Period Plunder The stigma around a woman’s period, one of the most natural processes our body has to offer, has become apparent in this past century. However, there’s no doubt that in that century, there has been a significant advancement in the creation of safe and usable menstrual hygiene products. […]
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Super Bowl LV: How This Year is Economically Bizarre
Although the NFL managed to get in all of its games without a single cancellation (just postponements), franchises are still projected to lose approximately $100 million in revenue each for a league wide total of $3-4 billion. Regular-season viewership fell 8% on average and Super Bowl advertising spots dropped in price […]
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Women in Church Given More Positions
The Vatican, often regarded as the most sacred temple of worship in Catholicism has frequently been a controversial subject in the 2000 years since its inception. The new move by Pope Francis to allow more freedom for women to serve in the church has made leaps in terms of closing […]
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Effects of the COVID-19 Variant on the Vaccine
Since late December of 2019, Covid-19 has heavily impacted the world. Fortunately, the long-waited COVID-19 vaccine has been developed and has proved to be unlike any precursor vaccines. The two vaccines currently in use employ mRNA technology. While previous vaccines work by administering a harmless form of a disease/virus, enabling […]
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American and International Political Differences
Differences Regarding Left and Right-Wing Politics Political differences can be seen from nation to nation, as some nations are skewed right or left. The Overton Window represents what is politically acceptable to a population. For example, a communist or far-left party would not fall inside the Overton Window because it […]
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COVID College Admissions and the class of 2021
When the COVID pandemic first began in the US in March, and public measures were taken to limit the spread of the virus, schools closed first. Seniors at the time lamented the Class of 2020 as the worst year of seniors in two decades, leaving prom and homecoming events cancelled […]
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Treatment by COVID-19 Antibodies
According to BBC News, Alan Mack and his daughter Rebecca Mack were both diagnosed with COVID-19 in April 2020. Rebecca, a nurse in the children’s cancer unit at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, England died of the virus soon after diagnosis. Her father also contracted the virus severely, but was […]
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Sports and Fitness During the Coronavirus Pandemic
A frequently practiced recreational activity by the majority of the American population is exercise and recreational fitness. However, recent times have made sports and fitness during the Coronavirus pandemic very difficult for most individuals to participate in, even impossible, due to social distancing measures and quarantine requirements causing gyms to […]
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How Close Are We To a Reliable COVID-19 Vaccine?
The COVID-19 vaccine is on track to become the fastest-developed vaccine in history, but that doesn’t mean critical steps are being skipped. Ruth Karron, who leads the Center for Immunization Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is one of the top vaccine experts in the world, serving on vaccine […]
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Is Our Universal Right to Vote Being Taken Away?
Of all rights we have, the right to vote is by far the most Democratically ‘defining’. Voting for candidates allows the country to choose people they trust to run the nation, but is the current voting system an accurate representation of the entire nation? Over 100,000,000 Americans did not vote […]