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Three Rejections of Modern Works of Art in the 20th Century, And The Lack of Rejection of Art Today

Three Rejections of Modern Works of Art in the 20th Century, And The Lack of Rejection of Art Today

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In the 20th century, audiences were remarkably vocal when they believed a work of art was controversial or lacked artistic or intellectual value. I give you three examples: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. On May 29, 1913, the ballet The Rite of Spring, set to Stravinsky’s commissioned music of the same name, debuted in Paris and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysée. The audience began to boo a couple minutes into the piece, probably during that discordant minute when various instruments are…

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The Anatomy of Not Going Home During Thanksgiving Break 2014

The Anatomy of Not Going Home During Thanksgiving Break 2014

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Stage 1: Revel in the fact that you don’t have to deal with traveling for eight hours just to listen to your extended family have racist, sexist, or homophobic conversations about what’s happening in Ferguson, thereby avoiding the temptation to flinging mashed potatoes across the dinner table out of frustration and completely ruining the holiday. Stage 2: Scramble to appropriate food from the Deece as much as possible while it’s still open. Bring at least four different Tupperware containers and…

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Sexual Assault in the YouTube Community

Sexual Assault in the YouTube Community

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TRIGGER WARNING: This article discusses instances of sexual assault. Mike Lombardo, Luke Conrad, Tom Milsom, Ed Blann, Alex Day, Alex Carpenter, Jason Sansome, Sam Pepper. At one point, these men were extremely popular content creators on YouTube. They had hundreds of thousands, even millions of subscribers—mostly women in the 13 to 17 age bracket. Another thing that these men all have in common? They have all been accused of sexual assault, from harassment to rape. All of these cases are…

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Awaiting American Horror Story: Freak Show

Awaiting American Horror Story: Freak Show

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Sometimes I sleep with a light on because I get creeped out at night. As a child, I was traumatized by haunted houses on the boardwalk, haunted hayrides, and that time my friends made me watch “The Ring” and “The Ring Two” in the same night, as well as another time they showed me episodes of “The Twilight Zone” in sixth grade. I am still unreasonably freaked out by anything that is meant to be mildly scary. I watched “The…

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Pro-Choice Legislation: Now is the Time to Act

Pro-Choice Legislation: Now is the Time to Act

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It is time to take a serious look at gender discrimination and the war on women that run rampant in health care in the United States. Last year alone, 24 states passed 53 anti-choice laws, and according to the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, also known as NARAL Pro-Choice America, there have been 40 legislative attacks on contraceptive laws already this year. This is a critical time get active and speak up for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Until…

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Canoe journey helps renew the Two Row Wampum Treaty

Canoe journey helps renew the Two Row Wampum Treaty

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On an epic river journey last summer, over 200 canoe and kayak paddlers celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty, the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people and early Dutch settlers in what would later become New York State. The paddlers – Native people and their allies – sought to renew the treaty’s vital goals of friendship, cooperation, protecting native lands, and preserving the earth and waters that we all depend upon. Paddlers traveled over 300…

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Coal Trains, the Environment, and Human Health: Why the Gateway Pacific Terminal is a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen

Coal Trains, the Environment, and Human Health: Why the Gateway Pacific Terminal is a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen

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Imagine: while sipping your morning coffee, you peer out your kitchen window and see a mile-and-a-half-long locomotive passing your home, the first of twenty that will do so that day. Black plumes of exhaust are expelled from the train’s engine while clouds of dark particulates stream off each of the uncovered cars. What you are seeing before you is a train transporting enormous quantities of coal from mines in the Powder River Basin (spanning northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana) to…

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