specific case, it was defeating Nazisduring World […]

Nursing and Healthcare Policy

Tammy J. is the school nurse at Caseyville Middle School. The state requires that all entering sixth-gradestudents must have a current immunization certificate on file prior to enrollment. It is now 6 months into the school year, and Nurse Tammy is reviewing the students’ records. Nurse Tammy finds that several students do not have current […]

The role of women in ancient civilizations

Most of us are familiar with the subservient status of women throughout most of human history, and while this is often the case, it is not always accurate. Examine the role of women in a minimum of three of the civilizations we are studying through Week 7. In what ways were women seen as an […]