A recent commercial by Dove shows how women tend to perceive themselves as less beautiful than strangers perceive them to be. The advertisement uses a …
Category Archive: Blog Posts
Morning-After Pill Decision Good for the United States
By Journal Student Writer Courtney Thomas-Dusing Earlier this month a United States District Court from the Eastern District of New York ordered the Federal …
Iowa Senate Takes a Stand to Protect Academic Freedom
By Journal Student Writer Genevieve Craggs While the big news coming out of Iowa’s legislative session may be the constant discussion involving Medicaid expansion, …
Marriage Equality Does Not Equal Adoption Equality
By Journal Student Writer Tyler Coe The general consensus among industrial modernized nations remains that orphaned children need stable homes. Rather than growing up …
Disability Human Rights at Home and Abroad
By Journal Student Writer Tai Blas Access to education and employment are issues of fairness and justice in the United States. Scholars in other …
The Power of Words
By Journal Student Writer Lewis Field I just recently started listening to rap for the first time in my life. Growing up in rural …
What Happens When a Husband Takes a Wife’s Name? The Florida DMV Assumes Fraud
By Journal Student Writer Will Gyauch This is the story of an incredibly romantic gesture gone awry. Lazaro Sopena decided he would help his …
Suicide as a Gender Issue
By Journal Student Writer Jesse Sheedy The recent high profile suicide of Aaron Swartz, a tech innovator and internet activist, caused many to revisit …
GOP: Adapt or Perish
By Journal Student Writer Ryan Cauley H.G. Wells once wrote, “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” This quote is quite …
A Girls-Inspired Legal Reflection
By Journal Student Writer Elizabeth Weyer “‘You could not pay me enough to be 24 again.’ ‘Well, they’re not paying me at all.’” - Lena …
