Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Relaunch
The American War Mothers’ memorial at MU was originally dedicated in 1930 and installed near the Brewer Field House in memory of the 117 MU students killed in WWI. At some point the stone was removed and virtually forgotten. Last fall it was dusted off and rededicated in its new location on the east side of Memorial Union.
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By Mackenzie Riggs
Many nights after finishing my shifts of running entrees, pouring wine, and remaining unwaveringly hospitable, I would sit at the gleaming wooden bar centered in my restaurant of employment and chat with the manager, Mario. … A young, white woman in her tender young adult years, such as I, and a middle-aged black man, such as he, had many dynamics and opinions to share, and the learning was immense and relentless.
By Sarah Redohl and Kaveh Kaghazi
Tina Conroy’s voice cracks mid-sentence and mid-sob over the phone in the Veterans Affairs office (VA) of Columbia while a comforting voice reminds her she can stop if it becomes too painful. “We had nowhere else to go. We had no money, and it was me and my two children, and my daughter and her family.”
By Hannah Miles
Images created in times of war reveal the tensions and fears ignited by the conflicts between nations. … This 1942 poster, titled This is the Enemy, circulated in the United States following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
By Chelsea McGartland
My boyfriend has cancer.
With cancer you can never say, “had”, because even after you complete your treatment and your scans come up clear, you never really get to be called “cured”.
By Sean McWay
I started this essay with the intention of crafting a new chapter, a 21st century update, to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. What I soon found was that this task is fundamentally impossible.
By Anders Melin
The conflict has been raging for over half a century. Israel and Palestine are like two brothers; brothers that are sprung out of the same core and host religions and nations that share the same origins.
By Melissa Darch
When Emoticons rule the World
Virtual Eyes will shimmer and wink
Digital Lips will smile and curl
Messages will not waver or blink
By Lamia Alafaireet
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s depiction of womanhood is both varied and expansive. … There is, however, a factor that distinguishes intelligent females in the novel from the unintelligent: their insistence on maintaining privacy from male influence.
By Max Vale
Vaudeville was an expressive, innovative, and quirky form of popular entertainment in America that spanned the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, vaudeville was more than mere entertainment for the American mass culture—it was a reflection of the rapidly changing waters of American life.
By Alexander Taylor
Based on the 1926 Edna Ferber novel of the same name, Show Boat (1937) is an American musical composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945) with book and lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960). It is regarded as a pioneering development in musical theater; deviating from the contemporary trend of loosely connecting collections of popular songs with an inconsequential plot, Kern’s music in Show Boat artfully illustrates a complex story, its characters, and their relationships.
By Krystin Arneson
Like photography, documentaries are a representational medium: They record and occasionally reconstruct the everyday reality viewers typically cannot experience themselves. … However, they are able to make the distinction between the “everyday reality” presented by documentaries and the fictive “reality” of cinematic films.
