Aunque la política y la sociedad se centran en la identidad cultural determinada por la nacionalidad, el origen étnico, la ciudadanía, y la pertenencia, los mayores factores reales de formar una identidad cultural son auto determinados y siempre cambiantes. La comprensión tradicional de una identidad cultural está vinculada de inmediato…

Ballet is a performance art-form created by the movement of the body. It is theatrical and can tell a story or express a thought, concept, or emotion. Ballet is magical, exciting, beautiful, comical, sensitive, provoking, tormenting, and even disturbing. To me, ballet is a life-long passion: a demanding and athletic…

A refugee is a displaced person that has been forced to cross their borders due to political, social, or religious persecution or oppression. They are considered forcibly displaced people or asylum-seekers until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the UNHCR. Through research, I have challenged biases and preconceptions…

(https://www.chronicle.com/article/college-campuses-should-not-be-safe-spaces/) In “College Campuses Should Not Be Safe Spaces”, Johnathan Zimmerman addresses a controversial issue of safe spaces and provides the readers with his opinion on the safe space doctrine and how it creates, barriers for conversations by “declaring any discomfort as out of bounds” in a college and education…

In 2019 when I made the decision to take a Gap Year, to join a 7-week Costa Rican volunteer expedition, to intern in a male-dominated industry I knew little to nothing about, and to spend a semester taking classes in a city I had never been to before, I had…

As an American citizen who had lived abroad for the majority of my life, my exposure to American politics and democracy were partial and often dramatized by news channels and Hollywood. I have had the privilege to live in Europe and have access to private and international schooling in which…

There is something so crushing about sitting down at a desk for anywhere from 5 to 11 hours a day and listening to online lectures. Juxtaposedly, there is something even more crushing about the self-loathing that arrives when health and education privileges are highlighted. By that I mean, that the…