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Vinny Demme

May 10, 202111 min read

Is Nuclear Energy a Friend or Foe?

Part One: What Is Nuclear Energy, How Was It Discovered, and How Is It Created? An Apocalyptic Event Like No Other Picture this: You are...

Cause & Effect: The Great Barrier Bleach & How Humans Impact Coral Reefs

Vinny Demme

May 5, 20218 min read

Cause & Effect: The Great Barrier Bleach & How Humans Impact Coral Reefs

What is the Great Barrier Reef? At approximately 133,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef, located in the Coral Sea off the coast of...

Vinny Demme

Apr 29, 20219 min read

Arbor Day from Nebraska City to MrBeast

And, of course, the benefits of planting trees What is Arbor Day? When a U.S. president chooses their presidential cabinet, they need to...

The Venus Fly Trap - the Nearly Gone List #001

Vinny Demme

Apr 27, 20216 min read

The Venus Fly Trap - the Nearly Gone List #001

“The most wonderful plant in the world.” - Charles Darwin - Born in 384 B.C., the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle became a...

Airhorns In the Ocean - How Marine Noise Pollution is a Whale of a Nightmare

Vinny Demme

Apr 22, 20216 min read

Airhorns In the Ocean - How Marine Noise Pollution is a Whale of a Nightmare

“All mammals from mice to people have three lobes to the brain, where cetaceans [whales] have four lobes to the brain. [The] fourth lobe...

Vinny Demme

Apr 15, 20218 min read

Why Washington, D.C., Should Be A State

A Report On Some Recent Political News What Is Washington, D.C.? The Constitution gave Congress, which in the late 1780s found itself...

The Definition of Terrorism - Comparing the Indian and American Definitions of Terrorism

Vinny Demme

Apr 12, 202114 min read

The Definition of Terrorism - Comparing the Indian and American Definitions of Terrorism

...and the History That Created Them. What is your country’s terrorism score? Vision of Humanity, a nonpartisan website that is a...

Vinny Demme

Apr 8, 202111 min read

The Notorious RBG

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Throughout the...

Vinny Demme

Apr 4, 202113 min read

#Squadgoals - Who Is "The Sqaud"?

"Our sisterhood is resilient" - Ilhan Omar - What do you get when you cross a group of four women running for Congress--one Puerto Rican,...

How Did Michelle Obama Become Michelle Obama?

Vinny Demme

Apr 2, 202112 min read

How Did Michelle Obama Become Michelle Obama?

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your...

Waging the Fair Fight - The Stacey Abrams Story

Vinny Demme

Mar 29, 20219 min read

Waging the Fair Fight - The Stacey Abrams Story

“We must cease being participants in our own oppression.” - Stacey Abrams - America was never the same after December 9, 1973, when...

Skolstrejk för klimatet - the Story of Greta Thunberg

Vinny Demme

Mar 23, 202111 min read

Skolstrejk för klimatet - the Story of Greta Thunberg

Many of those who change the world or, at the very least inspire others to change the world, are often the ones who are left alone while...

Vinny Demme

Mar 20, 20219 min read

The Women of Seneca Falls

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent...

Vinny Demme

Mar 17, 202111 min read

The Power of Malala

“I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.” - Malala Yousafzai - Imagine a world where you are...

Who Run the World? - Amanda Gorman-inspired writing & working to turn a new page on Women's History

Vinny Demme

Mar 8, 20214 min read

Who Run the World? - Amanda Gorman-inspired writing & working to turn a new page on Women's History

It has come, the third month of 2021. In all its glory, it came after record-breaking stories-- Winter in Texas, people losing power....

"I Can't Breathe." - The Unsettling Familiarity of George Floyd's Death

Vinny Demme

Feb 28, 202112 min read

"I Can't Breathe." - The Unsettling Familiarity of George Floyd's Death

In front of a crowd of 200,000 Americans lined up along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his...

An Advocate for Change - the Story of Barack Obama

Vinny Demme

Feb 25, 202112 min read

An Advocate for Change - the Story of Barack Obama

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that...

Long Live the King - The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

Vinny Demme

Feb 22, 202121 min read

Long Live the King - The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

With the courage in their hearts, the strength in their backs, and the images of racial disparity etched into their eyes, 200,000...

The Boy From Troy - An American Hero With 45 Arrests Under His Belt

Vinny Demme

Feb 18, 202112 min read

The Boy From Troy - An American Hero With 45 Arrests Under His Belt

“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” - John Lewis - Perhaps the most well-known civil rights...

Voter Suppression : America's True Form of Voter Fraud

Vinny Demme

Feb 15, 202119 min read

Voter Suppression : America's True Form of Voter Fraud

On November 3, 2020, at 2:30 a.m. EST--about seven hours after the first polling places closed--a presidential candidate took to a podium...