Joshua’s Blog

    Wes Moore had a caring yet somewhat tough mother growing up. She is likely his first mentor as he had no father figure losing his father early in his life. She had ingrained in him lessons of the importance of doing well in school, as well as finding a good career for yourself and not getting into trouble. She also taught him about respecting women and people in general. When she sees that Wes was starting to get into some serious trouble at a rather early age she had realized that she may not be able to do enough to set him on a good path in life, and therefore made a decision to send him to military school. In going to military school and having those father like figures who are there to still teach and toughen him up, Wes, learns to respect his lieutenants and those in higher command further up the chain of command and is shaped into a much more respectable person where he then learns to focus on his career and his future while still caring for his community back home. ...

  The epidemic of easily-accessible, 24/7, simple foods is an ever-growing one, expanding wait lines and businesses all around the country. While the fast food has seen an increase in prices, the consumption of them has done anything but slow down. Similar to tobacco, there is a myriad of health issues that arise from fast food, and there is also a major need for government regulation involved. In looking at David Zinczenko’s  "Don’t Blame the Eater" , Radley Balko’s  "What You Eat Is Your Business" , and the documentary  "What the Health" , it is easy to gather that the serious effects of fast food, similar to tobacco, in the various health dangers it carries, as well as how the need for government regulation is imperative for the health and safety of the American people; fast food IS the new tobacco.  David Zinczenko discusses in his article, “Don’t Blame The Eater”how eating fast food as a youth did not necessarily mean that he was taking into a accou...

  It is a constant throughout all generations to complain and compare one generation to the previous and next ones. It is seen throughout all of history, and continues to be a continuing trend, perhaps even tradition, in today’s world. While Pop Culture is one of the main focuses of this, it is constantly changing with the interests and habits of the ever-changing world, and a rapidly-changing world at that. What a was cool or interesting last month, let alone last decade, is not the trend today. With it, these trends and other elements of pop culture help shape the interests of today’s society, as well as the creativity, communication and social life, and overall inspiration. Current music and art of today’s world inspires what is yet to come, and what came before today and inspired what the present holds. Overall, pop culture, despite the admittedly various controversial aspects it brings upon society, is a good thing that keeps the creative fuel and drive alive.     ...

  Think about your earliest experience of becoming literate. This can even include things like holding a book correctly or scanning text left to right, etc.Who helped you? Who inspired you? Who supported you? How?  While it was perhaps too long ago to be certain of in terms of when I had become literate, it was without a doubt around the time memory was able to be retained, for I have always loved reading, poking at images and drawings, etc. One major factor was starting Hebrew school at an early age, learning religious stories, Hebrew literature, as well as how to read Hebrew. I do recall in kindergarten, learning how to write letters, read and write from left to write, as well as what type of books, and how to determine difficulty. My family would also gift me various assisting materials for reading and writing. Were you encouraged or discouraged? I was definitely encouraged to read,write and think as much as possible, to constant excercise my mind and to engage i...