We live in an era of both unprecedented government spending and a remarkable lack of accountability for what is done with the average American citizen’s tax dollars. While money is continuously shipped overseas to military operations in foreign countries — and sapped from medical and welfare programs — politicians on both sides of the party line say they are diligently working to reduce the country’s national debt.
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For something that is so prevalent and dynamic in our culture, the portrayal of marriage and divorce is very generalized. Marriage has often been romanticized into an ideal of two people who are head-over-heels for each other that go to their nearest house of worship, recite their vows and ride off into the sunset in their car with aluminum cans tied to the back. In contrast, divorce is typically depicted as a violent, hateful mess initiated by adultery and ending in emotional scarring for the children who are inevitably caught in the middle.
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During the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival panel discussion at Cinemapolis on Mar. 31, viewers expressed unanimous feelings of disgust after watching a graphic documentary about the colossal waste produced by one of China’s most progressive metropolitans. Wang Jiuliang’s documentary Beijing Besieged by Waste let the images speak for themselves as the filthy demon of consumerism physically manifested on the big screen.
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You know her. She may have been in high school with you; maybe she’s a cousin, a sister, a friend. But when she got pregnant, it may very well have rocked your world.
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Fears and missteps in the undergraduate experience
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The war on drugs has created a huge boom in the domestic prison population. With over two million people in prison, the United States has the highest incarceration rates in the world, a factoid that should be repeated by media outlets every day. The United States makes up just five percent of the world’s population, but it contains 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Since the 1980s, the U.S. has intensely ramped up its drug enforcement policies, incarcerating individuals for minor drug offenses, including drug use and possession
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The reasoning behind general education requirements We log onto Homerconnect and search through all of the classes available, trying to find one that fits our…
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