Dutch Bros does more than just sell coffee

Throughout the tri-cities there are many different coffee shops. They all have their differences, for example, types of drinks, prices, style, and they all do things for our community. Dutch Brothers, mostly known as Dutch Bros, is very well known throughout the Tri-cities. Many people enjoy drinks from Dutch Bros Coffee. Dutch Bros originally started up in the state of Oregon. They began as a very small business and that was not well known by many people. Today Dutch Bros is popular and has branched out to locations such as Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona, Tri-cities alone has six shops. Dutch Bros does more than just sell coffee; they give back to our community. They participate in fund raisers, animal shelters and help families who have lost loved ones.

  On Monday March 21st patrol officer; Nathan Taylor was struck by a car on the highway in Sacramento California. That same day Dutch Bros donated one dollar from every drink sold to Nathan Taylor’s family. They also had on site donation buckets for those who wished to donate more. Another example of how Dutch Bros helps their communities is in Phoenix, Arizona on February 4th all fourteen locations raised 11,000 dollars for friends for life animal rescue. Friends for life are a local nonprofit animal shelter that serves Phoenix, Arizona and its surrounding area. A third example is in Treasure Valley, Idaho on March 11th they raised 46,966 dollars for their local American society relay for life. Relay for life is an overnight fund raiser that joins the fight to end cancer. The last example is more of a personal one with an agreement between the employees at one of the shops here in Kennewick and me. If I show them my attendance and I can prove that I went to every class for the whole week the employees pay for my drink. This has improved my attendance greatly because it motivates me to go to every class for the week. Dutch Bros employees are very caring and they know that I skip one class at least every day so that is why they made this deal with me. Therefore I believe people should buy drinks from Dutch Bros because they help out their communities. When you buy a drink from Dutch Bros you are supporting them which is also supporting your community because they give back.

War Does Affect The People Involved

                Have you ever thought about joining the army, military, air force, or the marines? Many people think about joining these branches and a majority of the people do join to serve and protect our country. Becoming a soldier and going to war doesn’t just affect the soldiers it affects the families and loved ones of that solider. War affects the soldiers physically and mentally. Everyday soldiers suffer through severe injuries, whether it be from a gunshot wound, or a bomb explosion. Serving in a war also affects the soldiers mentally because they suffer from shell shock. Shell shock is an emotional shock brought about by the many horrors that men heard or seen while at war. Soldiers suffer from this emotion due to hearing other soldiers scream because there in pain, or they witness another soldier die and then how, if, and when they die crosses their mind and they begin thinking about their own death. Some soldiers recover from shell shock and others have it for the rest of their life along with nightmares and flashbacks of their experiences at war.

                Fighting in a war does affect the soldiers the most and the hardest but it also affects the families and loved ones of that soldier. When soldiers are gone at war their families tend to worry and wonder if they will ever hear from them again. While the men are away at war the women often have to pick up the men’s job and what the men does all day leaving the house work, cooking, and babysitting to the oldest child. Having to be the mom figure for while being a child puts a lot of pressure on them because some of the children may not know how to cook, or would rather play than do the house chores. Social problems and making friends can become hard for the oldest child because when their friends are outside playing and spending time together they can’t go spend time with them because they have to fill the role of being a wife and mom. When the soldiers return home they may not be able to recover from what happen to them or what they say which means that the oldest child will have to continue to be the mom figure and the woman would have to become the main supporter for the family as well as taking care of their husband. Many soldiers are fathers, as a child it is important that you spend time with your child whether it be reading to them or playing with them. When soldiers come home from war they could be severally injured and unable to play with their son or daughter which could lead to depression. I believe that war does affect the soldiers and the families in many ways and many soldiers and families can’t recover from the damage that war has done to their families and home life’s.

