We grew up in America, a place that trusts the advertisements that tell us what we are eating, drinking, and putting on our bodies is safe and good for us. We never second guess or doubt these statements that are engrained into our heads, because we assume that the information given to us is accurate and reliable. However, we …
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In an outcry of anger and fear over the Paris attacks, the media has taken to the airwaves, throwing blame to Muslims and the nations of Islam, ignorantly claiming ISIS is part of Islam. While I can understand the hatred and fury that arises from the kind of horrendous violence seen in Paris, I can …
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The year is 1978. Communist China has just created a one child policy out of fear of overpopulation. In a society where males are the desired gender of offspring, this could not pose any future problems for women, right? Now fast forward to 2015, where the women that were actually kept by their parents and …
In a nation where fast food and fast drugs are the fad, we are propagating one of the most severely unhealthy lifestyles this Earth has ever seen. If you are too fat, take a diet pill, but heaven forbid you eat healthier, and work out. If you are anxious, take a pill, and push the …
In Idris Elba and Cory Fukunaga’s new film, Beasts of No Nation, the story of a child soldier is beautifully portrayed on Netflix’s silver screen. The viewer sadly watches as the main character, Agu, is manipulated into becoming a child soldier after he loses his family in a militia attack in his home town. While this film …
We have seen misogyny portrayed in films, novels, television shows, music, and other forms of pop culture throughout the entirety of the 21st century, shaping young minds into an understanding of the female as less than men. What is the ongoing force that drives men to physically, sexually, and …
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In a country where 142 new school shootings have happened since 2013, it seems that there should be a massive outcry for gun control to be more regulated and promoted on a larger scale. And yet, in the wake of the plethora of school shootings, movie theatre shootings, and outright massacres going on in this …
As we were brainstorming in class over a ‘Wait But Why?’ piece we could really dive into with relevant questions and answers to our generation, one of our group members introduced the idea of careers, and how society represents careers to college students as something that is set in stone for the rest of your …
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Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of blocking federal funding to Planned Parenthood for one year. This was a part of bill H.R.3134 . Since then, we see that the Congressional Budget Office has given some vital information into the aftermath of such a Bill. With the defunding of Planned Parenthood for one year, …
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A name evoking notions of informed opinions, criticisms, and intelligence, a public intellectual, dubbed by either their own accord or by others within their circles, holds the duty to share and inform the chapters of their minds work with society. A public intellectual’s work and responsibility to society can best be described through Rollo May’s …
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