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Juno
By Maria Corey
The movie Juno was released in the winter of 2007 and was immediately a blockbuster hit. It was nominated for three academy awards and won best screenplay. There are other movies that involve pregnancy but nothing like this movie. Juno demonstrates the ups and downs of being a teenager and being pregnant by [...]
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Grand Canyon: Diversity in American life
By Patrick Davis
An enormous part to being an American is grasping the concept of what diversity means. Americans need to stop stereotyping people that are different from them. Instead they should be intrigued with other people’s different ways of life, including culture, values and beliefs. This sociological issue [...]
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The Devil’s Highway By Luis Urrea
By Peter Chirichiello
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, is an account of twenty-six men who tried to come to America illegally through the strip of the American-Mexican border called “The Devil’s Highway.” Only twelve of the twenty-six survived. It was covered heavily by the press and was of great [...]
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A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
Reviewed by Kailey Malone
“A Piece of Cake” by Cupcake Brown, a New York Times Bestseller, is one of the most amazing autobiographies I have ever read. It is a confession of a young woman’s life after being thrown into a sea of foster homes. It all starts out when [...]
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Who Rules America? by G. William Domhoff
Reviewed by Matthew Weidmann
As I’ve moved through my years as a student studying the field of sociology I, as many others, have faced the reoccurring challenge of marrying the dense, abstract theory laden principles of the field with contemporary, tangible, “real world” situations. No doubt such application [...]