-By, Sophie Stone Fidel Castro, dictator of Cuba since 1959, passed away November 25, 2016. Though his brother, Raul Castro, has been in power since around 2003, Fidel’s death marks the end of an era. He has left a highly contested legacy behind him; examination of reactions to his death shows two different sides of …
-By, Alison Poussaint During January of 2016, the US Army Corps of Engineers approved of the building of a 1,172 mile long pipeline as part of the Dakota Access Pipeline Project in North Dakota (DAPL). The project, which cost 3.78 billion dollars, strove to run a conduit pipeline to transport 570,000 barrels of crude oil …
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-By, Teresa Lawlor On November 18th, over five years after the release of the final chapter of Harry Potter’s story, a new film was released, to the delight of millions of fans around the globe. “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is the story of Newt Scamander, a magizoologist who visits NYC over sixty …
-By, Dayoon Chang It has been said that this decade marks the beginning of the “Disney Revival Era.” Since 2008, Disney has been creating characters that are “more visually appealing, more believable, [and] funnier than the characters in Disney's previous film[s],” according to Caitlin Roper from the monthly American magazine Wired. And she is right. …
-By, Mikayla Chen and Talia Ward During their sophomore year at Winsor, Class VI English students write the Civil Disobedience paper, an assignment inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Resistance to Civil Government.” Students must find an issue within their community, either large and small, that they have a moral imperative to protest and outline a …
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