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What is wage theft? Written by: Azka Yamin & Dee Champ Approximately 50 Billion dollars are stolen by employers in wage theft in the United States (Wage Theft An Interactive Report, 2017). The first step in solving an underlying problem is the identification of the problem. That is where you start. So what is wage theft? Is it your employer not giving you your hard earned money? Yes. But most of the time you don’t even know you’re being denied off so today let’s work towards identification of this problem. When someone is desperately in need of something, you throw the most invaluable scrap at them and they’d be grateful to you for the rest of their lives not knowing...

Written by: Azka Yamin & Dee Champ What happens when you swig down some of your regular sport drink studying the night before an exam? Or during the tennis practice? Do you feel an instant boost, like the nitrous oxide boost on your car from the movies? Yes. That’s exactly how you feel for a short while but when all of that energy starts to take a toll on your body in all the wrong possible ways, it is too late then to make the right choice. Bypassing all the natural body processes for short term results creates a negative impact on the body’s organs paving way for malfunctions in the future.   To understand why these drinks, work the...

Written by: Azka Yamin & Dee Champ Thousands of years ago Chinese people developed a habit of infusing the Camellia sinensis plant because of its highly pleasant flavor and medicinal properties (Habtemariam, 2019). It was later used as a beverage. It can be used to make green teas and black teas and is now the second most used beverage of the world after water. Now, there of course is a reason for its popularity. Its habitual consumption has been associated with various health benefits against a wide array of diseases that include diabetes, inflammation, vomiting, diarrhea, cardiac diseases, and several different types of cancer. Black teas are oxidized more than green teas and are richer in flavor. They help cease the...

Written by: Azka Yamin & Dee Champ Do you ever wonder how your morning cup of tea came to be such an essential part of your routine? Well like everything in this world tea has a story, tea has evolved over centuries to get to your tea pot. They say tea leaves have stories to tell, let’s today hear about these magic leaves that are found in basically every kitchen of this world in one form or the other. Tea is said to be a discovery of the legendary Chinese emperor Shennong (Wexler, 2019). He is known to be the founder of traditional Chinese medicine. Legends have it that Shennong had a transparent body and could test the effect of...