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It was only but 44 years ago in 1971 in Dallas, TX where one of the world’s most famous airlines would emerge! Started as a very small regional carrier, flying only from Houston, TX to Dallas, TX. Founded by Rollin King, a business man who graduated from Harvard University with a Master in Business Administration and Herb Kelleher who graduated from Wesleyan University with a Bachelors in English. Southwest Airlines to this day have kept a great reputation among many customers and have…

Throughout the years women have been painted naked, pushed into sex scenes, and have been over sexualized no matter what the context is. Men are treated just the same in the media, but people fail to realize how big the issue actually is. The portrayal of women’s and men’s body in the media can take a huge toll on a person’s mind. Over sexualization of women’s bodies started when the church took control and deemed depictions of classical Greece or other historical scenes as soft-core porn…

Case Two: Wal-Mart Arianna Greenwood Texas A&M University—Central Texas Case Two: Wal-Mart Pattern of Discrimination In 1964, Title VII of the United States Civil Rights Act was passed in order to stop classes to be discriminated against (Hartman, DesJardins, & MacDonald, 2018, p. 254). The act was designed to prevent against discrimination against individuals based on age, religion, race, disability, gender, national origin, color, and sometimes sexual orientation (Hartman et…

The Face of a Movement Let’s begin with two images. The first is of a mother with her three small children closely surrounding her that is plastered on the front page of Susan G. Komen’s webpage. They delicately kiss her bald head—an apparent mark of her rounds of chemo and an emblem of her battle against breast cancer. Beside the image text reads, “Breast cancer touches us all. It’s a journey we take together” (Susan G. Komen Foundation). The tiny hands and lips that touch the barren surface…

As a current college student trying to figure out how I will pay my tuition for the upcoming years and how I will be paying off my student loans that will follow me after school, the idea of becoming a stripper has crossed my mind a numerous times. What stopped me though was the idea of being labeled a stripper and the stigma that would come with the job. I did not want people to think that because of my job choice that I was easy, dirty or the classic assumption that I have “daddy” issues; I…

The 2012 FIFA World Cup was held in Brazil, a country that lives and breathes soccer. Therefore, one would be surprised to know that the people of this country were outraged with hosting the 2012 World Cup. There was an outbreak of riots in the slums of Brazil due to the amount of money the country spent, but did not have, on the magnificent event. In an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he informs his audience on the issues regarding FIFA. John Oliver successfully informs his…