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How First Languages Shape Our Identity

In my experience, listening to music in Spanish elicits memories and emotions that can’t be replicated in the English language music that already makes up the bulk of my general music listening.

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Issue 3:  Love & Homesickness. 

Many argue that home is a physical space — four walls which contribute to or at least, are reminiscent of all-consuming feelings of care, comfort, and unconditional love. To these people, home is a concrete structure bound by space and time, brick and mortar

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The “Real” Los Angeles

I didn’t think I would like Los Angeles. As an East Coaster, my image of LA has always been one of vapidity, image obsession, traffic and smog. This characterization has persisted for many decades.

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Tastes In Alcohol Are Acquired For A Reason

As college students, especially seniors on the precipice of adulthood, I can feel a new, more adult mentality towards drinking creeping into our alcohol consumption. Adult drinking culture is more about sipping and savoring, rather than chasing the experience of drunkenness

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