Davis Projects for Peace Award Recipient Interview How many hours per week do you think you spent drafting your internal and external application? I initially applied to the Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship during my junior year of college. Un(fortunately), my application wasn’t among the nominated and in hindsight, I…

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Painted by Japanese-American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Girl with an Accordion is a painting categorized under Modern and Contemporary Art and is currently on display at the Portland Art Museum. The work, as its name would suggest, features a girl sitting on a chair and inclining on an accordion. Her left…

የሰው ልጅ ክቡር ሰው መሆን ክቡር ሰው ሞቷል — ሰው ሊያድን፣ — ሰውን ሲያከብር በደግነት፣ በፍቅር፣ በክብር ተጠርቶ፣ በክብር ይሄዳል፥ ሰው ሊኖር — ሰው ሞቶ፤ የተሰጠኝ ህይወት ዛሬ በነፃነት፣ ሰው ተከፍሎበታል ከደምና ካአጥንት፣ ስንት ወገን ወደቀ በነፃነት ምድር ትናገር አድዋ፣ ትናገር ትመስክር፣ ትናገር አድዋ፣ ትናገር አገሬ፤ እንዴት እንደቆምኩኝ ከፊታችሁ ዛሬ፤ በኩራት፣ በክብር፣ በደስታ፣ በፍቅር፣ በድል እኖራለሁ ይኧው በቀን በቀን ደሞ መከራውን ያን ሁሉ ሰቀቀን። አድዋ ዛሬ ናት አድዋ ትናንት፣ መቼ ተነሱና የወዳደቁት፣ ምስጋና ለእነሱ ለአድዋ ጀግኖች፣ ለዛሬ ነፃነት ላበቁኝ ወገኖች፣ የጥቁር ድል አምባ፣ አድዋ አፍሪካ፣ እምዬ ኢትዮጵያ ተናገሪ… የድል ታሪክሽን አውሪ።

The convoluted structure of Sor Juana’s Response to Sor Filotea Da La Cruz coupled with its author’s self-deprecating approach confuses readers when it comes to the ulterior motives behind the writing. When being a woman was seen as an undesirable trait and long before the term feminism was coined, Sor…

Regarded as the locus classicus of W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, the concept of double consciousness introduced early on in his book lays the groundwork on which Du Bois attempts to elucidate the struggles black people faced and continue to face in a white-dominated era. By presenting…

“. . .This is the kind of story that could be remade by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, although in the Hollywood version, there’d be a happy ending. That would kind of miss the point and release the tension, I think; the thrust of Wong’s film is that paths cross…

It’s a shame this too shall pass, Soon you will just be another Memory tucked away in the abyss, Faintly chanting could-have-beens And might-have-beens, But for now — Move your hips for me, darling.

Far too often, We find ourselves contemplating What the point of it all is. Why are we still paddling When the ending is apparent? What is it that makes The prospect of dying terrifying? Maybe it is the idea of leaving The familiar behind, The fear of the unknown Since all we know is life. Maybe it is the fear of not Leaving a legacy behind The fear of being forgotten, Or it might simply be the Looming presence of death--