Archive for December, 2011
The American Dream
If published statistics are accurate, the United States of America has the most prisons, murderers, public school drop outs in the world. In the United States, everyone’s on edge about everything. But particularly pertinent to this discussion is the public education system. Around the nation, classrooms are shrinking due to drop outs, teachers’ salaries are [...]
Filed under: Economy, Education, United States | Leave a Comment
Tags: Changing paradigms, Diversity, Drop Out Rates, Education disparities, Income disparities, Industrial Revolution US, The American Dream, US Prisons
We live in a complex universe which we have no real clue about yet. Perhaps we never will. We live on a complex planet whose violent and complex conception has shaped a world full of all kinds of terrains, plants, animals and water. Some aquatic life in the Indian Ocean can only be found there. [...]
Filed under: Food for Thought | 5 Comments
Tags: Diversification, Diversity, Local Economies, Localized Economies, Multinationals, Racialization, Standardization, Standardized, War on Terror
What’s your background?
Genealogy, the historical documentation of ancestral lineages, a science, in my opinion, is said to be the number one hobby for Americans. I’m quite inclined to believe it too; ancestry.com makes millions of dollars annually in subscriptions and has gone a step further to sale kits to trace one’s lineage sanguinely, tripling their earnings, even [...]
Filed under: Genealogy, History | 3 Comments
Tags: Ancestry, Autosomal DNA Tests, Ethnicity, mitochondrial DNA tests, mtDNA tests, Race, Race in biology, Race in genetics, Records for slaves, yDNA tests
