Civic Issues

Abortion has been a controversial issue prior to the Roe v. Wade case. First off, we need to get a clear idea about what abortion is. According to Google abortion is "the termination of a pregnancy by removing the fetus/ embryo before it can survive outside the uterus. "If you have ever heard about abortion in the news people that oppose it commonly throw around the term " baby killer" or "murder". Terms such as this perpetuate the tension between those that are pro-life and those who are pro-choice. The terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" in its self can be contentious. Why does this issue cause so much controversy among Americans? The people that receive abortions are not to be degraded by the terms mentioned above. There are many reasons why women get abortions. Although, the majority of women that receive abortions are those that do not intend to have a child there are other reasons women have abortions. There are social...

Food is all around us from the highly distracting food videos that we see scrolling through our feed to the smells of the expensive food in the Hub, to the food ads that are literally everywhere, but how much of it do we actually eat? I admit don't eat all the food that I get in the dining hall. I'll take up what looks good and end up eating half of it and tossing the rest away. My blog will focus on the issue of food waste and how it is impacting us.  I also hope to find nuanced conservation practices, in the hopes of finding ways to reduce the food that we waste. The following is a brief set of literature reviews...  This analyzes the amount of food Americans waste annually and how the food can potentially be used as an energy source. In 2007, is stated that the United States wasted around 760 billion dollars on food and about 27% of that food was edible. The article describes the food as not only a source of nourishment but, a source of energy; this is a result of t...