By Yesenia Flores, Staff Writer Sleep paralysis is when our brain is awake and our body is asleep, causing huge confusion and inability to move even when one tries to force themselves to move. When we begin to doze off, our brains tell our muscles to relax, which in turn causes our muscles to tense […]
Category: Culture
Posted inArt + Entertainment, Opinion, personal experience
Costume Appropriation: Me Don’t Love You Long Time
By Jasmine Nguyen. Co-Lifestyle Editor Exotic dragon ladies. Giggling schoolgirls. Sensual geishas. For the longest time, these seemed to be the only images of Asian women that mainstream America could conjure. While those stereotypes are slowly fading away in films and on TV, they scream come Halloween season. Look around your local costume store and […]
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The Vibrant Life of the Day of the Dead
Photo by Nova Blanco-Rico By Violeta Rocha, Co-Social Media Manager Christmas, Easter and Halloween are three examples of rituals and traditions with roots reaching back more than 2,000 years that have become secularized and commercialized holidays emphasizing consumerism over culture. Is Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, next on the list? For […]
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Uncovering the Wizarding World of CSUDH
By Destiny Jackson, Co-Opinion Editor Have you ever solemnly sworn that you were up to no good? Or perhaps you’ve spent every summer since you were 11 years old dreaming of receiving your own letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Well, if you’ve only imagined it, here’s the next best thing: The World […]
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Declining Enlistment in U.S. and Israeli Militaries
By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief The sun beat down on the tops of our heads as the breeze stirred the long grass that tangled itself around the metallic signs and rusted barbed wire lining the cliff of the Golan Heights, separating it from the Syrian border. Zohar Kapustin pointed to a far off spot on the […]