What exactly is love? Of course, the word has come to take on various meanings in our society. The way we, say, "love" hamburgers is not the same way we love our family, not normally anyway. Yet even if we are to strictly single out love as the traditional romantic sense, finding your true love, or love at first sight, even here the term ( Read more... )

     Where has our curiosity gone? Where has the imagination to think out of the box disappeared to? Why have we, as Americans, let our guard down, simply slumping back, throwing our hands in the air, and going "whatever. I can't do anything, it's the way it is." What happened to critical thinking? To analytical thinking? To forming your own ( Read more... )

Certain songs will pull me into the past, or pull the past into the room with me. Or maybe it's both. Sometimes the music just opens up current emotions within myself. It's a strange feeling of happy sadness, or sad happiness. It's picturing the comforts and snapshots of home in my mind, and just giving in to feelings. Postal Service, Coldplay ( Read more... )

     Protestor, activist. What do you think when you hear these labels? These terms are not necessarily the same, but they are linked. They are related because they are labels that our society has effectively dubbed with a negative connotation. This is perhaps more true in our post 9/11 era. Everyone has to be "united". And so protesting and ( Read more... )

We've had "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire", "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?", "Married By America", and the "Swan", to name a few examples of bad television degrading society as we know it. But leave it to FOX to keep pushing the envelope on bad programs, "Who's Your Daddy?" premiered today! Haven't seen it? Ok here's the basic story, six men ( Read more... )

     Finals week is an excellent time to see the problems that all-together consume people. I watch as people around me crumble down to work-stressed shells. And if you look around our society, you see it's not just an affliction limited to college life ( Read more... )

10:31, hit the alarm off half asleep....Calm, quiet, peaceful sleep. Then I jolt up in bed, some noise....it's the phone. I grab it off the base....wrong number, someone looking for Juan or something. My body says lie back down and go to sleep, but I stop to look at the clock for a sec. It's 11:48! I have a final at 11:30! I leap out of bed ( Read more... )

     In the frenzy of papers and finals and exams and everything else that flies through the air during the last weeks of the semester, it can become easy to forget the outside world. Thankfully for me, the whirlwind of papers has dwindled, and my finals don't represent "too" much of a threat. Still, I've been stressed out more than is usual for ( Read more... )

     You know for all the emo music that I listen to, I'd never actually been in situations quite as dramatic or gut-wrenching as bands like the notorious TBS sing about. Oh sure, I've had my relationship problems, mostly just bad ex's. But up until recently, a song written about them wouldn't sound so romantic. It'd be something like "You were ( Read more... )

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