By Marjorie Slater In today's modern, high-tech world, it has become increasingly important to recognize all of the different possibilities that are made available on the Internet. The Internet has opened up lines of communication for business, pleasure, medicine, sports and even support-groups for commonalities ranging from depression and over-eating to alcohol abuse. … [Read more...] about Craving Community: The Phenomenon of Pro-Anorexia Websites
Old Bodies Leave Indentations on the Clouds
I looked under the sink, a Winchell’s mug; above the dryer on the shelves with exiled scraps; below a pack of dehydrated Sharpies, to the right of poor Elmer, also parched. I might’ve left it there when I was five…or six? I must’ve lost it but don’t you think by 19 I would have found it if it was ever somewhere at all? Not found in the kitchen, the search continued … [Read more...] about Old Bodies Leave Indentations on the Clouds
Collection
Michael Kroesche There are purple moths and Abel collects them, he's half naked in torn shorts like an old boat sail, brown toes among the baobab roots yellow nails. Under a veil of vines in the grass, flattened, is a clearing where he keeps them; bodies like lint stones, the dead wings, dried violets. He pulls pomegranates from … [Read more...] about Collection
Palestinian Conflict Bounces to a New Beat
By Taleed El-Sabawi "Rap music is the most visible form of African American cultural expression in contemporary society." 1 Yet, as hip hop's popularity continues to grow, it ceases to be solely a means of creating African American identity. Scholar Halifu Osumare in his article "Beats Streets in the Global Hood: Connective marginalities of the hip hop globe" argues that hip … [Read more...] about Palestinian Conflict Bounces to a New Beat
Growing Cities, Shrinking Opportunities
By Stan Holt Sprawl, “the spread of cities [...] propelled by the impetus of depopulating large, congested, polluted, and crime-ridden industrial cities,” continues to expand across the United States (Neuman 15). Environmental responsibility and economic freedom are opposing ideas argued in an attempt to approach a practical and timely resolution to sprawl. Those in favor of … [Read more...] about Growing Cities, Shrinking Opportunities