Owen Wendell-Braly Professor Dochterman Writ 150 10/24/2021 Object: BTS Prompt: What does the fact that this cultural object translates well to your home country — or fails to do so — say about the globalization of culture? BTS, or “Bangtan Sonyeondan”, which directly translates to “bulletproof boy scouts”, is a…

Owen Wendell-Braly Professor Dochterman 10/24/2021 Object: BTS BTS, or “Bangtan Sonyeondan”, which directly translates to “bulletproof boy scouts”, is a Korean boy band made up of 7 members notable for their countless hit songs in America and across the world. Naturally, they were not always a global sensation. All 7…

Though there are multiple core reasons for explaining why BTS has been such a massive hit in the United States, the primary reason they have have been able to succeed so greatly is because BTS has been able to hone in on their ability to incorporate the cultural trends of…

Universal basic income is a social security that guarantees a certain amount of income to every citizen within a given governed population. For the purposes of this paper, however, the proposed income is $1000 per month and the given population is all American citizens over the age of 18. Though…

Owen Wendell-Braly Professor Dochterman WRIT-150 10/4/2021 Universal basic income is a social security that guarantees a certain amount of income to every citizen within a given governed population. For the purposes of this paper, however, the proposed income is $1000 per month and the given population is all American citizens…

My thoughts on UBI. Since the rise of Andrew Yang and his core belief that every American citizen should be provided with a government subsidized universal basic income (or UBI), I have found myself to be deeply interested in the topic. Though the idea seemed insane at first glance (which is in part why I was initially interested in it), the core belief that taking a small portion of the economic gains acquired by a handful of tech companies as a result of our increasingly automated and digitized society, and feeding it back into the bottom of society as a means of creating a “trickle up” economy — all to support the greater good humanity, sounded reasonably logical and fair to me.

Owen Wendell-Braly WP1 Climate change is defined as the long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place, in large part due to the usage of fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil. Scientists predict that if nothing is to be done about the current situation…

Ancillary #2 The primary problem in the world today is climate change. The continual degradation of our planet and its environments are the result of a lack of global awareness for the earth, the oceans, and the ecosystems that surround us. I believe all other problems — whether they be…