Category: Award Winning
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Writing Matters: “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
The topic of “writing” elicits images of strict English teachers staring down their spectacles at wide-eyed students, demanding nothing less than Shakespeare from their young charges. Even experienced wordsmiths encounter angst over transforming their thoughts into artful written compositions. Consequently, many people today eschew writing in favor of vlogs and photo sharing. However, without writing, I would not…
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The Paradoxical Nature of Horror
Whether on Halloween with family or at a sleepover at midnight, almost everyone remembers the first time they saw a horror movie. Everyone knows the feeling of the adrenaline coursing through them when the jump scares don’t seem to ever let up, and everyone remembers how hard their heart was pumping when the characters…
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Exploring the Relationship Between Religiosity and Attitudes Toward Abortion in America
Among the sea of topics and issues that are frequently discussed and debated in the United States, abortion is currently one of the most heated arguments that has been raging for years on the internet, in debates, and even in the Supreme Court. In the light of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973…
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Show Me the Proof: The Unstable Future of Bitcoin
A century ago, coal mining powered the industrial revolution. Then came the extraction of oil, gas, and precious metals to fuel the growth of modern transportation, electrification, and computerization of our modern society. Today, there is a new type of mining gaining prevalency. It is not the mining of raw materials from the ground, but…