When I was 17 and working at a busy Starbucks drive-thru, it was not uncommon to be hit with the ear-piercing screams of a child in the backseat of a car as a flustered mom shouted to the microphone, “Can I PLEASE just get a cake pop?” before rolling up to the payment window. One […]
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Stand-up comedians have been around for decades, some would even argue that the concept of stand-up comedy originates from court jesters, which would date stand-up comedy as centuries old. Across cultures, jesters served many roles reaching from simple entertainment to political critique and correction. Today, stand-up comedians continue to carry on that fluctuating tradition. Some
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As kids, we may have turned our PJ’s inside out or put a spoon under our pillow to ensure snowflakes fell from the sky heavy enough to cancel school the next day. We dreamed of a day full of nothing but snow forts, snowball fights and races down big snowy hills. Our parents bundled us
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The crowd goes wild! People clothed in red, cheers and whoops and fists pumping the air. Everyone is smiling, laughing, dancing and enjoying the energy of the stadium. The stands are full of adoring fans, chanting words in unison. A lovely scene, one that every person in that crowd is sure to remember for a
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I’d like to start off this article by setting a scene we are all familiar with as college students. Imagine it’s your first week of college and you’re either doing one of those class icebreakers or you’ve sat down with a table of friends in the dining commons. Past the usual “this is my name,
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Broken pavement and old construction supplies litter the ground behind Doane. When you walk inside, it smells musty and old. The floorboards creak as you make your way up the stairs. Why doesn’t Eastern take care of their dorms? In the wake of the recent chaos from the power outage, students might be wondering this
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While the Oscars might be more well-known, the Emmys Award Show continues to be a popular occasion to pay attention to. While the Emmys this year reached its smallest audience yet, the award show still had about 4.3 million viewers on live television. If you don’t know, while the Oscars are an award show for
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Child stardom has been at the forefront of public consciousness in the past few years. From Miley Cyrus evoking her “Wrecking Ball” days with the song “Used To Be Young” to Jennette McCurdy’s memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” we have been reminded of a generation of stars now reaching their thirties who burned hot
“We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay.” This sounds familiar. Urges to curl up in bed and rot, catch up on some much-needed sleep, play a board game with some friends or doom scroll take over our need to do the
