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CRISPR/Cas9 is a novel technology that allows scientists to edit genomes for purposes related to research, livestock improvement, and eradication of disease. The use of CRISPR/Cas9 is highly debated in the scientific community due to its significant advantages and disadvantages when evaluating its use from a bioethical standpoint. Biomedical ethics in scientific research evolved due to historical events that violated human rights in the name of science, and currently studies must respect The Georgetown Mantra of Bioethics in which the values of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice are required to be upheld when conducting biomedical research. This review assesses two studies that utilize CRISPR/Cas9 technology in line with the identified values of bioethics. The results show that there both an instance that violated The Georgetown Mantra and an instance that adhered to the accepted values, suggesting that CRISPR/Cas9 has the potential to be studied and applied in a way that is highly beneficial to society but can be easily used for unethical purposes if left unregulated.

In the wake of the Southern California land boom of the 1880’s, two Midwestern businessmen, Elisha S. Babcock and H.L. Story purchased all of Coronado and North Island,California in December 1885 with dreams of creating the premier resort destination in Californiafor Eastern elites. After incorporating into the Coronado Beach Company, they embarked on a publicity campaign facilitated by the local ​Coronado Evening Mercury​ and the very rails thatmade the land boom possible, netting enormous profits from lot auctions drowning inmiddle-class spectacle. This entire endeavor was contingent on the production of Coronado as athriving, sophisticated metropolis, with both cultural continuity with Eastern elite society andopportunity for advancement into middle-class whiteness. This project locates the cooperative construction of Coronado’s image between the Coronado Beach Company and the local presswithin the larger American project of incorporating the West into the nation through thecontinuation of established Eastern conceptions of gender, race, and class, resting on theideology of Anglo, middle-class male dominance.

The following is a literature review addressing the importance of access to healthcare and the quality of it specifically within the prison system. The focus of it is to explore general health care access within the prison system; acknowledging the following problems; lack of access to health care & medical care; recidivism and its relationship to mental illness, as well as what is being done to improve access to healthcare. The obtained scholarly sources presented here coincided that there is a great lack of access to medical and health care treatment within the prison system. Where inmates do have access to medical and health care treatment, the quality of it was poor and the access extremely limited. A gap that presented itself within the scholarly sources used was research or scholarly sources which focused on how the lack of access to the appropriate medical and health care treatment within the prison system is being address. As well as gender specific access to medical and healthcare treatment and the quality of it too.

In the following literature review, first-generation college students will be compared to continuing-generation college students in relation to the challenges that affect their mental health and their academic performance. Many of the studies conducted in higher education show thatfirst-generation students are more likely to: experience symptoms of depression, higher levels of stress, lower levels of life satisfaction, and a decreased sense of belonging in higher educationinstitutions. There can be a possible correlation between mental health and academic performance of students. While there is some research on this demographic, there is still more to be discovered about them. However, the existing literature reveals a great need for resources thathelp serve the needs of first-generation students.

Ever since June 2015, American political discussion has been near-solely dominated by Donald Trump, his ideology, his style and the grievances his voters possess. At the same time, similar figures in Europe were preparing to make victories on their own after being minor forces in the political arena. Despite the amount of attention Trump and similar figures have been receiving, the political ideology they propagate, right-wing populism, has existed for many years in the academic world. In the research paper Obstinate Anger and Pessimism: An (Academic) History of Right-Wing Populism, University of California, Merced political science student Nathan Parmeter explores the history of right-wing populism through an academic lens. The results of his research show that since the modern version of right-wing populism first rose in the 1990s, the same bloc of voters and their economic and social grievances have remained consistent as have the grievances they possess against the state. Furthermore, Mr. Parmeter also notes that the current wave of right-wing populism takes a unique form due to an evolved media landscape and the after-effects of the Great Recession.