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  Celebrating Loving and the Lovings

  

  By VirQJiang115, Princeton Junction, NJ

  In the summer of 1963, a summer known as “Freedom Summer” by many civil rights activists, Mildred Loving began to pen a letter to the then-current United States Attorney General. The twenty-two year old homemaker and wife of Richard Loving, bricklayer, wrote, “My husband is White. I am part N...
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  Lonely? Math Can Find You Love

  

  By VirQJiang115, Princeton Junction, NJ

  OkCupid is the world’s fastest-growing online dating site. Its mission statement is: “We use math to get you dates.” OkCupid simplified an emotion so complex that it has been alternately described as “A battlefield” and “What makes you beautiful” into simple arithmetic. OkCupid’s mis...
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  Both Wikipedian and American

  

  By VirQJiang115, Princeton Junction, NJ

  My first best friend is someone who edits my essays. My second best friend is my computer. My third best friends are the nameless, faceless editors of Wikipedia. My battles are not fought with pens or swords, but with the “Block User” button. I am not your stereotypical boy-genius-invent...
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  Joke Neurology

  

  By VirQJiang115, Princeton Junction, NJ

  Try to tickle yourself. The center of your right foot is the most ticklish part of the body. You can't do it. Even if you try to tickle yourself in the exact same place and in the exact same way someone else tickled, you will not feel anything. You don't laugh hysterically, as you would...
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  I Just Want a Voice

  

  By VirQJiang115, Princeton Junction, NJ

  Aspasia of Athens guaranteed it to all citizens over two-thousand years ago. The Romans attempted to preserve it. America even fought a war for it. Today, many countries in the Middle East strive for it. What is it? It is what enables the people to change their government, to change the way that...
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  The Modern Vampire’s “Breaking Dawn"

  

  By VirQJiang115, Princeton Junction, NJ

  It all starts like this: a clique of vapid, blond girls wander into the dark. Cheap, manufactured fog rolls in. Eerie music begins to play. From nowhere, fangs burst out of the darkness. Swifter than wind, a single vampire yearning for bloodshed bites the girls’ necks and drains them of life. E...