The Isle of Flowers is in the county of Sergipe in Brazil, about thirty or so miles south of Sao Paulo. Population: 9,005 (2005) with poverty running rampant.
Reading list: Lolita, Down and Out in Paris and London, and The Sirens of Titan.
I'm glad to be back at school. And I'm actually getting internet soon so I won't have to scurry around school trying to find open or usable computer labs. The budget cuts to California's education system (not to mention the health and welfare systems as well)are definitely rearing their many ugly heads in my college experience, and it's only been two weeks! Text book prices sky rocketed-my parents had to shell out over $500 for this semester ALONE, (thank you mom and dad, I promise to use the education you are funding so graciously) and imperative classes for my major are being dropped left and right. There was a 32% increase in SFSU fees, bringing the full-time student position tuition to around $4,080. 430 classes were cut as well, leaving the 30,000 students is poor shape to continue their degrees. Many majors were also entirely cut, forcing many students to acquire their education elsewhere.
Are we pigs or are we people?
2 comments:
It is in Spanish!. How am I to understand the video?
I only watched the first 30 seconds of the video. They seem to grow pretty good sticks there! But the weeds seemed to be getting pretty tall around the sticks. We maybe need to send them some weed killing herbicides to kill that stuff.
Perhaps there is oil under their grounds which we could exploit; that would help lessen the poverty.
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