Do people prefer a book or the TV show it spawns? This is a question that a lot of people have extremely intense feelings about on both sides, and it is an impossible question to answer because of the obvious potential for varying quality.  A series I have recently been reading The Expanse series by […]

Introduction: The scientific world is often best known for discovery. The most common pieces of the scientific world that the average person is aware of are the pieces of knowledge that accumulate into the understanding that we have today. But in coming to college and being able to speak with research professors in STEM communities, […]

Introduction The college application process is stressful. Any student knows that it will be overwhelming even in the best of cases.  On top of that, the many students that graduated high school in the past two years had another stressor that no one could have predicted: COVID-19. From missing out on their last year of […]

Introduction Disney animated films are filled with action and adventure. In which they aim to teach children moral lessons through a heavily visual medium. Although the visual cues that are made throughout these stories play an important role in our understanding of these films. I want to look at what messages are being sent through […]

Introduction and Question Whether we notice it or not, whether we pay attention to it or not, the United States Congress has a huge impact on the day to day life of every American. Not only that, but because of the global position and power that the U.S. has, decisions made by Congress can also […]

“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 […]

How Victorian Novels Structured Social Norms Around Love  Introduction: Literature of the past is the closest thing to finding out what daily life, social norms and culture was like. Back before film was around, writing was the main form of preservation. By reading novels from the pre-film era, we get a glimpse of how everyday […]

Ableism in Ethical Philosophy What is Ethics? Some of the earliest known philosophical musings, at least in Western Europe, involved asking what it meant to be a good person, what it meant to do good. In attempting to answer these questions over the centuries, many major figures have written a litany of books and essays […]

Why are Books Banned? Background of the Corpus My corpus consists of 11 books that have either been banned in the United States or that people have attempted to ban but failed. They are Alice in Wonderland, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Lolita, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, […]

Note: Nothing in here should be taken as factual advice and is all purely speculation based on tweets! Introduction  As the pandemic wore on in the United States, COVID-19 increasingly was treated as a political issue and met with partisan responses. As vaccine studies progressed and vaccines became approved, this division amongst ideological lines followed. […]