By: Richard M. Max Mara   Stephen King’s “Children of the Corn” follows a couple on the cusp of divorce that take a trip to California as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. The trip takes a turn for … Read more

  James Joyce introduces Eveline’s life as extremely mundane, excited only by the arrival of a man from Buenos Ayres: her lover Frank. Thus, Joyce creates an extreme situation, contrasting harshly between a life of painful domesticity or near serv … Read more

Chris Hewgley Selfishness: The Root of Emptiness The “Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is a short story about a poor man, Tom Walker, living outside of Boston. Tom is found by the devil and the devil bargains a … Read more

  Preface: The University of North Carolina is home to nearly 30,000 students and almost 30 division 1 teams. Of these many division 1 teams, the fencing team is one of the more intriguing ones. While the art of the … Read more

Hey guys, hope all of you are doing well!   PREFACE: If you look around, sometimes it feels like the world revolves around coffee shops. College students especially are known for running off of caffeine addictions, so local coffee shops … Read more

By Caroline Cochrane 9/28-10/5/2020 This week, we transitioned from September to October, and we surpassed the halfway mark in the semester. Many of us felt the “Midterm Slump” as we juggled classes and their respective tests. This week was full … Read more

Another week, another blog post, and this time, we’re jumping head first into Unit 2: Writing in the Social Sciences! It’s crazy to think how far we’ve come- it feels like just yesterday we were meeting our breakout groups for … Read more

Mental health problems, whether clinically diagnosed or not, appear to be on the rise in the United States. Whether this trend is due to a declining societal stigma against mental health, or a result of more mentally taxing careers and … Read more

Anyone can get epilepsy. A serious neurological disorder, epilepsy can manifest in dangerous seizures and sometimes death. Though it is more common amongst younger children or the elderly, the disorder can delevop in people of all ages and backgrounds. Surgeries … Read more

Christopher Hewgley   During the 1960’s, cigarette smoking was at its peak. Roughly 47% of adults in the U.S. were smokers and everywhere you looked you were fed the lie that cigarettes were beneficial in numerous ways especially with the … Read more