Black lives matter (BLM) is an activist movement originating out of the African-american community that campaign against violence toward black people. Starting in 2012, BLM has been gaining momentum through various different campaigns following mainly the deaths of African-americans at the hands of police officers. Now, with an election next year, BLM have shifted from…
Productivity could be defined as the measure of efficiency with which a person, machine or factory converts inputs into useful outputs. In other words, it’s the ratio of output to the input. However in Construction, productivity is defined as the defined by the amount of labor hours (input) to the amount of value added to…
When I was a little girl, I absolutely loved watching Disney movies. The beautiful princesses, the charming princes, the talking woodland animals, and the catchy music – it all enthralled me. It created such fantasy to dream about. As I grew older, Disney movies continued to hold a special place in my heart, but the…
Because I am Chinese and my parents being devout Buddhists, I was told to make good and virtuous ‘causes ’ since I was a little girl, because basically all the Chinese people know that good ‘causes ’ will directly lead to good ‘results’, and the bad and unethical ‘causes ’ would lead to bad ‘results ’, too.…
Think about where you are today; the people that surround you, the work that you do, the places that you’ve been to – and imagine what could have happened, or how your life could have been altered, had you done one thing differently. As an example, I worked as a First-Year Success Coach mentoring college…
Microhydranencephaly is a very rare disorder in which the neural tube of a baby did not grow properly, resulting in a substantially small brainstem and an improperly formed cerebellum. In an article from Boston.com, the story of a young boy, Jaxon Buell, with the disorder is described in honor of his first birthday. As stated…
Most college students can related to the experience of trying to fill up a paper with longer, more complex words to make themselves sound smarter. But a new study out of UCLA suggests that simpler language is what make one appear smarter. Apparently, using larger more complex words when a simpler one suffices, causes your…
The speaker (Dr. Knols Bart) talks about the African Malaria Mosquitoes (AMM) that kill a lot of people around the world, particularly in Africa. AMM have been killing enough children to fill seven jumbo 747s crashing every day. Dr. Knols during his Ph.D. research figured out that AMM like to bite the foot and legs then…
I stand up to the golf ball with an 8 iron in my hand. I take a glance at the flag, 150 yards away. I am about to hit, but I feel a breeze in my face. I glance at the flag again, and notice it is slightly uphill. “No problem” I think, as I…
“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.” -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Although written in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 still remains relevant in its precautionary message to this day. The protagonist, Guy Montag, undergoes drastic…