January 2011
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Editorial on: Food Production and World Hunger......
By Charisse Servañez January 25, 2011
Cultivators and governments in developed nations face the combined problems of overproduction and depressed commodity prices. Prices are so low that farmers face financial ruin and must rely on huge subsidies from their governments to survive. At the same time, many millions in the least developed countries face death from hunger-related causes. This shows...
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How to address inequality in the world?
By Charisse Servañez January 19, 2011 Most social policies today cannot adapt factors such as population growth, past economic problems and regional differences, because of ongoing changes in economies. This inability to adapt, results to income inequality. Gini coefficients keep increasing because the reported income statuses tend to be biased, as the lower-income/poorer groups underestimate...
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Opinion on I ♥ Huckabees by David O. Rusell
Charisse Servañez
Humans undertake a cyclic – sometimes life-long – journey of dismantling heir own external personas in order to experience their true essential selves. This is evident in I ♥ Huckabees by David O. Rusell. Whereas Albert Morkovski willingly asks the big life questions, his shadow self, Brad Stand, fearfully maintains and guards his superficial point of view. Albert, “his...
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My Opinion on Abstract-Expressionism
Charisse Servañez
“Abstract art” is a visual representation of emotions, which are aroused by external events. These external events cannot be specified as they vary from one’s point of view to another’s. On the other hand, they are also connected to each other: “reality is not figure and void; it is all relationships, a twinkling field of interdependent events” (Hughes). These...
Johnny Learns Politics →
Little Johnny goes to his dad and asks, “What is politics?” Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way. I’m the breadwinner of the family, so let’s call me Capitalism. Mommy is the administrator of the money, so we’ll call her the Government. We’re here to take care of your needs, so we’ll call you The People. The nanny, well, consider...
