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Depictions of Women and Minorities

      As a woman who wakes up every day, goes to class, drives my car, and gets to live alone, I couldn't imagine a world where I wasn't empowered. Sometimes I feel as if I am being watched, or being loved over for just being a woman, when in reality as a woman in America I have endless  opportunity. For many women, all around the world, this is not the case.

Wild Card

Digital Acess

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     Each year the latest and greatest iPhone hits our TV screens and shortly after hits our hands. We live in a society where we have access to affordable and accessible technology for virtually anyone. Free wifi in coffee shops, charging stations in libraries, and the ability to call your friends at ease. As we are born into this society it is easy to forget that other countries have a completely different world of digital access. Most recently, the global pandemic has brought to light the great digital divide our country faces. With a global shutdown, forcing people in quarantine, billions had to rely on the internet for work and to stay in touch, but with almost half of the world lacking internet access, millions suffered.     The 2020 pandemic was one for the  history books. On January 9th of 2020, a mysterious pneumonia was reported in Wuhan, China. As cases increased and spread to surrounding countries, Airports began to scan for symptoms. On January 21st it was confirmed that t

News and Information

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      Each morning I roll over and pull out my phone, flip amongst three news apps, and start my day. My dad flips through the news paper in the kitchen while my mom gets dressed with the local news anchor talking in the background. Although we all have our different methods, we each have our way of getting the news, its become a steady part of our routine, and what we find has become a topic of conversation we rely on. As I sat down to tackle this paper, I began to think about my routine and wonder what I would do without it and how it could differ in other countries. Not every country has the luxury to immediate updates on local or national news, a luxury we often take for granted.     Scotland however, is a good example of a country who is fairly on par with how  accessible  their news is to the  general public. Scotland is a democratic country that released its first form of a newspaper dating all the way back to the 1700s. The first of any significance were the Edinburgh Evening C