A Complete Guide to Healthy Eating on a Budget

When you’re on a tight budget, eating healthy meals on a regular basis can be a difficult task. We often get stuck in a rut, eating the same meals over and over. It can also be tempting to snap up grocery deals when out shopping, even if they’re not the healthiest options. With a little creativity and organization, however, you can have a healthy eating plan and save money. Following is a guide to help you lower your food costs without sacrificing your health. … [Read more...]

The Zombie Response

Zombie fever is sweeping the nation once again, but this time, the friendly, comforting barrier of fiction has been removed, and innocent fascination has been coupled with a repugnant, unsettling fear associated with some sort of coming apocalypse. In Miami, Florida on May 26th, 2012, Rudy Eugene, 31, was shot by police officers after refusing to stop chewing off the face of his victim, Ronald Poppo, a 65 year old homeless man. The incident was quickly picked up by … [Read more...]

History Of Air Jordans

After almost a decade since he played his last game in the NBA, Michael Jordan is still one of the most recognized people on the planet. Apart from what he did on the court, Michael Jordan was one of the first athletes to make marketing and merchandising a major part of his career. Jordan still appears regularly on television advertisements and his name still graces a large number of products. The first Air Jordan sneakers were released by Nike in 1985. Nike … [Read more...]

Khrushchev: Courageous Or A Failure

As Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told his advisor, Anastas Mikoyan, on the 13th of October, 1964 (the day before a Communist Party-lead coup ousted him from power): “Now everything is different. The fear’s gone. That’s my contribution.” These words from the man himself show just how wide-ranging and deep his reforms of the 1950s and 1960s were – but many historians have insisted that Khrushchev should be remembered as a … [Read more...]

The World War 2: War In The Pacific

The Pacific Theater of World War II doesn't feature as heavily in current media and culture as the European theater does. While the battle in Europe against the Germans has become a part of the American historical narrative regarding good versus evil, democracy versus fascism, and the concept of universal human rights versus genocide, the war in the Pacific was a bit...messier. At the time, the war against Germany was framed as a war on behalf of freedom and justice, … [Read more...]