Most academics live and breathe in a world of highly centralized disciplinary jargon. This jargon helps to foster communication within respective fields; however, the same jargon that benefits communication among peers has dug a distinct moat around their ivy layered halls. >
Tag: social issues
How to Achieve Your 2017 Resolutions:
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results, then why do we bother setting New Years resolutions (NYRs)? USA Today estimates that 80% of NYRs fail while Forbes magazine and New York Magazine both estimate a bleaker 92% failure rate within the calendar year. The failure is not only unsurprising, but is preventable!
John Maxwell and Big Brother
I just concluded rereading George Orwell’s grim novel 1984. The book painted a bleak picture of our future; however, such a future filled with “Big Brother,” “Thought Police,” and criminalization of nearly everything we enjoy, never came to exist (and I will venture to guess that it never will). Thought the fictitious world will remain fiction, one pillar of the made-up governmental structure remains terrifying to me: “Ignorance is Strength.”
Are We One?
The 2016 election season has been one of the most unpredictable rollercoasters in the history of our nation’s politics. However, on November 8, 2016, the craziness comes to an abrupt halt as voters head to the polls and finalize their decisions about who will lead our country. America, a beacon of hope for millions across the globe, is going to be placed on two radically different tracks depending on the outcome of the presidential election. However, as America decides who will lead, we must ask the question: will the rest follow? Continue reading “Are We One?”
Great Leap Forward: The Sequel
Consider this, in June of 2007 the first iPhone was sold. Just 9 years ago we didn’t have the “app store,” but recently the 1 billionth iPhone was sold. In one decade, we went from a crazy guy named Steve Jobs talking about the iPhone, to the iPhone being as common as any other piece of technology.
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Comfort Killer
I am the comfort killer. I sleep very little. I work out to the point of being sick to my stomach. I push myself to do things I hate. I take cold or lukewarm showers. I read books that are agonizingly slow and are sometimes less exciting than watching paint dry. I assure you I am not a masochist or Sysphean. However, many of you are probably wondering, “what the hell is wrong with you?”
Wasting Away our Lives
Economics is the study of distributing scarce resources. If there truly were no scarce resources, there would be no need for supply and demand as the supply would always be infinite. In some aspects we have the ability to produce, create, or design infinite amount of, well, anything. However, there is one such item in which we cannot reproduce. The cliché riddle goes something like this: “I am something that you lose, but can never get back.” The answer is, undoubtedly: time. Continue reading “Wasting Away our Lives”
Limited Resources: Help or Purge?
The world is a place of limited resources. There is a finite amount of land, a finite amount of water, a finite amount of food, and of course, a finite amount of money. With these limited resources, there is inherent competition; thus, as the economists say, how do we maximize the pie and how do we divide the slices up among the people? Continue reading “Limited Resources: Help or Purge?”
No Girls Allowed!
The purpose of this post is to bring to light some of the injustices women face; specifically, I plan to look at the gender-wage gap, women in business, and women in politics.
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