“Coco,” the 2017 Disney Pixar movie about a 12-year old Mexican boy who dreams of playing music like his ancestors, finally captured a culture different than American culture, without any stereotypes or prejudices. The directors spent time learning about Mexican traditions, specifically Día de los Muertos, the holiday on which the movie is based. The […]
Yes, I said it. Please spend more money on clothes if you’re going to buy anything at all. Why? Because “fast fashion” is the second largest pollutant in the world after oil. Fast fashion is a contemporary term of expediting production processes at all costs to get trends to the market as quickly and cheaply […]
President Donald J. Trump is reducing the number of refugees allowed in the United States to 45,000. Last year, President Obama allowed 110,000 refugees to enter the country. Riverside alone has a population of 324,722. Santa Barbara, with a population of 92,000, has more residents than the total number of refugees entering the entire country […]
I have lived in dozens of places. I’ve attended more than a dozen schools and I’ve never lived in one place for more than three years. It’s exciting, but at the same time, it’s not. The thrill you get hopping around from place to place your entire life may seem fun but eventually, it gets […]
It’s good to hear our flaws. To hear those little things about us that aren’t so clean and shiny or to hear about those aspects of ourselves that we wouldn’t display on a shelf for everyone to analyze and admire. When someone who cares about you tells you that you have commitment issues or that […]
The motive behind global volunteerism determines the effect your actions have on people from developing countries. There are ethical concerns among activities such as painting a wall, building a house or playing with children from an orphanage because of the habit of documenting the experience, and mainly talking about how it changed you. Activities that […]
The Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, (AICCU) hosted its annual Day in the Capitol event Feb. 28 in Sacramento, where students who attend private, non-profit institutions advocated against an 11 percent cut to the California Grant in Gov. Jerry Brown’s recent budget. The cut will see $1,028 less for each incoming freshman who […]
Feminism is defined as the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Christian feminism is an aspect of feminist theology, which seeks to advance and understand the equality of men and women morally, socially, spiritually and in leadership from a Christian perspective. Feminism has a negative connotation in Christian […]
Our modern, contemporary culture has allowed us to speak up about whatever we want, always pushing our own worldview as the best one out there. It has altered the media, especially the way fashion magazines and advertisements present themselves in regard to a woman’s image. Everyone is beautiful. Everyone is perfectly flawed. Everyone deserves to […]
Music affects mood, experts agree and students at California Baptist University agree as well. It affects the brain and the way people view the world, whether they realize it or not. Music can make people feel like they can do anything if they set their minds to it. It can also make them feel like […]
