This class was by far one of my favorite classes of my freshmen year. Having questions of the day made class fun and interesting. I specifically remember the first question of the day and how it eased the nerves of the first day of class. The first day of college, seems intimidating, and […]
Issue Brief Draft
In April of 2010, a Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred which resulted in 11 rig workers killed and millions of gallons into the Gulf of Mexico. Reforms were then called for and in place to put stricter controls on ocean drilling companies to prevent and stop explosions in undersea oil and gas wells. In June 2010, […]
The BTK Killer
The “BTK Killer” short for bind torture and kill, is an infamous serial killer who killed 10 people in Wichita, Kansas, between the years 1974 and 1991. The killer was not caught until police arrested Dennis Rader, in 2005. This case appeared in the Netflix series, “Mindhunter”, where two FBI agents interview with the most […]
The Killer Clown
John Wayne Gacy, also known as the “Killer Clown”, was one of the most famous serial killers in America. Starting in 1972, Gacy killed and raped 33 young men in the span of six years. Most of his victims were teenage boys. In 1964, Gacy was found guilty of sexually assaulting two young boys. He […]
Dive Into Ocean Drilling
Ocean drilling, or offshore drilling, is one of the most debatable topics with the most opposing views about offshore drilling. Offshore drilling has both environmental and economic impacts. It is a process done to explore and take out rock formations underneath the sea bed. Instead of going into the earth, offshore drilling goes deep into […]
Samuel Little
The F.B.I. has called Samuel Little “the most prolific known serial killer in American history”, after Mr. Little confessed to numerous murders dating back nearly five decades. Samuel Little was already serving life sentences in a prison in Lancaster, California for three murders from the 1980s. It wasn’t until he was interviewed by a Texas […]
The Grim Sleeper
For more than several years, the Los Angeles Police Department have been trying to solve a series of eleven murders that took place between the years 1985 to 2007. All the murders were connected to the same suspect through DNA and ballistic evidence. This case is famously known as the “Grim Sleeper” because the killer […]
Deliberation Comparison
The deliberation that I facilitated was entitled, “Should Standardized Test Be Put to Rest?”. There have been many issues about the tests being unfair or the tests being more strategy based than knowledge based. In our deliberation we go through the different solutions that could fix this issue about standardized tests. Our three approaches were […]
The Slender Man Stabbing
On May 31st, 2014, Payton Leutner was stabbed 19 times by her two best friends in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were only 12 years old when they lured Payton into the woods and attacked her. Once they stabbed her, they left her in the woods injured and bleeding. Payton was lucky enough […]
Nathaniel Kibby Trial
In October of 2013, a 14-year-old girl was leaving her high school in Conway, New Hampshire and started to walk back to her home on her usual route. The little girl disappeared and never made it home. Nine months later, the girl was reunited with her family, telling police that she had been released by […]