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Prison Labor: America’s Secret Workforce
The Hard Truths of Clean Energy
Passing Down Trauma to Kids: A Personal Essay
Increase in Accessibility: The Unexpected Silver Lining of COVID-19
Armchair Activism: how social media changed the way we make change
TikTok Made Me Buy It: TikTok Advertising and Why It (Sometimes) Works
Hobby Lobby’s Hilarious Controversies
Copaganda: You’re Being Brainwashed
The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of 2000s Fashion
Are You Sure You Don’t Have COVID?
Music to Keep Alive: Prince
Variations on Theme: Horror Games
Amazon: Helping or Hurting Small Businesses
Movie Theaters in a Pandemic
What’s Happening in Nigeria?
Sales Over Safety: Holiday Ads and COVID-19
Struggling Spartans: How Seniors Feel about Graduating amidst a Pandemic
The Perfect Storm: Price Gouging and Disaster
What Makes a Book Cover Compelling?
A Disney Christmas: All the Shows You Should (and Shouldn’t) Watch
Leaving the Country
Suffering is Sexy: The Romanticizing of Mental Health
Is Grad School Worth it?
Music to Keep Alive: The Police
Is It Still Okay To Like Harry Potter?
Winter 2020: What to Know, How to Prepare
Diversity in Netflix’s Bly Manor
Holding out for the Holiday Season
Ethics Behind Fueling our Future
Body Positivity’s Negative
Bisexual or Pansexual? The Many Prefixes of Loving Many Genders
Latinx: A Cultural Controversy
Turmeric: A Strange New Forefront of COVID Research
Reality TV: How Are Productions Able To Run New Seasons Amid a Pandemic?
The Elevated Nuisance of Noise During a Pandemic
The Reality of Multiple Sclerosis
Gender After Gen Eds: A Look Into Gender Disparity in Higher Education
Spartan Shame
Write More Letters
Up in Vapor
The Advent of an Industry’s Collapse
Underresearched and Underrepresented: Women’s Healthcare
Everyone’s a Photographer
Who Exactly is Watching You?: The Privacy Violations of Location Tracking and Surveillance
Furloughed and Flustered
MSU and Big Ten Football trudge on Amidst Rampant COVID-19
Bridging the Representational Gap Between Physical and Mental Disability within Academia
Absentee Ballots
A is for Adderall
Minimalism: Here to Stay or Time to Go?
Victoria’s Secret’s Non-Inclusive Fantasy
Food During the Lockdown
Why are Students Mask Shaming during COVID-19?
Cuties: The Misunderstood Controversy
Class Zoom Struggles
A Nurse’s Story: Working on a COVID-19 Unit
Pinterest: An Artist’s Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?
Sorry, Not Sorry
BLM: Why Does Everyone Care Now?
Mask Up and Wrap Up
Open Letter
Which Conrad’s is Actually the Best?
Is There a Right Way to Shop?
What to do in our 20s
Locked in Leases
The Trouble with Vaccines
Lowering Tuition in a Pandemic
How COVID-19 Affected America’s Recycling Crisis
MSU Recommendations Fail to Curb COVID Surge
What’s Going on with the USPS?
Dissociative Identity Disorder: No Really, What Is It?
Mask Fails
Why Does Netflix Keep Cancelling Good Shows?
Seasonal to Seasonless Fashion
Movies for This Halloween Season
How Real is Reality T.V.?
Swipe ‘Right’
Back to School: COVID-19 Edition
The Evolution of Listening to Music
Paving the Path of Horror
Airbnb: Helping or Worsening the Spread of COVID-19?
Beauty is Skin Deep Part II: What’s Really in Your Products?
Drag
YouTube Influencer Throws Birthday Party During the Pandemic
Notable Michigan State University Alumni
The Shifting Image of Witchcraft
International Students: Will they Return?
Pandemic Parenthood: A New Reality of Parenting
White Savior Movies and Their Less Problematic Counterparts
Face Masks: The New Fashion Trend?
Immigration in the United States Through Time
Coming of Age Movies for College Grads
Tik Tok is Going to be Banned from the United States?
Beauty is Skin Deep: Problems in the Makeup Industry
Hiking the Appalachian Trail
Plastic Surgery and its Effect on Beauty Standards
Are Streaming Services Killing Movie Theaters?
Time Management for College Students
Play Ball! …Maybe
Changes in the Medical Field Due to COVID-19
Online Therapy: Is It Truly Effective?
