Culture
May 20, 2019
Author’s note: I am an able-bodied, cisgender, white female, and that this blog post is based off of my experiences. Not every person has the same body and environment, this can affect the severity of their harassment and the victim’s perception. This is also not to say men cannot be victims of street harassment either
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In chess, white goes first. The player with the white pieces takes their turn before the player using the black pieces. Because of this rule, the “white” player is given an immediate advantage. They can always stay one step ahead of the “black” player, forcing the “black” player to counter every move they make. As
Read More160 - April 16, 2019
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old boy in Money, Mississippi was killed after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Emmett was standing outside a general store when he told some friends that he had a white girlfriend back home in Chicago, Illinois. He was then dared to ask the white woman behind the counter
Read More138 - April 15, 2019
It is Tuesday, October 23, 2018, just another day for Megyn Kelly, a talk show host, journalist, and former anchor. She starts her day off like many others, at the set of Megyn Kelly Today. She has Jenna Bush Hager, Jacob Soboroff, and Melissa Rivers on as guests and she is fired up to talk
Read More408 - April 15, 2019
Leigh and her husband, Rachid, are both in the lower class with Rachid’s salary bringing just enough money to cover their mortgage and buy food. After their first daughter was born they had learned a few things from the experience. When the time came and they were planning for their second child Leigh wanted as
Read More147 - April 10, 2019
In the months leading up to the release of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta and the actual game, fans were so hyped and excited for the games launch. As the games release date grew closer fans became more and more hyped to see the game’s beta finally come out. Once the beta came
Read More135 - April 10, 2019
Kendra Aarchus, a cosmetologist, wrote an article called What No One Tells You About Being A Hairstylist on “LiveAbout” about the struggles of being a hairstylist. Some of those problems were very rough hours, aching pain in their bodies, rarely any breaks if they want to keep having a living, tantrum-throwing toddlers, and dealing with
Read More115 - March 26, 2019
Timothy Crook, a fifty-one year old man, murdered both of his parents and then drove them 150 miles away and buried them. An article from Mirror says, “Crook kicked, punched and stamped on the couple, hit them with a hammer and strangled them with a belt.” Crook suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and when he was
Read More237 - March 26, 2019
My all time favorite song to sing is Disney’s “I’ll Make A Man Out of You” from Mulan. I’ve even gone to the extremes of making my little sisters memorize the echo “Be A Man!” part in the chorus, as it’s sadly not possible to sing both parts at once on my own. To say
Read More196 - March 19, 2019
I’m going to be honest with you, never have I been a person who looks at children and awes, they do not have the cute effect on me and it is doubtful they ever will. I do not plan on having my own children for many reasons, a main one being that I could not
Read More291 - March 19, 2019
Are you that selfish person who eats the last chocolate chip cookie?–because I sure am! Every time my grandma makes cookies it’s a race to the kitchen, and I always end up eating the last one on the plate. Why is this? Because at that moment I feel good tasting the perfect soft cookie. My
Read More146 - March 13, 2019
By Abby J In the Japanese folklore, Yuki-onna (The Snow Women), tells a story about a demon whose skin is as white as snow and has long stringy black hair. The legend tells of those who encounter her are froze to death by her breath and their souls are sucked out from their own mouths.
Read More165 - March 11, 2019
As a person who usually keeps up with the latest news and politics, I have been noticing a frightening new trend in America. Most people are aware of the #MeToo movement sweeping across the country over the past 2 years. This trend has done a wonderful job of exposing many atrocious men in power
Read More308 - March 5, 2019
Summer break, one of the most anticipated ‘holidays’ of younglings across America. It’s a popular setting in cult classics such as Dirty Dancing, Friday the 13th, and The Sandlot. But imagine if you never had the summer break off from school. When would you have time to make new friends in the neighborhood you just
Read More137 - May 31, 2018
Spoilers ahead (They are such old movies, come on) Friday the 13th and Halloween are both famous horror movie slashers. They both have a scary villain that keeps coming back (with even a reboot movie for both characters), and protagonists that seem to somehow always prevail. With tons of blood and a lot of screams
Read More287 - May 31, 2018
Jairo Gomez is a 17 year old teenager who lives in a one room apartment with his eight other family members in New York City. On WNYC´s show Radio Rookies Jairo tells reporters the story on how poverty has affected his whole life. Jairo shares a bunk bed with his sister Judy, and on the
Read More188 - May 30, 2018
When 20-year-old Daniel Ashley Pierce came out to his parents he didn’t think much of the experience afterward. He knew his parents were not going to support his lifestyle, but he thought everything was okay. After a couple days his mom, dad, grandma, and some other relatives sat him down and held an intervention of
Read More147 - May 15, 2018
“Money and the power, once you get a ‘lil they just want to take you down”-Kid Ink Just goes to show that money is mostly idealistic. It is a want, but is there any relation to happiness? People of all ages get a job to pay the bills, learn valuable work skills or even buy their
Read More162 - May 11, 2018
When Bryan’s wife first hit him, he was shocked, but knowing that it was inappropriate to hit back, he remained submissive, curled up in a ball, hands around the head, as she screamed and hit him. Like a lot of other victims of domestic violence, Bryan believed that he was to blame for this, as
