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I remember getting a Pap Smear a few years ago. For me the procedure itself, though necessary, is at times quite uncomfortable. A large, cold speculum is being placed inside the vagina, spreading the walls apart for examination.
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Beijing, China. I started writing this article when I first got back a few months ago, never finished it. But since then,in spite of the normalcy that begins to take place when you come back from a trip, Beijing has always been
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A few years after my first experience with dark energy, I had another, more concrete encounter. I was actually awake this time and standing outside of my partner’s closed garage door. It was nighttime and the florescent lights
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Writers, directors, and creators of horror use the dark to their advantage to set the scenes for grim tales of the unknown and macabre, choosing to minimally decipher it so as to unnerve audiences. This is the dark we are used
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I write this in the comfort and privacy of my home, on the couch, among my cats and the warm glow of a lamp. However just 15 minutes before, I was in a grocery store, mortified, blushing, and the most uncomfortable I’ve been in
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You may have noticed that out on the dance floor time seems to skip by, yet when you’re sitting in class (especially one you don’t like) it creeps ever so slow. In fact that’s how it seems a lot of our activities go; the
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Culture: we cling to it as we do our identity. Alas, culture for many is their identity, their way of life. It gets more complicated with sub-cultures, whose niche must be filled perfectly and genuinely to be deemed real
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If someone is something more than she, she will not congratulate;she will not commend: she will simply not see. And that is the tragedy of being a woman. Where in society, we are taught to compete Not taught to love, up lift,
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A child gently nudges its mother’s lifeless body, coaxing her to wake up. She doesn’t. In desperation, the child tries singing a song to its mom, hoping she will wake up from the sound of its voice. She never does. This scene
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Study the picture below for no more than five seconds. Then describe it without looking at it. What did you say? Did you focus on the three large fish? Or did you try to describe the scene more broadly, focusing on the kelp,
