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( " American Psycho " via Tenor.com) What music played a special role in the other Wes Moore’s life? What role does music play in your life? The creation of music has been a part of everyone’s life in some way or another since the dawn of time, whether it was used to escape from the outside world or to listen to it for fun. At some point in our lives, music has made an impact on our world. Like how it had an impact on the author's and the other Wes More’s lives. Music was a way for both of them to escape from all the problems they were dealing with, and being able to listen to music did just that. For this week’s blog post, we are going to be answering the question: What music played a special role in the other Wes Moore’s life? What role does music play in your life? In the art of music, there is so much nuance that can be seen and understood about every genre that is out there in this world. But what makes music so special is the personalization that can be done to it. ...

                                                                                         ("One making decision for future life" via Adobe Stock) Page 27: Tony lectures Wes about taking school seriously and staying off the streets. Talk about the relationship between those two.  What advice do you give your siblings based on your mistakes in life? As we are living in a day and age where mistakes can completely alter someone’s life and their ability to make a name for themselves due to the nature of social media. But in the book called The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates , written by Wes Moore, the author goes into the true story of two boys named Wes Moore who happene...

For this week’s blog post, we are going to dive into the question: are we products of our environment or products of our expectations? And what it means to be a product of our environment in this day and age. In the time that we are living today, it can be easy for anyone to fall into a trap without realizing it. However, as humans, we are products of our environment, and we start to become our expectations that are placed, whether they are within ourselves or in our society. But with these expectations that are derived from our environments, it can be said that, as humans, we are the direct product of the environments we are exposed to.                                                                                         ...

                                                                         ( "College Tuition Inflation: Compare The Cost Of College Over Time" via Forbes) With the rise of college prices in the last couple of years, millions of students are questioning whether the price of higher education is worth it. And college in itself is such a huge financial investment that many people hope that they will be able to pay it off with what they make in the future. But this doesn't fully and truly guarantee that it is going to be this way. In spite of the financial burdens that come with college, it can be noted that there are tons of benefits to being able to go to college. In the higher education system, it can provide people with the ability to expand their K-12 knowledge into something ...

       With the height of consumerism and late-stage capitalism in this day and age, is fast food becoming the new tobacco? And is it possible for the government to make any regulations on obesity? One might think that this is highly impossible and that there is really no way to control what people consume on a daily basis. And the only way for this to work is to make insurance companies control what a person eats or start having restaurants label their food items, which is highly unethical, and no company can force someone to do things that they don't want to do with their body. However, obesity as a whole is not by choice; there are millions of people in the United States and around the world who are genetically predisposed to getting it, taking certain kinds of medications, not having access to high-quality foods if they live in a food desert area, and simply not being able to afford it. If the United States government still has a longing to try to regulate obesit...

     As we live at the height of pop culture, society has made great shifts in directions that are unmanageable. The industry of all things pop culture has never been a pleasant one. Throughout its inception, there have been many positives and many negatives. There have been many examples across the decades that show us what it was really like in those times. One thing that will make pop culture as big as it is in 2023 is social media. Social media has the power to bring people from all walks of life together to share their favorite interests and ideas in one place. Although social media is a very strong place, there are things that can make it a dangerous place. The reason for this is that so many people can get influenced to do things they would never do, but if their favorite celebrity or influencer is doing it, people are going to find a way to get it. For example, at times, social media as a whole can promote things like weight loss in unhealthy ways, setting unreal...

       Hello, everyone! My name is Alexandra Reyes, and I am a Jersey City native. A little something about me, I am 22 years old, a senior, majoring in finance, and I am second-generation Puerto Rican and Dominican-American. This is my third semester here at NJCU; before coming here, I went to Hudson County Community College and got my associate’s in business (liberal arts). Some of my interests include traveling to different parts of the world, watching anime on my own or with friends, and hanging out as much as possible with my friends and family. One of the many reasons I chose this class is because, in all honesty, I was very curious and wanted to know what it was about. But also, I wanted to expand my knowledge on the issues of American society because most of the understanding of American society that I have comes from learning from others on social media and being able to take that kind of information and find the intersectionalities and the bigger picture of...