All of my blogs about civic issues have been surrounding issues that many individuals that call themselves “feminists” fight for. I support all the causes that I wrote and researched for these blogs, however, I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. This is because the definition of the term “feminist” has become incredibly warped over the […]
For this week’s civic issues blog, I’d like to take a look at the issues surrounding women’s pay inequality, or what is more commonly known as the wage gap. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in 2018 women who worked full-time jobs only made $0.82 for every dollar that a man earned. In […]
For this week’s Civic issues blog, I want to take a look at how the Women’s March got started and how it has snowballed into such a staple of the feminist moment. The first women’s march took place on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, January 21st, 2017. There were thousands upon thousands of […]
For my final post, I want to look at one of my all-time favorite songs, The Night We Met by Lord Huron. The first verse goes “I am not the only traveler who has not repaid his debt. I’ve been searching for a trail to follow again. Take me back to the night we met”. […]
The next song I will be looking into is probably the most classic love song out there, a staple song at any wedding ever (it was my parent’s wedding song in fact), and that’s Can’t Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley. The first verse goes “Wise men say only fools rush in, but I […]