Introduction I learned about the Korean War twice. Once in Korea as a Korean. Once in America as an American. As an AP world history student, I understood that the war was in the context of a much bigger, grander war: The Cold War. It was about politics and ideologies. Communism. Capitalism and democracy. We […]

“Nothing more influential than rap music, I merge jazz fusion with the trap music, I mix black soul with some rock and roll, They never box me in, I’m David Blaine-ing all you h***” Kendrick Lamar, Black Friday1   Introduction It’s violent. It’s explicit. And yet, we love it. With the flow and rhymes, the […]

Nobody wants to be betrayed. But it’s inevitable; sometimes, we fall for the wrong people and they leave us shattered and empty. The story of Inkle and Yarico illustrates the tragedy, mixed in with the historical forces of colonialism, slave trade, and the layered interaction between the Old World of the Western Civilization and the […]