CREATIVE TIME: Shanthi Shanmugam
The term I would like to explore is “Making”. What does is it mean to make and to be made? Creation is very subtle because every action induces or “makes” another reaction.
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The term I would like to explore is “Making”. What does is it mean to make and to be made? Creation is very subtle because every action induces or “makes” another reaction.
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The word sincerely brings me fear as a student with two more years left of university. Despite the economy improving over the last four years since the housing crisis, jobs hunting are a dire process for every upcoming graduates.
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Occupation has always been and will continue to be a controversial word. At its most innocuous, it refers to a person’s job or calling – the way someone occupies their time. Arguably the more common use, is in referral to a military occupation or occupation of a space by protesters.
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We are constantly making to survive, learn, earn, and experience. Making is one of the fundamental activities for us which happens every second. We make our own food daily; we make friends; we make notes to study; we make art and music to enjoy; we make mistakes; we make achievements, and we make thoughts and perspectives.
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Tactics. The word brings to mind images of military regalia, strict formations, dim rooms with maps. Strategy, a plan, what to do, where to go. Tactics are a road map to success. Every person out there is striving for some kind of success whether it is something defined such as career success, or something more abstract like personal fulfillment.
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US epitomizes a “champagne glass” distribution of wealth in which the wealthiest 1% control almost 45% of the nation’s wealth. The concept of exploitation is evident in this pattern in that wealth is produced at the expense of other socioeconomic levels. For example, by exploiting cheap labor, paying low wages, depending on political patronage, utilizing tax loopholes, and by lobbying for unjustifiable deregulation the wealthy continue their trajectory of wealth accumulation.
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Not many people think about making. That is, the act of creation; both intentional and unintentional. While most people prioritize that which they create with willful agency, they often overlook what is created as a side effect of their actions.
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Tactics can be interesting things. They can be used to progress through a society and built upon almost anything. Tactics are a method of understanding and then either building upon or tearing down. In order to develop this so called tactic, one must first understand. A tactic to build or tear a system cannot be created without a deep level of understanding of the inner workings of the said system.
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I have just ordered 400 Trick-or-Treat boxes from the UNICEF website for an upcoming Halloween event that UNICEF@Cal, a campus initiative of UNICEF at Berkeley, is planning for.
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While it is no secret that the United States, and many nations throughout the world, face various inequities, it is interesting how inequalities in wealth, income, economic opportunities (as well as opportunities in general), and many other issues are dealt with. One such example is the Occupy movement, which not only demonstrates a method of combatting issues, but also demonstrates the evolution of the method of protests.
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