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    Graduating from the Electoral College: Intermission

    Graduating from the Electoral College: Intermission

    Interlude: Well, If We Have No Choice How did it come to be that every choice, in every election, is a choice between two or more...
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    Adapting To Life In Western New York

    Adapting To Life In Western New York

    Moving to Western New York can be a huge culture shock for many incoming college students—it certainly was for me. I had to move from a...
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    The Catholic Church is Wrong for Refusing to Bless Same-Sex Relationships

    The Catholic Church is Wrong for Refusing to Bless Same-Sex Relationships

    On Monday, March 15th, the Vatican announced that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions. This statement was issued in response...
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    Graduating from the Electoral College Act II

    Graduating from the Electoral College Act II

    Time of day: The Senators are settling in for their lunch How do we prevent the Tyranny of the Majority? So far, we’ve been able to avoid...
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    Nostalgia

    In Greek, nostos means to return home, and algos means pain. These two words have morphed together into what we now call nostalgia, a...
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    A 10 Second Clip Sold for $6.6 Million. How?

    A 10 Second Clip Sold for $6.6 Million. How?

    I’m sure within the last 2 weeks or so, you’ve come across “NFTs” on the internet. You’ve also probably heard of a ten second clip by...
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    Graduating from the Electoral College: Act I

    Graduating from the Electoral College: Act I

    Setting: Frontier Living in the Back of the Mind Can the U.S. truly claim to spread Democracy, while never being a Democratically...
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    Graduating from the Electoral College

    Graduating from the Electoral College

    Prologue: A Blindingly Bright Future There has been a growing controversy in recent years about the sustained use of the electoral...
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    Thoughts on Black Friday

    Thoughts on Black Friday

    As a child, I did not understand the appeal of Black Friday. Who would want to wake up early to go to an absolutely packed store with...
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    The Show Must Go On

    The Show Must Go On

    As the year 2020 comes to an end, it’s obvious to say nothing went as planned. We faced problem after problem all while trying to...
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    Recycle Now or Die

    Recycle Now or Die

    The earth is quickly deteriorating and America is simply not doing enough to slow it down. America as a country can’t solve this problem...
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    Vote for Earth

    Vote for Earth

    If you’re voting for the environment this year, your candidate of choice should be clear. Over the past four years, we’ve witnessed...
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    Why you should vote

    Why you should vote

    Some people whose political views are liberal and progressive say they will not vote in the 2020 US election. They detest Donald Trump...
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    What It Means For Black Lives

    What It Means For Black Lives

    Breonna Taylor, an African American woman, was shot and killed in her own home by police officers. This, along with the killing of George...
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    Blue Lives Do Not Matter

    Blue Lives Do Not Matter

    Given the recent uproar in the Black Lives Matter movement, some people who share a more conservative view have created a comeback to the...
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    What is the point of All Lives Matter?

    What is the point of All Lives Matter?

    All Lives Matter is often the glib response you’ll hear from certain individuals when Black Lives Matter is brought up. At this point,...
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    Black Lives Matter: On Interstate 90

    Black Lives Matter: On Interstate 90

    My wife and I bought a school bus almost exactly a year ago. It's now since transformed into a twenty-two-foot-long, one-bedroom,...
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    ACAB: Why We Say It

    ACAB: Why We Say It

    The Black Lives Matter movement was sparked in February 2012 by the tragic murder of Travon Martin. Though it was not as popular then as...
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    All Lives Can’t Matter Unless Black Lives Do

    All Lives Can’t Matter Unless Black Lives Do

    All Lives Matter is the counter-argument against Black Lives Matter, the movement against violence directed towards black lives. The...
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    What Feminism Means to Me

    What Feminism Means to Me

    Suzanne Duru, my maternal grandmother, grew up in Paris during the Nazi Occupation. All throughout her childhood she had to endure harsh...
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