Posts by Sarah

Why Companies Aren’t Getting the Employees They Need is an article from the Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2011, and is written by Peter Cappelli. It’s a well-known fact that unemployment is high. This should mean that since there are many people looking for jobs, that all positions will be filled, right? Wrong. Cappelli talks of how many companies not only have open positions, but they are open for a while. Employers are having a hard time filling these positions and are blaming it on those searching for employment.

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It’s no secret of America’s huge debt. As every day passes we add not millions, but billions to our debt, 10 billion a day to be exact. This video shows how this spending is outrageous. Once numbers get into the trillions, people have a hard time wrapping their head around the amount we truly owe. The video attached to this post shows what it would take for Americans to pay for the spending Obama and Congress have approved and are spending this year.

Last year I started a program called Hope for the Holidays. This is a project through the Huntsman Cancer Institute that raises money to buy gifts and gas gift cards for families that have one or more parent battling cancer. This year we are taking on twelve low income families. The parents of these families are under so much stress financially, physically, and emotionally. The goal of this program is to relieve some of the stress of the holidays. This program lets these families know that there are people who understand their suffering and are willing to help and support.

I found a really cool article about the psychology of dreams called “Longitudinal Study of Nightmares in Children: Stability and Effect of Emotional Symptoms.” This article discussed a study of children and dreams that went from October 2002 to January 2003. During this time three questionnaires went out to the parents and students. By the end of the 3 months, 851 fourth graders and their parents had completed all three questionnaires that asked questions about nightmares over a period of two years.