Tag / Anna Applebaum
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The Sexism of Art
BY ANNA APPLEBAUM On Friday, February 22nd, the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts held a panel presentation in Wilson 214. In the lecture hall sat students enrolled in a required freshman course: “Practices in Architecture + Art + Design”. The day’s lecture contributed to the course’s overall theme – examining modern intersections…
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Interview: Nicholas Kristof
Recently, WUPR’s own Anna Applebaum and Jannina Phi sat down with New York Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof to discuss his career, women in the world economy and his new book. The following is the full transcript of that interview, featured partially in the last print edition of WUPR. WUPR: In America today, there…
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Let's Move! Away from Childhood Obesity
Say you are an average American adult, feeling a bit hungry around lunchtime. Though every person has a different standard of health for their body depending on gender, height, weight and level of physical fitness, assume that you consume close to the average 2,000 calories per day recommended by nutrition labels. Now say you wander…
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The New National Guard
“At This Moment” is an advertisement for the National Guard. Both a promotional and a recruitment tool, it is playing in movie theaters across the country. At first glance, the trailer is shocking in its blatantly militaristic depiction of the National Guard. In contrast, a previous National Guard promotional video featured a song called “Citizen…