Social Issues
April 24, 2012
Small-town boredom, teenage angst and the desire to fit in led a good-natured girl down the destructive road of drug use.
April 3, 2012
Making money can be a gamble, especially when Texas Hold ‘em is paying for your college.
March 30, 2012
On a recent trip, I saw this t-shirt worn by a man between the ages of, I'm guessing, 17-23.
March 28, 2012
Sidonia Dudval sashays across the stage in her black chiffon, V-neck dress, bright red shoes with jeweled heels glistening in the spotlight and a frizzed out mane of hair. She demands attention from her audience.
She rules the stage and the backstage. She sits behind the curtain obsessively scanning the schedule of Rochester Girls Inc. dancers and performance times while rifling through her bags trying to find the right lipstick or perfect...
March 8, 2012
She wears black knee-high boots over skinny jeans topped with a rainbow sweater. Her long, brown, layered hair lightly bounces on her shoulders as she struts through campus. In most ways, she's an average 19-year-old woman-- except for the "M" marked on her license.
February 26, 2012
On today's episode of Sounds of Cinema I read an editorial about the (ir)relevance and (il)legitimacy of the Academy Awards. Here is an excerpt:
February 13, 2012
Check out this discussion from Up with Chris Hayes in which the host and his panel discuss the recent brouhaha over health care reform, birth control, and Catholicism with Reverend William Dailey of Notre Dame Law School. The clip runs long but its one of the most intelligent exchanges about the topic that I've come across.
February 9, 2012
When I stepped into Minnesota History class for the first time, my assumption was that I was going to learn history. So you can imagine my surprise when in our last class period we talked about how fashion influenced the discovering of Minnesota. Now being a guy, I had not thought in my wildest dreams that I would be subject to listening about fashion in History class!
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