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Get Involved with JumbleTalk!

JumbleTalk is a promising new media outlet with a unique and innovative touch. Unlike other such platforms, we offer a particularly interesting point-of-view. With a goal of reclaiming the lost voices of this generation around the world (17-27 year olds, who we call “jumblers”), our mission is to disseminate pertinent information that brings awareness to current issues and topics, stimulates thought, and encourages intellectual conversation. By doing so, jumblers’ opinions and voices will be respected and considered as meaningful and influential. JumbleTalk takes a citizen journalistic approach to gathering and relaying relevant information.

There are many ways to get involved and we encourage you to do so:

1. JumbleTalk has great summer internship positions available! You can work from wherever you are! Contact [email protected]!

Writing/Editing positions: writers will give 1-2 articles a week as well as edit 1-2 articles from fellow interns. This will build one’s portfolio and also help learn about interactive editing.

Social Media: We need help managing our various social media accounts, writing updates and publicizing our articles as well as interacting with those who comment and follow us.

Tech: web design front-end and back-end, html/javascript help, database management and creation

Content Creation: sketches and graphics designing of news cartoons, etc.

We also have internship positions available in video editing, audio editing and photography!

Contact [email protected] and ask for more information!

2. Visit our programs page and learn about different ways to get involved, including our Donate an Article program, where jumblers can donate past writings that are still relevant today. Donate anything with a minium of 400 words (one page) and that brings awareness to or informs about a topic you want to share with the world. Your opinion on a common issue or topic is always welcome as well, don’t worry about having to be the first to talk about it.

3. Become a Featured Jumbler!! We care about what you have to say and we promote you. No need to be a professional writer, have your voice heard by a worldwide audience!

Jumblers are featured daily on the front page of our website, giving them an opportunity to promote themselves and become published writers. Those in the jumbler age group should contact [email protected] for an opportunity to get featured. Articles range from 400 to 2000 words and jumblers are not required to be “writers” or “journalists”, simply someone with important and pertinent topics to highlight and discuss.

Contact us for more ways to get involed! We really encourage you to do so, we’d love to hear from you!

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JumbleTalk is a promising new media outlet with a unique and innovative touch. Unlike other such platforms, we offer a particularly interesting point-of-view. With a goal of reclaiming the lost voices of this generation around the world (17-27 year olds, who we call “jumblers”), our mission is to disseminate pertinent information that brings awareness to current issues and topics, stimulates thought, and encourages intellectual conversation. By doing so, jumblers' opinions and voices will be respected and considered as meaningful and influential. JumbleTalk takes a citizen journalistic approach to gathering and relaying relevant information.

There are many ways to get involved and we encourage you to do so:

1. JumbleTalk has great summer internship positions available!                                                      Contact [email protected]!

-Writing/Editing positions: writers will give 1-2 articles a week as well as edit 1-2 articles from fellow interns. This will build one's portfolio and also help learn about interactive editing.

-Social Media: We need help managing our various social media accounts, writing updates and publicizing our articles as well as interacting with those who comment and follow us.

-Tech: web design front-end and back-end, html/javascript help, database management and creation

-Content Creation: sketches and graphics designing of news cartoons, etc.

We also have internship positions available in video editing, audio editing and photography!

   Contact [email protected] and ask for more information!

2. Visit our programs page and learn about different ways to get involved, including our Donate an Article program, where jumblers can donate past writings that are still relevant today. Donate anything with a minium of 400 words (one page) and that brings awareness to or informs about a topic you want to share with the world. Your opinion on a common issue or topic is always welcome as well, don't worry about having to be the first to talk about it.

3. Become a Featured Jumbler!! We care about what you have to say and we promote you. No need to be a professional writer, have your voice heard by a worldwide audience!

Jumblers are featured daily on the front page of our website, giving them an opportunity to promote themselves and become published writers. Those in the jumbler age group should contact [email protected] for an opportunity to get featured. Articles range from 400 to 2000 words and jumblers are not required to be “writers” or “journalists”, simply someone with important and pertinent topics to highlight and discuss.

Contact us for more ways to get involed!

We really encourage you to do so & we'd love to hear from you!

