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Racism is engrained in the subconsciousness of people and society at large. UCLA School of Public Affairs recognizes that ” The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is the analytical lens that Critical Race Theory uses in examining existing power structure” Ian Haney Lopez…

The course has examined many different topics relevant to the pedagogy of culturally responsive teaching. All of the topics discussed so far are directly related to the importance of including culture and cultural differences in the classroom, as they are considered integral to learning. There are a great many aspects to realizing culturally responsive teaching,…

By definition the American Dream is “the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American,” (dictionary.com). The American Dream is something that is real and something that has been written about in many novels, such as Death of a Salesman and the Great Gatsby. The African American Experience is…

Scholarship in classical sociological theory has been largely dominated by “dead, white men.” Though the contributions to the field of sociology from scholars like Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim have been great and many, sociological thought was created with a lack of representation from women and people of color. The inclusion of these…

The ‘I’iwi, also known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper is native to the Hawaiian islands. Once common among the islands, their populations have been declining throughout the islands because of foreign diseases, predators, agricultural and urban development, as well as climate change (‘I’iwi). With the decreasing populations of these birds, the local ecosystems will be greatly…

Trophic cascades occur in nature when predators in a food web alter the behavior of their prey or suppress their number, thereby indirectly affecting the next lower trophic level in a positive way. This theory has been shown to be important in understanding the effects of removing a keystone species from a food web. Many…

In the two and a half short years that I have had my license I have hit two birds, one of them actually landing in the back seat of my car as I was driving. As many as 340 million birds are killed each year by cars and trucks. In the article from USA Today…

Several years ago, a team of wildlife researchers tested the effect of California’s 2008 lead ammunition ban on the blood lead levels of two scavenging birds, the Golden Eagle and the Turkey Vulture (Kelly, et al. 2011). The lead ammunition ban was enacted to aid the recovery of a critically endangered bird, the California Condor,…

The cassowaries are large, flightless ratite birds that are found in the rainforests of Papa New Guinea, Australia, and some of the surrounding islands (Sanft 1975). Weighing up to 85 kg, these birds are second in size only to the ostrich. Native peoples hunted the cassowaries and valued them as livestock; it was reported that…

Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) are 130-140g corvids that inhabit alpine environments in montane regions of the western United States and Canada. These corvids are extremely active during autumn, when plants are producing seeds in preparation for winter, and during this period; they can catch an estimated 22,000-33,000 pine seeds in over 5,000 different locations. These…