The world that we live in seems to be a world made for “fully functioning” individuals. There was little effort until the Americans with Disabilities Act in the 1950s to make any accommodations for individuals that fell into any category other than “typical”. After the ADA was passed, however, there has been a growing push to make the world we live in a little more “universal” every day, so that the exceptional individuals among us might enjoy a full and happy life too. Considering these adaptations from a geographical standpoint, from swing-sets to buildings, these changes directly affect the landscape around us. These changes are often ignored by the public but represent the difference between inclusion and isolation for others. This video project looks at the geographical adaptations made for these exceptional individuals to the contemporary landscapes around Northeast Ohio, close to our Kent State University at Stark.

"Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." - Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict on U.S. soil. An estimated 620,000 people died during this war. Ohio was one of the leading states to provide military power to the Union during this time. The state also played an essential part in keeping Confederates from pushing farther North through the Kentucky and Ohio border during the Morgan Raids. My research looks at the vital role the city of Cincinnati and surrounding areas played socially, economically, and militarily to bring a swifter end to the Civil War. This research paper takes an individualist approach to Civil War history by focusing on Ohio’s involvement rather than focusing on the Civil War as a whole. Therefore, adding important information to the collective such as the involvement of squirrel hunters in defending Cincinnati and how Ohio’s military leadership strengthened the Union’s hold of northern states. 

The work I am submitting was my final project for my Fall 2021 history class. My project was focused on the events of the Mai Lai Massacre that took place in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The research has been neatly organized into an informational slideshow utilizing PowerPoint. The presentation begins with a short background description of Charlie Company, an army battalion deployed in Vietnam, who was responsible for the acts. My first point is illustrated as the events leading up to the massacre followed by my second point which was the events of the massacre. My second point is very intimately explained along with my third point of the events following the massacre and the subsequential government ignorance. Throughout the presentation, I include pictures of important figures from the battalion and others related to the event. The presentation is approximately 14 slides in length and has a respective title slide along with a slide for my citations. 

Following the Mexican Revolution, the Constitution of 1917 became widely regarded as a progressive mandate to advance human rights, health care, education, and land reform. Despite these measures many years ago, Mexico still faces a large financial gap between society’s wealthiest individuals and society’s working class. Today, Mexico’s wealthiest ten percent of individuals own forty three percent of the income in Mexico. Meanwhile, Mexico’s ten percent of the poorest individuals in Mexico only own two percent of the income in Mexico. Mexico’s income inequality has had a turbulent expansion, resulting in an unreliable boom-bust economy in Mexico. By enacting further progressive political and economic reforms, Mexico can close the unfair financial gap that exists between the wealthy and the poor. My power point presentation will review Mexico’s problematic economy and propose a variety of policy solutions to close Mexico’s unjust gap of income inequality. 

The Covid-19 vaccine has been mandated for healthcare workers across the country. The rise of the mandate has caused questions as to whether or not healthcare workers should be required to get a vaccine that is still so new. Nurses have an obligation to their patients to be a role model in the healthcare setting and to cause no harm. On the other hand, some nurses are hesitant to get the vaccine for various reasons, including not enough information related to long term effects. This research will be evaluating the Nurse Code of Ethics in relation to reasons why they should get the Covid-19 vaccine. This research will also include statistics showing how some healthcare workers perceive the vaccine. 

This presentation will examine how the policies adopted in the United Kingdom during the crisis years of AIDS, which applied to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, did not consider the concerns of queer people. Specifically, through close readings of legislation passed by parliament, publications from the National Health Service, and oral histories from the Queer Britain museum’s Queer Pandemic collection, it will explore how the UK government ignored the importance of nightlife and sex to queer community and relationship building, queer people’s chosen families, and queer people’s need for easy access to non-discriminatory healthcare, because of the queerphobic Conservative Party’s primacy in politics. It will also detail how these policies, which were presented as reasonable responses to the AIDS crisis, helped to normalize governmental queerphobia and its codification in official policy, directly leading to the UK government’s adoption of similarly queerphobic policies and rhetoric during the COVID-19 pandemic.