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The 9mm is the most used weapon in US mass shootings, not AR-15   To the left, 9mm semi-automatic handgun. To the right, AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Images sources via: https://www.impactguns.com/data/default/images/catalog/535/ati_cs9.jpg https://cdn3.volusion.com/j4enh.r2en5/v/vspfiles/photos/BCM%20Carry%20Handle%20AR-15-3.jpg?1456827038   A line of men of various ages stand in front of Collector Rifle & Ammo gun store in Hopewell Junction, New York at […]

  Dutchess County Court House in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Twitter post: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – A driver who injured a married couple in a vehicle accident was intoxicated more than three hours after the accident, an expert, the theatre worker that served him alcohol, and others testified against him. Trial adjourned […]

“Who deserves hemodialysis today?” (Raghavan, 2017, p. 488) Undocumented immigrants who suffer from kidney disease are a stigmatized people suffering from a stigmatized illness. The patchwork of treatments offered by each state is wasteful and inefficient, and government policies often put unnecessary stress on state and community healthcare systems. There are clear financial and humanitarian […]

During my first year in New York, I lived with an old Art Collector. She died this winter. They found her laying on her marble floor corridor, wearing her red fur coat, Jeffery, her Portuguese water dog, barking at her side. The leash was hanging loosely around his neck. Her name was Amanda, but I […]

Louis, Bertin M. My Soul Is in Haiti: Protestantism in the Haitian Diaspora of the Bahamas. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Hardcover. [There are also Kindle and paperback editions available.] 200 pp.   I despise the word “voodoo.” It has pejorative connotations and unfairly stereotypes the often-Catholic people who practice a peaceful religion […]

Edited by Stephanie Mojica CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Crumbs are a serious health and safety risk in outer space. “Crumbs can get in your eyes and they are extremely difficult to remove,” Joseph Tanner, a veteran astronaut and NASA’s unofficial food expert, said during a recent interview. Also, even the finest crumbs can cause chaos […]

The two images that I chose to analyze and compare in this essay represent female singers holding a microphone that are seemingly engaged in the act of singing. One of them is the famous American singer Lady Gaga, known for her outrageous stage persona and kinky costumes, and the other one is from the Arabic […]

We see news every day about how climate change is affecting people and places in other parts of the world. Some effects are directly measurable, such as in Venice, Italy, where the city is succumbing to sea level rise and apparently sinking into the ocean[1]. Other effects are associated with or correlated with climate change […]

I am a lead pencil, The ordinary wooden pencil. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; That’s all I do. You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, my story is interesting to begin with. And, next, I am a mystery, More so than a tree Or a sunset or even a […]

War vs. Peace Journalism By M.A. Blackmur Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung, in their book Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism, present quite a bit of thought provoking information about how conflict is currently reported on and the possibilities of how this style of reporting could be improved to include peace journalism. I feel […]