Rule of thirds

marshmallow after the other we get one can down, I look over to see that my cousins already have two cans and only one to go, this gets me anxious, eager to win I shoot down another can, only one more to go. I hear a shout of joy, my cousins got their third and final can shot down. One after another people raise their hand and claim the place we should have gotten, but I can’t shoot this can down. Deanna decides that she should give it a try, so she rips the gun out of my hand shoves five or six…

In contemporary America, Donald Trump, is the latest example of a flaw built directly into the American political system: an electoral system in which the majority rules and there is no minority representation, because the winner takes all. Except, in the 2016 American presidential election, the majority winner did not win; Trump lost the popular vote to Clinton by over 2.8 million votes. Therefore, the Trump phenomenon is not the end of democracy as we know it, or even the end of the world. The…

The novel, “Brave New World,” depicts a utopian society called the World State. Ironically, one may say, this world is far from the definition of what many may consider perfect. In this fictional society, the traditional values and moral that most in our society are accustomed to, especially during the time period which the book was published, are absent or seen as taboos. However, half a century later, not only is our society not far from the World State and implementing the wrong ideas from…

Early April 2016 North Carolina passed a law restricting governments from passing laws that are anti- discriminatory. With this law in effect it will lead to the protection of transgender people. Discrimination against transgenders is against the law and has stirred up arguments throughout the nation. With more and more transgenders standing up against discrimination, this has become a national issue. There has never been one case reported where a transgender has attacked anyone in a public…

Between “Hear Her Roar” by Rana Foroohar, which in 2009 was published in Newsweek and “Life on the Global Assembly Line” by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, among the first readings to recognize the importance of working women globally, we are able to realize how women in different regions of the country face everyday reality. The undeniable fact that women in the workforce, globally, have not yet reached a level of equality to men is at the heart of both “Hear Her Roar” and “Life on the…

The same way Peterson was perceived as strange because he seemed to be the only person in his pastoral group to read books, I was the only person in my group of friends at home with a global vision. In Tanzania, I realized that at although at home I was isolated in my interests, when placed in an international community, Atheists and Muslims make up the majority. In undeveloped areas, American Christians are grossly underrepresented in the medical dynamic. In America, Christianity is the…

Transgender: Rejection of Ego or Rejection by Society What is transgender? You may not be familiar with what being transgender means, so to explain, we first we need to look at the concepts of sex and gender. Sex is biological; it refers to your biological status at birth and is associated with physical anatomy, hormones and chromosomes. Gender, on the other hand, refers to social roles, behaviors and attributes that a society deems appropriate for males or females (Transgender FAQS). It is…

market share just as the Japaneese technical and automotive industry did. This observation proved to be right. The constant price/cost monitoring eventually led the company close its factories in USA and seek for more cost effective production sites. Third world countries seemed as the perfect place for the new fabrics due to very low work force costs. For example, a daily fee for a worker in Indonesia during 90 's was less…

With the introduction of globalization in our modern society, many corporations use the economic “advantage” of child labour. This allows corporations and major franchises to save money on production of materials and raw goods. There are many factors that make this a disadvantage as well as an advantage for major companies, such as lower labour costs, lower rent costs in overseas factories but many of these come with the problem of inadequate health regulations and living costs. Many big name…

regions depend on their manipulation of other regions. However, bringing companies into third world countries develops the economies of the peripheral regions and gives them the opportunity to advance beyond factories. (Allen 21) Through mutual exploitation, corporations take advantage of cheap labor, while workers take advantage of incoming firms by extracting higher pay. As more and more companies move to the third world, they start to have to compete for workers, thus, the wages go up as the…