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The Dark Reality of the Congo

(03/04/24 2:43pm)

Imagine waking up to the sunrise and traveling to a mining site every day. Imagine swinging a pickaxe, hauling shovels, and hacking with rebar to gather cobalt. Imagine breathing in the toxic dust from your work until you physically cannot function anymore. Now, imagine returning home with less than five dollars in your pocket. And you are only ten years old.



What We Can Learn from Some of the Most Hated Women on the Internet

(12/04/23 5:29pm)

Almost two weeks after its initial release, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the movie has garnered the top box office spot in the U.S., thanks to the engrossing plot and complex characters. A fan favorite is the quirky and charismatic Lucy Gray Baird, victor of the 10th Hunger Games, played by Rachel Zegler. Despite her current fame, the up and coming actress has been receiving backlash for almost every public appearance in the past month.


An Introvert in an Extrovert’s World

(11/01/23 11:15pm)

When I was ten years old, my fifth-grade teacher introduced a new strategy to my class’s curriculum: Clock Partners. An instructional strategy, “Clock Partners” had students fill out a page with blanks on each hour of a cartoon clock with the name of a classmate, so that when the time came for partner work, there wouldn’t be a scramble to not end up alone.