Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Spring 2021 semester.
In 1956, the Hungarian people revolted against the Soviet Union, who had occupied the country following World War Two. Despite their anger about the occupation, the Soviet Union clamped down on the revolution, causing hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee the country. Among them were my grandparents, who fled across the border to Austria […]
The Jamaican national slogan is “Out of Many, One People,” which symbolizes the unity of cultural minorities inhabiting the island nation. However, the Jamaican national slogan fails to identify the economic and racial disparities on the island. Jamaica may have “One People,” but Jamaica has two classes: the wealthy White elites and the poorer Black […]
I grew up on the Upper West Side in New York City. The blue portion of the map is the area I grew up in; it consists of mostly tall, expensive apartment buildings. I spent a lot of time playing basketball at the Frederick Douglass Playground (grayed area on the map). It is the foremost […]
Political polarization divides the United States; the media plays an important role in this division as it can publicize and promote polarizing opinions on either side. The election fraud debate during the 2020 election epitomized this polarization; the country split between those who believed and discredited former president Trump’s claims of a stolen election. Massachusetts: […]
Pictured: US map colored by party association in the 2020 presidential election. Each state contains the number of votes needed to equal one of their electoral representatives.On average, democratic states needed ~261,437.91 votes to win one electoral representative, while Republicans needed ~318,665.91 (~57,527.61 more on average) in the 2 020 election. The structure of the […]
It’s no secret that beauty products are expensive. According to Business Insider, the beauty industry was worth $532 billion in 2019. Magazine ads use appealing images and seemingly empowering language to say: buy our expensive product and you, too, will be enough. Such popular imaging sets the standards that women compare themselves to. So how […]
Pharmaceutical companies push opioids into the public sphere as if they were injecting them right into the arms of the patients themselves. Opioids are made from natural drugs that are found in the poppy plant and are used to treat pain. There are three types of opioids: prescription (like OxyContin and Vicodin), fentanyl, and heroin. […]
I am a proud Ohioan. My dorm room is decked out in decorations from various Ohio sports teams. I have taken it upon myself to educate all my friends from the Northeast where Ohio is and what makes it great. However, it has always troubled me that Ohio ranks fifth in human trafficking cases in […]
Peru elected Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori for its Presidential Election run-offs last April 11th This was surprising, to say the least. Far-left candidate Pedro Castillo never appeared on the polls until election day and far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori had just been imprisoned in 2020 for corruption and other charges. In polls, she had high […]
How come the instruction and creation of art has become so disincentivized and devalued?
