I really want to like Rielle Hunter, but she makes it so difficult for me. While promoting her tell-all book, “What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me,” on shows including “20/20” and “The Talk,” Hunter claims no feelings of remorse or shame for being the other woman. Rather, she defends her actions and...
LONDON — This week marks the end of my stay in London. As I begin to pack and study for exams, I’m reflecting on what I’ve done this semester and how living in another country for four months has changed my perspective as an American and a citizen of the world. I will undoubtedly miss...
LONDON — How does one define citizenship? I contemplated this over the weekend as I gave my Britain-born friend a tour of Central London. As I walked her through New Oxford Street, Soho Square, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, she was impressed by how easily I navigated the city and was amazed by...
LONDON — Unfortunately, superheroes don’t exist. On the upside, real heroes do. They live just as you and I do, but with a twist. Between lunch breaks and long talks with friends and family, they dedicate their time, effort and money to finding solutions to the social, political and economic troubles that plague their lives...
LONDON — I’ve been a member of the Roman Catholic Church since birth. Am I a Catholic now? Depends on who you ask. Since I graduated high school, I’ve questioned the strength of my faith and my attitude toward my religion. I am not against God, Jesus, the Bible or any teachings which help structure...
LONDON — Shakespeare has been one of the major aspects my of semester-in-London experience. I’ve visited his grave site at Stratford-upon-Avon as well as the home of his wife, Anne Hathaway. I have also read a number of his plays and have seen productions in various theaters throughout the city. How can one avoid Shakespeare...
Greetings from London! I hope all of you in Binghamton are having a more productive and hopefully warmer start to the spring semester than I am. Not to imply that I haven’t been keeping up with my studies, but in a city as enriched with history, culture and shopping areas as London, the discipline needed...
Imagine a country where the people and the government view themselves in such high regard that they felt morally obligated to impose their culture on other nations. Imagine that this country produced discourse on these victimized nations. The discourse represents the citizens of these nations as savage, inferior, inhumane, illogical and unusual — which would...
I wasn’t sure what to be grateful for this Thanksgiving — besides eating a home-cooked meal — until I read about James Arruda Henry. Henry was illiterate for most of his life until other senior residents at Academy Point in Mystic, Conn. taught him how to read and write. Two years later, Henry published his...
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