Why Black Friday shouldn't start on Thursday

                

Why Black Friday shouldn't start on Thursday

Black Friday used to be a day where there would be awesome deals but only if you stayed up late enough but not anymore. Black Friday 2014 is now starting as early as 6:00 PM on Thanksgiving at some retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart, Sears, Kohl’s, Target, K-Mart, Macy’s, Penny’s, Staples, Meijer, Walgreen's, and many others. Black Friday is a great opportunity for people to get things for loved ones at a lower cost but not if it interferes with the special bonding time we get to have with our immediate or extended family to catch up and simply have a good time.

                Some corporations like those listed above want to make the most money for Black Friday and it seems that starting earlier is the way to do it. But are all of the deals worth it? I don’t think so. Black Friday could start on 12:00 AM Friday and run until 6:00 AM the next day to make up for the lost time by pushing the start time back. Retailers could still have their deals last the same amount of time and not interfere with the bonding time families get to have. Sadly though this would never change, retailers are money hungry, the 24 hours isn't enough, and as a result black Friday has taken over Thanksgiving. In years to come Black Friday will most likely extend its hours by making the sales earlier until its Black Thursday and Friday.

Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles

          Originally my plan was to write a compare and contrast about health foods and junk food and I found it very frustrating with the lack of material and that there wasn't much to talk about. SO I switched gears and switched my topic to "Unhealthy lifestyles and healthy lifestyles" I'm still attempting to dissect this without sound completely on the wrong track.

          I plan on breaking my essay into multiple chunks and discussing what the contribute to the two lifestyles in those said chunks.For example I talk about food choices and what it means to eat a healthy lifestyle and a unhealthy lifestyle. I'm trying to word or fix my sentences so that I don't sound like i'm saying there its not only black and white because people can have a mix of the two. It's a very hard topic I think but if I put in enough effort I think it will turn out great.

How to not be ignorant about the world

In the TED talk "How to not be ignorant about the world" father and son Hans and Ola Rosling tagged team this topic to an audience who clearly had a few things to learn about being ignorant. Being ignorant is one of the downsides of the population and when asked why we are ignorant the answer is quite simple. We grow up in small towns and therefore are unable to learn about different cultures  On top of leading a sheltered life the material we learn in schools today are normally outdated and the media seems to cover unusual news with skewed information The major theme throughout was to think about the majority instead of the minority because the majority of the population is not the minority.

I personally think this TED talk was eye opening to say the least, I wouldn't say i'm ignorant (I try not to be and always have an open mind), and I never thought about the majority when thinking about things. Always thinking about the majority, the bigger picture, or just thinking positive are great ways to try and not be ignorant. Being ignorant is somewhat of a social cripple that affects everyone. If we were able to teach people how to just simply not be so closed minded a lot of the controversial issues we face today wouldn't be so controversial.