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What’s Life Like Living in Philadelphia, Part 5 from Penn State University! And What about Non HBCU’s?

Dream, but don’t dream sleeping,  Pray, but don’t pray sitting,  Believe and have faith,  but stay away from the negative and naysayers by:  renaldocmckenzie.com This is Part of the series, What’s Life Like Living in Philadelphia? From Penn State University. Question: Is Penn State a Philly school? Yes, and No. Technically, they are within the greater Philadelphia region and are closely connected to the city. There is a deep symbiotic relationship between the college and the city, in that both the students and staff at the college and the Philly residents consider the school to be a Philly school. Moreover, locals are fed into the school and enjoy some discounts from living in Philly and attending the University. However, geographically, the school is located right at the border of Philadelphia and Abington, where the school is actually located. But relationships go beyond borders and boundaries and such is the terms of their proximity. Spotify Link to Season 4 Episode 24  We met up wi

Duplicity, Politics and An Introduction To Relative Deprivation

News commentary, Biden Overhaul’s Marijuana Policy, OPEC Slashes Oil Output Ahead of US Mid-Terms, is it strategy to interfere in US Politics? What does pharasaicalism have to do with Republicans and duplicity? Is it on abortion? And What is Relative Deprivation? What does it have to do with Crime and Violence? We raise and answer these questions on the podcast episode today as we provide commentary on several major news surrounding "Duplicity, Politics and An Introduction To Relative Deprivation-in relation to crime and violence. The episode is split up in several segments. Each segment is interspersed with beautiful background transition music from Spotify and Anchor. The Episode also has curious, dramatic and dynamic background music mixed in original sound and noise to enhance your listening pleasure and experience.  The Neoliberal Round Podcast on Spotify Season 4 Episode 22 The Segments include: 1. Preface to the Episode 2. Introduction to News Commentary  3. Duplicity is to

“What’s Life Like Living in Philadelphia,” Part 4, on The Neoliberal Round Podcast

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The Neoliberal Round Podcast on Spotify (Season 4, Episode 21) "It's like Gotham city without Batman," that's what one Philly resident stated when we asked, "What's Life Like Living in Philadelphia?" Others, like the couple who recently moved from rural US thinks otherwise saying that it's fun and only hate the litter. That's what's on the episode today plus much more. On this episode of The Podcast, we continue the series on Living in Philadelphia where we take to the streets asking various individuals from different backgrounds and experiences to provide comments and to be interviewed on the spot. We have completed three parts already and this is part four. This episode is also very interesting and powerful as we obtained some insights that provided a deeper understanding into how people are thinking and ideas they have to resolving issues in their communities. Moreover, the episode morphed into a group discussion as Fe and Sasha Harvey joi

President Biden Reverses Marijuana Policy, Pardons Prior Offenses, How will Jamaica Respond if any at all?

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President Joe Biden Reverses Marijuana Policy, Pardons Prior Offenses Recently, President Joe Biden of the United States announced an overhaul of the US policy on marijuana and moves to pardon prior federal offenses here.  According to J Mason and D Chiaco of Reuters, nearly 40 U.S. states have legalized marijuana use in some form,  and Biden took steps further by pardoning thousands of people with federal offenses for simple marijuana possession and initiating a review of how the drug is classified,  See Reuters Article on Biden's Announcement) .  Republican Presidential Candidate and a contributor to my podcast, Mr John Anthony Castro commented tersely that “it’s about time!” I absolutely agree, in fact, prior to the 1990s, one out of ten persons used marijuana today, it’s eight out of ten people in the US. So the culture change in terms of its use/ acceptance supports this policy reversal by the Biden Administration.  So this leads to the question, how will the caribbean like Ja