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Advertising’s Insidious Role In Social Media Influencing
The screen illuminates, and dopamine is released. We eagerly bring the device to our face and we begin to light up as well. We swipe through dozens, even hundreds of digitized pieces of information. We scroll through the typical baby photos, the glamor-clad celebrities, and an ad or two. There goes another ad, a shot…
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Profit, Self-Worth, and the Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
For many women, applying makeup is as much a part of their daily morning routine as brushing their teeth or eating breakfast. For many, it is a natural part of growing up, usually marked by an unfortunate incident of eyebrow tweezing gone wrong or a particularly dark “emo stage.” But over the years, women have…
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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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Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom from Religion
In many of the countries which have seen recent protests against the film “The Innocence of Muslims, ” their still-fresh Arab Spring revolutions were aided by new online forms of speech like Twitter and Facebook. Social media’s role in the Arab Spring is old news, but the events of the past two weeks show a…
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An Appeal from the People of Homs, Syria
Obituaries of fallen Syrians in Homs. On Tuesday, two Syrian activists working closely with those in the Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) and a Syrian-American student from the besieged city of Homs riveted a crowd of seventy five people for one hour through a three-way video call. Skirting severe media restrictions in the country,…
