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Show Us the Report: A College Chapter Story
Oh, know the perils, read the signs, The warning history shows, For our Hogwarts is in danger From external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her Or we’ll crumble from within -The Sorting Hat, Order of the Phoenix The past two weeks, my college’s HPA chapter has been tabling for signatures for [...]
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Posted in Action, Chapters, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights
Tagged Chapters, equality, Fair Trade, Harry Potter Alliance News, HPA, Human Rights
Are You Aching from Akin? Women’s Health and Equality
As an English major, I was always nitpicked for my word choice. As a result, I have learned that definitions matter; context matters; “hedging” words matters. For you avid readers out there, you have seen that good novelists see word choice as a great, weighty power- it can bolster, focus, or magnify controversial issues such [...]
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Posted in Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights
Tagged equality, Harry Potter Alliance News, politics, women's rights
What’s a Swing State?
It has recently come to my attention that it is extraordinary (for some people) to see a presidential campaign commercial between every Olympic event or after each segment of the morning news. That’s not normal? You didn’t see Hilary Clinton’s family photos at Lake Winola? What about the one where Obama is hunting? Not even [...]
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Posted in Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News
Tagged Election2012, Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News, voting
New Mississippi Law May Force Only Abortion Clinic to Close
I always have hated the labels “pro-life” and “pro-choice” because if you were to draw their actual meanings (with none of the politics) out on a Venn Diagram, they would overlap in the middle. While I may be pro-choice, for example, that does not necessarily mean that I would immediately opt for abortion. There are [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights
Tagged Harry Potter Alliance News, Health, women's rights
#GrammarProblems
A few months ago, my little cousin was having some trouble with her 4th grade English homework. The lesson was on contractions. And, as the sole English major in the family, I was volunteered to help. Fortunately, her problem was a common grammar mistake that plagues everyone early on: the confusing threesome known as “their”, [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, Literacy
Tagged Harry Potter Alliance News, Language, Literacy
Avatar Star Stands Up Against Ocean Acidification
Academy award nominated actress Sigourney Weaver, remembered by many fans as Dr. Grace Augustine in the film Avatar, has teamed with the National Resource Defense Council to raise awareness for a very serious problem facing the Earth: Ocean Acidification.
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