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Good will in globalized world : Editor's introduction
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
The current issue of Artifacts provides a good example about how good wills are used for offering good academic services to the global community....
Using regular yoga practice to reduce blood pressure in patients with unmedicated prehypertension
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
This is a video describing the blood pressure reducing benefits of yoga.
Insects : it's what's for dinner?
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
"Imagine your family dinner table. It is a gathering to enjoy food and good tidings. The table is full with all of your favorites, including the green bean casserole, fresh dinner rolls and fried ... crickets? You may be ...
The Cultural power of iron in early Africa
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Iron played a central role in many societies of early Africa. It held both spiritual and material power. Physically, Africans used iron to create tools for agriculture, utensils for everyday life, and weapons for protection ...
Birth of a workforce : The Blacksmiths rise in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
The "Ritual Staff with Seated Nommo" made by the Dogon people from modern Mali available at the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archeology represents the rise in specialized occupations in early Africa and ...
I Love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
[Harry Burns and Sally Albright] begin as recent college graduates driving from Chicago to New York; they do not see eye-to-eye and after the drive, leave with mutual contempt for one another. Five years later, they meet ...
Hauntings of the Hudson Valley : landscapes, and ghosts
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
The Hudson Valley is an area of one hundred and fifty miles that encompasses a large section of New York State, from Albany to downstate New York. Over the last few centuries the Hudson Valley area has become to many a ...
The Phenomenon of impulse buying
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
For many people, impulsiveness can be intuitive by nature. Impulsiveness can be related to their personality, low-inhibitions, external factors or all of the above. To an extent, this can be common and not harmful, but ...
A Conscious universe
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
A grand plan, guiding individual lives along a predetermined string, a string that is unable to be deviated from. It has been called many things, 'destiny', 'god's wil', 'determinism', and 'fate' among them. While its names ...
The Rwandan conflict of 1994 and America's role
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Rooted in historical ethnic tensions, a conflict culminated between the two dominant people groups of Rwanda in 1994. These two groups were the Hutus and the Tutsis, and the conflict between them led to a genocide that is ...
The conspiracy of the NBA draft
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
The National Basketball Association is third largest professional sports league in the country and one of the biggest businesses, valued at over 12 billion dollars. With some of the most popular athletes on the planet, such as LeBron James and some...
Books, or, A brief history of a fleeting love affair
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
In this work, Peter Myers presents his relationship with reading and some of the books that hold important places in his personal development.
King Arthur and his part in the breaking of the Round Table
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
This is an examination of King Arthur's responsibility for the fall of Camelot and the destruction of the Round Table due to his selfish, oblivious nature and his misunderstanding of how to separate his personal and ...
U.S. military intervention to combat the Islamic State
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
The United States' military policy in the Middle East has created optimal conditions for the radicalization of Muslims in the region, strengthening the extremist militias and validating the doctrines of Islamic radicals ...
Album review of The Velvet Underground & Nico
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
When The Velvet Underground & Nico was released in March of 1967, it was to a public that hardly cared and a critical establishment that could not make heads or tails of it. Its sales were dismal, due in part to legal ...
Crop circles explained
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Crop circles and their mysterious origins have spawned years of debate and speculation about whether or not they are formed by aliens. Crop circles have been adapted into films and television series, and usually the use ...
The failing test for success
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Because high stakes testing is now a direct reflection of one's intelligence, there are immense pressures placed directly on students. These pressures can make students feel insecure and stupid, therefore increasing test ...
"Supernatural" beginnings in North American folklore : the vanishing hitchhiker and La Llorona
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Through the use of motifs (such as the bridge, travel and vengeance) and character role reversals the creators of the pilot episode of [the television program] “Supernatural” build a narrative that cleanly combines the ...
Oy Vey! : the Jewish Golem and The X-Files
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
Riley Simpson was curious about golems, so he asked his friend Peter, an X-Files superfan, to recommend a golem-themed episode of his favorite show. Peter recommended one, but as Riley looked at the episodes on Netflix, ...
Eating otherness : the unifying qualities of chocolate in Lasse Hallström's Chocolat
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Many films that directly involve food as a plot point or major theme choose to use it as either a means of utopia or dystopia, positive or negative. Because different foods are conducive to different moods within a film, ...