Jenga

Yash Parikh HA 96S- 13 Mrs. R. Joseph Struggles Are Real. Life is like long walk on the road. You encounter several obstacles on the way, but you have neglect those obstacles and just carry on forward. These struggles in our lives play an important role in transforming our lives, especially from stupidity to maturity. One such example would be my interviewee with Mukesh Shah, 58, a self-made man, who has overcome many struggles in his early adulthood. As a child, he was the troublemaker…

Compare and Contrast: Men and Women The debate about which of both sides is better is never ending. Throughout modern history, where many civil rights movements have come and went, people are still arguing the superiority of either sides. No, the debate has nothing to do with religion or justifying the legitimacy of slavery, but rather, the absurd debates are about the topic of men and women. Both genders do not understand each other due to lack of communication and it seems like there is a…

X Overly Elaborate and Expensive Celeb Weddings ... post to category ... Wedding At this writing, I 've been happily married for ten years (yay me!). I don 't know about you, but I had absolutely no clue what I wanted my wedding to be like. I knew how I wanted my marriage to be, but not my wedding. I found that there are some people who look down their nose at you if you don 't do “certain” things in “certain” ways. Whatever. I also found out that things can get really expensive really…

Publix: Where Shopping Should Be, But is Not, a Pleasure I think, in the Fall of 1930, George W. Jenkins endeavored to emulate lionized, yet-to-be-born-television-icon-Oprah-Winfrey. A furtive and sinisterly burly man, I believe, he traipsed into burgeoning Southeastern neighborhoods and bellowed, “You get a Publix! You get a Publix! YOU GET A PUBLIX!” Frightening (and expensive… so, so expensive). No one really wants to go to Publix, but Jenkins opened Pandora’s box 86 years ago, and now…

I was placed at the Boys and Girls Club of the Red River Valley at the Main Site. My first impression of the Boys and Girls club was a bit curious as to how this was a place for children come after school. I will be addressing how my activities went, the connections that were made to the students, their families, and their cultures. I will then be making connections made through my readings to help at the Boys and Girls Club. Finally, I will be reflecting this experience with my future. My…

Over 500 billion tons of CO2 have been emitted into the atmosphere in the last two centuries. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels have mutated into horrendous, but common, problems like oil spills, air pollution, climate change, and global warming. Furthermore, unbeknownst to the majority of the world, another issue has emerged. The problem has been labeled as ocean acidification. Lying dormant for decades, only recent studies conducted by scientists have revealed this…

Should The Drinking Age Be Lowered to 18? Tone= ardent and informative Out of the 115 countries in the world with an official Minimum Drinking Age, the U.S.A. is one of 12 with an MDA set at 21 years old, while the other countries are mostly set at 18 or 19. So in this uneven ratio, why is the U.S. one of the 12? Why are we being deprived of this simple commodity? A common argument for why the Drinking Age should be lowered to 18 in the U.S. is that 18 signifies coming into adulthood. Becoming…

persist was nicely said by Megan Francis in her talk when she say that we tend to focus on solutions without understanding the root of the problem, which leads us to asking the wrong questions to move forward (Francis 2016). I view society as playing Jenga: we continue to build the institution we have to be as big as possible, but we continuously moving the same building blocks by analysis which one make the least amount of damage without addressing which area needs the most attention to support…

A 1999 study estimated that 9 out of 10 (90%-92%) babies with Down syndrome (DS) were aborted yearly (Bradford, 2015, para. 1). New research by de Graaf, Buckley, and Skotko (2015) approximates 30% of babies with DS were “selectively terminated in recent years” (p. 765). Termination rates among ethnicities are “non-Hispanic whites (39%), non-Hispanic blacks/Africans (27%), and Hispanics (18%)” (para. 12). (De Graaf, Buckley, & Skotko, 2015, p. 763). Bradford (2015) laments, “making such a…

Power Rankings 1. New England Patriots: 5-0 (1) Not quite the 50 burger I predicted, but the Patriots still handled business this past week, winning 34-27 over the Colts. Although it was a one score game, the score wasn’t indicative of how much the Patriots dominated the game. Despite, Tom Brady throwing his first interception of the season, he is still by far the MVP through the first six weeks of the season. The Patriots’ are the most complete offensive team in football. They have…