Society & Culture
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Tips to Help You Survive Your Convention Experience
By Taylor Smith Taysmith@lc.edu Trains, toys, comic books, anime, if you can think of any topic, it is likely that there is a convention just for it. Conventions are a fantastic way to meet new…
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Removing the Mask: The Detrimental Effects of Masking for Those Who Are Neurodivergent
Taylor Smith Taysmith@lc.edu Imagine living your life not as your true self, but as the person others want. You constantly ignore your feelings. You claim to hate things you love because they are not popular. Claiming…
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Viewing the Effects of Video Games from a Positive Scope
Taylor Smith taysmith@lc.edu Video games have been a target of contention for many years. Of course, when someone does not actually take the time to try them it can be understandable why they are seen in…
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What to do With Inedible Foraged Goods and Foraging Byproducts
Taylor Smith Taysmith@lc.edu Foraging is a once-lost art that has been one of the main reasons we have come so far as a species. It’s given us access to agriculture, horticulture, and especially art.…
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Fighting Against Hate Speech Without Restricting our Freedom of Speech
By Joshua Schumacher jschumacher@lc.edu Recently Brazil expanded its hate speech laws to include homophobia. Brazilian hate speech laws allow the government to levy punishments to people who say hateful things in public. This is quite…
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Anime Conbini Mart: Where Mini Meets Mighty in the World of Anime Conventions
By Taylor L. Smith taysmith@lc.edu Conventions are a great way for people with any sort of special interest or hobby to meet and connect with others with the same or similar special interests or…
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“Grow Through What You Go Through” – All about my interactive mural and what it means to me.
By: Megan Doyle mjdoyle@lc.edu To give you a little bit of a back story behind the meaning of my mural and how it came about, I’ll take you back to 2020. During that year,…
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Hustle Culture and Why You Should Avoid It Created
By McKenzie Parish mlparish@lc.edu There is a toxic ideology spreading across subsets of the internet. This ideology has been dubbed by many as hustle culture. The influencers behind this movement are spreading concerning viewpoints, mainly…
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Hostile Architecture Forces Housed and Unhoused Citizens Into Discomfort
by McKenzie Parish mlparish@lc.edu What is the purpose of local government? Most people think the government is meant to serve its citizens and maintain the local infrastructure. However, lately many governments have been more concerned…