The Curb Cut Effect: How Helping Others Can Help Yourself

As accessibility becomes a much more prevalent consideration among designers, whether it's video game designers, urban planners, software developers or UI/UX designers, they've had to be more cognizant of the human conditions of often a minority of their users. However, we've found that accessibility features benefit more than just the people who need them. In... Continue Reading →

[Repost] What is a Woman Worth?

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Thoughts On Our Walkout | Student Responses

In the past decade or so, one of the social movements that have been gaining momentum is the one for gun reform. Most of it, you all already know; it's been on the news and everyone's outraged one way or another, understandably or otherwise. It's been a while since the March 24th and the April... Continue Reading →

Castigation or Correction: The Aftereffect of Our Prisons | A Research Paper

As history has progressed, mankind has had to develop factors that contributed specifically to the functionality of their society. One of the most prominent factors has been the addition of laws which set boundaries for the civilization as a whole. However, when laws are broken there must be some reinforcement that emphasizes the authority of... Continue Reading →

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Politics, Entitlement and Narcissism: I Want This and I Don’t Want Them to Have It

What I feel like is understated in the political environment today is the fact that the people advocating for legislation that is harmful to the planet and to the common people can't be swayed by logic or any measure of compassion. This sort of unsympathetic, elitist attitude shown by those in power right now can... Continue Reading →

Do You Still Not Understand?

Originally posted on May 4th, 2017 Have you guys seen what the House did with the Affordable Care Act today? And have you seen how they voted? It was really close with 217 voting for the repeal and 213 against. Here's an image of that from Vox:   Now do y'all see what I mean... Continue Reading →

American ADHD

Hello again! This Sunday, we're going to talk about how America gets distracted. In the meantime, for those who get their news through blogs and Facebook, I hope you'll read this. No, we're not going to be talking about the overdiagnosis of ADHD in Americans or the fact that social media and technology is supposedly... Continue Reading →

A Proud Hypocrite

There is always one phrase on the news that gets repeated over and over again-- America, the leader of the free world. First, that's awfully pretentious. And secondly, it seems ironic that America also has the highest number of incarcerated adults per capita. The leader of the free world also has the most inmates. However,... Continue Reading →

Abortion

Hello everybody! Hope you've all had a pleasant week so far. Today, I'm going to tackle the issue of abortion. My stance is generally pro-choice and I will explain why. To those who immediately felt a rush of animosity at my words, please restrain yourself from any unreasonable actions. To those who haven't read the About... Continue Reading →

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