The Reopening of East Lansing Bars Result in Covid Outbreak
Mythical Creatures
“I Went Viral?”: How a TikTok I Posted Ended Up with Over One Million Views
Dungeons and Dragons
The Job Hunt for Graduates
Liquor and Marijuana Use During a Pandemic
LGBTQ Highlights
How Quarantine Helps Animal Shelters
Escapism: Please Don’t Make Me Think About It
Returning to Michigan State University
How to Be Productive When Working from Home
A Personal Account of the Lansing Protest
The Truth Behind Van Life
In-Person to Online
Effects of the Border Shutdown
Contact Tracing: How will this affect the future?
Oh, the Horror: Horror Books vs. Horror Movies
Effects of the Broadway Shutdown
The 20’s Epidemic
2020 Graduation: The Process to Acceptance
I’m a Follower, Not Inferior
Incognito Eating Disorders
The Harsh Reality of Fast Fashion
Our Final Draft
Taking Back the Milk Discourse from White Supremacists
Kombucha and SCOBY: More Than Just the Latest Trend
Age of Education
MSU Athletics: A Continuity of Protecting Abusers
Honor Your Roots
The Harm of Depression Humor
DTN’s Near Monopoly on Student Housing
A Modern Dystopia: American Healthcare
Marketing During a Pandemic
In Hindsight
The Rise and Controversy of Fad Diet Products on Instagram
A Match Made in Quarantine: COVID-19 and the Release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Cochlear Implants: As Miraculous As They Say?
Trading Passion for Obsession?
The Pressures of Instagram & Filters
8-Bit Injustice: Hate Speech in an Animated World
From Computer Screens to the Bookshelves
Uprooting the Peace: Suspension of Peace Corps Service Amidst COVID-19 Outbreak
Stacking Your Shelves: Supporting Local Bookstores during COVID-19
Attack of the Turkeys
And This is How We Live Now
Extreme Body Makeover: Epidermis Edition
Trying to Sync: Hands-On Majors in a COVID World
Sourdough
The Silver Linings of COVID-19
COVID19: The Struggle of Online Classes for the Neurodivergent
From 14,000 to 600: I’m Still Living on Campus
COVID19: The Show Mustn’t Go On
COVID19: Virtual Touch
The Importance of Documentation
Looking at the Next Level: Game Development Students and a Changing Industry
How One Old Town Lansing Small Business is Preparing for Coronavirus
Payment for Players
COVID19: Notes From an Asian American: How COVID-19 Has Changed My Life
Sexual Assault Within an MSU Sorority: How Greek Life Handles It
Why Adults Should Read Children’s and Young Adult Literature
COVID19: Depressed Thoughts From Isolation
The Authenticity of Personal Branding in a World of Competition
America’s Dirt
Thrifting: The New Fast Fashion?
COVID19: Quarantined With a Toddler
A Peek Outside the “Normal”: Polyamorous Relationships
The Dangers of Snap Map
Other Things To Do This St. Patrick’s Day
The Value of the Arts and Humanities
Collegiate Rodentia: Our Favorite Friends
What is TikTok?
The Forgotten Female Serial Killer
Celebrities and Politics
Cyberpunk is Now
Prevalence of Negative Attitudes Towards Introversion
The Hub’s Move-in Day Disaster
The (Possible) Progression of the Catholic Church
The Dangers of Counterfeit Makeup and How You Can Avoid It
Online Dating
The Price of Education
Driving With No Destination: A Look into Parking Issues Around Michigan State University
Evolution of Education: The Product of Technology in the Classroom
‘LGBTQ+ Sex Act = Tragedy’ Trope: A Consideration of Impact
Pitching a Book in 280 Characters or Less
Accessible Times are Changing: Molly Burke as a Force of Positivity and Inclusivity
LGBTQ+ Representation in Horror
When “Good News” is Bad
What You Should Know About ASMR
Hungry for Learning: Food Insecurity on College Campuses
Grindr’s Toxic Effects on Gay College Men
The Rotten Score: Rotten Tomatoes vs the Box Office
K-Pop & Western Culture: A Critical Look at Hallyu
Children of Flower Children: The Differences Between Being Raised by Hippies and Catholics
You Want to Go to Therapy. Now What?
The Legal Provisions and Limitations of Legalized Marijuana in Michigan
Veganary is upon us
Responsible Casting
Native vs. Honeybees: Environmental Impact
Unwritten: Unheard Histories of Students at Universities
