The Huffington Post Essays

  • Witchcraft, Zombies, and Music: The Case of Khulekani "Mgqumeni" Khumalo

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    claiming to be reincarnated singer abducted by zombies.” The Independent Online. 08 February 2012. Campbell, Andy. “Zombie Singer Turns Out To Be Sibusiso John Gcabashe, Not Late South African Zulu Folk Singer Khulekani "Mgqumeni" Khumalo.” The Huffington Post. 8 February 2012. Secondary Source Neihaus, Isak. “Witches and Zombies of the South African Lowveld: Discourse, Accusations and Subjective Reality.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 2005), pp. 191-210

  • The Evils of Consumerism

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    consequences are on full display. The Faceboo... ... middle of paper ... ...ence/features/general-article/tupperware-consumer/>. Julianelle, Mike. "Spoiler Alert." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 26 Dec. 2013. Web. 23 Feb. 2014. . Moeschen, Sheila. "This Is NOT the Candy Land of Your Childhood." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 9 Jan. 2014. Web. 23 Feb. 2014. . Monbiot, George. "Materialism: a system that eats us from the inside out." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media

  • Participation of Women in the Workforce

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    1970s, the participation of women in the workforce has dramatically changed from women traditionally following their mother’s footsteps to obtaining an independent career of their own. According to Resident Scholar, Christina Hoff Sommers of the Huffington Post, "there are far more women than men in college, and they earn more than fifty-eight percent of [the] college degrees [in the year of 2013]." However, some women in the workforce do not receive the full compensation as men do, even though both

  • Dove's Real Beauty Sketches: Role of Media Relations

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    because the audience can choose to watch the video or not. The campaign has the coverage on Google+Hangout as well. Dove also ensures that this campaign has the media placement on Channel 7 Morning Show in Australia, Today Show, Mashable, and The Huffington Post (Stampler 2013). The campaign has gained more than 4.6 billion public relations and blogger impressions. 2.5 Analysis of the Tactics Used and Its Suitability Dove’s Real Beauty Sketches campaign uses this tactic of broadcasting their

  • The Pros And Cons Of Procrastination

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    According to Rebecca Klein from the Huffington Post, “Approximately 87 percent of [the 13,000 polled students] said they procrastinate on school assignments.” Many of which spend their time on social media and watching television (Huffington Post). Procrastinating is the action of delaying or postponing any action and similarly, a college student defines it as putting off an assignment until

  • Zara Fashion Case Study

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    Fast fashion is getting faster and cheaper, but who bares the cost for the rising demand for this type of clothing? Most of the time, the effects are felt in the countries where the brands are not even sold and where they are produced. Consumerism has a lot to do with the success of stores like Uniqlo, Forever 21 and Primark. These types of stores are making fashion accessible to all, and thus trends are becoming more and more short-lived, making people always wanting newer and cheaper items. Inditex

  • Offshoring: Pro or Con

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    Offshoring: Pro or Con? From my understanding of what I have learned in my Introduction to Business class, to be successful at your business requires an entrepreneur to take risks in order to be successful. Once you have established strategies to counteract the risks there are more steps that should be taken in order to keep up and improve the business processes. In International Business, I have taken another approach with risks and that approach is to go global. Taking a chance to reach new markets

  • Photoshop In Advertising Essay

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    create eating disorders. Photoshop artists’ use this software to create a false image of what society has deemed as perfect. Huffington Post recently exposed Target’s excessive use of Photoshop in their online swimsuit line advertised for teenagers. It was obvious that the photograph of the teen model was stretched to make her limbs longer and skinnier, and the Huffington Post reported that “the model is missing a piece of her crotch.” (Feldman, 2014) The purpose of the missing crotch was to use the

  • Can Women Climb the Corporate Ladder Without Sacrifices?

