The plant I have chosen is commonly called star fruit and its scientific name Averrhoa carambola L. The star fruit is in the oxalidaceae family, and it originated in Southeast Asia. Although star fruit is now grown throughout many tropical and warm subtropical areas of the world. In the United State...

In an age where how to manufacture weapons of mass destruction is relatively common knowledge, with the only real limitation being the procurement of the necessary components, we find ourselves asking whether possession of such former aces in the hole connotes the same military power distinction it ...

The Liberal Martin Luther King Jr. Ideology: "Any comprehensive and mutually consistent set of ideas by which s social group makes sense of the world. An ideology needs to provide some explanation of how things have come to be as they are, some indication of where they are heading (to pro...

Have you ever stopped and wondered how different the United States really is? When I was growing up, it never really crossed my mind until a few days after my Sixteenth birthday. It was then that I discovered I was moving fifteen hundred miles from South Florida to a small town called Port Jerv...

The Reality of Horse Slaughter From the childhood fascination of "Black Beauty" to the romantic appeal of "The Horse Whisperer", horses are widely regarded as symbols of beauty and pride. Unbeknownst to many Americans however, "Each year, more than 60,000 horses are slaugh...