Slay the Spire, a deck-building, roguelike dungeon crawler, is perhaps one of the best games to have come out in recent years. It is a deck-building game in the sense that the construction of a deck of attack and skill cards is the main focus of gameplay. However, unlike other deck-building games like Hearthstone or…
The office of the presidency is an evolving institution. So, concurrently, what it means to be a president is changing as well. We’ve seen through the passage of time how the proverbial list of presidential duties is revised. For example, the election process for Vice President shifted in 1800 from whoever came second…
When considering Crazy Rich Asians without any knowledge in the history of race relations, or how racial representations work and why they matter, then Crazy Rich Asians is a typical rom-com with typical rom-com tropes: the matriarch, the sassy best friend, the over-the-top cousin, and a collection of flamboyant characters. There are…
Last year on June 8, Atari CEO Fred Chesnais announced the development of a new gaming console based on revolutionary PC technology, the Atari VCS. For a lot of gamers, the Atari name still carries a lot of importance, given the company’s role in creating the home console market back in 1972, but…
The 2016 election left many liberals hopeless. To them, the battle seemed over, and the good guys had inexplicably lost. For anyone further left than Clinton, the run-up to the 2018 elections has been equally depressing. The plan for the Democrats has been to focus on a combination of the Chuck Schumer strategy (“For…
Playboy has evolved from simply a magazine to a cultural icon representing sexual liberation and, supposedly, feminist gains. Apart from its notorious nude pictorials, Playboy is also a literary magazine with articles featuring prominent social and political issues. James Rickman, an Executive Editor at Playboy, came to Oakwood School’s Oakwood Students for Progressive Reform…
Many people have probably heard that Asian Americans are also the model minority. However, the biggest issue in the Asian American community is this label of being the model minority. Although it may not seem to be an issue, this stereotype creates many problems for Asian Americans. It is widely thought that Asian Americans…
Dogs. They are man’s best friend and loyal pets. There are many breeds of dogs, all equally amazing, but most people would agree that purebred dogs are the highest quality dog. After all, they are the dogs in their most “natural” and “healthiest” states. However, is that really the case? In actuality, these ‘breeds’ are…
