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      What steps would the US need to make so that ehtnic studies is no longer required to fill in the gaps of our eurocentric edu?

      • Including grater variety of historical figures and notable individuals in terms of race, gender, and background
      • Share lesser known figures, events, and countries that have innfluenced our current society and innovations we enjoy today beyond a eurocentric view
    2. New categories of difference are being added periodically,

      How does catorgizing people based on differences, no matter how superficial, affect our perception on each other and how our unique lives functions. Why do we do it?

  2. May 2025
    1. Analyzing the emissionspectra of ammonia, the FB-2 spark generator leads to notably higher relative emissionenergy of the UV emission lines (Figure S8 Supplementary Materials).

      Good thing for comparsion slide

  3. Feb 2024
    1. Chaos/Order

      Galios and Agribios controlled a chaotic prelude to earth before galios encases Agribios and started a more stable one. Similar Motifs: Hesiods the Five Ages has Zeus attempt multiple times to create a good society and he sometiems suceeds (golden and demigod) sometimes has issues (silver and us) and somtimes fails (bronze)

    1. Like stimulants, video gaming can increase gray matter in the brain,” says Dr. Manos. “Gray matter provides interconnectivity and allows parts of your brain to communicate with other parts of your brain and advance your self-perception.”

      Solving progressively difficult challenges attributes to this grey matter development

    1. games can be played both socially and nonso

      A vital part of games is the diversity in its interaction and how they can target different aspects of brain development

  4. Dec 2023
  5. Nov 2023
    1. After being pushed out of Jordan and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s, the movement underwent a fundamental change, choosing to negotiate with Israel.

      FATAH origninally had armed groups that it supoported and even created since the 50s and attacked israel in several attacks and wars, such as the Battle of Karameh and Black September. In 1988, however, they chanfged their policy to focus on diplometac relations and negotaitns as opposed to terrorism and armed conflict, ceasing to be recognized as a terrorist organization by the UN in 1988.

    1. . Next time you see a protest with banners calling for Palestine “From the River to the Sea,” understand that this is not a call for peace through justice and mutual respect. It is a call for peace through genocide

      It's a pretty broad statement that encapsulates all protests as being in support of Israeli genocide for Palestinian. It does point out how the gemopcode ideaologoy has spread and makes the palestienaisn beleives that its the only way for peace and safety for palestinians to be obstained

    2. In recent years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies have sidelined and undermined those Palestinians least interested in violence, and most open to the possibility of a two-state solution. That has only helped Hamas.

      Ignoring the palestinians that advocate for a two state solution has allowed Hamas to gain support as they are the most vocal and persistent in their advancements towards Palestinaian independance.

  6. Oct 2023
    1. God help me. God help Michael. God help us all.

      Passage primarily uses pathos to fuel its message. It's good at engrossing the reader into the story and seeing their message, but the author's connections to mental health and mass shootings is weak while its argument that mental health needs to be a greater focus in health care - where mentally ill can have support and safe treatment plans rather than being thrown into prisons - is more potent and persuading.

    2. But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options. Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom.

      Directly connects mass shootings with mental health, highlighting how mental healthcare needs to be more widespread and accessible to solve the issues of mass shootings.

    3. . But this highly visible sign of mental illness should lead us to consider how many people in the U.S. live in fear, like I do.

      Needs evidence to suggest that they were mentality ill

    4. According to Human Rights Watch, the number of mentally ill inmates in U.S. prisons quadrupled from 2000 to 2006, and it continues to rise—in fact, the rate of inmate mental illness is five times greater (56 percent) than in the non-incarcerated population.

      Without mental heath instiuties and asylums to help and treat the mentally ill, prisons will continue to house the mentally ill as it's a lazy and inhumae way to keep them out of society and fuels the prison industrial complex.

    1. Sadly, both then and now, logic often loses out.

      Claim here is that logic isn't being used to determine regulations on gun control Needs to do in the passage: Define what's logical and how or why its logical

    2. the ban imposed by Congress on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives creating a federal database of firearms transactions.

      Congress prohbited the Bureau of ATFE from making a federal database of firearms transactions

    3. President Obama has decided to move ahead with a variety of gun control measures, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein has proposed a new assault weapons ban

      Statement, this is unbaised and a simple report on current events