Open Access Kent State (OAKS)

Global warming has been a very hot topic lately, especially with the upcoming elections. Trump, with his strong background in politics and science, believes global warming is nonsense. Obama on the other hand believes that climate change is a real problem that needs addressed sooner that later. Leonardo DiCaprio believes it is an issue of such importance that he gave a speech about the subject when he was awarded an Oscar. Join me as we analyze the data we have gathered for over a hundred years in order to find evidence for or against global warming. This is truly a hot topic.

The Lord of the Rings has always been one of my favorite books. I decided to write an essay that would allow me to dive into both the extensive history that Tolkien created as well as the life of Tolkien himself. The resources I used included an essay comparing Èowyn to a World War Two war bride, an essay identifying the various stages of grief she went through, as well as two biographies of Tolkien; one by Daniel Grotta and one by Humphrey Carpenter. The goal of the essay to try and understand the character of Èowyn as Tolkien would have understood her, and to show that he didn’t write Èowyn to just be a throwaway hero to be forgotten. I believe that she is one of the most vital characters to the novel, as she shows some of the most character development of anybody in the book. This is important to today’s students because she shows that even women in a high fantasy setting from a novel written on the eve of World War 2 can be three dimensional, believable characters. She is a hero, and deserves to be studied with any other literary woman.

Butterflies feed on a variety of fluids including nectar, sap, and rotting fruit, which host a diversity of microbial communities. Butterflies who feed on these substrates are ingesting their food as well as the microbes that live in it. Ingesting microbes could potentially reduce the butterflies’ fitness. We hypothesized that the saliva of butterflies has anti-microbial properties that combat the microbial communities in butterfly food sources. In order to test this, butterfly saliva was collected and analyzed in a mix of Pseudomonas and Micrococcus for microbial inhibition. Our preliminary research indicates bacterial growth is inhibited in the presence of butterfly saliva.

The shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 were a culmination of various protests, student and police decisions, and influences from government officials. When discussing the Massacre, a majority of scholars avoid the dilemma of assigning responsibility to one individual: he who gave the permission for the National Guard to be deployed to Kent State. As the evidences presents, it was the “okay” of Governor Rhodes which led to Four Dead at Kent State. The argument is as such: the local law enforcement has tactical plans in place to curb the violence on campus and was unsuccessful without the support of the President of the University, Mayor, and Governor. Thus, the National Guard being deployed to Kent State was the worst-case scenario, but the most necessary with the growing violence on campus in the minds of the high-ranking decision makers.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the National Football League, television, and the media’s involvement between the two. Burgeoning at relatively the same time, television helped the NFL gain national attention, while the NFL in turn brought monstrous amounts of people in every week, helping television ratings. This symbiotic relationship has evolved over time into one of pop culture’s most powerful partnerships. Even through controversial topics such as domestic violence and the ever-growing impact concussions have had on the game, the National Football League continues to thrive as a media juggernaut, pulling in record amounts of people to watch their games every week. Though there are many factors which contributed to the National Football League’s current dominance over sport in America, television’s effect on and continuing relationship with the NFL has by far been the most important.