Give Thanks
Friends, Family, Laughter Memories to never forget Thankful for all that life has given me By Chelsea Chislett-Rowsell
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In the night
By Marcial Vargas
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Under Your Bed
By Alexia Mitropoulos (Alumni)
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The iPhone 12 leaves much to be desired
With the advent of the a14 chip and the new iPhone 12, you would expect leaps in performance, innovations, and an all-around better product than last years. But what we have seen in the last few days is none of the above. For starters, the improvements with the a14 chip is a negligible increase in graphics processing speed. Also, even though it is based on a 5nm topography, the efficiency has not gone up! This is truly disappointing because the primary reason for shrinking the dye size is for increased…
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Why Francophone Non-Binary Individuals Hate French
“Faced with the aberration of ‘inclusive writing’, the French language finds itself in mortal danger,” condemned a statement written by L’Académie de la langue française. The “inclusive language” they were referring to was writing “directeur(trice)s” rather than “directeurs” in the case of a gender-mixed board of directors, since the masculine form always takes precedence over the feminine form, even when there is only 1 man among 50 women. If you ever wondered why this grammar rule exists in French, it is because, in 1647, the grammarian Claude Favre…
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Emo, Scene, Goth or Punk?
If I had a penny every time people confused these genres… First of all, scene is not a music genre, it’s just a fashion. It’s characterized by bright colours, whereas emo, which is also a music genre, is often associated with the colour black. In other words, scene kids will often have brightly dyed hair and neon clothing, which is why they are nicknamed “neon-emos”, whereas emo kids will often be dressed in black and have black hair. This, of course, are the extremes of the two…
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The Rise of Dark Academia
HELLO LGBTQ COMMUNITY. If you have decided to read this article, you are probably either not straight or not cisgender. For those of you are who are straight and cisgender, lmao loser (jk…or am I?). If you happen to be active on TikTok, Tumblr, or Instagram within the last few months, you may have seen the term “Dark Academia” floating around. Dark Academia is centred around higher education, writing, the arts, and classic Greek and Gothic architecture. If this sounds interesting to you, this may be the aesthetic for you….
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This Is Not a Manifesto (VCSA Elections)
Democracy has been very good at selling itself as the ideal form of government, in which the control over the rules in society is brought back to the people. It has been able to present itself as a system that is based on the romantic conceptions of free speech, transparency, equality, representation, etc. In a way, at least epistemologically, it accomplishes the goal of giving the power to the people. Unlike Autocracy, where the autos (self or individual) is in charge of the Kratos (rule), hinting that a single individual…
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