Tag: spring 2024

Spring 2024

Thoughts on Cancel Culture: Can it Do Good?

“Cancel culture” is the public shunning of someone when they’ve said or done something people view as problematic (Wong 2022). So, how did it come about? People try to separate the “good” and the “bad”. They do this by punishing those who act in said “bad” ways, in order to reduce the chance of those […]

Fall 2024

Was that building there before?

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 […]

Spring 2024

The Invisible Hand of Alcoholism’s Reach

Chances are, you know an alcoholic, or you know someone close to an alcoholic. Maybe it’s a grandparent, or a friend’s mom, or your aunt’s college roommate. With over 30 million Americans reporting having alcohol use disorder in 2021, it is likely that most people know someone who has experienced the deleterious effects of alcoholism […]