Picture this: It’s 1791 and you are in a new land — America! The country has finally won the Revolutionary War and is trying to get back on its feet while also protecting itself from surrounding world powers such as Britain, France or Spain that are eager to expand their territories. If you’re a man, […]
Columbine High School. Sandy Hook Elementary. Virginia Tech University. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. My generation has lived through the largest school shootings in American history. No student deserves to go to class worrying about dying or have to worry about a gun in the hands of their teacher. I don’t know what the answer […]
Since the United States experiences 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings, stricter gun purchase requirements and a changed societal mentality of gun safety must be altered to protect our country. According to the Congressional Research Service, the United States is responsible for 48 percent of legally owned guns in the world, despite comprising 5 […]
Want to hear something shocking? We are barely three months into 2018 and according to the Gun Violence archive, there have already been 39 mass shootings in the United States. Hundreds of people won’t be able to hug their loved ones, see a new morning and do their favorite activities anymore. A lot of this […]
Every second, approximately 28,000 users are watching pornography on the Internet, according to research done by the Nielsen Company. In 2016, the Barna Group published research that showed 57 percent of millennials, ages 18 to 24, sought out these sites once or twice a month. Even 53 percent of 11- to 16-year-olds have viewed explicit […]
Access and exposure to education are equally as important as education itself. With conversations becoming larger and louder about race, gender and women’s rights, it’s important the public has access to information to fulfill their moments of curiosity, to properly answer their questions and allow them to form their own opinions based upon truth. It […]
Following the proposal of The Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act, which requires federal prisons to provide feminine hygiene products free of charge, state legislatures are slowly but surely following in suit enacting their own state bills, but access to these necessary products remain limited to many. The bill initially introduced to Congress this past summer […]
In the past few months, YouTuber Logan Paul has been battling the Aokigahara forest controversy, in which he uploaded a pre-taped video “stumbling” upon a dead body, with about as much common sense and grace as a baby giraffe. The events that took place in the video Paul posted were extremely inappropriate on its own. […]
It’s safe to say that most everyone in America knows about #MeToo — a national movement to give victims of sexual harassment a voice online and throughout the country. While I fully support victims finding their voice and empowering themselves against people who have broken them, this issue is so much larger than the Americans […]
President Donald J. Trump addressed the country Jan. 30 in the annual State of the Union Address with the promise to build a new, better America “with American heart, American hands and American grit,” leaving little room for anyone who did not fit the mold. After a brief mention of helping immigrants who meet specific […]