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Why Daylight-Saving Drains Students Most
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In university there are often jokes about exhaustion. All-nighters are normalized; coffee is a personality trait, and students often say, “I will sleep when I am done,” and it feels like an unofficial motto. However, when the time comes around for the clocks to move forward each spring, the change always seems minor, as it is just one hour. For students, already running empty, though, that hour is not small. And suddenly the jokes stopped being funny. …
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Laurier professor informs UN and international policymakers through documentary films
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Last year, Mark Terry premiered his documentary film The Changing Face of Iceland in front of some of the planet’s most important decision makers at the United Nations’ COP26 climate summit. Terry is an award-winning documentarian and explorer, a contract faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Department of English and Film Studies and an…
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Caring about family separations at the border and what happens to them next
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The evolving events and information that have been the focus of countless news outlets regarding the separation of parents and their children at the U.S.-Mexico border have revealed polarizing and unsettling sides to opinionated people all over the internet — from average nobodies to notable names in power. Sifting through directionless tweets from the president,…
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Jessica Jones in the time of social change
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Marvel’s Jessica Jones is not your typical superhero. She’s a heavy drinker, she swears a lot, and doesn’t really care about being a superhero. Despite that, she cares for the people around her and frequently ends up saving the world. Jessica Jones was taken as a newly orphaned child and experimented on without her consent,…
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Annual day of happiness reminds meaning of true happiness
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Since 2012, the UN general assembly has set up an annual day of happiness. On March 20, the United Nations urges communities to come together to celebrate a new holiday; to remembr what it means to be happy. “[We are trying to] remove barriers so we can unlock happiness inside groups, individuals, inside a collective,”…
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