The Minimum Wage War that Rages within America.

The Minimum wage war that rages within America.

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The cries, the demands and the whines of those who seem to think the government should raise the minimum wage up to $10.00 or $15.00 an hour have not really pondered, researched, or analyzed the end results of that. Just what do they think is going to happen?  Hmm?

First of all, the fact remains of the cost of living will go up even higher than it is now to accommodate that hike in wages.  Common sense should tell these people that.  Then guess what, all those will be in the same complaining state that they are in right now.  What will change? Absolutely nothing for anyone with the exception of the prices of commodities and taxes (does America need more taxes?) will keeping going even higher than it was before the complaining of minimum wage.  It really is a no brainer to figure all this out.

Second, it will have a ricocheting effect on businesses, which by the way, will be devastating to all because, think about it, the price of a loaf of bread has already reach almost $5.00 a loaf (depending on what type of bread you choose to purchase).  Now of course, the ones doing the complaining will probably have their temporal victory, a temporal amount of extra money in their pockets until the hike in prices take effect and it is a guarantee that the price of everything will go up and, of course, that price hike starts chipping away at their so called raise. And they will be right back out in the streets whining, complaining, and murmuring about their minimum wage, yet again. 

Then,  there is the stupidity of the thought of even the consideration of that thought to raise minimum wage at such a higher dollar amount is ridiculous in itself because of that ricocheting reaction of terrible events that will happen to the American people financially.  It just does not affect minimum wage earners, it affects every single American citizen in the United States of America and not in a pleasant way either.

Minimum wage jobs were created for the teenagers and young adults as part time jobs while in high school to teach them about earning money and working for a living or college to supplement their fees, book cost, room and board (if they live on campus), and whatever else they may need while attending college earning their education for a better future for themselves.  It was not meant to be made a career out of.  It is a stepping stone until they have graduated from college and out into the workforce and it is also there for those people who are in-between jobs while they search and hope for better work to come along. It is not a job to make a career out of.

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The mentality level of that kind of thinking is basically on the same level of thinking as those who seem to think that the world owes them something.  There is a phrase that has been said, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesars’ and unto God what is Gods’". In other words, no one owes anyone anything except for what is required of them by law and by morals.

America is being oppressed but by its very own people who seems to think they deserve more than what they are qualified for.  There is a saying going around on many of the college campuses regarding this subject of minimum wage earners.  Basically everyone, so far, that has heard it agrees with that saying. Now, of course,  there may be some that do not agree with it, but it goes something like this, “If they [minimum wage earners] want higher pay and more money they too need to go to college and get an education like the rest of us.”  It is not right that those who did get the education they needed or even those who enlisted in the armed forces (can’t forget them because they put their lives on the line for this country) to have to make the same level of pay as a minimum wage earner who does not have a degree.  If they want higher wages then they need to go get the education for themselves to earn that better pay.

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Finally, while those people are fighting to raise minimum wage, think of its impact on America’s future finances because that is exactly what will be impacted the hardest and it will happen.  It is guaranteed to happen.  Do the research and see what the price of bread, candy, milk, and other commodities are.  Do not be deceived thinking prices will go down because that is not what is going to happen unless someone can get this debt ceiling back down and America’s financial checkbook in balance again.

To conclude, a minimum wage hike is the last thing America needs right now because it will have a terrible , devastating, and  ricocheting effect in so many areas in the American financial status. This is not a board game of life to play with, it is real life that needs to be addressed and handled in a responsible, mature, and careful manner that teaches the righteousness of handling money and earning money properly because so many do not know how to handle their money in a righteous manner as they should for their own well-being. 

It seems backwards, messed up and Americans who love America needs to rescue America from allowing the wage hike to go through because right now is not the time for it to happen. America is deep in debt enough, it does not need to go any deeper because if it does, America will drown.  Those who want the minimum wage hike are playing with fire but, it won’t be just them that will get burned, everyone will feel it.

Last of all, if these people who are causing so much ruckus to get the minimum wage raised to their desire then, once again, America, in the long run, is going to feel the effects of that minimum wage hike including those who are the very ones fighting for the hike and it will not be pleasant experience for anyone.  Nothing will have changed except, the prices and taxes because those will have gone up to accommodate the wage hike, no one wins.

My blog on Identity in a Virtual World by Michelle Jana Chan

My blog on Identity in a Virtual World by Michelle Jana Chan

Is this the new escape for many from the real world problems?