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    Women have long been considered the child breeders and homemakers in society, but in recent decades that has changed; women are becoming more economically independent by entering the work force rather than taking on the role of a housewife. Even though women are changing the workforce in today’s corporate America, they still lack the confidence that men –who work in the same fields- up hold for themselves. In today’s society very few women have taken the initiative to compete for that leading position

  • Troye Sivan Coming Out Video Analysis

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    can’t. Scrolling through the comments on his “Coming Out” Video there are a variety of love and hate comments. It is so great to have as much support that he does coming out to the public like that, but the hate traveled along. According to the Huffington Post “Sivan said he hoped his video would provide hope for other gay and bisexual people, just the way he fou... ... middle of paper ... ...imself took a risk coming out of a closet to such a public environment. He was given negative and positive

  • People should pay for their studies at universities

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    Education for free or for a very low price is a widespread practice in Europe. Currently, there are 9 countries offering higher education completely for free. These countries believe that free education should be granted for everyone. However, this is unfair from society’s point of view to pay for the education of individuals (1).Tuition fees help to raise quality of studies (2) and they affect personalities of the students positively (3). This implies that we should pay for our studies at universities

  • Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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    mature at an extremely fast rate. This allows our youth to mature at a reasonable rate so that they are aware of life’s difficulties but not bombarded with unnecessary information to pollute their young minds. “Banned Books List Reveleved.” The Huffington Post. 2013. Web. 8 Nov. 2013. “Banned & Challenged Classics | Banned & Challenged Books.” Ala.org. 2013. Web. 8 Nov. 2013 “CEE LO GREEN LYRICS-Fuck you!” azlyrics.com. 2013. Web. 9 Nov. 2013. Salinger, J.D. “The Catcher in the Rye.” Little, Brown:

  • We Must Stop Racism

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    i am glad a letter was sent to the Baptist Ass. of Belize I think one should also be sent to the Queen of the Bay Committee on their refusal to have Ms. Belmopan participate in the upcoming pageant. Retrieved from: https://www.facebook.com/SEWC.Bz/posts/344001902354261

  • Woman in Business Why It's So Hard For Working Women To Get Ahead, And What We Can Do About It by Jillian Berman

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    Women To Get Ahead, And What We Can Do About It", written by Jillian Berman is written to get employers to make it easier on the female members of their teams.The article was posted in the beginning of 2014 in The Huffington Post. Jillian is an Associate Business Editor for the Huffington Post. She is an opinion based writer who uses her "freedom of speech" to write about many different topics. In this article, Jillian discusses the shyness that women experience when in the working field which keeps

  • Civil Dissobedience and Taking a Stand

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    " 3st Quarter Civil Disobedience Project. "Class handout for College Prep English 1, Troy Buchanan High School, Troy. 16 February 2014. TS. Miles, Kathleen. "Largest Civil Disobedience In Walmart History Leads To More Than 50 Arrests." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 08 Nov. 2013. Web. 17 Feb. 2014. SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2014.

  • The Novels by Jodi Picoult

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    her novels portray legal battles, and include court scenes demonstrating extensive insider research on each subject accounting for perspectives from lawyers, doctors, inmates, judges lieutenants, and detectives. A.J. Walkley, a writer for the Huffington Posts’ books section, talks about Picoult’s research for her latest book, The Storyteller. At a reading she discovered discovered, “there were Holocaust survivors in the audience whom Picoult had interviewed during her research for the book.” Sometimes

  • Political Inequality Essay

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    attention to the ridiculous strides made by the rich, whose incomes have skyrocketed within the past four decades. Those pertaining to the middle-income and poor have sadly had their incomes stagnate. According to Caroline Fairchild from the Huffington Post the middle class incomes steadily is on the decline. In 1968 the middle class earned about 53.2 percent of national income in 1968. This number has now fallen to 45.7 percent. Super PACs became a concern as more individual donors willingly wrote

  • Choose Your College Wisely

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    disadvantage that can be discussed. So when it comes anyone’s time to make the leap into to taking college classes all I can say is choose wisely. Works Cited Snyder, Tom, President of Ivy Tech Community College “The Benefits of Online Learning” Huffington Post. 30 January 2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-snyder/the- benefits-of-online-le_b_2573991.html

  • The Real Cause of the 'Freshman 15'

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    college student gains during their first year of college. The usual argument is that college students are unprepared for life on their own and that once they have control they make eating healthy their last priority. However, an article from the Huffington Post suggests otherwise; that in fact it is not the students fault but the schools and their overwhelming smorgasbord of unhealthy food choices. When you walk into the student union or the Keathly University Center some of the first things to catch

  • John Locke Theory In Frankenstein

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    in that individual 's childhood, leaving them to still be a unique individual but never truly their own person. John locke’s theory about a human changing due to events that occur in life are shown in Mary Shelley’s frankenstein, The Huffington Post, The Global Post, and Livestrong. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein proves John Locke’s theory through many instances where the creature tries to come in contact with humanity. The creature created by Victor Frankenstein, especially in the event