Every mom loves to hold their newborn infant, hearing their first cry and feeling their need to be fed. Imagine an 18-year-old girl doing her hair, putting on her new favorite dress, trying to hide her pregnancy, and getting into the car with her boyfriend, ready to go to the senior prom. Once...

Organic food comes from processors; growers and importers registered and approved by organic certification bodies. Organic food does not get pesticides or fertilizers used. The product must have a label saying organic and where about is it from. A problem with organic food is that not all ingredient...

This featured article which was published in Newsweek on August 31, 2004 talks about ancient artifacts from biblical times. Archaeologists from around the world including the US come to the Middle East to venture through the large uninhabited dessert area. After reading this article I learned that...

Why Organic Food is BetterEverybody is jumping on the organic food bandwagon. Why? It is healthier. If you do not believe me look at the numbers according to an article in "Newsweek" since 1991 the purchasing of organic food has raised twenty percent. There are many other reasons why organic food...

Sabrina, The letter in which you have written to newsweek magazine has got me thinking about how many kids in my school actually smoke. Maybe one day they will conduct research to see how many kids actually do smoke! From knowing the people around me I would think that the numbers are pretty h...

Farai Chideya has accomplished many things at 28 years old that many journalists can only hope to achieve. She began her career as an intern at Newsweek while studying at Harvard. After her graduation, she was hired at Newsweek as a reporter and stayed on from 1990-1994. Chideya covered news in...

Comparing and Contrasting the Internet to Print The differences between the Internet and Print Journalism are clear immediately upon glancing at either of the two. However, to truly understand the differences you must study each carefully. I will briefly explore the differences between News...

Shades of Gay In a Newsweek Poll, "83% of Americans say gays deserve job protection, up from 56% in a 1977 survey". In the article, Shades of Gay, by John Leland, it talks about a couple in their small town in central Pennsylvania. It talk's about how thi...

On Monday two men shot an 18-year-old to death on a street corner in Las Vegas. Tuesday in Idaho, a state police officer was shot in the head and killed. The next day 28-year-old Damon Damar Ingram was gunned down while walking his dog in the nation's capital. On Thursday officers arrested 49-y...

On Monday two men shot an 18-year-old to death on a street corner in Las Vegas. Tuesday in Idaho, a state police officer was shot in the head and killed. The next day 28-year-old Damon Damar Ingram was gunned down while walking his dog in the nation's capital. On Thursday officers arrested...

The article that will be evaluated in this particular essay is taken from Newsweek's 'Society and Arts' (dating August 14,2000), which is titled as 'The New Singles' and it is written by Carla Power in cooperation with Antonia Francis, in Paris and Stefan Theil, in Berli...

In the United States, women choose to end about 25% of their pregnancies through abortion. (www.gale.com) This number has been gradually declining since 1979. This is similar to the Canadian figure of 21% but is much lower than that of the former Soviet Union (60%) and Romania (78%) where contracep...

Fertility Drugs In today's modern society, your average family is very expensive. Now add oh, say, six more kids to that expense. Without corporate sponsorships, public aid, and donations, maintaining a livelihood with this size brood would be nearly impossible. So why do couples pay o...

In recent years, there has been an increase in complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace and this has become an issue of debate. Sexual harassment does not only negatively affect the harassed, it is also; harmful to the overall employee morale, a drain on company finances, and inconducive to...

"Yugoslavia does not exist without Kosovo! Yugoslavia would disintegrate without Kosovo! Yugoslavia and Serbia are not going to give up Kosovo!" ("The Economist", 9/7/96, pg. 48). Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic spoke these words. His people share this view, because ther...

"Evil is real, and it must be opposed" was a statement made by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address in January of 2002, President Bush went on to name several countries that support and house terrorist organizations calling them an "axis of evil", such as: Iraq, ...

Twenty-one injuries, fourteen of them fatal. A few weeks ago, Lee Malvo, who will turn eighteen soon, appeared before a Fairfax County Va. judge. The question has been brought up that Malvo should be charged as a adult. I believe that he should be tried as an adult for three reasons. He sho...

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Mass MediaMartin Luther King Jr. was a very significant and influential man. Though his life was cut short at 39 years old, he left a big mark on today's society. From the Prayer Pilgrimage of May 17, 1957, an event and a date that marked King's entree into the field ...

I did my paper over an article I found in NewsWeek about what colleges are doing to teach students about ethics in the classroom. Some are taking drastic measures while others are taking a more traditional approach. In this paper I\'ll give you my opinion on what is going right and what is going w...

The Newsweek article, "What You Don't Know About Fat," discusses the ways in which fat cells work in the body and explains why fat is so hard to lose. Authors Anne Underwood and Jerry Adler begin the article by describing the discovery of Leptin, a chemical that regulates the body's fat c...

Gay and Lesbian Adoption Adoption has long been a way for a loving family who cannot have children on their own, or a family with some extra love to give to have children. Today, adoption has taken a turn for the worse, Gay and Lesbian couples who of course cannot children are adopting kids. ...

In the article "A Hard Habit to Break," Newsweek's Brook Lamardiscusses the growing illegal trade in cigarettes originating from Chinaand extending to other parts of Southeast Asia. This trade has twocomponents. First, genuine foreign cigarettes from tobacco giants likeMarlboro, Philip Morri...

In author Judith Rich Harris's latest book, "The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do; Parents Matter Less Than You Think and Peers Matter More", Harris is igniting a flare of controversy in her essential argument. Harris states the belief "that what influenc...

A Stereotypical Media The media of today's society plays the peddler to the stereotypes that plague our country. However, the media is not solely to blame. Susan Sontag states in her essay "The Image World": "Through being photographed, something becomes part of a system ...

A Beloved Princess In the summer of 1961 on July 1 Diana Frances Spencer was born. Her birth took place at Park House, the home her parents rented on the English royal family's estate at Sandringham. Diana led a good life. Successfully achieving many dreams and goals. Helping...