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The Virtual World is an imaginary world that many people from the real world feel the need to escape to.  It somehow releases them from the everyday pressures of real world life. Why? Maybe those people are not happy with who and what they are so, they result to a place where they are in more control.  Of what exactly are they in control of one might ask?  Well, it has to be only one thing.   In their imaginary world who they could possibly be in their real world.

When in that virtual world they may feel they have the power to say anything they want to say, be as bold as they want to be and unfortunately for some, be as sick in the mind as they choose to be and that is pretty scary.  Michelle Jana Chana mentions in her article, “Nick Yee who studies virtual reality at Stanford University, California, and says he can be scared or sickened by what he sees in the online world…That’s what really fascinates me about these worlds. They trap us even more.”  If that is truth then there is a reason to be scared or sickened by what is seen in the online world.

It is a world for those who have the need to be in control of something in their lives whether it be for the fun of it or to escape and be that powerful person, even if it is not real.  They get their release of pressure while no one will ever know who they are and somehow in some way are able to function respectively in the real world. Strange isn't it, but yet it is that way for many out there.

Also, it might be for some people that their social life is not on any type of level respectively, because they do not know how to carry on a conversion with people. They lack confidence in what they have to say.  Maybe it’s because some people are so bullheaded it dampens their social life to a bare minimum causing the people in their real life to not want to socialize with them, this is understandable.  These are the know-it-all's probably.  Not very many people want to hang out with people like that.  So as strange and foreign as it may seem for many, that is where the virtual world is the escape from reality and releases the pressure of the every day life which let's the individual pretend to be whom they wish were able to be, without having to give their true identity sparing them the embarrassment from the people in their real world.

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My Blog on Kate Chopin's "The Storm"

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My blog on Kate Chopin's "The Storm"

This storm was two storms in rolled up in one.  The physical storm of the wind, rain and clapping thunder and also the flesh arousing in the storm of adulterous temptation when two people that were once in a relationship find themselves alone together. It creates, as always, one big no-no.  It doesn’t matter how innocent it may start out or how much each one tries to convince themselves that they are in control of the situation while within themselves the storm of lust is raging on just as bad as the weather’s storm outside.

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Truly two old flames flickering and tiptoe dancing around each other, alone together and all it takes is one spark to ignite into a huge fire storm. The storm could have caused so much danger that could have had a domino effect and destroy everything in its path.   Imagine two storms raging at the same time, that's double for the trouble one finds them self in, pretty scary.

It is sickening to know and realize how easy a storm can hit and destroy so many lives at once whether it is a weather’s physical storm or, like in this story, the storm of lust.  People should not chance either kind of storm like M'sieur Alcee and Calixta had done in this story.  It was treading upon dangerous territory.  

English Composition II Blog on "The Birthmark"

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My blog on The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To allow someone to make oneself feel less than a person is not the kind of person to spend time with.  Georgiana wanted nothing but for her husband to look on to her with as much love as she did for him.  She knew he loved her, he knew she was a beautiful woman according to the story on page 1021. And she loved him just as dearly.

The crimson hand of a birthmark was odd, this is truth.  It was bright and stood out to the point that it must have frightened or, maybe, freaked her husband out for some reason.  She, on the other hand, was used to it because she mentioned it was "called a charm".  Probably as she grew up family consider the charm somewhat of a good luck.  But unfortunately because it horrified her husband, Aylmer, it also horrified her in return.

For someone to love, trust and respect someone enough to drink some deadly potion or actually poison, is just as weird as the crimson hand birthmark itself. Because he was horrified by the looks of it, it was wearing her down. It is terrible that a person can make another person feel that uncomfortable about their appearance that they are willing to risk their own lives to get rid of what someone else considers a flaw in appearance or beauty.

It is terribly that some people will actually go to deadly and extreme lengths to satisfy someone else's view of their appearance. It is wrong for people to do that to each other because in the end, just like Georgiana, they too could died.  Is it really worth living up to someone else opinion of how one should look.  The hope of helping his dear wife with what Aylmer deemed as a success, as short and temporal as that success was and his victory, in actuality, turned out to be his very own living nightmare because his beautiful wife with the "charmed" crimson hand shaped birthmark had died at his very own hands.  Such a shame. 

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No one should allow anyone to make them feel less of a person because of something someone else considers a flaw on them doesn't meet up to that other person’s standard of how they should look.