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World We Imagine: Part 3

Food is a crucial substance that can impact our bodies in many ways. When I was 21, I became very engaged with health and fitness and made an effort to fuel my body with foods that are healthy and nourishing My experience with fitness and nutrition lead me to realize the significant impact that healthy food can have on and individual. Additionally, I came to the realization that many individuals don’t have access to healthy food, or food at all. Even worse, the food options that many individuals have access to don’t have any beneficial aspect to them besides the fact that they temporarily cure someones hunger. This is an issue. The organization that I propose is Food For Everyone . This organization would strive to help eliminate the 6,500 food deserts that exists across major cities throughout the nation (Bayer). A food desert is an area that struggles to have access to affordable and high quality food. Food deserts are typically found in poorer neighborhoods as many places that offer...
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World We Imagine Part 1

Thinking on Jacqueline Novogratz quote from,  The Blue Sweater, there are many things that I can think of that would make the world a better place. For one, providing everyone with adequate housing would be a great start. Everyone deserves to have a home. Especially one that has the basic necessities to be called a home. Unfortunately, however, that is not the case everywhere in the world. There are many people that don't have a place to call home. People who don't have a bed to come home too. And that truly is a very sad reality to acknowledge. Suggesting more ideas, the world could be a better place if adequate healthcare and sanitation practices were provided to everyone worldwide. When I was sixteen years old, I went abroad to Nicaragua for six weeks to help learn and enhance the well-being of a rural community. It was here that I learned that there are a lot of people who lack the knowledge regarding sanitation, and lack access to items that allow for sanitation. As a res...
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Random Post: Is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire the best sequel to exist? In my opinion, yes, yes it is.

When I hear the word sequel I don't usually get to excited about it. The word sequel to me equates to a money grab by Hollywood to squeeze some extra profit out of an idea that should have been successful as is without any successors. I think I find sequels to rarely be superior to the film proceeding it because I believe the writers don't have enough time to come up with a storyline that beats the original storyline. Maybe thats why The Hunger Games: Catching Fire wasn't a disaster like other sequels, since the story had already been written prior to the movie trilogy coming out.  I think everyone can agree that The Hunger Games were a pivotal trilogy apart of the dystopian movie era that took over theaters from 2012 to around 2015, when the Divergent and Maze Runner series were coming out simultaneously. However, The Hunger Games trilogy shines amongst all the dystopian films that were dominating the cinema because the trilogy introduced an idea to our society that was so...
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Book 2, Post 2

For Book 2, I chose to read, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others , because the description of the book given in class sounded like the author was going to write about a experience that I shared. What is the experience? The experience is growing up with Christian faith and then suddenly being exposed to a wide variety of other religions. Furthermore, how exposure to other religions and ultimately impacts your faith in the Christian religion.  When reading this book, I was hoping to have an experience that I resonated with. For people who aren't religious and didn't grow up in a town where everyone practiced the same religion, its quite strange to move to a place where there is so much religious diversity. Growing up in Texas, everyone I knew was Christian. I knew a couple of people that were Jewish, but besides them, everyone else was Christian. Were they the most devout Christians, some yes and some no, but one thing for sure was that we all believed in the same thing...
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AMDP Final: Siete Family Foods Investment Recommendation Memo

Jack McAdams  TO: Professor Clark Hansen, CEO, AMDP                                  FROM: Jack McAdams, Research and Development Analyst  DATE: 8 March 2024 SUBJECT: Siete Family Foods Investment Recommendation Memo   As an analyst on the research team at Anima Mundi Development Partners, it is my job to scout businesses that represent the values we emphasize, including social responsibility and environmental sustainability, while remaining profitable. After careful research, I strongly recommend investing in Siete Family Foods, a healthy alternative food brand based in Austin, Texas. This investment memo will present the following information that was taken into consideration when deciding whether to invest in the Siete Family Foods:   The considerations each potential investment at AMDP is held to.   A personal and financial overview of Siete Family Foods.   Outside opin...
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Book Two, Post 1

For Book 2, I believe that I am going to stick with,  Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others , by Barbra Brown Taylor. Taylors book stood out to me because I find religion to be incredibly controversial. In particular, religions seemed to be built out of love yet nowadays evokes a lot of hate. Additionally, I find religion interesting because there are over 4,000 religions in our world that have different perspectives on the meaning of life, yet we only hear about the prominent ones within our society. Taylors sounds as if she has a similar experience as myself regarding exposure to the diversity of religions our world has to offer. Growing up in a very conservative, christian part of the country, the only other religion that I was exposed to was Judaism. I had heard of other religions but had no idea what the religion was all about. Furthermore, I had never met someone who had believed that there was no afterlife at all. Therefore, when I came to Los Angeles, you can say th...
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Random Post 1: A Sunburn In the Winter?

The day is nice and sunny. I’ve just finished up with classes and decide it’s time to go to the gym. I get there and start to get into the groove of my workout. Things are going great. Then, I decide to look into the mirror, where an unfortunate sight awaited me. My face was burnt red for some unexplained reason. I couldn’t come up with a reasonable explanation for my facial redness. Finally, I decide that it’s just dry skin. However, when I clean up and put moisturizer on my skin, a painful, stinging sensation shoots across my cheeks? Why is that? Well, I discovered that my dry skin was in fact not dry skin. Instead, it was a sunburn.   Now look, my skin is light, so it’s not like I am not familiar with the sun overstaying its welcome. However, just to add context, this happened in the middle of February, which is during the winter for those that don't know. How the heck did I get a sunburn in the middle of winter? I know Los Angeles winters are not like the typical winter experie...
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