The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of a borough of New York City, Manhattan, just east of Washington State Park. This tragedy occurred on March 25, 1911, being one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. Many deaths, mainly being Italian or Jewish immigrant women aged 14-23, occurred by the fire, jumping off the building, or smoke inhalation. The … Continue reading Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Texas Hill Country has 13 major rivers that run through it or start flowing from it. One of these major rivers includes the Guadalupe River, which rises from two forks in western Kerr County. The river’s North and South Fork converge, allowing the river to then flow southeast 230 miles, passing through Kerr, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, DeWitt, and Victoria counties (Elizabeth Smyrl). The Guadalupe … Continue reading The Guadalupe River’s Deadly Flooding
Economic policy is fundamentally based on the system of trade-offs. Considering any legislation and aiming to determine whether it is objectively helpful or harmful is dependent on values in a particular society in a particular time period and governed and populated by particular individuals (Goodman). Considering the immense spectrum of ideology that is predominant today, no policy can be singularly positive or negative. This notion … Continue reading Defining Economic Policy and Protectionism: A 21st Century Examination of the Jones Act
In the 1920s, the relatively new film industry faced condemnation from members of the public—especially religious leaders—for being “too immoral”. Films of the time were daring and provocative, exploring sensitive topics like troubled relationships, crime, and innuendo. Some challenged social norms, portraying gay and interracial relationships and centering strong female characters. Others used shock value to draw viewers into theaters. The industry itself was also … Continue reading The Hays Code: Censorship in Old Hollywood
Nosferatu has always faced controversy, from the original silent film to the contemporary horror film. Issues with Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) started before production even began; the founders of Prana film, Nosferatu’s studio, tasked screenwriter Henrik Galeen with writing the film based solely on Bram Stoker’s Dracula even though they had yet to gain the film rights to said story. However Galeen still … Continue reading The Making of Nosferatu (1922)
AI of the Past Despite being a term used most frequently in the past two or so years, “artificial intelligence” has technically been around for over half a century. John McCarthy coined the term when talking at a conference at Dartmouth College in the mid-1950s, where he and researchers from Harvard, IBM, and Bell Telephone Laboratories proposed a research project into artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the … Continue reading AI Explained: The History of AI & LLMs
Some may know that famous authors J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were actually close friends, however not many know that the two were notorious for their digs at each other, both in person and in their novels. Having established a reading club called the Inklings together at Oxford University, where they both taught, they would trade stories and help improve each other’s works. This however, … Continue reading The Fellowship of Tolkien and Lewis
Sunday, January 22, was the 50th anniversary of the landmark court decision to protect abortions, Roe v. Wade. The name comes from Norma McCorvey (who took the pseudonym “Jane Roe”) and her district attorney, Henry Wade. Abortions were illegal in Texas (where McCorvey lived) unless the mother would die. McCorvey was pregnant with her third child but wanted an abortion, so she took her case … Continue reading The History of Roe v. Wade
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