Timothy Murphy, author of AIDS, Morality, and Culture, recalled that in, “A 1988 report…some 8 to 60 percent of persons surveyed considered AIDS to be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.” Many of President Ronald Reagan’s closest advisors also felt the individuals who had contracted AIDS were deserving of the plague that was now cleansing the earth of the unfaithful. ...
The United States Congress along with President Ronald Wilson Reagan passed the National Organ Transplantation Act (NOTA) on October 19, 1984. The act authorized the federal Department of Health and Human Services to maintain and establish clear property rights for both deceased human corpses and living donors with regards to organ donation and transplantation. These rights meant that...
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Co-Ed Dormitories’ in the 1980’s
With the interactions with the student body within the college life and the importance it brings to success with programs and events, and organizations. With the separation of the dormitories and the strict expectations it makes the interaction with the student life much harder to succeed and gain other...
The United States’ Declaration of Independence underwent a series of revisions before it was finally signed and submitted on July 4, 1776. One of the most important passages that were omitted in the final draft was one that attacked the cornerstone of the colonist’s economy: the enslavement and treatment of African-Americans. Many esteemed politicians in early North America were divided on the...
Brian Hoy, a life-long building contractor appreciated many new tools that entered into wide usage in the trade but he stated that “the air gun is one [tool] that helped increase production.” He adapted the air guns in the middle of the 1980s. The air nailers were around earlier, but were not widely used because they were not proven. Once the large companies started to make the nailers, and...
Bob MacHardy was a teacher at Winter Park High School from 1962 until his unexpected death in 1985. During that time, he and his wife and sons lived at 233 Pinewood Drive in southern Maitland. His journey to his job roughly six miles away was typical for a middle class educator in central Florida. A winding labyrinth of suburbs encircled both his house and the High School at which he worked, and...
In September of 1865, citizens of the city of Washington D.C. heard troubling tales from across the Atlantic of a rapidly westward spreading plague of Cholera. The disease caused victims to experience extreme diarrhea until dehydration set in. Without replenishment of fluids, victims were doomed causing around a 50% fatality rate. Newspapers described it as a disease “so fatal…it begins...
According to a ranking by the Washington Monthly regarding Liberal Arts Colleges around the country, Alma College is ranked 4th for Community Service participation and hours received. Alma College has consistently offered campus organizations to its students which have allowed them to give back to their local community, to the nation, and to the world.
In the late 1980s,...
At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980’s, scientists looked to Africa where the disease was most common in search of medical research to explain how it was spreading. In 1986 a research report titled AIDS in Africa: An Epidemiologic Paradigm explored how the health infrastructure in Africa might have been contributing to the spread the AIDS. As the AIDS epidemic was beginning...
A joint New York Times and CBS News poll showed the United States to have contradictory feelings towards immigrants. Despite the U.S. being founded on immigration, and containing the world’s largest immigration population, those polled show an increasing percentage of natives disapproving further immigration. On a personal level, the American citizen was welcoming to...