Saving the World?

For our semester-long blog project, we have chosen to focus on the work of two international relief organizations, the Red Cross and the World Health Organization.  We think that it will be interesting to contrast the efforts of these two groups because they have similar missions; however, the WHO is coordinated by the United Nations, while the Red Cross [...]

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Confessions of a teenage gas guzzler

International relations is closely tied to international trade and the world economy. We as Americans, when purchasing specific products, affect the economies of other countries by creating a demand for natural resources and/or cheap labor.  For example, Kristy loves scenic driving (and Catie loves accompanying, in the passenger seat).  The pleasure we take in consuming oil while driving contributes [...]

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It’s a boy

My baby brother has reoriented my entire worldview. The summer before my eighth grade year, my parents told the family that we were expecting a baby. But I was an eldest child—a driven child, a perfectionist, a straight A student, an aspiring “president-of-everything.” A surprise baby in the family would change things too much for [...]

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Ch-Ch-Changes

It is difficult for me to think back and identify an event that instantaneously changed my life in a monumental way.  Most of the big changes in my life, other than the obvious ones which occur in most people’s lives, such as going off to college, have occurred gradually.  It is rare that something happens which is [...]

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