[su_vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/14340190″] There’s something about this little music video (featuring the song “Big Day,” by Norwegian electronica artist Torgny) that captures the hopeful-sad exhilaration and melancholy of saying goodbye to high school and heading out into the world. During late April and May, it’s tradition for Scandinavian seniors to celebrate with loud music and pranks. They also […]
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This just in on the animal news front: Namibian Black Rhinos are in danger, and there’s something you can do to help. Basically, the Dallas Safari Club auctioned off a chance to hunt a Black Rhino and bring back the kill to the United States. This species is extremely vulnerable; there are only 5,000 left […]
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I visited Tuila, a small Mayan village in Guatemala about eight hours from Guatemala city, to photograph children who were birthed by the village midwife. On the morning of my last day, these three Mayan high school girls stole a soccer ball after the other students were called to class, and they played and laughed […]
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[su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avm7nr1kZhg#action=share”] A Canadian charity is doing its part to just say no to sexting. Inspired by the suicide of Amanda Todd, a high school freshman who was bullied after flashing herself on a webcam, Children of the Street Society launched an ad campaign in the spring of 2013 to help prevent sexual exploitation. Program […]
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Can you put a price on your virginity? You may say no, but a girl in Siberia allegedly did. According to an article in the New York Daily Times, the girl (who went by the name Shatuniha), desperately in need of money, listed her virginity on a Russian auction site for the hefty sum of […]
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I’m a good person, but sometimes I make bad choices. I would never intentionally hurt someone because it’s just not like me. If I had known that I was hurting my friend, it would have changed what I did. Instead this experience changed my life forever. Let me start from the beginning. Myla has been […]
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[su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c62Aqdlzvqk”] While watching a thirteen-minute video seemed like a daunting task at first, I found myself sitting on my couch thirteen minutes later, wishing I could watch it all over again. As she’ll tell you in her video, Lizzie Velasquez was born with a medical disorder that causes her physical appearance to be drastically […]
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[su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisZTB4ZQxY”] This video was put up on YouTube by fouseyTUBE a month and a half ago, and it has already exceeded four million views. The footage of the experiment continues to be powerful every time I watch it. What would you do if you saw someone being bullied right in front of you? What […]
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When I was eighteen, my sister had her first child, Isaac. It was an exciting time for my close-knit family as he was the first nephew/grandson/child/what-have-you. Two short years later, Isaac got a sister, Naomi, and our family became even happier. So, though I’ve only been known as “Auntie” for three (and a half, almost […]
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