By Brea Glasko Apps are changing the way we travel, the way we shop, and the way we communicate with the world around us. By now, many of us are used to banking, ordering food & Ubering our way to a friend’s birthday party using the convenience of these little Apps that make life, love…
By Brea Glasko In today’s fast moving digital world, all organizations, all businesses, and even all families should not only consider but actively seek out remote workers. This shift to location independence has been happening for some time now, and just like the shift from paper to digital, the digital nomad lifestyle will become the most…
By Ashley Renteria I recently finished a Critical Thinking English course where we used a textbook A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature that introduced us to some of Freud’s theories, and his main contention basically states that everyone’s mental process can be divided into three categories: the superego, the ego and the id. Freud…
By Nicole Campbell It’s the 21st century, and everywhere you look, everywhere you go, you will find someone using a mobile phone or some other portable device to go online. It’s just something that we all take for granted. Yet only about twenty years ago it was all quite different; using the internet used to be strictly a…
MADE LA, supported by WME | IMG and AEG, to bring together the worlds of fashion, music, art and entertainment in two-day showcase, June 10-11, 2016 Preliminary line-up includes MOSCHINO to show men’s and women’s resort collections for the first time in the US; Tyler, The Creator to present Golf Wang collection LOS ANGELES (April…
By Nicole Campbell Ever since mid 20th century, the suburbs have been considered the most iconic of places to live. Images of a nuclear family living in a house with a backyard and a driveway, wedged between other houses looking almost identical tend to spring to mind. But, times have changed! The psychology and living…
By Brea Glasko We are all in a relationship with our phones. The mobile world we live in has turned our phone into something more than just a piece of technology; our mobile phone is our little companion–there in times of joy or sorrow, there when traveling the world, and even there for the boring…
By Nicolette Campbell Technology never ceases to remind us that time waits for no one. There is always a gap between new technology users and those who prefer to get by with the same old gadgets, in the same old ways. And, many tend to say that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”…
By Syeda Hajrah Razvi If you are asked to think about someone who is very rational, what kind of characteristics come to mind? Your imagined rational being is likely to be someone very logical and intelligent; someone who is objective and can be reasoned with; possibly someone very level headed and stable. In other words,…
By James MacDonald When discussing the rights of sexual minorities, one is unlikely to challenge the tolerance of a progressive audience. For reasons that may at first appear obvious, this attitude does not generally extend to pedophilia. Then again, why should it? The truth is that pedophilia is significantly more complex than most people realise,…
By Nicolette Campbell In the multicultural world of the 21st century we are, more than ever, exposed to the vast variety of our fellow human beings. We have the chance to observe the amazing differences in the foods we eat, the fashions we wear, and the holidays and traditions we observe. Yet one subject that…
By Ammar Kazim Belonging to the banking sector, I meet people with a bad credit history on daily basis. What astonishes me the most is the fact that most of the people I meet are educated and certainly capable enough to make wise choices, yet they still seem unable to control many of their whimsical…
By James MacDonald There is a recurring gag in the satirical British cop show A Touch of Cloth, in which inspector Anne Oldman is forced to repeatedly remind her partner, Jack Cloth, that she is bisexual, not gay. The following is a typical exchange between the characters: Jack: So you’re gay? Anne: Bi, Jack. Jack:…
By Qurat ul Ain Shahzad Failure is a subjective term, and everyone defines it in his or her own way. For a 5 year old boy, failure may be losing a race with an older brother; for a 10 years old student it may be getting a low grade on a Math exam. A 20…
By Vegard Haugen I can only speak for myself, but I have met many other travelers who also confirm that traveling has a huge impact on one’s personality. I know that I changed a lot during the year I hitchhiked from Norway to Morocco and back. It was a gradual change in perception, priorities and…
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