Sources:
http://experiencesonthewesternfront.weebly.com/impact-on-soldiers-and-their-families.html

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/war/effects

racism

                          On September 17^th 2015 a young teen was stopped by an officer for J-walking. The teen resisted arrest so he was struck several times with a baton by a police officer. After several minutes the officer thought that he couldn’t handle the situation on his own so he called in for backup, the teen was then wrestled to the ground by several officers. People on the street that were recording and watching the incident unfold were yelling at the police “he is just a kid what are you thinking” “that’s just a child”. It resulted in the sobbing teen being arrested (lookdifferent.com). The number one question being asked is “would they of attacked the teen if he were white”. People today believe that it wouldn’t have happened and they wouldn’t have used such extreme force if he would have been white.  I disagree with this, I believe they would have taken the same actions but it just wouldn’t have been made such a big deal through social media and been all over the news. Racism is a big topic in today’s society; racism means “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races”. People today blow racism out of proportion; they think that certain things wouldn’t happen to people if they were white. Many people believe that if you are white you are treated better than any other race. Racism is taken way too far when it comes to social media, people share incidents involving police brutality and state that this wouldn’t of happened if he would have been white, however this is not the case. Whether you are white, black, Hispanic or any other race police will treat you the same and they will take the same actions. If a white person were to resist arrest the officer would have attacked him as well and called for backup, it doesn’t matter what race you are, if you break the law or resist arrest or act as if you’re going to pull a gun out on an officer than that officer will handle the situation the same way. Social media is where the racism starts because people state “oh it wouldn’t of happened if he was white” those are the kind of comments and statements that make me mad because if I were to resist arrest the same actions the officer is supposed to take, he would take not caring what race I was. Another example is that if a black teenager and I both have suspended licenses and we both got pulled over, I wouldn’t be let go he would arrest me just like he would arrest the black teenager. I disagree with racism and I believe that everyone should be treated equally and have all the same opportunities, your race should never matter. I also disagree on how people all around the world on social media blow everything out of proportion and make racist comments. If It weren’t for social media incidents with the police wouldn’t be turned into racist topics and they wouldn’t be as big of a thing as they are today.

Sources:  http://www.lookdifferent.org/

Gender Wage Gap

Have you ever heard of such a thing where men make more money than women over their lifetime? This is not an opinion it is a proven fact. People may believe this is true due to women picking lower paid jobs, part time jobs, or they have more care-giving responsibilities, none of these are the case. In the United States, the average female’s unadjusted salary has been cited as 78 percent of those of the average male (Wikipedia). Many people believe that men can do any job better than women can whether it is cooking, hard labor, or any kind of job from hair salon to a dentist. If one man and one woman go out for the same job a man is more likely to get the job.  Even when men and women are working side-by-side performing similar tasks, however the pay gap does not fully disappear. (Counsel of economic advisers issue brief 2015).

            Men believe that women should stay home all day, cook, clean, and take care of the children. One fact is that 70.8 percent of mothers are in the labor force which means they have a paying job or are looking for one. I disagree that women should stay home all day, because if they are a single mother than in order to make money for them and their child they need to get a job whether it is a part time job or a full time. Another interesting fact is that of 2006 it is 49 percent preferable and 32 percent not preferable that women work while raising children. The third and final fact is that a poll that was done back in 2005 is that 79 percent of working mothers said they would work even if they didn’t have too (ABC news). I believe one of the many reasons behind this is because women want to prove men and all the statics wrong and show that they can stay home and hold down a job at the same time. For example my mom, Margo works from four in the morning to five at night everyday besides weekends and she still manages to clean the house, cook dinner, and take care of my sister and I. women aren’t the only ones that can stay at home and do all of this, men can too. My dad, Blain takes over cleaning the house, cooking meals, and taking care of my sister and I when my mom has to work late or is out of town.

