Malala Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize which she won for her brilliant humanitarian efforts and her voice in the fight for equal education for girls. Malala's message began with the call to promote education for girls in her home country Pakistan. She claims that her vision for the right for girls to be educated began at age eleven and despite the … [Read more...] about You Don’t Have to Win the Nobel Peace Prize to be Noble
Archives for October 2014
A Song and Dance Man – James Cagney: Singing About Revenge and Dancing Around Bullets
Brianna DaSilveira is a Junior in USC's Critical Studies of Cinematic Arts program, and she is currently abroad in Brazil, practicing her Portuguese and studying Brazilian music and cinema. Her love of movies was discovered at a young age, as she wore out her favorite VCR tapes numerous times from overuse. She hopes to become a film producer, and bring fantastic stories from … [Read more...] about A Song and Dance Man – James Cagney: Singing About Revenge and Dancing Around Bullets
Trust Me, I’m Premed: Proposition 46
Proposition 46 addresses important issues in healthcare, but it does so in a hasty and haphazard fashion. The three provisions of Proposition 46 are to require drug testing for physicians, require physicians to check an online database prior to prescribing narcotics, and to increase the cap on “pain and suffering” damages in malpractice. At first, these provisions … [Read more...] about Trust Me, I’m Premed: Proposition 46
The Evolution of Entertainment: Binge Watching
The way we have watched movies and television has changed completely with the internet and websites such as Hulu, HBO Go and of course Netflix. Netflix has become one of the easiest modes of watching television and movies. For new releases, you can get a DVD shipped right to your door, and for old favorites they're right on your computer and in many cases even your television. … [Read more...] about The Evolution of Entertainment: Binge Watching
A-broadening Your Horizons: HONY Abroad
Brandon Stanton, the creator of Humans of New York (HONY), has recently spent fifty days abroad to expand his photography project in underdeveloped, war- and/or poverty-stricken countries as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The goal was to depict people from countries such as Iraq, Ukraine, and Jordan through the emotional and humane lens of his … [Read more...] about A-broadening Your Horizons: HONY Abroad