“Once your children are born, you can never look at yourself through your eyes any more, you always look at yourself through their eyes,” explained Hans Zimmer, when asked to discuss his approach to composing the score for the 2014 film, Interstellar, a film of whose plot he knew nothing. Zimmer’s words strikingly relate to the ways that narrative, plot, and content interact in “Black Museum,” the final episode of the dystopian Netflix series Black Mirror.

“Bear with me and I will speak, and after my speech you may mock.”
Iyov 21:3

Western feminism has always had a tendency to “other” women in the global South. In Burdens of History, Antoinette Burton discusses the role of 19th and 20th century British feminists in othering Indian women in particular. She argues that “Victorian and Edwardian feminist writers relied on images of Eastern, and especially Indian, women to bolster a variety of arguments about female emancipation” (63).

When I was nine years old, I traveled from my home in the state of Maryland to visit the state of Kerala, 8,000 miles away in India. There, nestled in the lush jungles of the Western Ghat mountain range, rests Sabarimala, one of the largest Hindu pilgrimage sites in the world. Considered the home of Lord Ayyappa, the Hindu god of growth, the temple welcomes over 40 million devotees every year from all over the globe, with one notable demographic exception: young women. In honor of its patron deity, the state of Kerala instituted a ban in Sabarimala on women of “menstruating age” in 1965.

On August 23rd, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech widely regarded as one of the most powerful in American history. Over a quarter million people listened eagerly to King’s urgent words of hope and desire, entranced by his dream of liberation and fellowship. Without gospel singer Mahalia Jackson’s urging call to “Tell ‘em about the dream, Martin,” King may not have improvised the memorable second half of his address, including the famous phrase “I have a dream” for which the speech is known today (Crockett).

In this paper, I address adolescent to adult American citizens because most of the opioid statistics were based on numbers from within the United States. Also, the United States has the largest struggle with opioids out of other prominent countries. This audience is crucial to the issue because they are the ones seeing and feeling the effects of the opioid epidemic. With the mass media coverage and strong opinions on the crisis, it becomes difficult for the public to distinguish the foundations and solutions of the epidemic.

“Workplace Health Promotion Programs”

Every year, my best friends go on strike. As a student in a country where walkouts are only now becoming more frequent (and no less controversial), I can’t really fathom that strikes are expected in Italian schools at least once a year. When I ask my friends why, their responses are varied. Elena tells me there doesn’t have to be a reason, Marta insists that striking reminds the administration that students are watching, and it gives young people a way to participate in their education. Even asking my family members and other adults yields the same range of responses.

My hometown of Fanwood, NJ is a microscopic blip on the map of a state better known for its proximity to New York than for any of its own offerings. Only a square mile in diameter, my tiny little suburb might be the most uninteresting, uneventful town in existence. That’s what I’d believed, anyways, until 2017, when a little-known resident of Fanwood named Paras Jha pleaded guilty to developing the infamous Mirai computer virus. His creation made its debut on October 26, 2016, when it was used to take down Internet service across the entire East Coast (Graff).