Academic Perspective

The healthcare debate this summer was marked by raucous shouting, grandstanding, and distortions of the plans being considered, but out of it emerged a healthcare proposal that has already passed in the House of Representatives and is currently under consideration in the Senate. [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers from the Academic Perspective staff! Today is certainly a day to be thankful for all our success here at Academic Perspective, and we owe it all to you, our loyal readers. In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will be taking a short break so we can work on [...]

The global economic recession has spared no one, not even one of the most consistently profitable industries in the world: sports. The US unemployment rate stands in double digits, its second highest since 1983. Credit is tight, making paying for housing, food and healthcare very difficult. Yet in such dire times, professional athletes always seem [...]

Back in elementary school there was a program for the “gifted and talented” math students called Enrichment. We were given the opportunity to proudly tell our teachers, in front of the entire class, “Excuse me, it’s 2:15. I have to go to Enrichment now.” There, we worked on logic matrices or converting the standard, base [...]

Religious extremism manifests itself in many ways, some more harmless in nature than others. While the media portrays Islam as a religion comprised primarily of extremists, it is not. All religions are plagued by factions which twist religious principles to justify hate and violence, not just Islam. In fact, a Christian extremist group resides right here [...]

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All 50 states allow minors to be tried as adults. Countless minors are currently serving life sentences and 22 have been executed since 1976. The Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that it was unconstitutional to sentence juveniles to death, no matter how heinous their crime. Four years later, the Supreme Court is once again debating [...]

How is a social phenomenon measured? A mere ten years ago, the concept of online social networking was paid little attention. Now, there are 65 different social networking sites with over one million registered users. Of these sites, 39 have ten million or more registered users and 5 of these online networks have over a [...]

We all know that the American economy has taken a bit of a hit over the past year or so. Unemployment is dancing around double digits, home values have fallen drastically, and people run around wildly pointing fingers. This is the standard we’ve all come to know and love. So when some unexpected reversal of [...]

We’ve all gotten into one of these. The instructor faces the classroom with an enormous life question, and, generally, the result is that, A) a couple long-winded kids ramble for an hour on their own opposing views, B) the answer is left to each individual’s moral opinion, or C) the teacher doubtfully regards the class’s [...]