It’s in the bag:

A guide to what you should and what you should not bring everyday

Marine Herra

You’re in the middle of class or a meeting, and you are asked to bring out a pen. But—after an hour of fumbling through your bag, you realize that you have forgotten your pen at home.

How often does this scenario happen to you? Not only with pens, but with other items such as your phone, a comb or even reading glasses. No matter what preparation you do at night, you will always forget to list down one small but significant thing in your checklist.

So how do you avoid this? Here’s a list of essential things you should bring everyday, and things you ought to leave at home.

DO:

1. Bring your wallet, your ID, and your phone—these are the three main things that you could use in emergencies. Just to be safe, never forget to pack these things in your bag.
2. Important Files— May it be homework or papers for a client, always make sure that you have them ready.
3. Personal Medicine- Especially when you have allergies or asthma, you should never forget to bring your medication with you, just in case.
4. A travel charger—handheld solar chargers may cost a bit more than a normal charger, but it’s worth it especially when you’re out on a trip and your phone suddenly goes dead.
5. An extra pen would come in handy, too.
6. A small emergency kit—containing alcohol and bandages. You never know when a small accident could happen, so it is best to be ready.
7. A small Swiss army knife—for self defense and convenience too.
8. A small bottle of water, for long trips.

DON’T

1. Bring bulky items—other than add to the space in your bag, it would give off a lot of weight, too.
2. Bring things that you wouldn’t use for the whole day.
3. Bring fragile items such as glass.

So, there you have it. But with all of these in mind- make sure that you pack the most essential things: Common sense and the right mind to think.

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Global Economy and United States

The global economy will meet significant challenges this year as central bank of the United States and the most powerful financial institution in the world initiates its financial tightening. The stable GDP and employment growth has been restricted by poor productive effort and since there’s no carrying of high living standards, United States could encounter decades of “unhealthy economic populism,” according to American Enterprise Institute’s James Pethokoukis. The U.S. is regarded to maintain their position as the world’s largest economy based from a recent study by U.K.-based Centre for Economics and Business Research. However, for more than succeeding sixteen years, the aspect of global economy is believed to change from where they positioned today. Even though U.S. is believed to keep a mark among the Group of Eight body consist of world’s largest economies by the year 2031, some members will probably have not as much luck. The role of U.S. in global economy is important to developing countries because U.S. doesn’t really trade but purchases strong distribution instead. U.S. also invests and purchase commodities worth hundreds of billions of dollars, manufactured by developing countries. Since U.S. is a reasonably secure and safe place to invest, it gives large shelter for foreign capital investments. The revenue produced by investments in the U.S. is generally utilized by foreign investors to begin and develop their businesses in their native country. U.S. is like a generator, supplying energy to the global economy. The accomplishment of U.S. is not because of their natural resources or growing population but their systematic process enabling many market players to make their own options, with minimal government interruption. Finally, U.S. takes the responsibilities as the world’s largest economy. By providing entry to its domestic markets and encouraging other countries to extend businesses with them, U.S. serves a central contributor for the growth of developing countries.

Jingqian Zhang

Sometimes, we get to question ourselves why some parents are arrogantly domineering and forcing some negative beliefs on their children. The awareness of this problem does not give an exemption to the behavior but it is caused by some basic flaws or the society defects. An individual’s perception and embracing a certainthreatening situation will give them less difficulty to handle their problem with nothing to be afraid of. This idea delivers a message that social existence should be accountable.

In many situations, parents are overbearing because of they are not satisfied about their achievements, although kind of behavior may reverse to past generations. Another significant reason is for the safety and protection of their life like who will be there to take care of them. Since the population is rapidly increasing in urban areas and the empowerment of states dominates, welfare development, elder care and social support systems started slowly to achieve the traditional roles that were taken over by the members of the family. Therefore, the traditional essence for raising children no longer exists. It is an ongoing issue that brought by social expectations, traditions, and parents’ egocentric behavior.

Over bearing parents are different from passive parents. While passive parents tend to be relaxed, overbearing parents want to make their children to be successful in life but doesn’t show selfless love just to follow what they expect from their children.

To fully understand the situation of children with overbearing parents, children should exert an effort to search for answers about the family background of their parents by talking with relatives and visiting the hometown so that they will be able to gain accurate reasons into what shapes their parents’ behavior.

P. Guo

Parenting isn’t about raising a child;it’s about raising a parent

“Conscious parenting” centers on how to disciple one’s self and to be true to their selves. If a parent wants to be a good role model to their children, they must first learn to handle their own immaturity. By doing this, the child may follow the good influence of their parents that will help them follow their goals in life.

The author Amy Chua has strategies in teaching the proper ways of raising children which strengthens in the willingness of the parents to take care a child. It is a “one-size-fits-all” style that doesn’t help the child to create their own self and various needs.

The purpose is to uplift children on how to keep in touch with mental and spiritual self rather than making them the kind of person their parents wants them to be. When children choose to stay true to themselves, they are living life with contentment and happiness in whatever decision they make.

The parents are expected to do the overall responsibility as the child grows. However, as the child grows, parents need to learn from the child, too. Parents should be able to open up their ideas to the child and listen to their opinions. To have self-control, to be authoritative and self-ruing is a continuous process. It’s letting the child to accept consequences in a most reasonable way.

The way parents communicate and raise their children mirrors on how they treat themselves. When a child got a failing grade from school, some parents criticize the child’s performance. This reaction appears from the parent’s past experience when they were told that class standing described who they are.

Staying away from controlling the child’s activity may give the parents a realization that the child doesn’t deserve the criticism.

A.Chua