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Don’t Blame It on the Alcohol, Blame It on Religion

By Don’t Blame It on the Alcohol, Blame It on Religion

A vast majority of people in America believe in some form of a biblical God, this statement also applies to the rest of the world. Religion is a very prominent engine of modern society; we ...

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The American Celebrity: Loss of Mortality Is The Curse of Fame

By The American Celebrity: Loss of Mortality Is The Curse of Fame

Celebrities in the United States have always bewildered me. Everyone in the world wants to be famous,  but it seems like nowhere in the world is that desire more passionate than here. People flock to ...

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The Quest for Physical Uniqueness Takes A Major Step Into Lunacy

By The Quest for Physical Uniqueness Takes A Major Step Into Lunacy

Individualism is something that has come about rather recently in terms of human societies. It seems like over this past century it’s become more of a focus. Perhaps this is because nowadays we have the ...

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Summer Metamorphosis: Reconciling the New and the Old

By Summer Metamorphosis: Reconciling the New and the Old

Coming back from summer is always an odd experience, because you always return a little different. Origin doesn’t really effect this, I am sure both American students and foreign students can identify with the feeling ...

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Don’t Wait for the Afterlife, Live Before It’s Too Late

By Don’t Wait for the Afterlife, Live Before It’s Too Late

The Afterlife: do we wait to start living till then? Everyone seems to have their own version of what’s going to happen when we die, especially in organized religion. All the interpretations of the Afterlife ...

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Is Cheating the Newest Way Couples Settle a Score?

By Is Cheating the Newest Way Couples Settle a Score?

So if you cheat on your partner does that mean that you deserve to be cheated on? Fergie recently said that she used to be the cheater in her relationships before her relationship with actor ...

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Make-up: Beauty in a Bottle or Concealer of Self?

By Make-up: Beauty in a Bottle or Concealer of Self?

So, let’s talk about make-up. Yup, the M.A.C foundations on your dresser top, the eye-liner, the blush, the rouge: these are the weapons in our artillery. These are the things that make women’s beauty take ...

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Female Singlehood: A Disease that Must be Cured?

By Female Singlehood: A Disease that Must be Cured?

People sometimes ask me why I’m still single, and every time someone asks me that it confuses me. It’s like as though when you’re a certain type of woman, you have to have a man ...

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Shortage in the Digital Generation: Plugged into Cyberspace, Tuned Out of Reality

By Shortage in the Digital Generation: Plugged into Cyberspace, Tuned Out of Reality

You’d think I meant financial cost, but a few hundred dollars either way isn’t really the matter at hand here. Every day I walk around campus plugged in to my earphones, listening to my music ...

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Social and Religious Anxiety Condemns Nudity and the Human Body

By Social and Religious Anxiety Condemns Nudity and the Human Body

It seems like from the beginnings of civilization nudity was a taboo, one should be ashamed of the naked body. This has always puzzled me because as a young girl I was told that we ...

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Women Must Set Standards For There To Be True Equality

By Women Must Set Standards For There To Be True Equality

Charles de Montesquieu, a French political philosopher, said, “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” To be great one must be defined by one’s own standards and not those ...

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Forget Roses and Gifts this Valentine’s Day, Express Affection

By Forget Roses and Gifts this Valentine’s Day, Express Affection

With Valentine’s Day coming up this weekend I feel a certain lump rising up in my throat. I’m not choked up on sentimentality; I’m choked up on bile. I despise Valentine’s Day. Why? These days ...

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Not Just the Man’s Job: Women Need to Be Proactive In Their Sex Lives

By Not Just the Man’s Job: Women Need to Be Proactive In Their Sex Lives

Pregnancy has never really made sense to me, I know that sounds weird, but to be honest, it really never has. Sure I understand all the biological aspects of it, I understand that babies are ...

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Embrace Your Inner Dork: Learn to Love Learning This Year

By Embrace Your Inner Dork: Learn to Love Learning This Year

Calling all dorks, geeks and intelligentsia! Where are you? The first week of classes is the time of the year when you hear statements like: “FML…the education system is like death warmed up.” Sure, we’re ...

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