When Yung Ho came from Asia to New York she saw that compared to Asians most New Yorkers were fat, but when she visited Texas she saw that a lot of Texans were obese and some were what her boyfriend called "obeast" (so fat they look like a beast).
"At least they're very happy eating more than their fair share of food—every day!" her Mother said. "Do the math," her cousin said, "if—for example—a woman whose optimum weight is 100- pounds and she's 50-pounds overweight, every day she's gotta eat the amount of food which one-and-a-half people of her optimum weight eat. Do food sellers like fat people? They love them.
"At least they're very happy eating more than their fair share of food—every day!" her Mother said. "Do the math," her cousin said, "if—for example—a woman whose optimum weight is 100- pounds and she's 50-pounds overweight, every day she's gotta eat the amount of food which one-and-a-half people of her optimum weight eat. Do food sellers like fat people? They love them.
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The essence of the term "problem-challenge and opportunity", which encourages individuals to interpret problems as challenges and opportunities.
In 2009, my Ph.D. professors made me aware of the term "problem, challenge and opportunity". It encouraged me to not see problems as situations which might be impossible to correct but as situations which have solutions. Nine-years later, to simplify and capture the essence of that novel three-word term, I invented the term OPTOIMPROVE. If problems did not come our way we would stop growing. Fredrick Douglas said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress." And my Mother taught me that, "In life there is always a solution".
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The word "mediaopoly" merges the words "media" and "monopoly." Ben H. Bakdikian published his book called "The Media Monopoly" in 1983 . The "mediapoly" is comprised of a handful of corporations which buy independent media outlets, merges them into one conglomerate, dictates what is news, only hires journalists who do not question the system and suppresses independent or alternative ideas and points of view (Fabara, 2017). Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg gave Bagdikian portions of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret classified history of the Vietnam War, and he gave a copy of the documents to Senator Mike Gravel, who promptly read them into the Congressional Record (1971). In 1976, Bagdikian became dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
The "mediapoly" buys independent media outlets, merges them into a conglomerate, dictates what is news, manipulates, distorts, and ultimately controls reality, and only hires journalists who do not question and glorify the status-quo; thus covertly suppressing and censoring alternative ideas and points of view, and contradicting the freedom of speech the First Amendment grants America's taxpayers (Fabara, 2017). The mediaopoly is comprised of 7 media giants: Comcast, Walt Disney, Twenty-First Century Fox, Time Warner, Direct TV, CBS, Viacom (the last two separated in 2006).
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Some of the few individuals who stop to analyze language and think about what humans are really doing, really not doing, and perhaps should be doing, realized that the idiom trial and error induces failure, and they have corrected it to "attempt it and succeed."
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Knowing that playing music after 11:00 P.M. would be make him illegally happy, the teenage boy raised the volume of the music he was listening to and was legally happy knowing that from 7:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. the police, enforcing the laws, allowed anyone to play music below 8 decibels.
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