Archive for 'Opinion'
I’m Bringing Family Back
So I have this friend, and she visited me once to sleepover, chit-chat, you know, girl stuff. Anyway, that night she told me it had been weird to sit with my whole family at the dinner table to eat. I was not sure whether I should be affronted by her comment, but she quickly followed [...]
Full StoryPremature Cancelations
Living in Connecticut, or in any part of the north eastern United States comes with many certainties, one is the leaves are going to change and the other is we’re going to snow. Every single year, we natives of Connecticut get, on average, around 35 inches of snow during these winter months, and in my [...]
Full StoryGraduation:Hartford
The past two years could not have had more different commencement ceremonies. May 2008 families gathered on the Windham Tech School’s field on a sunny morning where a white stage was set up. For grandparents who probably would take longer to get from their car to the field than the ceremony itself, golf carts were [...]
Full StorySexual Harassment in the Military
By the end of 2009, several articles had been published about women in the armed forces and some issues regarding rape and other examples of sexual harassment. In a New York Times article published December 27, 2009 called, “A Peril in War Zones: Sexual Abuse by Fellow G.I.’s” it talks about several different cases regarding [...]
Full StoryLabel Jars Not People
My hand shot up in the air before I even got the chance to think about what I was doing. The professor of my Interpersonal Communication class asked for five volunteers to come to the front of the room.
Before I knew it, I was standing there with four of my classmates on display in front [...]
What Are You Waiting For?
Isn’t it amazing how lazy people can be sometimes? I actually find it quite amusing sometimes. For instance, I love coming to college everyday and looking for a parking spot outside of the parking garage, not because finding a spot in the lots outside the student center or the library is convenient, but because of [...]
Full StoryReality Shows Killed the Video Star
It’s Thursday night and the crowds are roaring in Times Square as Carson Daley introduces the audience to TRL (Total Request Live). Millions of teenagers tune in as their favorite music videos scroll by on the screen and up-and-coming bands perform live on stage.
Now it’s Thursday night present day. Teens turn on their TVs to [...]
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
In his most recent State of the Union address, President Obama told the nation that he still plans on repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy which he promised to abolish in his presidential campaign in 2008. The policy, which was passed by the Clinton administration in 1993, essentially excludes openly gay and bisexual men [...]
Full StoryNot Like the Movies
No, not at all like in the movies or TV shows as The Secret Life of the American Teenager proves when 15 year old Amy Jergens tells her friends what the media fails to tell their audiences. Teen pregnancy in Hollywood is not real life by any means. Shows like The Secret Life seem to [...]
Full StorySuper Bowl’s Pro-Life Commerical
When you turn on your TV this Sunday to watch Super Bowl XLIV, along with around 100 million other people, what do you expect to see? The Budweiser frogs, the E*Trade baby or even Terry Tate office linebacker, but the one thing that I did not think I would see this year during the Super [...]
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