Essays on Rabkin

Art-related disciplines are critical to educating citizens and students of every age. Nevertheless, the arts have declined significantly in schools and public participation. According to a recent study by Rabkin and Hedberg (2011), fewer eighteen-year-olds in a 2008 survey reported receiving arts instruction in their childhood than a similar age group surveyed in 1982. The research suggested that the provision of arts education dropped from 65% in 1982 to about 50% in 2008 (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011). Moreover, it included survey data gathered in 2002 and 1992 with each successive period indicating a severe decline in Americans’ access to arts ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a medical condition that can never be completely healed, as the virus will remain in the organism despite treatment. Furthermore, HIV can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which is the most advanced phase of HIV infection (Eramova, Matic & Munz, 2007). This chronic disease reached its peak in the mid-eighties, when an AIDS epidemic spread across United State and many other nations, causing the death of many individuals carrying this virus (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). The virus continues to spread, increasing the number of people living with AIDS, which reached up ...

The works of Ray Bradbury have long been held up as examples of speculative fiction: the forms of genres which, generally, encompass a wide range of imaginative features. His work often presents common themes such as those with pertain to the future, space, science fiction and the dystopian qualities of future societies. For example, in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury discusses a future society where books are banned: presenting the reader with a hint of anti-meta narrative, given that the book is the very thing in the readers’ hands. This also represents Bradbury’s most famous work: it is universally accepted as being one ...