by Michael Reyes | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Long Surnames and Pride: On Alma and How She Got Her Name Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela thinks her name is too long. When it doesn’t fit on a single sheet of paper, she tapes paper scraps onto the edges to make it fit. Alma then begins to question her place...
by Taylor Held | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Seeing Minds Through Minds: Determining Whose Perception to Trust in Sense and Sensibility The Dashwood sisters are on the verge of a crisis. They are young, single, fatherless, and fortuneless; marriage is their only method of attaining financial and personal...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Books and Electronic Media Today, books are increasingly available to us in formats other than the printed volume. At the same time, the communal activity of the book club is adapting to the current technological age: Authors are establishing Facebook groups and...
by Tayyaba Jiwani | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Accessible Science is Key to Public Trust For scientists, these are times both exciting and apprehensive. From designer babies to genomic medicine, artificial intelligence, and molecular surveillance, science is arguably the most dominant force defining our future....
by Shaina Goel | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
High-Tech and Haute Couture Cybernetic signs and symbols have increasingly become a magnetizing spectacle in contemporary culture. The cyborg as a hybrid of human and machine in high fashion runway shows of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the ways in which...
by A.M. Genova | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
“Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii”: Replication and the Art of the Senses “Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii” is a marble sculpture designed by Randolph Rogers [1825–1892], and reproduced in two sizes for 167 copies. “Nydia” portrays how narratives can...
