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Art Can Only Imitate Life
“Going to Whole Foods, want me to pick you up anything?” This Tinder message— courtesy of Matt, 21—lit up Victoria’s phone, and we both immediately burst out laughing. I was visiting Victoria in her sunny California hometown, and we’d spent the day playing tourist and gorging on acai bowls. Now exhausted and uncomfortably full, we…
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Being Human
Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum My senior year of high school, my AP English Literature teacher assigned The Handmaid’s Tale as the very last book we would ever read together. I didn’t expect much. Thirteen years of Catholic education tempered my expectations of what would be read in the classroom—probably a “canonical” classic (written by a…
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On Wonder Woman
A classmate of mine asked if I would accompany her to see a screening of Wonder Woman. We were studying abroad in Paris, and I was curious as to whether or not the film would be in English. I happily agreed and walked to the theater in anticipation of what I would experience. From the…
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Porn Is Bad
Pornography is inherently and irrevocably harmful to human sexuality, and you all are a part of it. I say you all, because the supermajority of college men and about 18 percent of college women watch porn regularly. Those who watch porn multiple times a week, or even a day, see themselves as one of millions…
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Who Tells Your Story
Alexander Hamilton is known in the twenty-first century American consciousness as a staunch Federalist, the architect of the United States’ financial system, and the victim of a deadly pistol duel. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “Hamilton” upholds this image while also portraying a man with weaknesses and hardships relatable to his twentyfirst century audience. “Hamilton” has gained…
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Fix the Fox
In the most watched TED Talk of all time, speaker Ken Robinson proposes the bold claim that schools worldwide do not value the importance of the creative arts in their curriculums and art-specific course opportunities (or lack thereof). Robinson says, “Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. Doesn’t matter…
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Art As Resistance On The Mexican-American Border
At a press conference in September, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump announced his desire to build a wall comparable to the Great Wall of China along the Mexican-American border. Aptly referred to as the “Greater Wall,” Trump described the endeavor not just as a physical demarcation between the two countries, but as an exhibition of…
