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Street vending has long became American people's way of life. In recent years, every city in the country sees a great rise on the amount of operating food trucks. It is convenient for the customer to reach, and the foods are cheaper yet more creative than an established restaurant. Also, the stating cost on a food truck is relatively low, which enables small entrepreneur as well as established restaurant to start. Upon the popularity of food truck, cities across the country are taking approaches…

Published in the The Journal of Law & Economics in 1985, George J. Stigler and Robert A. Sherwin’s “The Extent of the Market” focuses on using the movements of prices in separate markets to determine if it is only one market. Stigler and Sherwin use examples from the silver, flour, oil, and labor markets to present their method for determining similarity of price movements. To determine if markets are integrated, Stigler and Sherwin propose a test based on the movement of prices; this parallel…

Flowers for Algernon introduces a grown man named Charlie Gordon, who has the mental capability of a child as a result of his mental disability. In this case, people in society do not treat Charlie respectfully as opposed to a person without a mental disability. Opposingly, today’s world is lacking those types of actions toward handicapped people. On the same hand, before the 1900s, society was not in favor of those with physical and mental disabilities, but the Americans with Disabilities Act…

The “man” is holding me down. This is a common idiom many black people have become accustomed to hearing. It’s often applied when things don’t go according to plan. Job interviews, house hunting, and court cases all instances when the “man” is holding black people back. Although it’s seen as a figure of speech, there may be an underlying truth to the phrase. With that said the “man” may not be referring to an actual person, but systematic racism. This idea that any group of people is being…

“When he got on the plane in Portland, Oregon, he was just another passenger who gave his name as D.A. cooper…”-Walter Cronkite. He called himself “D.A.” Cooper , which no one knows if his name is D.A., or D.B. He requested the plane to be at exactly 10,000 feet; a safe skydiving height. He parachuted somewhere between portland and Nevada. Somewhere in the area of Reno, Nevada. If he did survive the jump, the cold weather of november…

2017 had become an eye opening year for america, with a total of 71 sexual assaults.Many lives and careers were destroyed. Sexiest issues like this for women have happened all our lives. It starts with a public schools gender biased dress code. Girls will grow up to believe that letting a guy do or wear whatever he wants while a women must follow all rules is okay. America equal rights for women have become a huge concern this year. For instance, women do not get paid as much as men do for…

battered a nineteen year old Christian girl on her way home from school ( Morning Star News). In another case, several Muslim men beat a Christian man to death in his home in Portland, Maine. A blood splattered Bible was placed strategically next to his mutilated body to cast fear on those who discovered the body (Portland Press Harold). On a larger scale, a North African terrorist group called Boko Haram slaughtered 2,000 Christians, kidnapped 200 Christian girls, and bombed hundreds of…

Students are welcomed shop the pantry once daily from Monday-Friday, between 12:30-2:30 PM. They may receive up to five items daily. “The collaborative mission of the PSU Food Pantry is to be of service to currently enrolled Portland State University students, by providing a free resource, a sharing community, and a welcoming, inclusive, dignified environment to acquire food items on a regular basis” (PSU Food Pantry, n.d.). 
 In comparison to PSU, MSU Food Pantry has a legible…

Understanding one’s history and their relationship to it is very important to learning how to use that history, as we see in The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. In the play, the relationship between the piano and the Charles’ family history is the most important because it creates the tension between giving up one’s family history for gain or preserving one’s history. For me personally, the most important relationship is that of Boy Willie and Berniece. The reason that is the most important…

2006. As New Times reported in 2011, police found evidence of two of Goudeau's murder victims on his sneakers, despite his attempts to wash them. Goudeau's DNA was also found in some of the sexual-assault cases. UPCOMING EVENTS Phoenix Suns vs. Portland Trail Blazers TICKETS Wed., Oct. 11, 7:00pm Arizona Coyotes vs. Detroit Red Wings TICKETS Thu., Oct. 12, 7:00pm Phoenix Suns vs. Brisbane Bullets TICKETS Fri., Oct. 13, 7:00pm Arizona Coyotes vs. Boston Bruins…