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The Creative Concord

Introduction

O.G. Rose | 05.09.13

Had Karl Marx been born after Karl Popper, his greatness would be incomparable. Successfully, Marx identified the bourgeois, the proletariat, and 'the material dialectic', but he failed to identify the artifex, meaning 'creator class', which is made up of entrepreneurs, inventors, and artists. An artifexian, which is a term first introduced in this paper, is anyone who creates or recreates a means of production and/or a thing to be produced. If anything, Marx conflated creators with the bourgeois or lost sight of them amongst the general proletariat. Consequently, his material dialectic only halfway addresses the nature of socioeconomic change through history. The full dialectic by which society 'marches' can be expressed as follows: 'The Creative Concord' 'The material dialectic' | creativity or (owner(s) | worker(s)) | creator(s) or (Bourgeois | Proletariat) | Artifex Marx argued, through the material dialectic, that Capitalism was inherently contradictory, for it inevitably undergoes, of one kind or another, 'creative destruction' (Schumpeter): the businesses it creates destroys others, the resources it consumes leaves many lacking, etc... In other words, at the center of Capitalism is self-destructive paradox. Though the material dialectic properly delineates how socioeconomic orders change within a given creative epoch, it does not describe how such orders change through them. To allude to Popper, history changes not in line with any kind of dialectic, but in concordance with unpredictable inventions, 'eurekas', and 'creative acts' (see Nikolai Berdyaev). Marx, coming before Popper, missed this, and so created a theory and system that works in a given epoch, but not through them.... continue reading

- See more at: http://www.jumbletalk.com/art18_Creative_Con_05_09_13.html#sthash.xpA4MjDH.dpuf

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Holi, A Festival of Color!

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This article on Holi is late, but you know what? My community’s celebration of the festival is too. But it's for good reason, you see, because the city I live in here in the States has a somewhat moody temperament with regards to the weather, and this was a particularly pissed off winter. So, while India celebrated the arrival of their spring a few weeks ago (March 27th), we here in colder areas wait for it to hit the 70s before we can lionize the festival of colors in honor of the arrival of spring. In general, Holi is a gala time in. Celebrated in India and the diaspora, the religious festival of colors is literally that: About using waterguns and waterballoons to wet and color people- your friends, or on the street. It's about making rangoli (intricate designs with colored powder) on your doorstep. People either wear new white clothes and have them splashed with color all day long or wear faded clothes they don't mind getting dirty. To walk on the street means you're fair game; Don't risk it if you're not ready. There is a special Holi drink too, it's called bhang and it's made from milk, ghee (clarified butter), spices, and….cannabis. It's really popular too, rumor has it.... continue reading

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College Choices and Tuition Truths

In a recent publication, professors from two of the leading Universities in the U.S (University of Virginia and Stanford) shed insight on an interesting topic: it isn’t very common to see high-achieving students of low-income enroll in top-tier colleges. Why? If they are high-achieving then it is not because they wouldn’t gain admission, right? Professors Sarah Turner (UVA) and Caroline Hoxby (Stanford) explained that their low representation is due to the fact that many don’t even apply in the first place. Confusing? The truth is, high-achieving low-income students tend not to apply to top-tier colleges because many of them haven’t been informed about the way finances work in the college system.

First, those who think of applying to certain colleges, may see a steep application fee and decide they can’t afford it. They are unaware, however, that institutions.... continue reading

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Awareness About World Health Day

April 7th is approaching which celebrates World Health Day and marks anniversary of WHO foundation in 1948. In order to protect people's health; this day calls for collective actions. So start thinking seriously about your health as well as health conditions around you. Every year a theme is selected for this day to create awareness around the world. 'High Blood Pressure' is selected as a theme for this year - 2013 and the goal is to reduce strokes and heart attacks.

High Blood Pressure and its consequences: High blood pressure or Hypertension which is a common risk factor for many ailments can produce a lot of complications in the body. It is a medical condition that requires heart to work more in order to circulate blood through blood vessels. This 'silent killer' increases chances of kidney failure, heart attacks, blindness, strokes and peripheral arterial diseases. If your blood pressure is at or above 140/90 mmHg then.... continue reading

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The Pressure and the Path

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 Thejumblers* of today, soon-to-be grads and recent grads alike, are all undergoing what I deem to be a somewhat unique experience. We've got the pressure of learning to survive on our own and provide for ourselves in an economic situation (yes, still) that makes it difficult to find jobs at all, nevermind jobs in the field you studied...and nevermind working for that one company you always had your heart set on.

It's harder mainly because even if before now there were already a lot of recent grads applying for the same entry-level positions, we have to remember that now many recent grads are competing against much older applicants who may have been laid off but who at least can attest to the seven+ years of experience they have in the field and who don't mind starting off at a lower salary than they were once earning because, let's face it, it's better than unemployment. We're saved by the appeal of our young spirit and "fresh outlook" that hiring managers may crave but the situation certainly isn't raising our chances. What's worse is that companies know this and.....continue reading

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Are you a jumbler?!

"Jumbler" is a new term more directly describing the age-group between the open-ended “young adult” and the broad “adults”. A jumbler is an intellectually sound and aware 17-27 year old with opinions and genuine concern or interest in the world around him/her as well as the issues affecting its communities.