Literature Deep Dive

      Are hotdogs moral? I'm sure at least one of you has seen the videos of hotdogs being made, a slew of meat and water, being shoved into a plastic-looking tube. It looks disgusting. And if you haven't seen one of those videos, I suggest you watch one before finishing my blog post. It's incredible how efficiently the hotdogs can be made using only a paste of meat and hundreds of casings     Anyways, what I'm trying to get at is that hotdogs are a strange food. And I hope by watching whatever video you did you aren't scared off from eating hotdogs. But, in my opinion, they are actually a wonder food. The thing is, hotdogs are made out of what would normally just be thrown away but are instead packaged into little sausages.  To make any kind of meat you must take the life of another animal. Animals, along with being sentient creatures with complex lives of their own, require immense time and effort to raise. Normally 60 PERCENT of a cow is thrown away. However, by

Up until recently, I held famous people on a pedestal and thought fame was a very desirable concept. However, I have grown to see that fame may not be all that it is expected to be. Personally, I would never want to get famous--mainly due to the issues I would imagine come along with the lifestyle.  The first aspect of celebrities' lives that seems undesirable is how their private lives are (sometimes) exposed to the public, If I were famous, one of my main goals would be to keep certain things in my life out of the public eye. Having your entire life online gives you no privacy and seems stressful. While celebrities should expect to have at least some of their privacy disclosed, I think there are certain lines that should not be crossed when it comes to what the public has access to. For example, some paparazzi can go too far (in my opinion) to get photos that will grasp the most attention, or some interview questions may be digging a bit too much into the celebrity's personal

Is Hollywood Becoming More Diverse? I’m not sure. I’m going to write this post and hopefully figure that out by the conclusion. I’m not at all qualified to talk about this, so please take everything with a grain of salt. I just want to use this to talk about a scenario I find incredibly interesting. In the new Batman movie with Robert Pattinson, Zoё Kravitz stars as Catwoman. Catwomen of the past have been predominantly white, and exceptions to that definitely show up, but I guess that means that Hollywood is getting more diverse, putting a person of color in a role that’s been mostly white actors? However, while race in casting and characters is an incredibly important thing to discuss when asking this question, there’s more to it, and part of that is what I’m examining in this post.  In the movie, Zoё Kravitz has a female roommate, Annika. She constantly refers to Annika as “babe” or “baby.” She intimately holds Annika in their shared apartment at one point. And yet, they’re not a

Puffs : a play narrating the adventures of a group of nobodies at a certain school of magic. In case you couldn’t tell, Puffs is based on the wizarding world of Harry Potter. However, since the Harry Potter franchise is copyrighted and guarded with an iron fist, the creators of Puffs had to avoid using any copyrighted material to retell the story. Instead of focusing on the boy who lived, they focus on another random boy. This boy is named Wayne and he went to Hogwarts with Harry Potter. However, he was sorted into Hufflepuff (the Puffs). The Puffs are known for being clueless and a wee bit airheaded. They aren’t exactly the best at anything. I'm currently in a production of Puffs , hence my decision to talk about the show. From this point on, expect spoilers for both Puffs: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic by Matt Cox and the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (we don’t support her in this post or anywhere else). https://www.amazon.com/P