Is Women’s Healthcare Truly Any Better Today? Imagine that you are feeling incredibly sick. What is the first thing that you would do? In this scenario, most would visit the doctor or some other form of healthcare provider. Imagine that…
My Controversial Joy by Alex Wiemer
On an afternoon in early November, the leaves had finally fallen from their branches, and I was curled up on the brightly colored carpet, being screamed at by my psychiatrist. After a few minutes of him screeching about how I…
Size Doesn’t Matter by Samantha Warner
My name is Samantha, but people call me Sam. Over the course of 19 years, I have always been a petite girl, with a passion for a large dream to pursue a career in large animal veterinary medicine. This whole…
Ethics in Journalism by Takara Connally
An Analysis of Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again Stolen Focus is a book that attempts to understand you before you have even read the first page. Author Johann Hari sets out with…
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education by Serenity H. Fullem
Major technological progress has historically been met with mixed responses varying on a spectrum from vehement opposition to open-armed acceptance. The Industrial Revolution, beginning in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, for example, both created optimistic visions of an industrialized future…
A Brown Child in a White World by Serena Leax
As a mixed-race child growing up in a primarily white school with an all-white family, I really struggled with looking different from other kids. When I say “primarily white school,” I mean I was one of seven children of color…
A Town Like Mine by Merrick Morneweck
Hardwick, Vermont, as described by Judith Levine in “White Like Me,” is a small town with sprawling hills, farmland, and woods. Hardwick is decidedly White and dissimilar to Brooklyn, the diverse multicultural and multiethnic city Levine lived in for 22…
Pray You Love, Remember by Halle O’Neil
An Analysis of Juliet and Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Tragedies The tragic female character is an archetype audiences have come to know in numerous books and movies: the stereotypical woman with next to no rights whose destiny is linked to the…
Satire in the Works of Oscar Wilde vs. Evelyn Waugh by Jenna Vincenti
Satire is a literary device that has been used in a multitude of works over the course of history. One of the most famous writers to utilize satire was Oscar Wilde, who was primarily known for plays humorously criticizing the…
The Importance of Selenium for Ruminants by Samantha Warner
Experts say that goats need five essential nutrients to thrive; water, energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals. While this assessment is true in general, some may argue that some specific minerals are more important than others for ruminants to consume. As…
Jelly Shoes by Nicole Fabian
The sound of the engine roaring back to life filled my ears as I hopped into my papa’s tricycle – a tricycle, “sometimes called a ‘trike,’ is a three-wheeled public utility vehicle consisting of a motorcycle and an attached passenger’s…