Category: Young Adult
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Free Time?
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau. We are conditioned to make friends, become successful and contribute to society. We are conditioned to these things in way that differs from the normal and natural progression of the human experience. Millennials especially, value themselves based on their achievements, goals and acquaintances more than…
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There is room
“Sometimes you have two children born at the same time; one is stillborn but the other one alive and healthy because the dead one gave the other a life transfusion in the womb and in essence sacrificed itself” Edwidge Danticat’s. Danticat likens discrimination, and the subsequent prejudice and oppression, caused by a perceived scarcity of…
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Mary Tyler gave television Moore
Mary Tyler Moore is a dearly remembered actress, who embodied style, charm, grace, independence and confidence. Moore challenged social norms of what a woman should be and how she should act. She inspired women to shape their identities that didn’t rely on being a Mother or Wife (Feldman). As a millennial, I missed many of Ms. Moore’s original…
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Give Me Gemeinschaft, or Give Me Greatness
gemeinschaft [German guh–mahyn-shahf-tuh n] Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by a strong sense of common identity, close personal relationships, and an attachment to traditional and sentimental concerns. We know the dangers of groupthink, the atrocities that occur, the prejudices it produces, the wars it wages and the inclusion it inhibits. Groupthink can be comfortable, it’s familiar and builds a sense of community at the expense of the exclusion of diversity. “Diversity, the act of thinking independently together.” …
Kalen Nicole 