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October 2016

Are Switzerland and Germany Neutral?

Across the world, most countries know that Switzerland is neutral on most aspects of worldwide disagreements. Switzerland is definitely, 100%, a swing vote on any United Nation plan for any action put forth on the floor.  The issue I’m having with… Continue Reading →

Circle’s Windows

TRANSPARENT SHARK! Wow! Dave Edgers has a beautiful way of showing irony throughout the book but especially in this chapter. Mae’s actions are for the worst but show how she is so consumed by her viewers and the Circle. Which is… Continue Reading →

Islands are Lucky?

Every week that goes by my passion for this blog column grows with my empathy for those in the Syrian Refugee crisis. All 196 countries in the world are affected by this diaspora of people and no one knows what to… Continue Reading →

Paradigm Shift

The only two paradigm shifts I could think of, to talk about was how voting has become such an important right to express when 20 years ago candidates weren’t aggressively putting out ads for voting. My other idea is the importance of… Continue Reading →

Ted Talk “Unconscious Bias”

Yassmin Abdel-Magied: What does my headscarf mean to you? Unconcious biased or implicit prejudice is the focus of Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Ted Talk. Unconscious Bias is not the same as conscious discrimination, there’s not a sexist or racist trying to get out. She goes on… Continue Reading →

UN Struggles With Diaspora

I can’t reiterate this enough! The Syrian refugee crisis is not something to take lightly. The dispersion of any people from their original homeland on a grand scale. This is the definition found in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of the word diaspora…. Continue Reading →

Do it for the Snapchat/Vine/Instagram, or Whatever

Remember when you got home from school and you couldn’t wait to run and tell your neighborhood friends what you did at school? Or vice versa, when your friends at school longed to hear about your adventures at home the… Continue Reading →

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