Articles written by Zach Bigalke - Page 5

What is Helium

About me - Zach Bigalke

Zach is a graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu Hospitality and Restaurant Program at Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon. Before culinary school, Zach was a renowned high-school debater and extemporaneous speaker at Jackson Hole High School in Jackson,

+ more bio information

RSS Feed

Society & Lifestyle > Political Values Art that mocks faith: Freedom of speech or slander?: 13 of 61
A student publication at the University of Oregon ignited a debate which inflamed a campus community and ignited a national debate on works of art depicting religious leaders. The Insurgent, a sporadic radical publication funded with student funds, published last year's March-April issue a series of paintings by a University ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Energy Issues The environmental-destructive capacity of human beings: 13 of 60
Nestled in a quiet corner of the Transylvanian region of Romania, tucked between fertile valleys and forested hills, lies a village marred by the industrial wanderlust of Stalinist impositions in its satellite states. A ghost town lying upstream from the Tarnava Mare river, Copsa Mica was a sleepy hamlet of several thousand ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Should city and town governments be allowed to display Christmas symbols?: 4 of 18
The tradition of setting up a Christmas tree in the White House began on Christmas morning 1889. With his children and grandchildren in town, President Benjamin Harrison commissioned the candlelit tree to be set up in the second-floor Oval Room. A small, close-knit celebration was held amongst family and White House staff.Th... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US News Reflections: Virginia Tech school shooting: 24 of 106
The tragedy in Blacksburg was horrible. It is, too sadly, indicative of a culture of violence inherent in popular American society. It is the bloodlust that led the nation to initially support Bush, Democrats and Republicans alike, in the march to war. It is why gang violence and a Fight Club mentality are too-often glorified... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Is Al Qaeda growing stronger despite global anti-terrorism efforts?: 7 of 30
I was drawn into writing about this topic when the top-ranked "NO" diatribe by Penny Penn. The author's narrow argument that there is no such thing as al-Qaeda, international Islamist jihadist organization, is purely ludicrous. As Richard A. Clarke, a man who worked as a key official in the National Security Agency under four... More..
Relationships & Family > Gay & Lesbian Issues Marriage should be a sacred institution between only a woman and a man: 74 of 317
The argument that we should legislate based on a sectarian piece of two-millennium-old literature is astoundingly absurd. Marriage has already lost its sacrament with the ease and frequency of the divorce process. When a man and woman, entering this "sacred institution", fail to recognize the uniqueness of what they are doing... More..
Relationships & Family > Gay & Lesbian Issues The case for gay marriage: 12 of 51
The raging debate about same-sex marriages continues to linger across the broad spectrum of thought in the United States. But the brokers of power and influence in our nation consistently stoop our country to pseudo-secular levels which impose sectarian rule no better than that of our sworn enemies, the Taliban. In 2000, I w... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) When it comes to political scandal, what's worse: Financial chicanery or a sexual peccadillo?: 4 of 17
There is one crucial question which must be clarified before delving into the heart of this debate. For WHOM are we concerned about these two choices being worse: the politician at the heart of the scandal, or the American public? It is easy to say that sexual indiscretion on the part of a president or a senator is unsettling... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Environment (Other) Is it fair to ask underdeveloped countries to "go green" when many advanced industrial countries owe their success to destructive environmental practices?: 14 of 58
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."-Native American ProverbWith the increasing globalization of our planet, underdeveloped nations are being caught up in the drive to industrialize, to modernize, to become interconnected into the global economic and societal community. These count... More..
Politics, News & Issues > War in Iraq Analyzing the war on Iraq: Justified or not: 39 of 159
Iran's Underlying Goals...(originally posted 01 December 2006)While reading Charles Krauthammer's December 1st op-ed piece about Iraq, I was struck with a quite-simple maxim that will ring clearly for any political-science or international-affairs student that paid even a modicum of attention in even one of his or her classes... More..