The Honors College

The United States’ health care system is in the national media now more than it has ever been. In 2007, 45. million (or 15.7%) people were living in the United States without health care insurance (Health Insurance Coverage). In response to the high number of uninsured Americans, U.S. Representative John Conyers(D-Michigan) has introduced H.R. 676 “The United States Health Care Act.”

In its most basic terms, human security provides protection for every individual across the globe. Human security also has the potential to refocus national defense and to address the shifting threats facing America today. The appointments of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Susan Rice as the US ambassador to the United Nations, both of whom have expressed support for developing human security. There are five steps policy makers must take for human security to be an effective addition to national defense, which entail: make a unified flexible national security budget.

War is incomprehensible. Soldiers return with unbelievable narratives about the gruesome realities of war-accounts that are beyond the home front’s understanding. And despite our inability to comprehend, we still must try to navigate this difficult subject. It is especially important for educators and adults to teach children about the realities of war.

This Honors Project consists of an integrated advertising campaign for Netflix that targets the Hispanic population of the United States.  The project was written in the format of an advertising plansbook.  Plansbooks are created by advertising agencies before a campaign begins so that the client is able to see the agency’s research, advertising strategies, and proposed product positioning.  By researching Netflix’s previous business models, analyzing Hispanic consumer behavior and demographics, and conducting qualitative surveys, an integrated advertising campai

The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates there were nearly 3.8 million occupational injuries in the United States in 2007. Half of those reported cases caused days away from work, job transfers or job restrictions to those affected. Occupational injuries can not only cause permanent disabilities for those affected, but they also cause direct and indirect costs for businesses.

Two studies were conducted to better understand the role of defensive plant chemicals in mediating plant-insect interactions.  First, to address how multiple, interacting climate drivers may affect terpene content in Solidago canadensis, leaf specimens were sampled from an old-field plant community grown for over three years under simultaneous carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature, and water manipulation.  The goal was to determine which climate variable, or combination of variables, may affect plant terpenes.

Humanity has reached a point in population growth and industrial-agricultural development where most ecosystems can no longer be seen as being untouched by humanity and the economic system can no longer be seen as separate from ecosystems or the confines of the biosphere.  Scholars of sustainability often argue that in reality there is one “house” which is being studied by the disciplines of both economics and ecology.

In 1650, Anne Bradstreet’s brother-in-law, Rev. John Woodbridge, took Bradstreet’s manuscripts to London to have them printed without her permission or knowledge. For decades, scholars have discussed Anne Bradstreet’s reaction to this unauthorized printing of her poems. In Elizabeth Wade White’s 1971 biography on Anne Bradstreet, she wrote: “But nothing in [her life] suggests that Anne Bradstreet had a serious vocation as a poet.