I graduated in 2015 from Sierra High School located in the Harrison school district, the same year that same-sex marriage was legalized. In both our English and Social Studies classes, we used the Socratic method when we would discuss various …
My First Semester by Juan Johnson
As I step out of my car and look at the college campus, I see a majestic mountain looking down upon me. I think to myself, “Do I have all my equipment to make it to the daunting top?” The …
Pediatric Suicides: Colorado’s Mystifying Dilemma by Jeremy Wilson
Dear Dr. K. Ron-Li Liaw, Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Children’s Hospital Colorado, As an Emergency Medical Technician, I noticed an issue in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I work for Ambulnz, an ambulance transport company in Colorado Springs, and …
Human Trafficking Victims: Immigrants’ Vulnerability and Continual Exploitation by Kaylie Pippin
In Colorado, human trafficking has been on the rise, and specifically, in sexual exploitation. Sex trafficking is predominantly seen in cities and is not unusual to have high rates (E. Reid, personal communication, May 4, 2022). High rates of sexual …
In Censure of Censorship: A Brief History of Power and Censorship in Public Libraries by Katherine Atherton
Before the start of the 2019 school year, Reverend Dan Reehil of the St. Edward Catholic School in Nashville quietly decided to remove some books from circulation at his school’s library, the most prominent of which is the Harry Potter …
The Opioid Crisis by Natalie McFarlane
The opioid crisis has been a major issue facing the United States for over twenty-five years. Over 500,000 people have died from opioid overdose and the amount of deaths continues to rise every year. Not only is this a national …
Mountain Mothers and Coal Miners’ Daughters: Gender Roles and Educational Attainment in Appalachia from the 1800s to the 2000s by Emily Prichard
In spite of the sense of heightened cultural sensitivity that has characterized much of the 2010s and the uptick in people-centered activism it has wrought, Appalachians fail to stand out as a grossly underserved population. Of the scant political dialogue …
A Post-Racial America by Joseph Logan
Abstract The reason for this data and research study is to explore the relationships between finance education, diversity, and equity among various ethnicities. Characteristics of learning, comprehension, ideology, education, equity, and career are the main strategies approached in the data …
In Awe of the Universe by Robert Shearon
Introduction Large existential questions like, “Why are we here?”, “What is here?”, and “Where did we come from?” have plagued humanity since we first started looking to the skies and wondering. Since those first humans began looking out into the …
The Repetition of Life, Love, & Death by Tellie Fackelman
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two Figures) The Death of a Gravedigger Studio Ghibli: Flower Cottage Hamlet with Skull Life is but a string of moments tied and glued together, uncanny, and vibrant, not quite understood, but implicit all …