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Effect of pesticides on humans' health, especially in children

Pesticide Exposure and Children’s Health: Risks and Safety

Pesticide exposure can affect health differently depending on the chemical, dose, route, and timing. Learn why children may be more vulnerable and how families can reduce preventable exposure.

Arsalan

March 11, 2021September 2, 2026

Health

SHOULD HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES BE GIVEN DRUG TESTS?

Should High School Athletes Be Drug Tested? Law, Evidence, Pros, Cons, and Better Prevention

Whether high school athletes should undergo random drug testing is a difficult question because it combines student health, school safety, privacy, constitutional law, athletics, and substance-use prevention. Supporters argue that testing can deter drug use, identify students who need help, and give teenagers a reason to resist peer pressure. Critics argue that testing can be […]

Arsalan

March 11, 2021September 2, 2026

Books

Catherine Belsey on Hamlet’s Conscience: Précis, Argument and Critical Analysis

Catherine Belsey’s discussion of Hamlet is valuable because it shifts attention away from the familiar question “Why does Hamlet delay?” and toward a more precise moral problem: what happens when a demand for revenge collides with conscience, Christian teaching, political corruption, and uncertainty about what justice requires? In the chapter “The Case of Hamlet’s Conscience,” […]

Arsalan

November 16, 2021September 2, 2026

English

Comparison between past history of corrections and current corrections of today

History of Corrections vs. Corrections Today in the United States

Compare the history of U.S. corrections with corrections today, from colonial punishment and early penitentiaries to prisons, jails, probation, parole, rehabilitation, reentry, and current BJS statistics.

Arsalan

March 11, 2021September 2, 2026

History

Matt Flannery: Kiva Co-Founder and Social Entrepreneur

Learn about Matt Flannery, co-founder of Kiva and co-founder and CEO of Branch International, including Kiva’s origin, crowdfunding model, financial inclusion, fintech, and lessons in social entrepreneurship.

Arsalan

May 26, 2022September 2, 2026

Business and Finance

Economics, Racism, and Slavery: How Profit and Racial Ideology Became Intertwined

The history of Atlantic slavery is often framed as a debate between two explanations: economics or racism. That either-or framing is too simple. Economic incentives helped drive the expansion of plantation slavery, but racial ideas and laws increasingly defined who could be enslaved, how bondage would be inherited, and how exploitation could be justified. In […]

Arsalan

November 16, 2021September 2, 2026

Economics