Mar 26
Since 2002 the Human Rights Campaign has been creating and releasing a public Corporate Equality Index each year. This is a list of businesses and corporations that indicates their level of LGBT support and equality in terms of employment. Businesses are chosen from the Fortune Magazine’s 1000 largest publicly traded businesses and the American Lawyer …
Mar 21
Gay rights groups, activists, and the LGBT community in general has been in the public eye for so many reasons over the past handful of years. With marriage equality slowly creeping up, state by state, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell being repealed, everyone has been pretty busy. With the six month anniversary of DADT upon …
Mar 19
What type of higher education is best for you? I have written countless articles that revolve around the topic of college, and the significance of a college education. As a college student myself, I am a firm believer that education is an important tool that will benefit young people in the future. However, the worldwide …
Mar 19
Women’s rights have constantly changed throughout the history of the United States. For the most part they have improved. We’ve seen voting rights, employment rights, and equal rights in general surge from movements and hard work, making women a prominent part of society. Even though it has taken so much effort to get to this …
Mar 07
National Girls and Women in Sports Day was held last month on February 1st, forty years after the passage of Title IX. For the past 26 years, people across the country have celebrated NGWSD and strengthened Title IX’s declaration, that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from …
Mar 05
About every three days it becomes necessary to take out the trash in my roommates’ and my kitchen. And on this trip down the hall, we take our brown paper grocery bag full of recyclables. We diligently separate out our plastics, making sure we do our small part to contribute to the recycling movement. However, …
Mar 02
Read this post in English ¿Cómo influyen las campañas políticas en la participación electoral? Durante períodos electorales, el ciudadano promedio es incitado a votar y a tomar una decisión política. Los medios de comunicación y el gobierno nos animan a votar. Dicen: “Sin voto no hay voz”. A mi parecer, los medios de comunicación y …
Feb 27
Something I could never understand were the cries of neighborhood residents who honestly complained about the look of the new solar panels on their lampposts. To me, the micro solar energy catchers are an exciting, smart new way to bring energy needs to local communities. So I have never quite understood how people could find …
Feb 23
Read this post in English A veces las personas no se molestan en aprender acerca de los problemas globales… porque son globales. Muchos piensan que algunos problemas son tan grandes que es mejor dejarlos al gobierno y a organizaciones como las Naciones Unidas. La lucha contra el narcotráfico en México es una de estas cuestiones que …
Feb 21
View this post in English El alto nivel de violencia que los centroamericanos viven todos los días se puede atribuir a un millón de diferentes factores, entre ellos uno de los principales problemas es la deficiente infraestructura de sus gobiernos. Sin embargo, no es sólo la intervención del gobierno (o falta de) que ha facilitado un …
