Literature Deep Dive

Social media plays a more and more dominant aspect of everyone's lives, and is becoming very common among young children. With young children being exposed to social media, it raises the question of whether social media should be so easily accessible to the youth, as it is today. I think there is room to debate on either side of this question. It is inevitable that the age of children who have social media will continue to decrease. However, there are several pros and cons to this. First, I'll discuss the positives social media can have on children's lives. One of the benefits is that online platforms can help kids extend their social lives beyond their in-person interactions. Social media can be a good way for kids to feel more comfortable making connections with others and forming new friendships. This can be a positive thing--however, only a certain extent, as it's also important for kids to learn how to make friends without technology. Online platforms also open doo

Election day was on Tuesday, so for this post I’ll talk about voting for a third-party candidate. I’d like to say going into this that I am writing this with an extremely democratic viewpoint. I know that this is an argumentative prompt, but I just want to throw out that I will not be looking at this through a moderate lens. To answer the question, I do believe that voting for a third-party candidate means throwing away your vote. I believe that especially in the case of the 2020 election, voting for a third-party candidate is completely throwing away your vote. I believe that in this past election, voting for a third-party candidate was just a masked way to vote for Donald Trump.  In 2000, republican George H. W. Bush was running against democrat Al Gore. However, Ralph Nader ran for the green party. Gore won the popular vote by a million, but Bush won the presidency. Nader got three million votes, and if you replace all of the Nader votes with Gore votes, he would have won the presid

   I often find the relevance of Shakespeare being debated, and whether he's even worth our time. I'm not going to ramble on and on about how amazing Shakespeare is, or try to convince you to adore the man with all your heart. Instead, I'm going to focus on a song that I've had sprinting back and forth in my head the past few days: "God, I Hate Shakespeare" from Something Rotten!.        Towards the beginning of the song are the lines, "I just don't get it / How a mediocre actor from a measly little town / Is suddenly the brightest jewel in England's royal crown?" I did a bit of research, finding that William Shakespeare was born in a town called Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. Fun fact, he was born during an outbreak of the plague in 1564, though the town survived it. By that time, there was a grammar school (elementary school) in his town, so he was able to go. Shakespeare learned Latin and English, while many other just as ta