LGBT-Friendly College Campuses

On the Huffington Post the article describes the top 25 colleges/universities in the United States that are LGBT friendly. On the bottom of the website article there are photos of different colleges that show you information about the colleges name,tuition, and students. In the article it explains how Campus Pride also a website that has information about gay friendly LGBT colleges. It also releases on how the Campus Pride rates college campuses and how they choose the top three as Stanford University, Carleton College, and Emory University.

Pride Center

The new pride center has its own website on the CSUN webpage. The website address for the Pride Center is pride.csun.edu and in the webpage you can find resources, FAQ's, the Peer Mentor Program, CSUN Ally Program, and what the Pride center is about. The Pride center website is a great source to know where you may find the pride center, what times it opens, and other resources around campus. It can also show you who the staff is for the pride center and the peer mentor program. On the resources it shows you all the LGBT resources giving to you fro a LGBT student such as handouts, organizations, centers, L.A. sources,etc. On the Peer Mentor link it will tell you all about the peer mentoring program and how you can be a mentee, what a peer mentor does, and why to be a mentee and you can contact them if you want to either be one or have any more questions. Also, they have the CSUN Ally program which is how you can learn to be an ally for the LGBT community and have training to be an ally.

                     Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia weaken nationalization effort

This article talks about the private sector in Saudi Arabia, and how they prefer the foreign

workers than the Saudi workers, by giving some statistics. Also the article says that the labor

ministry created a new system that support nationalization in private sector. However, this

system did not work so well, because of the business owners, they do not like the idea, so they

did not help the labor ministry.    

Abdulaziz Alkhodir     

“Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia weaken nationalization effort” Al-Arabiya News: Al-Arabiya

News, 13 Aug. 2012. Web. 22 Oct. 2012.

Abdulaziz Alkhodr                     

                        Saudi addresses housing gap as home ownership deficit rises

This article talks about the difficulties that Saudi people face in order to own houses, by giving

the cost of land and the lack of bank financing. The article says that only 30% of Saudi people

who won houses, and 65% of the population is on rent. So people feel that they should be housed

because of the financial boom. The articles also suggest the Idea of the mortgage as a solution for

this problem.

“Saudi addresses housing gap as home ownership deficit rises.” Business Intelligence: Business

Intelligance Middle East, 4 Sep. 2008. Web. 22 Oct. 2012

home

Memories of 18 Years....

      

This is basically my home from the outside. I lived in this home my whole life. In this home there are 3 levels and a basement. The first level is the guest’s living room and a guest’s bedroom and a bathroom (if there’s a guest is sleeping over or visiting us from outside of the country). The 2nd level there is a living room in the middle, 2 separated sections which are boy’s bedrooms with bathrooms and girls bedrooms with bathrooms. On the other side is my parent’s master room. The 3rd level is the maids’ bedroom and bathroom. The basement consists of two rooms, one is for keeping old stuff and the other one we call it “Diwanya” it is a big room where we invite our friends to hang out and play video games, watch TV, or play card games. We don’t a big garden, but a small one with a big palm tree.

As I described my home, we can see that there are some homes that have more privacy than us because as it is shown on the picture there are no garages or such a wall to cover, but only if you go inside the house then you won’t be seen. So it really depends on how religious you are and if you would really care about what others say.

This picture shows Saudi’s house, as we can see there are many differences between Saudi houses and western houses. In Saudi Arabia the hoses seem way bigger than houses in Europe and the United State. It is big for many reasons one of the reason is that because we designed many rooms and also some of these rooms belong to women and other belong to men, so we can see it is religious or culture reason.  Although, you feel more privacy it is hard to clean it up. Especially, in my country we often get bad weather like dust. So a lot of families in Saudi Arabia do need house made to help them cleaning the houses. In general, I can tell there are some negative and positive aspects not only in our houses but also in western houses.

Abdulaziz Alkhodir