Eric Weintraub is an avid writer whose interest in immigration sparked a summer-long research project on the issue. He now regularly blogs about undocumented immigration along the Arizona and California/Mexico borders. http://undocumentedarizona.com … [Read more...] about Eric Weintraub
Jesse Gallegos
Jesse is a Physics student in USC’s Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Originally he started his blog, Etiquette, to study manners and behaviors in different societies, however, after a few weeks of blogging he realized that the task was too broad and narrowed his focus to books and politics. To this day the name of the blog remains the same. … [Read more...] about Jesse Gallegos
Incest and Innocence
A primary facet of the American literacy consciousness is the ideal of American innocence and the tragic consequences if that innocence is lost. Yet many American authors remain deeply troubled by the role of sexuality within that conception of American identity, and more importantly, the role of those desires that have been deemed deviant. When Vladimir Nabokov first … [Read more...] about Incest and Innocence
The Empty Chair: Looking into the Eyes of Marina Abramovic
Performance artist Marina Abramovic’s retrospective collection, “The Artist is Present,” debuted in March 2010 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Comprised of over fifty pieces of her work from the last forty years, the exhibition calls attention to the divide between artist and audience, observer and participant, and repetition and stillness. Using the human body as a medium, … [Read more...] about The Empty Chair: Looking into the Eyes of Marina Abramovic
OMT, OMG! Osteopathy Makes It Better
*Note: This paper was written before the implementation of health care reform by the Obama administration in 2010. However, this does not in any way lessen the importance or timeliness of the claims being made. Atul Gawande, endocrine surgeon and author of Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, has said that it takes a certain ingenuity and innovation to excel in health … [Read more...] about OMT, OMG! Osteopathy Makes It Better