Freakonomics

How a child is brought and raised into this world correlates to the success in society 's future. In order to obtain success, the child 's mother should be thirty or older at the time of her first child 's birth and should not work between birth and kindergarten. This would increase the CHANCES of a child excelling in their education which would impact their lives and INEVITABLY their future. In a DfES Research Report, Charles Desforges states, "Parental involvement in the form of 'at-home good…

According to The New York Times, Ohio is close to approving a law that allows parents to have concealed weapons in their cars when dropping off their preschoolers to school and they are allowed to conceal them on themselves in the designated “victim zones” (The Editorial Board, 2015). There is a lot of backlash, mostly from the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America group. They argue that this will lead to more damage because people who are concealing their weapons will want to be a…

Forty-five years ago, the Supreme Court made the decision to give women the right to choose to have an abortion in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. Nevertheless, the topic of abortion is still a sensitive and controversial one. Although many have tried to tackle the issue, there is still much debate over the premises in said arguments. In his essay, “Why Abortion is Immoral”, Don Marquis lays out a unique perspective against abortion. However, his argument is flawed because it does not consider…

Triumph of the City: Book Report The future is not Orange County. The future is not West Bloomfield, Michigan. The future is not Rye, New York. The future is Detroit. As preposterous as that statement might seem, it is one Edward Glaeser and I, both believe to be true. While suburbs are always going to be a part of the American and international lifestyle, in my opinion, they will never be the focal part of our future. Cities, on the other hand, have always been a fixture and will always be a…

looking brother who would barely speak three words to me. I was fully ready to have a discussion with a human of a different cultural background to aid me understand the differences between their cultures and mine. Yet, after reading a book called Freakonomics: A Rouge Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything in which the author, Steven Levitt explains about the actions of black children and how their actions were perceived among other blacks: “…Black kids who study calculus and ballet…

Abortion has been one of the most talked about conservancy 's in the world. Is it cruel and considered Murder? or is it completely fine and a way to run away from responsibilities in life. The debate whether or not abortion should be legal has expanded since the US supreme court case Roe vs. Wade. This case declared that the Abortion procedure is a “Fundamental right” this action was ruled in 1973. There are two sides and groupes of this conflict. pro life groups see abortion as immoral…

Math, science, history, English are ubiquitous subjects that every student must take in school. But there is another subject that should be considered a core class for any college-bound high schooler, foreign languages. Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Russian, and even Arabic, these classes should be considered core classes, as they are basically a de facto requirement for entrance into college. We have accepted this fact, but we should ask, why is this the case? As a student who has taken…

I interviewed an African American coworker, or as it happened, was more a discussion about the current state of the inclusion of minorities in America and more specifically the inclusion of African Americans in the workforce. The coworker I interviewed is in his early 30s, an 11 year military veteran, and is currently working on his second masters, which is an MBA. As mentioned previously, he is of African American decent and the only minority working in our office, which is made up of twenty…

As negative as the fringe banking industry is thought of, their business still continues to grow. The customers that are able to pay back their loans when they are due generally benefit from their access to short term credit. But the data from borrowers of the payday lending industry show that the majority of the people used their loan to pay for recurring expenses, making the use of these loans risky. The borrowers who are the worst off however, are the people who are unable to pay back their…

previous abortion” (Guttmatcher). This shows how people are not taking an abortion serious enough. They are taught that the baby is not a living person, but a tissue and so they do not think it is that big of a deal to abort the baby. Along with Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt, PhD, wrote that after abortion was legalized, “Conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent, but births actually fell by 6 percent, indicating that many women were using abortion as a method of birth control, a crude and…