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    A fifteen year old Canadian girl, Christina DesForges died from a kiss. Her boyfriend had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier. Being allergic to peanuts, the reminisce in his mouth caused a reaction. She became short of breath immediately. She was given a shot of adrenaline to counteract the reaction; however, ...

    This semester I am taking several Women's Studies classes. The one that i have learned the most in is Kathleen Earle's Issues in Feminism. Right now we are learning about others' liberations in our class. We were assigned at the beginning of the semester to choose something to do that was liberating to us. In the last few ...

I just rread an article about a teenager who thought it would be funny to pee in an ice machine at school. The teen was dared and thirty one peopel used ice from the machine before the incident was reported to the principal. I have no idea what the police can charge him with and nor do they; however, they do want to charge him with something. ...

I live in the Remington apartment complex. Everything about it rubs me the wrong way. There are a few matters around this complex that cannot go unseen anymore. Recently, for those unaware, the Hillsborough County Health Department put announcements on all of the property’s pools stating that the pools were closed due to unsafe health ...

For any women who are on birth control...this is an important blog to read. I read an article on www.abcnews.com that attributes serious blood clots, strokes, and even deaths to the use of the Ortho Evra birth control patch. This article explains that at first, the FDA thought and informed users that the patch had equal risks as the birth control ...

This week’s chapter that we read was Chapter 15 in Writing Arguments. This entire chapter discusses proposal arguments. There are two types of proposal arguments–policy and practical. Policy arguments are about broad subject matter and usually have a large, diverse audience; these arguments reportedly are based on being a good, loyal ...

I was reading an article on www.ABCnews.com that the  Gravelle family which was  accussed in September for caging eight of their  eleven adopted children wan their children back.  This absolutely disgustsme, if the courts actually  allow people like this to care for children and grant their wishes to have the custody again, I will officially ...

   Tuesday marked the tragic and unfortunate death of a legacy, Rosa Parks. She had a long, effective life of ninety two years, but even that seems to not be long enough. She was an extraordinary woman who gained her fame through a simple, yet politically altering action of not moving to the back of a bus for a white person. It is ...