From my 5th grade year on, I started noticing that some of my classmates came from different countries and were not aware of the resources available to them in their new home. For example, Elon University offered free tutoring programs, summer camps, language classes, precollege courses, and volunteer opportunities with
The first time I saw the newly released Superman movie, I shed tears. I was in awe of this movie: the visuals, the story, the casting, the comic accuracy, and the fact that the movie even had Superman in his classic red trunks! The DC fan in me felt relieved
“It occurred to me that I really was in someone else’s country and yet, in some necessary way, I was outside of their country […] for the first time I was an alien, I was a sailor—landless and disconnected. And I was sorry that I had never felt this particular
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. While this decision gave many children the legal right to equal education, it also revealed a deeper truth: in the United States, education has always
Today’s societies have inculcated theories over proper growth of ideas within our educational systems. School districts are mere minor institutions of politics with the wealthy and avaricious reigning on top, ruling their citizens for their own greater satisfaction or to add an extra medal to their career. Education has turned
What does it mean to be fully human? At a first glance, one may think that it only requires someone to be born a human. That assumption is only a portion of the truth. Humanity actually contains various traits that allow or prevent humans, and in some fictitious cases human-adjacents,
2023 is a year of social media. As Congress wages war on TikTok and Elon Musk fights on X (formerly Twitter), it is necessary for the public to stop and recognize the massive impact that social media have had on us. As far back as 2005, the 18-34 year old
Our names are Maosuf Togmah and Dylen Marcelle, the leaders of the CLS Reading Group at Boston College. Being that we are only sophomores in college, this is the first time that we’ve ever been given the responsibility for such a big project. Little did we know we were up
At the Civic Leadership Summit, Antonio and I used the skills we learned at F&C back in 2019. For example, during F&C, we read excerpts from many exceptional authors and philosophers, including John Dewey, James Baldwin, and Frederick Douglass. To organize our reading group, we thought about our favorite writers
I had the pleasure of hosting the best book club Ithaca College will ever see. My book club consisted of 9 people excluding myself, most of whom are a part of the opportunity program I am in along with some who are journalism majors like me. Within my book club