Having a fun evening in with your Netflix account can be difficult at times because there are so many option out there, and you don’t know where to begin. I have compiled a list of a few hidden gems out there on Netflix for your viewing pleasure. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” (2010) This documentary […]
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As a senior, I’ve attended my fair share of coffeehouses at Eastern. The talent is really surprising for such a small school, but I now have a new found pride in my school’s musical ability! This past Coffeehouse on Sept. 5 was a different experience for me since I’ve never attended one on the Walton
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“I’ll stop after this episode.” You probably said that to yourself 12 episodes ago, and now you realize that you have just watched an entire television season in one day. This is what a professional would diagnose as binge watching. It is an epidemic that has swept the nation since the introduction of internet video
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Last Spring, Noëlle Vahanian, a philosophy professor at Lebanon Valley College, published The Rebellious No: Variations on a Secular Theology of Language. As a part of the literary series called “Perspectives in Continental Philosophy” with John D. Caputo as the series editor, this book finds itself among texts written by postmodern theology’s most recognized names,
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Recently, the world lost two of its greatest comedians, Robin Williams and Joan Rivers. Both were unique and exceptional talents who brought new life and perspective to the industry and whose influences have continued beyond their deaths. Robin Williams began doing stand-up comedy in the mid-1970s. He travelled to various clubs on the West Coast
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A Creative Writing Piece I went to bed early that night. It had been a long, stressful day. We’d had a fight; she told me that I had never been worthy of her. That she wished she’d never started dating me. I’d failed my second exam for the semester. I had stayed up all night
Fall is the season of fashion weeks, when high-class designers and fashion lovers alike flock to some of the world’s largest cities to see what is new in the world of fashion. But the fashions on the runway are quite ostentatious and are not meant to actually be worn as everyday wear. Rather, they are
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People have the power to positively or negatively transform a person’s life. It seems that the influence on some people’s lives has been more damaging than uplifting, resulting in suicides. There are 4,600 youth suicides each year among those aged 10 to 24, according to Statistic Brain. Young adults can help to prevent teenage suicide
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Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch is Eastern’s latest addition to the biblical studies department. Erudite and compassionate, Burnette-Bletsch feels very welcomed to the Eastern community. The youngest of three girls, she grew up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina with a Southern Baptist family. She is the first person in her family to graduate from college, and
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Less than a month ago, two American journalists were assassinated in Iraq by the Islamist extremist group IS, or the Islamic State, and since then, the ring of the American battle drums have again been beating to the sound of another military intervention in the Middle East. IS’s assassinations and numerous deplorable actions have created
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