Fall 2021 Essays
Media Legacies
The Reality of Fiction: How Reading Teaches Empathy by Lillian Paturzo
The Great Bird Has Flown: The Complicated Legacy of Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry by Penny Joseph
The Not So Iconic Star Trek Kiss by Leah Mallory
Metamorphosing Kafka’s Legacy by Anna von Holten
LGBTQ+ Representation in Film and the Legacy of New Queer Cinema by Shea Campion
The Power of Language
Despite the Glass by Isabella Katis
The Virus of Language: How Technology and Gen Z Are Changing the English Language by Chloe Pitard
The Goldilocks Effect: A Podcast on Social Divide by Frances Schnepff
Why Language Matters: Taiwan or Chinese Taipei? by Marie Gregory
Exposing Injustice
Fordham’s Mistreated Food Service Employees by Lauryn Sweeney
The Marginalization of Women in the World of Skateboarding by Sharon Fitzpatrick
More Than Hair: Eradicating Hair Discrimination in the US by Heba Elsetouhi
Perinatal Mortality in the United States: A Crisis of the Unheard by Eliza Anderson
Oil Ties: US Militarism and the Environment by Lily Baughman
The Meaning of Home
The Devaluation of Black Homes: Problems and Solutions by Jaclyn Wickersham
What Makes a Family?: The Current Climate of LGBTQ+ Adoption Rights in the United States by Madeleine Bamford
Love Culture by Christiana Hubbard
Significant Insignificance by Madison Hales
Tale of the Huli Jing: A Feminist Story from Chinese Myth by Lauren So
Looking Ahead
Food and Resistance in The Hunger Games by Marielle Bianchi
Keep America Beautiful: Its Detrimental Effects on Collective Action by Sara Steber
More Than Just Clothes: How Our Fashion Choices Impact Our World by Emma Ehl
The Age of Electric Vehicles and Its Consequences by Jacob Gouveia
The Gift of the Gods: Current Debates on Nuclear Power by Minh Vu