Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love or City of Bad Images?

By Diomassi Sissoko



Philadelphia is one of the biggest city in United States. It is full of histories of our nation. Starting by Liberty Belt to the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia is the home of many heroes of the world; like Benjamin Francklin, Betsy Ross and many other people who worked hard to make United States a great country. Today Philadelphia is more than the city of brotherly love. A city that is consider as one of the poorest, dirtiest and crime city in the United States.

Philadelphia is the second dirtiest city in the U.S. Any where you are in the city, you can see trash in the floor. People are standing next to the trash cans, but they prefer troy trash in the floor.

Philadelphians or any other people are scare to be out at late night at Philadelphia because they don`t want to be victims of any type of crimes. Last summer many people did want to come to our city because of flash mob. For example, one day I was watching the news and a store was robbed and when they interviewed a woman from that city, she said that she was surprised to see a negative thing like this in her city. She said that she usually see bad thing like this in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is consider as one of the city with the highest rate of welfare especially food stamp. In the beginning of the school of this year, Philadelphia Mayor, Michael Nutter was obliged to go to Harrisburg, so the city can have more money for the education budget.

In conclusion, Philadelphia deserves more than being a city with negative images. We, Philadelphians need to work hard and take care of our city, so it can keep the image of the City of Brotherly Love and become one of the richest city in the United States. This are some links where you can find more negative things about Philadelphia:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/youve-damaged-your-own-race-philly-mayor-blasts-teens-flash-mobs/
http://cleanupphilly.blogspot.com/

Why A Good Education Is So Important And The Key To Success

By: Cheryl Ewing

Education is the key to a successful future and the key element in helping everyone to develop to their full potential.  Having a good education will open doors of opportunity and take you to a higher level of success in your career endeavors. Through education and becoming exposed to added knowledge and experiences, people can find out for themselves what they are best suited for or interested in doing for the rest of their lives.

Making the decision to take advantage of all educational opportunities that are available is not something that is easy, oftentimes it takes effort to seek out those opportunities that could potentially help to further develop talents and abilities that we may already have. Education is not limited to just going to school. Any way a person can educate themselves or learn more about the world around them is key in establishing a successful career and future. It's rarely the knowledge and facts that you know that carry you up the career ladder and into the realms of success but rather the connections you make with others and how fast you can think on your feet and solve problems and generate new ideas. Simply getting by and passing classes in school is not enough. In order to get a good education, we have to put a great deal of effort and time into it and make the most of it. We have to be willing to learn new ideas, try new concepts, and experiment with what we are unfamiliar with. It doesn't matter what age you are or where you come from it's never to late to learn something new.

Changing Status the Old Fashioned Way

By Hans-Ethan Hibbard

Most people believe that college is the best way to change one's social status, and you can go from waitress to restaurant entrepreneur if you go to college. As we grow up, we are taught that education is also the key to living a successful life. Unfortunately, success is measured by income. But there are other ways of obtaining income necessary to be wealthy without going to college. I encourage everyone to watch this video made by the National Inflation Association:

http://youtu.be/VpZtX32sKVE  - This video is an hour long, but mostly importantly look at the section from 29:25 - 30:00. Within that thirty seconds or so, they talk about how someone that doesn't go to college can just as easily in four years earn enough money to buy the average American home. So for someone that wants to open a restaurant someday, I suggest the following:

 1. Learn about the business the old fashioned way, through apprenticeship. Become a busser or host in a successful privately owned restaurant. Learn over time about the dirty, gritty details about running a restaurant. Start saving at least ten percent of all your earnings. Invest your savings and make your wealth grow. If you can't save at least ten percent of your earnings, then you are living outside of your means.

2. Get promoted to server. Learn how to become a good server, and how to teach others to be good servers. Continue to save and invest.

3. Become a line-cook. Learn about cost control in the kitchen and how to effectively manage it. Continue to save and invest.

4. Get promoted to manager. Learn about the business side of the restaurant. What draws in the consumers? What keeps them coming back? Profits and Losses, etc. Continue to save and invest.

After all this, you will have successfully learned how to open your own restaurant and keep it running. And with the money you saved up over the years, you will have enough money for the initial down payment all without having to go to college. This is how people used to become successful hundreds of years ago - through apprenticeships. Everyone has the ability to change his or her own destiny. Even if you are born into poverty you can change your status with hard work and determination. College is not for everyone. Having a degree certainly will help you get a job, but will not guarantee it. Determination and motivation will change anyone's life that chooses to do so. There is nothing wrong with being a waitress. Ask yourself the next time you go out to eat, is this person serving me food going to be the next big restaurant entrepreneur?