Read More128 - April 9, 2018
The media, our teachers and professors, globally renowned celebrities and so many other self styled victims have become pawns in spreading the greatest deception that continues to perpetuate the American and Global society: The Gender Pay Gap. In celebrating women’s equality, our country, the great United States of America, seems to be at fault for
Read More185 - March 28, 2018
featured image by Pixabay I am clinically diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Now before you begin to process that, let me tell you some common reactions to this statement: “Get over it.” “Your problems are irrelevant if you’re not homeless, abused, or living in battlefield.” “So what if you feel like a mass of loneliness
Read More249 - March 23, 2018
Death, violence, and unnecessary arrests. What do all these things have in common? These words are all results of protesters trying to take down Confederate monuments across the United States of America. Why People Want the Statues Removed June 17, 2015 will be a day remembered in history as a tragic event that brought awareness
Read More358 - March 21, 2018
“Marilyn Monroe found dead in the nude,” was a common news headline after Marilyn Monroe’s death. She was found on August 5th, 1962, lying face down on her bed, naked, having overdosed on Nembutal. She had been struggling with a mental illness for a couple years and had been fired from the movie Somethings Got to
Read More299 - March 12, 2018
On Christmas eve in 1982 a polar bear was born. Her name was Zara. Zara was born at a zoo in Germany. Less than 3 years after she was born Zara would be sold away from her family and to an animal trainer with questionable credibility. For the rest of her life Zara was sold
Read More543 - March 9, 2018
In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every single day. Not many people think about what racial profiling is, some people think it doesn’t even think it exists or how it affects everyday lives, but you or anyone could have possibly done it. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity
Read More228 - March 1, 2018
During the 2016 Election, the credibility of the news, the candidates, and all of the media as a whole was put into question as the election narrowed down. Ted Cruz, a 2016 presidential candidate, said, “he questions asked in illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.” In a perfect
Read More248 - February 28, 2018
Weed, a substance first accepted into our society immediately after the spanish lost the Spanish American war, giving them free access to become a US citizen. The new constant flow of foreign peoples undoubtedly would bring new customs to America, thus introducing us to the drug now referred to as Marijuana. Facts about the addictive drug
Read More330 - February 7, 2018
A common misconception spread by companies like PETA through articles like “Why Sport Hunting is Cruel and Unnecessary” is that sport hunting today is “cruel and unnecessary” violence. The main argument of the article is that today hunting is “nothing more than a violent form of recreation”, it is unnecessary for hunters to obtain food,
Read More240 - June 6, 2017
Sandwiches with kettle chips seem to be the best lunch for people anywhere. Sandwiches are diverse, unique, amazing. Now i’m just hungry! Whenever I think of sandwiches I think of a question my dad asked me about two years ago. Let’s give you readers some back round. My dad and I were sitting at dinner
Read More166 - May 30, 2017
“Yes I do it big/ Call me little astronomical/ Weezy F baby and the ‘F’ is for phenomenal”. Just let that sink in. Phenomenal doesn’t even start with the letter ‘F’. However, that did not stop Lil Wayne from putting that into his song “Yes”(verse 4 lines 1-3). For the average listener, hearing these types
Read More340 - May 23, 2017
In October of 2006, just a few weeks before her 14th birthday, Megan Meier hanged herself. She had been talking to a boy named Josh, who she had met via MySpace, for about 5 weeks when he had suddenly began to send messages stating that he heard Megan was mean to her friends and didn’t
Read More138 - May 23, 2017
A$AP Rocky Live Concert at Forest National Bruxelles-5462 Image by Kmeron on Flickr A$AP Rocky’s single “F*cking Problems”, is a song widely known among teenagers in the USA. Rapping explicitly about calling women female dogs, using racial slurs such as the “N” word, having sex with multiple women at a time and including the use
Read More132 - April 18, 2017
What is the problem? From Eminem and Marilyn Manson, to even the Beatles, music has been blamed for many people’s decisions to commit crime. Parents often claim their kids are being influenced by music to do drugs, be violent, skip school, and many other things that are causing them to act out. But is the
Read More141 - April 18, 2017
Being careful costs you nothing. Being careless can cost you everything. Whether you kill yourself or kill someone else, the end result is terminal. Once a life is taken, you can´t fix it or pay for it – itś gone forever. There are many ways people are careless on the roads, two of which include
Read More164 - March 29, 2017
A scientific study suggests intelligent people swear more. Basically, this means that people who swear don’t use swear words due to a lack of other words with which to express themselves, but because they want to use swear words to express themselves. Researchers at Marist College in New York consider a bigger vocabulary of taboo words and phrases
Read More150 - March 23, 2017
Death by strangulation, mutilated corpses, decapitated their heads, and gruesome necrophilia. Ted Bundy, an infamous killer, had a very charming, articulate, and an intelligent personality described by many. These traits made it very easy to get close to his victims. Although he seemed very charming he had a very dark side. After his love, unnamed, broke up with
Read More240 - March 20, 2017
Believers in God or a Godly figure of any religion principally believe God is both omnipotent and benevolent. Thus He sees all and only believes in good, but how could this be when an abundance of evil exists in a far from perfect world? Would God not care enough to rid of all evil to end
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