In Living Color

There are many injustices throughout the world today, and one apparent example is the dehumanization of lower class people. Many people are exploited in order for others to make a profit. This is largely in developing countries, but it also exists in industrialized countries. The main cause of this injustice is large companies trying to make money. This injustice occurs in multiple forms, including ill treatment of naive people and discrimination of others for past mistakes. Catholic social…

I have opted to donate some of my time to give back to my community that I live in. In Mt. Zion Illinois, lays an assisted living facility known as the “Glenwood.” When I went into their office to ask them if it was permissible for me to do volunteer work, they made me aware that this is an organization is a for profit organization. That means all the employees are getting paid to do all of the work that they do, and the price to live here is going to be more expensive for the residents due to…

Meaningful Employment Contributes to an Improved Quality of Life Can we imagine if were living in a world that is dull? Full of doubts, discouragement, failures and disappointments. People experience underemployment, underpaid and mistreated. Are we still pursuing our goals in our lives even we had all these circumstances? Notwithstanding can we still achieve a quality of life and meaningful employment? We can be billionaire neither nor beggarly. Either unfortunate or blessed and that what…

change had even made in July 2009. Therefore the controversial question on rising federal minimum wage or not become a hot topic in a past few years. From the first sight it seems to be a good decision to rise the minimum wage in order to improve living standards, create more opportunities for jobs, and to promote interest in getting a job. On the other hand the rise of minimum wage may cause increasing in prices, layoffs and fewer haring, and reduction in the desire of career achievements. The…

Physical education curriculum provides an indispensable opportunity in the establishment of physical literacy, however the aim of PL is to move beyond specific proficiency in specific activities to inclusiveness of all abilities and focuses on competencies in a variety of movements and environments. The internationally accepted definition of PL is “the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities…

Today I was awaken by the bitter coldness that was creeping onto my toes throughout under my clothing. Making my body completely numb. All I could think about was how my child, Anastasia was putting up with this miserable living condition we were in. As I looked over to her room, I see her small fragile body shaking fiercely, as her teeth were chattering, grabbing her light blanket tightly. Seeing this destroyed my heart. I could not afford to have the heater on for the night nor during the day,…

education, then a career and work for the rest of our lives. To Thoreau, this is not living. Nor was it for Mccandless. They didn’t care about money or materials. In fact, Mccandless thought that money was something that changed people, and that, that was all they cared about. In the article, “ Into the Wild “, Chandler Broadbent states, “... all people want is success and power and that these desires only corrupt us into living shallow, false lives” ( Par. 2). This realization was made by…

Many teenagers today have lost their intimacy and connection with nature and many skills. The internet is a very helpful and resourceful tool but also a hindrance to some of the simplicities and lessons the real world has to offer. Walden by Henry David Thoreau was written by a principle bound man with a transcendentalistic outlook on his own life and his quest to discover his true self. During his time in the quiet and secluded sanctuary that his cabin provided him he learned many lessons and…

I want to present two people, Henry David Thoreau and a vegan. Thoreau was an American Romantic who decided to go to the woods to live off the land, so he spent a year at Walden Pond hoeing beans and watching the water to show that anyone can sustain themselves on a small budget and nature while a vegan abstains from consuming any animal products. What do they have in common? Stereotypically, vegans are outspoken and obnoxious, and for some, Thoreau is annoying and irrelevant. Yet they share a…

especially the East, plague individuals and society as a whole by forcing minimum wage workers into poverty. The current federal minimum wage only extends to $7.25 per hour. This incredibly low hourly rate coincides in no way to the average cost of living in the United States. In other words, minimum wage workers residing in the United States do not earn nearly enough to financially support themselves without government assistance. In the east state, the minimum wages of states vary anywhere…