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Some may think that gender inequality is a thing of the past.  However, contemporary authors like to remind us this is not the case.  Using an interesting premise, author Camen Maria Machado calls attention to the issue of gender inequality while providing an engaging tale of an unnamed woman as she falls in love and…

I had never read any of George Saunder’s work until recently, and The Semplica Girl Diaries was certainly a banger of an introduction. The weird diary-entry style of writing, the dumb insights of the narrator, and the intrigue of the SGs (Semplica Girls) kept me engaged throughout. By the end, I went, “What the heck…

Our workplace is not a battleground for different generations, as Professor Leah Georges, a renowned authority in the field, effectively asserted.  In her TEDx speech at Creighton University, she questioned the widely held belief of a generational war, arguing how such misconceptions can keep us from working and communicating better at the workplace.  Georges claimed…

In ninth-grade English, Mr. Johnson showed us the movie “My Fair Lady” for the first time.  We watched Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins transformed Audrey Hepburn’s Eliza Doolittle from a poor flower girl to a sophisticated lady.  He accomplished this feat through the power of speech.  When the professor sang the verses to “Why…

I will tell you about my experiences with the Chinese New Year while growing up in Vietnam. Even though we are Chinese, both of my parents were born in Vietnam. My grandparents were from southern China and immigrated to Vietnam in the late 50s. My memories growing up were of poor but simpler times, filled…