Do Americans Understand Friendship?
Authors . CultureAmerican friendships are superficial. Period. It has taken nearly a decade for me to come to this realization. I have spent more time in my twenties as an ex-pat than I have as an American living in the United States. The problem doesn’t just lie within social relationships but also within lifestyles. Americans are consumers.
Technology: Do we control it or does IT control us?
Authors . Culture . SocietyParents of young kids who have been using technology in order to entertain them have realized a basic truth: they lost the battle. Their kids are now dependent on the screens to be entertained. It is a fact that we live on a new technological era, in which our technological devices have become fundamental in
I am responsible for Climate Change
Authors . SocietyYouth-driven Friday’s for Future rallies are catching on like wildfire at a global level. Maybe it isn’t necessarily timely to use the wildfire simile given the recent crises in Brazil and Australia, but you catch my drift. Wow. I don’t think I can even sneak in a simple metaphor because Venice almost drowned. Jokes aside,
Against Life Imprisonment without Parole
Authors . Politics . SocietyLife imprisonment exists in 183 countries; life with parole exists in 144 countries, where there is some provision for release; and, 65 countries impose life without parole sentences. Recent studies have shown that countries that abolish the death penalty replace it with life imprisonment without parole and, widen the array of offenses which carry this maximum sentence.
“I just want to try these Nürnberger sausages” or obesity in Germany
Authors . City life . Food . Health“Don`t worry, I also gained some weight here in Munich. Almost everyone does. You return home and everything will be okay”, – told me Natasha, a Russian girl who has lived in Munich already for 3 years. Meanwhile, obesity is a real problem in Germany, declared as a major issue by the federal government. Various
Plant-based as Plan(health)t-based
AuthorsIt was a rainy Monday afternoon as Anna, 58 years old, received a call from her doctor. Having seen her last analysis, he warned she was at serious risk: the bad cholesterol in her blood, responsible for most heart attacks and diseases, had hit the terribly dangerous level of 300 mg/dL, whereas healthy standards lay
Always Walking On Eggshells
Authors . HealthTo protect the individuals in this article I have changed the names of the individuals. Everything else is factual and accurate according to those who have been interviewed. She sat on the floor sobbing with her cell phone in hand and her mother on the other end of the phone. With crippling anxiety and ringing
Apartheid – – – Apartness
Authors . Culture . Politics . Society“Don’t question things. You are an American. Don’t rock the boat.” This is what my grandfather told his six children in the late 60s and early 70s when they started questioning the system of apartheid. “We were in a bubble,” reflects my aunt Tara Marshall. She was only 5 when her family uprooted their life
Me, Myself and I
AuthorsMy name is Laura. I am in my Junior Year of university at Wayne State University in Michigan, USA. I am half German and Argentinian but I haven’t lived in Germany since I was 5 years old. At home we speak German with my dad and Spanish with my mom, but since I have noticed
Who’s behind Alexa?
AuthorsAs she was studying communication at LMU, Marie Kilg never thought she would have ended up working for Amazon as Alexa Content Manager. But here she is, only 24 years old, soon moving to Seattle to follow her career path. However, it is pretty comprehensible she couldn’t tell after all: just a few years ago