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Just the Beans , Rustic Coffee Made Right

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     Just the Beans is a coffee house akin to your home. The scenery in the shop is rustic and warm, making you feel right at home while drinking any coffee bean from Just The Beans. In the modern age of artisanal coffees and glossy-end machinery, it’s easy to get lost when thinking of the word “cafe.” The aroma of freshly brewed French Roast and the velvety feel of couch cushions floods the mind, but cafe culture is more than a simple pit stop for our daily cup of joe.  Cafes are structured around a few major components, two of the most prominent being the active sale of coffee and the people it draws in. Much like the deeply tangled web that is the coffee industry, cafes carefully balance the social, cultural, and economic motley that comes with both the beverage itself and the complications of being a public sanctuary.  Coffee may be the commodity that gave rise to the institution, but the population filing through the cafe doors provided the business its pur...

Where Do I Want to End Up? Bungie.

 Bungie.      Hello! My name is Chris, I am 21 years old and a senior at High Point University studying Game Design with a Social Media Marketing minor. I love to play games and have recently have become entranced with going to the gym. I started playing video games at a young age and I haven't stopped since, they're my favorite hobby and pastime. Furthermore, I've taken another hobby of going to the gym not only to be fit but improve my overall life happiness.       When I graduate I would like to become a level designer for triple-A games. My favorite studio is Bungie, a company who I've fallen in love due to their game series Halo. They produced those games for many years up until their last installment Halo: Reach. Bungie had developed a new IP though, Destiny. A game that I've alone put in over two thousand hours into. The exact work I'd like to do would be to design the play spaces and maps that players interact with and are able to explore,...