Blog #10

The article “The Children Will Keep Coming” by Oscar Martinez published in Nation is the property of Nation Company which tells stories about kids on the border fighting violence that the U.S. helped create. It all started when David De La O disappeared while walking home from school. They didn’t find him until the next day, when his body remains were found in an abandoned field. He was only 11 years old and had been stabbed four time in the torso. The main reason this most likely happened was “he went to school in an area controlled by one gang and lived in a neighborhood dominated by another.” My question in that would by why would you do that? There is already enough going on in the gangs you live within, so why add another gang and more troubles into an 11 year olds life? Many children decided to flee Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador for the U.S. to not become victims of gang violence. There is no less violence in the north and west and at least 8 people are murdered every day

This article makes me think of changing schools when they talk about how David had two different gangs to deal with daily. It reminds me of starting a new school because you’re always going to have enemies at the school you left and will probably have some at the school you change to. The number of children being murdered everyday just amazes me. If I had to live in a situation like this I would try to escape to the U.S. like David did.

Blog #9

The article “High-Performance Corporate Culture” by Sadri Golnaz published in Industrial Management Nov/Dec. 2014 is about creating a high-performance culture in an organization. Corporate culture, also known as organizational culture, is considered a powerful tool for an organization to define itself, create high morale, uniformity among its employees, and brand recognition among its customers. Other information such as customer service and managerial maintenance is presented. This article really expresses how the attitudes of co-workers carry to everyone else from generation to generation and that’s part of being in a corporate culture. Also “employees hold strong beliefs on how they should behave and how that impacts how they operate.”



This article really breaks down the business and peoples person opinions in how corporate culture should be run and how to keep them fair. I agree with them that they should have their own opinions but on the corporation’s side, you can’t be too flexible or you will be having a ton of people in the corporation walk all over you and then you will no longer exist. I would never work in a corporation as big as google because it is constantly changing and I could never keep up with all the new things to keep the general public happy. This article made me think about why I really would have no desire to put myself in that industry.published in Industrial Management Nov/Dec. 2014 is about creating a high-performance culture in an organization. Corporate culture, also known as organizational culture, is considered a powerful tool for an organization to define itself, create high morale, uniformity among its employees, and brand recognition among its customers. Other information such as customer service and managerial maintenance is presented. This article really expresses how the attitudes of co-workers carry to everyone else from generation to generation and that’s part of being in a corporate culture. Also “employees hold strong beliefs on how they should behave and how that impacts how they operate.”


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Blog #8

In the article “Too Young to Wed” written by Gorney, Cynthia published in the National Geographic. In this article she talks about a 15 and 13 year old about to get married when they were just old enough to understand what was happening. The grooms were on their way from their own village and they were supposed to show up high-spirited and drunk. In India it was risky to marry that young because it is illegal to marry under the age of 18. When they become married they are then living with the husband’s family and basically abandons their own families. Every culture is a little different with all the rules of the marriages, for example some villages do it between two individuals but others do it between the whole family.

This article to me was very busy with all the detail about all the different cultures and ages of all the family members who also live in the village. Some of the information could have been left out but at the same time it was interesting to learn about everything then have some missing points that lead to questions later on. The only question I would have is why the parents want their children to marry so young? I would think they would want to wait for them to be a little older to maybe understand things better so they don’t have so many questions when there older and it would possibly even help save some marriages. I would not enjoy my parents picking the man I want to marry especially at the age of 15.

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