You Only Live Twice

not live in poverty. There is a major misconception among people who believe if you work a minimum wage job, you will live your life in poverty. This is not the case in majority of the scenarios. In fact, in most situations, these adults working minimum wage jobs work very little. Research shows 11 percent only work a total of 20 hours a week (Sherk, “Raising the Minimum Wage Will Not Reduce Poverty”). With working very little during the week, it is not much of a surprise that they live in…

prejudices are still everywhere. The only difference is that we don’t see them every day, so we pretend they don’t exist. Still, men and women of color are still shot in the streets by policemen every day, at a hugely disproportional rate, and economic disparities are ignored by white policymakers. Despite how far we have come, social, economic, and cultural disparities still play a huge role in the lives of many people of color. Imagine, for example, that you are a mother. Your innocent…

today has become so advanced that they can virtually get surgery on anything that is needed. Even though the life expectancy age is not that high, people can live a longer life than it. But, it’s going to take more than just cutting out Mcdonald's to live a longer life. Another day of being able to be alive on earth is a blessing. But how can you outlive the average of Americans? First off, having a positive outlook on life can definitely help get more years on earth. Enjoying the Summer days…

quality and length of our lives; we will still grow old and die (Gawande, 2014). After caring for children, parents hope that when they are older, their children will care for them. However, in a society where everyone is busy living their lives, seniors are sometimes inadvertently neglected. The biomedical influence on aging can be as minute as needing a cane, and as serious as having a heart attack. Though most middle age people are familiar with the adage; once a man, twice a child. All…

Naomi Yohannes Embedded Assessment Are social networking sites good for society? Social networking is a popular form of communicating with friends a few feet away or with people who are across the world from you. It has become one of the top forms of communication from the last ten years or so. The spread of being able to use mobile devices to access the internet gradually transformed the nature of our social interactions.While social networking can be beneficial with being able to talk with…

Have you ever been forced into a life-or-death circumstance? Forced to kill someone, even though you are a peaceful person? Probably not, but this describes characters from two of my favorite books. Harry Potter, from Harry Potter by J.K Rowling, and Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. They are heroic people, they are heroic because, first, they were forced into demanding, life changing circumstances at a young age, yet emerged victorious, second, they both had many losses…

White Privilege For those of you who have never heard of white privilege, it is the unearned benefits given to white people that are understood as normal. White privilege is not only linked to white males. All Caucasians are born with access to resources that are not granted to other races (Kendall 2002). To understand someone, you must walk in his or her shoes. For people who are born with certain privileges, it is hard to understand what it is like anything else. It is easy to take those…

I have seen the first one you mention though not the second--thank you. Unfortunately the clip of excerpts is missing the solo I remember--where the movement seemed to flow through her body like a force of nature--it was as if she became a rippling stream. Sounds absurd, but that's what it looked like to me! Just a side note about youtube and video: I live far from the centers of the ballet world and depend on youtube for much of my ballet watching these days--I have even formed some…

It’s a phrase that you keep on hearing. You’re a poor family you don’t have much to eat and you can hardly sleep. Day after day you work hard tireless hours just to afford enough to get to tomorrow. Then one day on your way home from work you see something sitting in the road. It’s a bag of money enough to last you the rest of your life if you keep living the same way, or enough to let you live normally for 30 years. There’s just one problem the money isn’t yours. So what are you gonna do?…

Have you ever heard someone get insulted by saying they play like a girl? Have you ever heard of someone saying that girls belong in the kitchen? I hear sexist comments almost every day. Sometimes it’s a joke, but you don’t know who can be offended by those comments. According to (Merriam-Webster, 2015), the definition for sexism is, “the unfair treatment of people because of their sex”. I believe that women should have as every right as men have. It doesn’t matter if you’re a male or female, we…