top of page
Search
The Pendulum
Dec 4, 20248 min read
A Series of Strings: French Neocolonialism
Jackson Hufman In 1892, Cecil Rhodes stretched his arms over Africa. From his hands hung phone lines connecting the continent’s two most...
224 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Sep 22, 20246 min read
Oxford’s Crossroads: Education and Class in British Society
Image source: Wikimedia Commons Owen Eastman As an academic institution, Oxford University holds a weighty place in pop culture that few...
25 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Jun 5, 20248 min read
Russia and Mozambique: A Contemporary Case Study
Matthew Ployhart Image credits: Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons 4.0 usage Russia’s presence in Africa has long-term historical...
139 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Oct 2, 20234 min read
Exploring the Healing Horizons: Navigating India's Medical Tourism
Tulsi Patel While tourism often generates images of famous attractions and endlessly redundant photos, it may be taking on a new form in...
63 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Sep 6, 20214 min read
Gender-Fluid Practices Amongst Strict Gender Binary Societies
Jade Killion As the world watches the horrific events in Afghanistan, the hearts of the international community break for those who are...
55 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Mar 24, 20213 min read
The Patsy of the Pandemic
Jade Killion It is no secret that the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected racial minority groups around the world....
175 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Mar 3, 20213 min read
The Complicated Case of the White Ant
Nate Matzko On February 4th, 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convened in The Hague, Netherlands, to deliver a verdict on the...
34 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Feb 10, 20214 min read
The Faith of the Targeted: Government Surveillance of Muslim Americans
Amani Altwam Muslim Americans have been under the scrutiny of the United States Federal and local governments since the September 11th,...
50 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Oct 12, 20203 min read
COVID Amongst Conflict and Crisis: How Syria Continues to Crumble Under the Pandemic
Jade Killion Battered and bruised from almost a decade of violent conflict, humanitarian crises, and economic hardships, Syria has...
31 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Contested Space: The International Race to Study the Unknown
Gavin Hunt In a fireball of light, sound, and smoke at 6:58 AM Tokyo time, the first mission to Mars by a Middle Eastern nation leaped...
18 views0 comments
The Pendulum
May 15, 20204 min read
Hong Kong's Long Fight
Katy Trawick The most recent protests in Hong Kong started in March of 2019. With a long history behind them, these have become the...
35 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Apr 19, 20202 min read
Female Genital Mutilation: A Feminine Sorrow
Mary Ann Fahmy In the poem Feminine Pain, Somalian Poet Dahabo Ali Muse writes, “it is what my grandmother called the three feminine...
423 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Mar 27, 20206 min read
The Trials of the Rohingya People, as Viewed by the UN
Ashley Rhom A years-long conflict in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has claimed the lives of thousands and gone largely unchecked by...
46 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Mar 12, 20203 min read
Taiwanization for Dummies: A Simple Explanation of Taiwan’s Fight for Independence
Kingsley Ukuku Today, Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC) to the United States, constantly pops up in American news....
94 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Feb 28, 20204 min read
Coronavirus: Will it Demand Disease Diplomacy?
Aynsley Hartney and Austin R. Schlueter As of the time this article was written, there are over 80,000 reported cases of the coronavirus...
331 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Feb 14, 20205 min read
The Forgotten First People
Ava Barros The European colonization commonly overshadows the diverse history of Indigenous peoples. For hundreds of years American...
151 views1 comment
The Pendulum
Feb 6, 20203 min read
Controversial, Yet Cultural: Female Circumcision in Somalia
Eden Wallace While the practice of male circumcision remains prevalent in Western cultures, the practice of female circumcision is...
89 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Nov 7, 20197 min read
Gender Equality and Welfare States: Denmark and the United States, a case study
Aynsley Hartney Introduction Rome. Washington D.C. Sydney. Johannesburg. Copenhagen. These are just a few of the many women’s marches...
26 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Oct 31, 20195 min read
Fewer Fish to Fry
Ashley Rhom International organizations are beginning a reckoning process within the illegal fishing industry. Unprecedented accounts of...
29 views0 comments
The Pendulum
Oct 24, 20192 min read
Organ Sales in the Black Market
Olivia Loew Anyone who has visited the DMV has filled out a form that indicates whether or not they are an organ donor. Despite over 90%...
20 views0 comments
Blog: Blog2
bottom of page