When books become shallow and unworthy of time. By: Gabriela Yareliz Gonzalez So I was reading in the October 19, 2009 New Yorker Magazine, the article/essay by Rebecca Mead about Alloy Entertainment books. Today I was at a bookstore browsing around. I sadly walked out with only a LSAT prep book but when IContinue reading “What is There to Read?”
Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Things That Don’t Change at Christmas Time
So they were giving out free Origin of Species books at Turlington Plaza (right in the middle of the University of Florida campus) and Prof. Sinan Ciddi says: “This is great, I mean you can give this to someone you hate for Christmas and it was free, and you’ll look really smart”. Christmas timeContinue reading “The Things That Don’t Change at Christmas Time”
Princess vs. Feminist
Which one should win out? By: Gabriela Yareliz Gonzalez I once heard a story about newlyweds, a man who said he’d get the living room packed up and moved and she wouldn’t have to move a finger. The next day came and he got tied up in something and asked for her help moving coffeeContinue reading “Princess vs. Feminist”
Battles of Control
The tricks we try and how they can fail. By: Gabriela Yareliz Gonzalez This past Christmas season, I was in terror at the thought of the mall. It wasn’t the overload of people or the uncertainty of certain purchases; it was the group of aggressive sale merchants that linger between stores sometimes stalking youContinue reading “Battles of Control”
Autumn
Cold and wet early one morning, when one walked it was through mists and fog, the wind,compassionless. A blustering autumn day. Walking past old brick buildings, decored with iron railings and dim lamp posts that flicker if one looked, one would realize one was standing in the midst of an end- Golden wet leaves quiveredContinue reading “Autumn”
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