Brittany Hambleton
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As adults, we’re always told that relationships (which include marriage and all forms of romantic partnerships) need lots of work and effort to last long and stay strong. We’re often taught that it’s never easy and no one should expect a bed of soft roses. A thorn or two must poke through at some point […]
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Sader Issa is a Syrian student studying dentistry. By all accounts he is just like any other young student his age- he enjoys spending time with friends and family when he’s not studying and is working hard toward building his future life in his chosen profession. There is one thing that differentiates Issa from most […]
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Most women have been conditioned to get married, be a good wife, mother and caretaker. While many men are taught to be themselves and marriage seems to just show up for them. It may be in the best interest for most men to marry, however, a behavioral scientist has found that unmarried women with no […]
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Last September, almost twenty million students enrolled in colleges across the United States [1]. That’s a nearly twenty-five percent increase in enrollment from twenty years ago, and a sixty percent increase over the last fifty years [1]. The idea that you must go to college and get a degree in order to be successful in […]
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Early on in life, most people learn – directly or indirectly – that bullying can affect everyone. Whether someone is the victim of bullying, the person bullying or a bystander, everyone plays a part. Depending on your upbringing, the consequences of bullying vary. Some parents will sit their child down and explain how and why […]
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No responsible parent would leave a child in a hot car, yet many of them are committing another potentially fatal mistake. Picture the scene: A parent straps a baby into a stroller for a walk on a hot, summer day. The sun is bright, and the infant’s skin is sensitive, so the parent covers the […]
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Throughout history, body and facial hair has been largely regarded as a male trait. Female beauty standards, however, have been decidedly different. Society instead has dictated that the ideal female body be smooth and hairless, but some want this changed, some of whom are women with beards. Women with visible facial hair have often been […]
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When Courtney Carver began Project 333, in which you pair down your wardrobe and dress with only 33 items, she learned much more about just living with less. The process of learning what to keep, what to get rid of, and how to simply live with less, taught her lessons about the unnecessary emotional weight […]
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In conversations about parenthood, much of the discussion ends up focusing on the mother’s role in a child’s life, but fathers carry equal importance. Not only do they often teach their children many hard skills, like how to change a tire, throw a baseball, or tie a tie, but fathers also are critically important in […]
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Over the last several hundred years, technology has had a profound impact on education. At one point in human history, formal education was only accessible to an elite few, since books were rare and individuals had to travel to educational centers to receive any kind of formal instruction [1]. Technology has significantly expanded access to […]
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When thirty-four-year-old Andrea Baines was asked to design a special effects shoot as a part of her course at a makeup academy, she decided to use it as an opportunity to explain to others the pain that she and millions of other women go through on a monthly basis. Baines, who suffers from endometriosis, used […]
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“Beauty has no size, no skin tone, no hair color, no eye color, no facial features, no muscle definition… for we are all uniquely beautiful and the standards are unreal.” – Anonymous Beauty is one of those societal standards that shouldn’t even be a standard, and yet, here we are. Every decade, a new concept […]
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