Introduction Large existential questions like, “Why are we here?”, “What is here?”, and “Where did we come from?” have plagued humanity since we first started looking to the skies and wondering. Since those first humans began looking out into the …
The Repetition of Life, Love, & Death by Tellie Fackelman
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two Figures) The Death of a Gravedigger Studio Ghibli: Flower Cottage Hamlet with Skull Life is but a string of moments tied and glued together, uncanny, and vibrant, not quite understood, but implicit all …
The Question of Free Will by William Navarrete Moreno
Since the Enlightenment era, the enigma of free will has been one of the most fundamental inquiries of human existence. Since then, scholars have debated this question for centuries with the gamut of arguments extending from humans having the ability …
Racism, White Privilege, and White Fragility by Kelly Brakefield
White society has no racial stamina. We are born into a hierarchical societal structure that is deeply rooted by separate and unequal practices based solely on the color of our skin. We are conditioned to believe that our gender, skin …
La Bestia: Humanitarian Crisis in the South by Oscar Mata
The accumulation of horrid circumstances that continue to boil throughout South and Central America have resulted in citizens making a desperate attempt to reach the United States. These migrants travel through the unimaginable in order to provide better lives for …
African Jazz Dance and its Global Influence by Lyla Wood
The dance community is only beginning to embark on the deep and rich culture of African Jazz Dance. Its influence on a person’s own spiritual development reaches farther than just the dance moves themselves. It is a technical dance form …
Corruption and Sanitation Crisis in Dominican Republic by Breanna Jayne Whiting
Living in a privileged country can make it difficult to fathom the quandaries a third world country experiences daily. In the Dominican Republic, something that takes little thought for Americans is a deadly obstruction many Dominicans are unable to overcome, …
The Self-Liberating People of Iraq by Kyle Borham
War, corruption,and ethnic and religious conflict has ravaged Iraq for decades, with the most recent being the bloody struggle against the Iraqi Syrian Islamic State (ISIS) in the northern provinces of the country. With the defeat of ISIS, Iraq’s current …
Umoja: Paving The Way For Women’s Rights by Erin Amos
In the Samburu district of Kenya, women formed a village in order to protect one another, Umoja, which translates to “unity.” Outraged by constant rape and forced marriages, Rebecca Lolosoli created a village in which, “No men are allowed to …
The Oppression Against the Uyghurs Muslims by Molia Polke
The Uyghurs (Uighurs, Uigurs) are an ethnic group of Turkish descent who is currently being suppressed by the Chinese government. Why is China overpowering the Uyghurs? The main reason is that the Uyghurs follow the Islamic faith. China has a …