            All in all I believe that women should be paid the same amount of money as men because it is only fair if women are doing the same job as men that they get paid the same amount as they do. Also I believe that women shouldn’t t be held to staying home all day because they too are capable of working and holding down a job just as much as men. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/equal_pay_issue_brief_final.pdf

http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=ABC%20New

Having Money V.S Not Having Money

Imagine having to wear the same shirt, pants, shoes, and jacket every day. If you are a teenager in middle school or high school, the clothes you wear, the type of phone you have, and how big your house is impacts how you are treated. Today in school if you are a girl and you have Ugg boots, rock rival jeans, miss me jeans, Victoria secret clothing, brand name clothing, IPhone, and live in a nice house, you are treated differently than a girl that doesn’t have any of that; such as just tennis shoes, regular cheap jeans, and plain non brand name clothing, doesn’t have a smart phone, and lives in a small house. Guys in school that wear name brand clothing; vans, Jordan’s, Nikes, and expensive jeans they are as well treated differently than a guy that doesn’t have all of that.

In our world today people with a lot of money and high socioeconomic status (SES) are treated better than people with not a lot of money and low (SES). I do not agree on treating people differently based on their (SES) because at the end of the day we are all humans and deserve to be treated equally. When people with low (SES) are treated with no respect, and receive dirty looks it tends to bring them down and they start too second guess themselves. For example, people with low (SES)  and that have been treated poorly their whole life it could affect who they choose to marry, since they don’t have a lot of money they would choose to marry someone that does have money so they wouldn’t have to live the rest of their life with a low (SES). They may choose to marry that person whether or not they have any feelings for them.

Another example on how (SES) affects ones identity is people that have low (SES) don’t believe that they will go far in life. They don’t think that they will go far in life because they believe that they don’t have as many opportunities as someone with high (SES). This however is not true because everyone has the same opportunities, people with lower (SES) just have to work harder than others with high (SES).

Finally people with low (SES) think that they also have poor health. They could be the healthiest person in the world but to them they think that they are worthless and dirty. I believe that everyone should be treated the same and we should not treat people differently depending on their socioeconomic status.

Sources:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2204090/

https://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/2/S101.full

Life Of a Refugee

Imagine that you moved from your home country to a new one with nothing but one small bag, can you imagine leaving your house, belongings, friends, family, and life there in your home country. Refugees go through a lot, it starts with a very long process to just get background checks and an interview. That alone takes 18 months, so when everything is reviewed and they are interviewed 6 more months has passed. All in all for a refugee to get into the United States it takes up to 24 months, that is two whole years! U.S. citizens and Americans don’t want refugees here because they believe that they will take Americans jobs. In reality refugees do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do.

Many people don’t understand that refugees can’t walk into the U.S. and become a teacher, lawyer, firefighter, police officer, doctor, or even work at places such as McDonalds. The reason they can’t get jobs like there is because they don’t know how to interact with others or some don’t have good enough English for customer service. Even though many refugees have a degree in their country, when they get to America they have to start all over at the high school level. This is very discouraging for most refugees so therefore they don’t do it and they just take the jobs that we Americans don’t want to do.

Another thing Americans fear about refugees is that we will let them in and some could be terrorists. After United Nations high commission for refugees (UNCHR) refers refugees to the United States, the U.S. gathers information on the refugee. Once they have got the information they do an interview, medical evaluation, and a security screening process to show us if the refugee is or could be a threat to the united states or not. When the refugee steps off the plane that landed in the United States they receive help from a resettlement agency. This agency helps them with language, housing, learning, and medical attention. When the refugees get here they have nothing so they are helped, but they only receive help for 3 short months. In those three months they receive medical help, schooling for the kids and teenagers, housing, and language so they can get a job to earn money so that when their three months is up they can go out and live on their own.

The main argument today about refugees is if we should let more refugees in or not. Many people believe that we should and many believe that we shouldn’t let any more in. the United States has only let in 2,200 refugees, I believe that we should let more refugees in. However I am not saying that we should just let them in because they ask to be, we should let them in if they apply, and go through everything else that the other 2,200 refugees have gone through to be let in.

Sources:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/politics/syrian-refugees-u-s-applicants-explainer/
http://www.newsweek.com/heres-process-refugees-have-go-through-enter-us-398254

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/opinion/canadas-warm-embrace-of-refugees.html?_r=0
Carolyn Paxton from gear up