Anxiety is all around us. It is triggered by fear of the future, fear of what others might think of you, fear of being disliked, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, etc. Anxiety is something really common. In the United States, 40 million individuals are affected by anxiety. 18.1% of adults have been diagnosed with anxiety, but only 36.9% get treated for it. Anxiety is often … [Read more...] about Anxiety
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Eating Patterns: Mother’s Influence
As finals season approaches, many college students may resort to coping through the final few weeks of the semester. With varying foods offered in the dining halls, some college students may stress eat as a way of dealing with the finals season. If there is additional energy needed to study, consuming more food could be a possible pathway to providing this energy. Yet, … [Read more...] about Eating Patterns: Mother’s Influence
The Potential of Redefining Beauty Standards: Gene Editing
In the wake of gene-editing technologies like CRISPR are designed to mitigate medical illnesses. Yet, they may offer a potential pathway to alter a baby’s physical features. From eye color, height, skin tone, and hair color, gene-editing technologies may ultimately expand to the realm of physical features. This may bring up serious human rights concerns as gene-editing tunes … [Read more...] about The Potential of Redefining Beauty Standards: Gene Editing
Aesthetic Decolonization: Magic Realism and Rewriting Postcolonial Trauma in Briar Grace-Smith’s Purapurawhetū
Introduction In her 1999 play Purapurawhetū, Briar Grace-Smith weaves her audience a story of simultaneously ordinary and epic proportions. Much like the audience, the play’s protagonist Tyler, a Māori teenager, finds himself immersed in a world where the logical and the extraordinary commingle boundlessly. The past and the present, the living and the dead, and the animate … [Read more...] about Aesthetic Decolonization: Magic Realism and Rewriting Postcolonial Trauma in Briar Grace-Smith’s Purapurawhetū
Uncovering the Invisible Gene and Reflecting Who We Are
As a rise in children come from multicultural backgrounds, they must determine how to embrace their cultural and personal identity. Our physical features are often read by others to reflect who we are, yet this may lead us to struggle to embrace both cultures. Genetics can play a role in controlling our phenotypes (physical features) as nature chooses to emphasize certain … [Read more...] about Uncovering the Invisible Gene and Reflecting Who We Are