For a Few Dollars More

Front desk duty. Smiles. Discharges. Small talk. Ever since I received that certificate noting my acceptance to the volunteering program at Kaiser Permanente, I glorified my small position as if I was a CEO of a multi-billion-dollar corporation. But late one day on my usual shift, I had an experience which forced me to re-examine my view of service and instilled in me a virtue I practice even today: humility. “Help!” “No English!” “¡Duele el pie mucho!” Shock coursed down my spine. Slowly…

The Taliban started to regroup and take power again. They began by starting small attacks on motorcycles. They would set small bombs in the ground and ambush the foreign troops. They would start going bigger and the TTP would start to attack across the border. Later after they decided they had become powerful enough to start attacking bigger. Jalaluddin Haqqani became in charge of controlling the southeastern region. The Taliban would control the south. The Taliban worked out the problems with…

reason. He wanted to work on his charities more so he decided to…

These are average amounts meaning that some prisoners might cost more to house than others. Even so, this is an outrageous amount of money and with the amount of people we have incarcerated the amount of money this country spends on the incarceration of these individuals is crazy. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics…

It’s the first day of spring break, and I got up at 5:30. My parents asked me if I really wanted to go, and I said yes. Today is supposed to be our drive to San Francisco for vaca, but I decided to wake up early and volunteer at a food bank for a few hours and then go with my family. The food bank is called “God’s Pantry”, which is an organization created to spread the belief of Christianity through passing out food for people in need. It was about a 25 minutes drive there when I stepped out…

“We're all under 18. We're all the same age. There would be a few girls I knew who were in their 20s or whatever, but they were doing it since they were our age anyways. I did wait till 12, and these girls had been doing it since they were eight or nine and now they are like 23”(Kotrla 1). The victims of sex trafficking are pulled in when they were only little girls, and stayed in the ring for years because that was all they know. This problem is prevalent all over the world, and it is a major…

According to Practicalmoneyskills.com, assuming 5,000 dollars is saved for ten years, “If you started saving at age 25, stopping at age 35, when you retire at 65 your account would be worth about $787,000. If you started saving at age 35,…

other things. There are many ways that economic factors have impacted America, but a few that are important to discuss are: the Europeans who came to the America’s, Virginia, and multiple establishment. Economic factors were not the only factor at play, many times other things were at play as well. When the Spanish…

ineligible for bowl play like the 2011 Ohio State Buckeyes, or being stripped of a national championship which happened to the 2004 USC Trojans. The severity of punishment enforced on these teams were absurd knowing that in each of these incidents very few of the athletes broke the…

open an app and send their order in online via the mobile app and internet. This change has occurred for a number of reasons. Firstly there has been a significant change in technology. With faster and faster mobile internet connections and also more sophisticated smart phones it has become easier and easier to store and browse menus on ones phone. In addition to this with advancing technology it has become cheaper and cheaper to have mobile data…