Alexis Randolph MS300 Spring23

       Hobby Lobby is one of the biggest art and craft supply stores in the country. It was started in Oklahoma in 1972 and is still a family owned business that is now worth billions of dollars. With so much buying power they have significant ability to pretty much do whatever they want including but not limited to pressing their religious views on employees, influencing political outcomes, and amassing a collection of questionably obtained artifacts in order to open a museum centered around their religion because everyone should enjoy it; except the people of who’s country the artifacts came from. However, I am happy to say the company did get caught for this bit of nefarious behavior and actually had to return some of the ill gotten artifacts. Although, nothing more than a minor slap on the wrist for a company as big as Hobby Lobby, it did make a good point.      The creates in question came under scrutiny for several factors including questionabl...

  As I was looking for an article I wanted to study about a specific case of reparation from a museum, I found myself so bombarded with articles pertaining to it I started to wonder why there was still so much push back from museums in returning their stollen and looted artifacts to their places of origin. There arguments are feeble at best and the overwhelming instances of a museum saying they would return one or a few things to look good in the public eye; only to have the government have to step in and seize items and on some occasions multiple times is astonishing. These places are supposed to be setting the standard in stewardship, inclusion, and sharing history and art with the masses; yet they continually fail to put the general well being of people (even most of those working for them) in the background as much as possible for the sake of maintaining an enormous amount of value in their collections that are rarely have on display for the people (but only the people that can...

       The term living wage seems to mean so many different things to people. It also seems that people making the most do not think lower earning people really need that much to survive. In a country that has become more of a pyramid scheme than a “dream”; labor unions have become an absolute necessity. It is no secret that if the boss or owner could get away with paying people room and board they would and have. The company store was not that long ago in our lustrous history.      It is fair to say that without the unionization in America; companies would feel free to take far more liberties than they already do with how they compensate their workers for the company and profits the workers built. Again, the government has to step in to make sure company profits are dispersed enough through the work force to facilitate stimulation of the economy with requiring companies and corporations to provide minimal health care opportunities and compensation f...