The islands of New Zealand are often viewed by Americans as a sort of paradise, isolated both geographically and spiritually from the real world issues that plague the United States.
It is this very...
“If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur” — Anonymous
I imagine some people would chalk up my writing habits to sheer laziness. Every week, on the night before my article is due,...
Who is Sarah Huckabee Sanders? What is the meaning of life? What happens when you shine a flashlight while traveling at the speed of light? Though all these questions are equally perplexing, I will attempt...
In one of my English classes, we went to see a play together as a class. Two days before the showing, I received an email in which our professor provided a trigger warning for “explicit homosexuality,...
Again, it felt like my classes were aligning with what I was supposed to be learning in real life. When this happens, it always feels like my life is slowly becoming more like a teen movie and less like...
Kenny Stills (MIA) @ BAL
This is a risky play for two reasons: 1) It appears Matt Moore is going to be the starting quarterback Thursday night for the Miami Dolphins due to a Jay Cutler injury. 2)...
A series of letters written in the 1980s by former President Barack Obama have recently been recovered and made public for viewing at Emory University.
The letters are addressed to a long distance girlfriend...
Most people I know do not have nice things to say about Holden Caulfield. Even the ones who admit to liking “The Catcher in the Rye,” as a book, are just as quick to assert that they hate Holden, as...
I have a love-hate relationship with nearly everything I love — likely born from my love-hate relationship with playing devil’s advocate. I rarely find myself appreciating things without trying to...
So the infamous Bowe Bergdahl is back in the news cycle. Remember him, the soldier who walked off a United States Army base in Afghanistan, was captured and held by the Taliban for five years and got traded...
Stateless, identity-less and unprotected. The Rohingyas have lived like this for centuries now.
They have been protected by neither the Myanmar government nor the governments of the surrounding nations....
In a sweeping new law, California banned puppy mills. The legislation, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, now requires pet stores to exclusively sell rescue animals. While this is a laudable step in...
