Le journal bilingue de Glendon | Glendon’s Bilingual Newspaper
Vol. 61 Issue 9 : le 15 mars 2023
In This Issue Page 2 ● LETTER FROM THE EDITOR VIE ÉTUDIANTE Page 3 & 4 ● Essay-Writing 101: A Journalist’s Humble Take EXPRESSIONS Page 4 ● L’ours et le bûcheron Page 5 ● Since you’ve been gone Page 5 ● Oh mes cheveux bouclés Page 5 ● un rêve sans fin ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Page 6 ● Julie Mango Blossoms Page 7 ● Le Monde, La Mode METROPOLIS Page 8 ● Cette application permet d’éviter les déchets alimentaires HEALTH AND WELLNESS Page 8 ● Les avantages des siestes Page 9 ● Recette de boulettes de riz gluant ISSUES AND IDEAS Page 10 ● Buying Vintage, and Thrifting: Combating Consumerism, and Looking Good! Page 11 & 12 ● Lashgate, #BeautyTok Burnout, & De-influencing: Trying to Establish Mental Ad-Block La prochaine date limite : Vendredi 17 mars 2023
Buying Vintage, and Thrifting: Combating Consumerism, and Looking Good! Michael Aquilino English Journalist In this day and age, it seems as if virtually everything is always changing and expanding. There are many seemingly novel ways to make things “better” (a greatly subjective notion), and more productive. In a world that has perhaps come to prize excess and innovation, everyday individuals, the consumers, sit at the forefront of socio-economic transformation. Contemporarily speaking, people are often perceived not as the individuals that they are, but rather, as part of a social amalgamation, targeted as a faceless whole. While corporations certainly endeavour to personalize the consumer experience, tailoring advertisements and new product lines to interests they detect in the
ever-growing technological environment, the true objectives of corporations are to accumulate vast amounts of wealth, as quickly as possible. While this concept is quite overt, it is characteristic of the foundation of the capitalist economic structure, which consolidates socioeconomic and political power into the hands of the exclusive upper class, and away from the populous working class. This concept is one that has historically defined, and continues to define, much of Western civilization, one which is nonetheless flawed. That being said, many socioeconomic alternatives are often viable in theory, yet largely unfeasible or detrimental in practice; think socialism, communism, anarchism, etc. Hence, while capitalism may be as close to the ideal socioeconomic circumstances that modern-day
societies hope to achieve, it can indubitably, on account of the individual, be ameliorated. Capitalism blatantly embraces the maximization of profit at the expense of the welfare of workers, the environment, and competition. Under the capitalist economic structure, workers are often paid low wages, while still expected to be efficient and productive, commonly operating in deplorable conditions that are largely beyond their personal means. Natural resources are depleted, harmful toxins are released into the atmosphere, and competing businesses are forced to succumb to the dominion of their formidable counterparts. All this, in turn, causes environmental destruction on a scale never before imagined or endured. While Continued on PAGE 10