Germai Medhanie April 21, 2008 at 10:09 am
# No Comment YetAs an immigrant, I would like to share my thoughts with voters in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina about political pundits’ strategies. They seem to operate like arrogant cooks who lost their way while trying to deliver the best dish. Arrogant cooks tend to add more ingredients to the cooking that already went wrong. They [...]
jvora April 17, 2008 at 2:41 am
# No Comment YetMainstream neo-liberal economics fails to include location and spatial distance between individuals and organizations into their models and tools of analysis. In contrast, Urban Economics serves as a useful insight into the Feminist Integrative Process that raises questions of why blacks were so concentrated in the areas of New Orleans that were hit the [...]
Hattie April 14, 2008 at 12:40 pm
# No Comment YetI am an irrational consumer. This is hardly a surprising find considering I am of the generation that was raised by commercials. The Coca-Cola Christmas commercial now invokes a similar sense of nostalgia for my childhood as Dr. Seuss. When I was younger, grocery shopping was a family event every Saturday. Going to the mall [...]
Alison M April 14, 2008 at 9:46 am
# No Comment YetWhen we signed up to spend four months in rural northeast Thailand studying community development for our junior semester abroad, pretty much all my 23 American classmates and I knew about what we were getting ourselves into was just that: we were about to spend four months in rural northeast Thailand (also known as Isaan). [...]
adavis3 April 12, 2008 at 9:31 am
# No Comment YetIn my Intro to Microeconomics 101 class, we watched a movie titled “Affluenza,” and in this film, people are diagnosed with this disease. “Affluenza” is where people vicariously spend their money on excessive amounts of consumer goods that they don’t have any use for. The underlying message is that people are too flagrant with their [...]
plchen April 8, 2008 at 3:08 pm
# No Comment YetI recently read an article on msn.com about a recent trend of high-power career women who pamper their elementary school-age daughters. Many of these women, with more money than time on their hands, will compensate the time with gifts. Not just ordinary gifts, however. Miniature pearl necklaces, silk and lace training bras, and primping parties [...]
eeyore7485 April 7, 2008 at 1:35 am
# 3 CommentsAge 5, Kindergarten:
My daddy is a doctor, but not the kind that gives you medicine…people call him Dr. Shin. He has a boring job at a desk with lots of papers. My mommy does nothing. She stays at home.
Age 10, Fifth Grade:
I went to Take Your Daughter to Work Day with my dad. [...]
bellapuella April 7, 2008 at 1:31 am
# One CommentA gentle voice wakes me. My eyes are greeted by eyes that were similar to mine but darken by weariness. Her wane smile told me of the rough night she had. I could see she just returned from work and knew it was six-thirty in the morning. The same weary eyes and wane smile will [...]
Heidi Shin April 7, 2008 at 1:13 am
# 4 Comments“What do you think about women who want to pursue their M.B.A.s?”
“They should save the trouble and don’t go to the business school. Not only do men find women with M.B.A.s to be too ambitious and aggressive but married women also have an extra burden of juggling work and family. It’s just not worth it.”
According [...]
jvora April 7, 2008 at 12:29 am
# 4 CommentsDuring a lecture at Wellesley College, Elaine Brown said, “Crime is a political question. When you think of crime, you think of black men.” In her discussion of new age racism in the United States, Brown questioned the common assumptions and dominant values that have shaped the political and social environment in which [...]