By: Marie York
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By: Anjali Dhanekula
Emerging as a frontrunner among the countries with better coronavirus responses is New Zealand. Led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand understands how crucial stringent measures and speed are in the fight against the coronavirus and this understanding greatly influences their positive coronavirus response.
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By: Kaila Morris
After this year, I would be more than happy to never hear the word “unprecedented” used in a political context again––the stigma around it has been, to use my affectionate terminology, twenty-twenty-fied. That’s when something has been heard so many times over the course of 2020 that we’ve learned to expect a certain, most usually negative, outcome. Assuming you haven’t yet moved to a remote island in Oceania to escape the tumult of the past few months, chances are you know the feeling.
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By: Emily Qian
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Extemporaneous Speaking can often be the loneliest events in all of Speech and Debate. That is, until one Extemper unmuted his mic and turned on his camera. “I’m actually a Student from China, and the American media isn’t covering the whole truth.” I froze and looked at the guy.
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Fast fashion retailers, including Forever 21, H&M, Zara, and Fashion Nova, mimic trendy styles from expensive fashion brands and produce a mass amount of clothing in the shortest time possible without care for what happens before and after profit
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Something led you here to read this. First off, you have online access. You also probably have some sort of social media. Bingo. You’re my target audience and data mining has just done its job successfully. Social media is also ripping the very trust that keeps societies together without us knowing.
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Quite recently, I have learned the full process of how Korean, as in the writing known as “Hangul” was formed. Throughout my whole 16 years of living as a Korean, I never really learned about how my first language was formed.
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“Kung Flu”. “China Virus”. These are just two of the countless racially degrading terms used to refer to SARS-Cov-2, or the novel coronavirus. From President Trump to numerous news articles, both politicians and mainstream media alike have contributed to the widespread use of such scientifically incorrect and racially charged nomenclature.
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As my dad and I are driving on the highway, the radio station we’re listening to begins to play the Korean news channel. Yesterday, it talked about a celebrity being criticized for posting the Japanese confederate flag on their social media, and today the anchor could speak about the ongoing boycott on Japanese products in Korea, but none of this would faze me or my dad. For nearly a century, the two countries had never been at peace, at least politically and economically.
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We’re protecting green spaces. Woodlands filled with elegant white-tailed deer and scampering brown squirrels; streams where colorful minnows dart around smoothed over rocks and uncountable aquatic insects flit over the water’s reflective surface; protected parks crisscrossed by trodden trails and community hikers.
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The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and peaceful protests have especially gained traction since June 2020. I repeatedly mentioned these protests to my parents, and they mentioned how BLM reminds them of the Korean democratic revolutions and protests that have developed over the years.
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No, not the gender wage gap, but rather the gender data gap. To put this into perspective, here are some prime examples of flaws in data which designates the male as the “typical” standard, especially in science and engineering, and how this may affect our future.
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With over 7 billion people in the world, humans have made many different impacts in the world. While convenient for our economy and comfort, most of these impacts have been detrimental to the environment, especially in terms of ecosystems.
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Click. Added to your bag. Next thing you know, it ends up buried in a pile in the corner. Intentional or not, your overconsumption is feeding fast fashion.
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In general, few people regard Belarus. In the eyes of many, it is just a Russian puppet, isolated from the rest of Europe. Their economy, which is largely state-run, has been unstable for the past half-decade, mostly relying on Russian subsidies.
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It has been about 6 years since the tragic sinking of the Sewol Ferry occurred. I remember going to many yellow ribbon campaigns with my parents, and still have a key ring with a yellow ribbon with the word “ We won’t forget” engraved into it.
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Over the course of four years, the United Kingdom has found itself in two different watersheds in its history. They found their leader in Kier Starmer, a former human rights lawyer. Although Starmer himself may not be as flashy or well known as his Conservative counterpart, what he represents is just as important to deciding Britain’s future.
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In the eyes of many Americans, Justin Trudeau has it all. He’s young, he’s woke, and he’s hot. If prom still existed in these times, he’d win both prom king and prom queen. Unfortunately for Trudeau, Canada is comprised of a bit more than just high schoolers.
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In recent months there has been much talk over the controversy of schools opening throughout the community. Many different options and safety measures seem to have been suggested for the continuation of education for many different schools.
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