The fast approaching holiday season has brought a lot of news media coverage on black friday chaos and commotion. One article I read about some of the sadistic, psychotic and tragic events that occurred this past weekend made me stop and think “how mentally stable is America?” It was an article about a woman in Chicago … Continue reading
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Walmart: Ethics and Exploitation
Since chain corporations began to spread around America, they have had profound negative effects on locally owned businesses. Out of the thousands of large businesses spread out around the country, Walmart has been one of the most intrusive and destructive to small communities. The company is certainly successful: as shown in figure 1, in 2010, … Continue reading
Why More Food Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Hunger
As Earth’s population grows larger and larger, concerns about world hunger continue to rise. Some put world hunger on the same pedestal as global warming and our economic crisis; it is a really big deal. So, how do we fight hunger? The obvious answer would be to make more food. Wrong. The answer is to … Continue reading
Simple and Convenient
picture source There are always two different kinds of American food in my eyes. They are either dish of meat or dish of vegetables, either uncooked or fried and either sweet or plain. My categories for food may be too simple, but I think they are the basic compositions of American food. It is simple … Continue reading
Managing the Globe
When I was one year old, my parents and I left our lives in New York City behind to move to Frankfurt, Germany. My father became an expat, a manager working for his company overseas. This experience is remarkably similar to the blog I read written by Kendall Tich from the University of San Diego. … Continue reading
