America is the world’s most powerful country in the world. Its involvement in foreign policies is not only constant but also of critical importance: America’s decision-making can make or break countries, build peace or send us on the path to a world war. Despite this unrivaled level of power, regular Americans do not seem to earn such global responsibility with their level of … [Read more...] about A-broadening Your Horizons: Where Is the UK, Again?
Archives for October 2014
You Don’t Have to Win the Nobel Peace Prize to be Noble
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
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
What’s Eatin’ You: Gluten Is Bad ‘Cause…You Know….
As a child, I was allergic to a lot—eggs, milk, practically all nuts, and all fish. I knew what it was like to read ingredient lists religiously and be wary of the slightest cross contamination. And I grew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when people were not quite so sensitive to people’s problems with food (I was met with outright skepticism at many a restaurant when I … [Read more...] about What’s Eatin’ You: Gluten Is Bad ‘Cause…You Know….
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