The date was February 6th, 1977, Queen Elizabeth II was celebrating the 25th anniversary of her accession to the throne. Known as the Silver Jubilee, it was a time of celebration for the royal family and parliament. The up and coming punk band originating out of London, England in the
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During the night of Easter Monday last year, a controversial art piece appeared on a street corner in Bergen, Norway. The artwork – titled “Making a Martyr” – depicts former Minister of Justice and Immigration, Sylvi Listhaug. The street artist AFK (kind of the Norwegian equivalent of Banksy) put up
In 2016, an estimated 27.1 million people in the United States had used an illegal drug just within a month’s span. Do you fall into this category? Regardless if you are one of those people, the controversy regarding drugs has been going on longer than most of us have existed.
The extent to which Americans enjoy freedom is inversely proportional to the extent to which the President of the United States is protected: America’s democracy is not only a social system, but also a real existence. For example, the people have the freedom to hold guns, and all types must
The case of Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky reached the Supreme Court February 28 in order to discuss Minnesota’s law involving attire while going to a polling place. In the state, the law restricts residents from having on political attire while they go to vote. Additionally, how the law is
I am fascinated by how much Americans seem to be okay with knowing there is dangerous chemicals everywhere and even not knowing necessarily what ingredients are in their food. My cheese ingredients should say something like “aged-milk”, not stuff like “Thiamine Mono-nitrate or “Xanthan Gum”, or other names of things
Imagine gathering in a city square to mourn the death of a beloved political leader. Days later, you participate in active political protests here, and eventually these demonstrations get increasingly intense. This causes the leader of your country to order arrests and massacre of your fellow demonstrators. After this, you
How could a woman wearing a blazer with red and yellow flowers on it lead to her being thrown out of a Thai Temple and receiving death threats? To understand the weight of this situation we must look through Thai politics and a cultural lens in order to understand the
Do you remember how elementary school teachers or parents would try to motivate you to do well in school by telling you that if don’t get good grades, you wont get a good job, and you’ll end up cleaning up elephant dung for a living? Christopher Ofili was born October
Remember when marijuana was legalized in California and that was considered a controversy? Ha, yeah so now according to an article by Aaron Kase in Vice, “Monterrey-area medical marijuana advocate Kevin Saunders and his fiancée, Kitty Merchant, filed a ballot initiative with the state attorney general this past August that