At 9 p.m. on October 20, Congresswoman Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez livestreamed on Twitch, an online streaming site, to play a game of "Among Us". This move defined a new means in which she was able to get the word out to vote. This unique demographic of gamers and youth...
Last summer, I visited Ningbo, China to see my family relatives. My grandfather on my mother's side is getting older and recently was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and is in constant pain. As an American born Chinese kid, returning back to China to visit family...
Walking the streets of L.A. tells the story of American inequality, and a politically and culturally supported class disparity. Over 44,000 people live unsheltered in L.A. county, according to the L.A. Homeless Services Authority. Somehow, this issue is time and time...
Perspectives on identity, race, and culture are changing. There is a contemporary question of identity that is pressed onto each individual creating confusion and fear because of its unknown effects. Director Robert Eggers plays off of this question of identity in his...
"Psycho," the 1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was considered to be both a classic and first modern horror film opening the viewers of cinema to the “slasher” genre. The “slasher” or “psycho” is Norman Bates, and he takes on a complex role in the film,...
I sat under the blaring sun and unrelenting heat of California during summer along with thousands of parents watching the passing spectacle of graduation on June 13. In the bleachers overlooking the Claremont High School graduation, I was submerged into a crowd of...
The widespread superficiality through social media has become mainstream through modern society as technology becomes increasingly available and capable. Today’s countercultures and subcultures are modeled with similar ideology towards past movements as it is founded...
Growing up in an Asian American household, I never had any DC or Marvel comics on our bookshelves. I found my curiosity for them outside the house, in school with the one friend obsessed with Batman or on the shelves of a school library. My siblings never read them,...
