Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Fall 2022 semester.
“A case was referred to us in which a boy – just fourteen years old – was badly beaten and robbed. The young man who did it was facing three years in prison. I went to speak with the survivor’s mother…she said to me: When I first found out about this, I wanted that young […]
Global companies have long profited off Congo’s resources with the help of wealthy nations, to the detriment of Congolese people. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the richest countries in natural resources but ironically happens to be one of the poorest countries in the world (Kara 2022). How the Demand for Cobalt […]
When Congress approved the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, it authorized what was the largest public works program in U.S. history. It was used to build 41,000 miles of highways that connected 42 capital cities, as well as ninety percent of US cities with populations greater than 50,000 (Knight 2007). It sought to enhance travel […]
Dodging Overpopulation: Are We Truly Safe? People across the globe have long feared overpopulation and its detrimental effects on our planet, such as overconsumption, pollution and climate change. But, what many fail to realize is that in certain developed countries, the opposite trend is occurring. In the United Kingdom, Japan, and other Western European countries, […]
When you think about sports, specifically team sports, you don’t instinctively focus on the background of the players. Growing up, I was the only Black player on my varsity soccer team, and I was one out of the 5 Black players on my varsity lacrosse team. I was fortunate enough to attend a private school […]
This is Elmhurst, Queens. I grew up here. In middle school, I would walk past these buildings every weekend to go to the mall or get a snack from a bakery, and yet failed to recognize how drastically it changed from year to year. As a kid, I didn’t see the impacts of these towering […]
F1 racing has many seemingly insurmountable economic and gendered barriers that prevent many people from entering the sport. Yet others, with family connections and access to resources, seem to seamlessly avoid some of these obstacles. Some of the most notable F1 drivers had fathers who competed in either F1 or other high class motorsports (Holding […]
Most Americans believe that the U.S. is politically polarized, and a majority believe that this polarization will worsen in the future (Lee 2022). Political polarization can make American democracy vulnerable, as evident in other countries, such as Turkey (McCoy, Rahman, and Somer 2018). This is because polarization erodes two norms that American democracy relies on to […]
When others ask “How are you?” a common response at Hamilton College is: “I am so tired”. I have heard friends complain that they were awake until almost 5am completing assignments, even though adequate sleep aids mental health and retaining new information (Gillen O’Neel et al., 2012). Life at college is jam-packed, and many students […]
Siblings share toys, they may share clothes, do they also share mental illnesses? I am the youngest of five children born to two teachers. The five of us, four girls and one boy, were born and raised on a small boarding high school campus where my parents worked. Our house was always filled with tension […]
