Imagine you are dozing off in lecture when a change of pace brings you back—a video is to be shown. The opening scene depicts a little girl picking petals off a daisy. As she counts and the camera zooms in on her face, a chuckle escapes one of your classmates. Silence follows until an overpowering countdown begins that ends with a nuclear explosion. Suddenly, the room is full … [Read more...] about Laughter Through New Lens
Pandemics and Earth’s Resources as seen through the Epidemiology of HIV
Introduction Across the world in March of 2020, the colloquial usage of the word pandemic skyrocketed upon the initial discovery of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The several years in the fight against COVID has set a modern-day precedent for what a pandemic looks like in our world. The constant debates around dissemination of resources, vaccination policy … [Read more...] about Pandemics and Earth’s Resources as seen through the Epidemiology of HIV
Gender Stereotyping and News Reporting: A Case Study of China post-2021 Amendment of Female Laws
Abstract This paper examines gender stereotypes in Chinese news reporting in 2022, mainly through a sample analysis of rape and intimate partner violence (IPV) coverage by different news companies. It tries to find out the relationship between the legal changes in women's rights and the awareness of gender equality, since in 2021, the government improved women's law. … [Read more...] about Gender Stereotyping and News Reporting: A Case Study of China post-2021 Amendment of Female Laws
Genre Evolution of the Romantic Musical
The modernist film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and the post-modernist film La La Land (2016) demythologize the romantic musical genre by separating the once infatuated romantic leads of each respective film in order to refute the genre’s idealistic myth that achieving one’s dreams always occurs perfectly with the lover they originally shared them … [Read more...] about Genre Evolution of the Romantic Musical
S.C. vs. ‘SC: an Investigation of the Relationship between the University of Southern California, and South-Central Los Angeles
The University of Southern California has been my dream school since I was a freshman in high school. At fourteen years old, a family friend asked me what my dream career was, and I told her that I wanted to be a film director. She then recommended that I go to USC, because it’s the best film school in the world. So, I worked tirelessly throughout high school to affirm … [Read more...] about S.C. vs. ‘SC: an Investigation of the Relationship between the University of Southern California, and South-Central Los Angeles