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Defining yourself by character, not physical beauty
Every morning after my shower, I stand in front of the bathroom mirror, and try to force myself to look at my reflection for 10 seconds. I have never lasted the full 10 seconds.
column \ hip-hop \ music \ urban America
We are hip-hop: ‘The voice of urban America’ fans
Somewhere in America, right now, a self-proclaimed “hip-hop head” sits at a sticker-decorated Macbook exhausting 140 characters on why hip-hop is dead. With the age of the social media came the casual critic.
UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT
The Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys are a disgrace to the NFL and an embarrassment to the state of Texas. Whether you just laughed, felt a twinge of anger, wanted to argue – it doesn’t matter; what matters is that I just sparked an emotion with one short, simple, uneducated, biased sentence.
Rated-R for the revolution against remakes
It seems that the only thing you can see at a movie theater this year are remakes, reboots, sequels or prequels.
breast cancer awareness month \ column \ mammograms \ MD Anderson \ Project Valet
COLUMN: ‘Project VALET’ offers low-cost mammograms
October is breast cancer awareness month, but for many, especially women, awareness and prevention cost money they don’t have for a problem they can’t afford to fix even if they know they have cancer.
column \ first-time parents \ motherhood
Stork delivers load of issues
With all the information at your fingertips today, a person can pretty much become an instant expert on anything, right? Wrong. It appears it is going to take much more than a series of books and YouTube videos to teach my husband and myself how to prepare and care for our upcoming baby.
Video Gameocalypse: The end has begun
The end of the world is near; no stores carry their items anymore and their shelves are bare. This is only the beginning of the end … for video games to be sold in stores.
column \ Harry Potter \ J.K. Rowling
‘I open at the close’: Saying goodbye to a friend
July 15, 2011, my best friend will suddenly pass on; just like the turn of the last page in a book, it will be quick, expected, but unwanted.
My best friend’s name is Harry Potter.
column \ rape \ self-defense \ Slutwalk
Rape is another four-letter word
Rape is an extremely touchy subject. It is almost treated as taboo due to its violent and degrading nature.
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel
I have seen my world crumble before my eyes on more than one occasion; in the past five years I have lost my mom, my unborn baby and my husband.
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