Surprise Stoning: Attacking Gender Norms in “The Lottery”
Transcript: Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” explores gender norms and the conforming values of tradition through the suspenseful nature of a dystopian society. The story was published in 1940s America, when the United States was recovering from the events … Read more
Opportunistically Spooky: New Opportunities with Old Fears
Halloween night, a full moon, college students; the spookiest combination— not to mention the national pandemic and the upcoming election. Don’t worry, I will leave those latter points for the next week. Reflecting on the week, on the surface, the … Read more
Chick-fil-A and Christ: An Ethnographic Study of Fast Food Employees and Franchises
Preface: Hey everyone! I hope all of this talk of food, especially Chick-fil-A, doesn’t make you too hungry. Nevertheless, growing up, Saturdays were always filled with new experiences, but one thing was always the same: eating at Chick-fil-A. My family … Read more
The Molecular Scissors
CRISPR-Cas-9 has revolutionized the scientific community. Synonymous with the groundbreaking discovery of the double helix in 1957, the field of genetics and medicine have elaborately shifted. CRISPR is acronymous for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats and CRISPR- associated protein … Read more