Society has experienced change, and with these changes comes good news and bad news. The good news: society has begun to incorporate realistic body types in the media. The bad news: the “realistic body types” now in the media still fail to accurately represent the...
The setting is Rome 1992. An 18-year-old girl is taking her first driving lesson, and her driving instructor, a 45-year-old man, takes her to an isolated road, pulls her out of the car, wrestles her out of one leg of her jeans, and forcibly rapes her. For an hour, he...
After the recovery of an iPhone belonging to one of the attackers of the San Bernardino shooting on Dec. 2, 2015 which killed 14 people and injured 22, a federal court ordered the multinational technology company to help the F.B.I. unlock the password-protected device...
For a long time now, the United States has been a place where different people, styles, and cultures have mixed and fused. This country is a melting pot, essentially. This “melting pot” has allowed for different people with different appearances and practices to rub...
A wise man once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” That wise man was Martin Luther King, Jr. The month of February is devoted to celebrating and commemorating black historical figures like King, whose lives they spent...
Imagine being frustrated with generalizations that are meant to describe you, but really do not. Imagine being asked to focus on one single aspect of who you are, and nothing else. Imagine being denied a platform to express yourself, or being overshadowed by others...
I am a feminist because while "feminist icons" like Miley Cyrus and P!nk are praised for embracing their sexuality, artists such as Beyonce, Nicki Minaj and Rihanna are slut-shamed and told to "put a bra on!" because it's "scandalous" and "raunchy." I am a feminist...
In the aftermath of the San Bernardino shooting on Dec. 2, President Barack Obama has declared the tragedy an act of terrorism. Many have also expressed their anger and sorrow about the need for stricter gun control laws, stating it is way too easy for dangerous...
She looked so lost and so afraid. It was the world she lived in, but everyone told her otherwise. They blamed her. They ripped her of her voice and of her freedom, and traded that for restrictions. From a young age, she had been taught that being a girl would come...
Men and women, although not exactly same, carry similarities. Both have a brain, heart, and breasts. One difference, however, is one sex is allowed to expose their breasts, and the other isn’t. Some argue breasts on women are revolting and vulgar with their breast...
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