Marsha P. Johnson is a fashion icon, drag queen, and pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights. She is often recognized from the iconic image where she proudly displays her bright red lipstick, adorned with a ...
A World Without Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s plays have maintained a global influence for generations. His works are complex, modern readers often spending hours delving into his writing in order to decipher a joke com...
The Fukushima Daiichi Accident: A Twenty-First Century Crime Against Humanity
The Fukushima Daiichi Accident was a level 7 (rated on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale) nuclear reactor meltdown accident that began on the 11th of March 2011. This was d...
Is it Fair to Say that Literature is Another Name for Language Which has No Practical Use?
To assess the validity of this statement, it is important to define first the concept of “practical use”. Things that possess instrumental value and serve a real end are considered to have prac...
What is ChatGPT?
In the recent decade, one of the most groundbreaking advancements has been the development of ChatGPT and Large Language Models (LLMs). This technology is the fusion of artificial intelligence and lin...
Quilting
Quilting When needles dance, a tapestry will unfold, patchwork illustrating stories in threads it holds quilting whispers with its stitches that take time a story in every line...
Hong Kong’s Living Dead: Coffin Home Residents
The appealing attractions and wonders advertised in Hong Kong’s facade hide an insinuating secret. Behind the opulent complexes and malls lie moldy structures, a domicile for over 200,000 cage ...
Benchwarmers
Benchwarmers By Gray Beall The helmet is hot. It’s too tight. Those two sentences repeat in Mark’s head like a mantra as he stands in the middle of the field. The sun beams upon him and ...
5 Fun Facts About 5 Great Writers
William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare invented many new words, such as “dawn”, but his inventive spirit also extended to the spelling of his name. Shakespeare had a variety of ways to spell his own...
An Analysis of Asian Beauty Standards
The “white, infantile, and slim” aesthetic in Asia encapsulates a monotonous standard of beauty that reflects the constructed expectations of female figures. White represents pale skin, histori...