Parker Blackman's Blog

You’re on your way home from work, you told your friend you would study with them at 5:00 and its already 4:53, you’re starving and in a rush, so you decide to stop at McDonalds for a quick meal to get you through the rest of the day. Normally this would be fine, you’ve done it before, except now your stuck in line behind a mother with her 6 year old son who just can’t seem to choose between an Oreo and a Smartie McFlurry (which has been happening quite…read more

I remember walking down the street as a young, impressionable girl and seeing beautiful, perfect-skinned, five foot ten, size 2 models on billboards and thinking that was what I was supposed to look like when I grew up. Fast forward 5 years and I look nothing like the models in those advertisements, in fact the models don’t even look like the models in those advertisements thanks to photoshop. In a society scattered with photos portraying unrealistic body expectations, it’s refreshing to see a lingerie brand promoting natural beauty and positive body image.In…read more

Many phones have tried to compete with Apple’s iPhone but very few have been successful, Blackberry being one of them. It makes sense, I have an iPhone and I would always pick an iPhone… or would I? iPhones seem to have dominated the smartphone market and have become difficult to compete with, but will this change with the release of Google’s Pixel phone? We’ll have to wait and see. The Pixel and the iPhone have many points of parity, such as “Google Assistant” which – on and iPhone – would be known as “Siri,” and “Google Duo” which…read more

Apple is a brand of change. They have previously changed the shape of their iPhone, the charger, and the location of the headphone jack to name a few, but now they have decided to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone completely. Naturally, with there no longer being a location to plug in previously owned headphones, Apple has come out with a new product: Airpods. As if it wasn’t easy enough to lose headphones before, now they are smaller and there are 2 seperate pieces. But maybe that’s the plan, get…read more

Many people have different ideas about what is ethical in business. Some believe that there is nothing wrong with raising the price of a product, where some would stand against that. Personally, I believe it depends on the product. If the price of a Marc Jacobs hand bag goes up every year, I see no problem with that. That product is a luxury and not a necessity in life. However, if the price of a product such as an EpiPen goes up – which it has – then I am…read more