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If you don’t want the skin to deteriorate, avoid the following mistakes. Do not use sunscreen: The products make up on the market today contain the SPF index so many of you often skip this step. However, this is harmful to the skin as such products cannot replace a dedicated sunscreen. Sunscreen also helps prevent…

Codes of behavior and a specifically presumed etiquette of decorum are expected in every culture because of the conventional human experience within that society. In ancient Greece, there is a definitive conclusion that all figures agree on when considering the roles of timē and arete in society and how one attains an honorable, heroic status….

In her book Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff describes in great detail the tense events taking place in ancient Egypt before and after Cleopatra’s reign as Queen. Schiff is an acclaimed nonfiction author. She has won the coveted Pulitzer Prize and has written plenty of historical books, essays, and columns featuring historical women such as:…

    To the Lighthouse written in 1927 by Virginia Woolf is a perfect example of her experimental style of writing.   She uses (overuses) semicolons, dashes, parenthesis to create “stream of consciousness” writing technique that can be found in many of her novels.  This approach demonstrates for the reader the randomness of human thought.   In the…

“Nothing Special” is a wonderful short story that details the happy and not so special moments of two characters and their close friends and family. Written by Viktoria Tokareva, it is realistically optimistic yet at the same time incredibly depressing story about two people who fall in love but cannot be together due to their…

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a procedure that involves full removal or partial removal of female genitalia, that may include damage to reproductive organs – in most cases, for non-therapeutic reasons. Though this may seem like a breach in basic human rights in the United States, it is seen in other countries around the world…

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address honored the soldiers that lost their lives in the Battle of Gettysburg, which proceeded the address by almost half a year, and reinforced the belief system that the fallen soldiers were fighting for. Within this address, the grounds of the battlefield were to be established as the Soldier’s National Cemetery, but…

I saw the play, “Into the Woods”, on November 29 in Theatre B, Aaron Davis Hall. Once I entered the theater, I saw a few chairs and desks on stage and some baskets near the desks. The background of the stage painted in red with some scattered trees. Once the production started, an actor hiding…

Hamlet, an iconic play written by William Shakespeare’s starts in 1600 in Denmark, Hamlet is the main character who seeks revenge on his father’s death after killed by his brother Claudius, so he could obtain the throne and Gertrude the queen. Long way down, a story written by Jason Reynold is about a young black…

Lady Macbeth’s character changes a lot during the course of the play. The character at the beginning is so different to the one presented in her final scene would not even be recognised as the same person. The play accurately depicts the progression of Lady Macbeth from a dominating, confident, ruthless killer, to a weak,…