Oppression and subjugation against women has been present since the dawn of American society, but social media has provided another facet for it to exist and further belittle young women. Whether it’s unrealistic beauty standards causing self-deprecation or deliberate...
As cars whizz by on Highland Avenue, past the glimmering lights of the Best Western and the bolted-up doors and closed signs of nearby restaurants up onto the 101 Freeway, the Hollywood Legion Theater is easy to miss. But one by one, several vehicles take a sharp left...
Oppression and subjugation against women has been present since the dawn of American society, but social media has provided another facet for it to exist and further belittle young women. Whether it’s unrealistic beauty standards causing self-deprecation or deliberate...
Our nation has been at the mercy of economic inequality and social division for a long time, a gap that became exasperated by the 2020 pandemic. This chasm has created starkly different lifestyles for the two different halves in response to the pandemic, deepening the...
Dear future president, My golden West Coast is burning. I could barely see the sun for days. COVID-19 has skewered America, exacerbated by failures in our healthcare system. As I write this, congressional stimulus talks are at an impasse, a blow to the lives of...
With the rapidly growing advancements of technology, machines continue to expand into different areas of our daily lives as aspects of those everyday activities are gradually replaced by these machines. One of the most prominent technologies being continuously...
When most parents see or hear about video games, they can only react with disgust. "Video games are only a waste of time for children as they slowly kill the eyes that are glued to the screen in front of them," is what many parents say. Yet despite the numerous...
With most of the U.S. beginning to enact strict social distancing orders due to COVID-19, the College Board announced in late March that it would administer all 2020 Advanced Placement exams online. Perhaps due to the rapid turnaround between the president's...
When Harvard-Westlake cafeteria staffer June thinks of home, she pictures rows of closely spaced houses, swarms of motorcycles and sheets of humid air pressing against her skin. Most of all, June, said she thinks of her mother and her sister, who manage a small,...
A quick Google search defines “exotic” as either “originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country” or “an exotic plant or animal.” I can’t count how many times I’ve been called this: by Metro catcallers, by Santa Monica street performers, by my...
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