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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Do Self-Defense Products Necessarily Contribute To Rape Culture?

Comments (2) | Alcohol, Columnists, date rape, Drugs, Education, men can stop rape, nail polish, opinion, prevention, rainn, rape, rape culture, reaction time, self defense, sexual assault, undercover colors, victim blaming

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

The burden of protection from sexual assault shouldn't be placed on victims. But it is.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Is Suicide Selfish Or Selfless?

Comments (3) | Actors, Depression, entertainment, henry rollins, LA Weekly, mental health, movies, musicians, Opinion, reaction time, Robin Williams, Rolling Stone, Selfishness, stigma, suicide

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

Suicide doesn't seem so selfish to those who see their very lives as a burden to others.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Lana Del Rey And Her (Superficial) Summertime Sadness

Comments (9) | addiction, aesthetic, Amy Winehouse, Born to Die, dark, Depression, fake, image, kurt cobain, Lana del Rey, Opinion, opinion, reaction time, romanticization, suicide, Summertime Sadness, the guardian, Ultraviolence

It's not cool to be depressed.

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

It's not cool to be depressed. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

What Columbine, 'Slender Man' And Elliot Rodger Tell Us About Mental Health Stigma

Comments (2) | America, boogeyman, bullying, Columbine, Columnists, columns, creepy pasta, Depression, discrimination, dylan klebold, elliot rodger, eric harris, feminism, guns, Media, memes, mental health, misogyny, reaction time, Santa Barbara, shooting, slenderman, stigma, uc santa barbara, ucsb

We need to focus on mental health before it's too late.

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

Violence has a common denominator.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Reaction Time: Jonah Hill And The 'Other F-Word'

Comments (0) | 22 Jump Street, Alec Baldwin, Columnists, columnists, curses, etymology, gay, homosexuality, Human Rights Campaign, Jonah Hill, Language, LGBT, linguistics, love conquers hate, opinion, reaction time, slur, Tyler the Creator

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

Do words only have as much power as we give them?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Reaction Time: Keep Holocaust Denial Out Of The Curriculum

Comments (8) | apology, Armenian Genocide, atrocities, awareness, Cambodian Genocide, Columnists, columns, deniers, Education, essays, Genocide, historical memory, Holocaust, human rights, Identity, jews, murder, Nazis, never again, reaction time, rialto, schools, students

Students were asked to write an essay about whether or not the Holocaust happened - who thought this was a good idea? (Facebook)

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

It's more than anti-Semitism.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Reaction Time: Dirty Drug Enforcement

Comments (3) | autism, California, Columnists, columns, Drugs, lapd, LAUSD, Los Angeles, los angeles times, marijuana, narcotics, neon tommy, opinion, police, reaction time, riverside county, Special Needs, sting operations

Are the police of Riverside County so desperate to increase arrest statistics that they are targeting special-needs children? (C

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

Are Riverside County police so desperate to increase arrests as to target special-needs children? 

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Reaction Time: Girls Kissing Girls

Comments (13) | Columnists, columns, dolls, female, feminism, gay, girls kissing girls, lesbianism, LGBT, Maya Richard-Craven, Millennials, neon tommy, opinion, pansexual, queer, reaction time, sexuality, sexualization, straight, women

A strange phenomenon seems to be striking millennials - the inclination for straight females to kiss other straight females for

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

Making out with a woman for attention is different from thinking you might be genuinely attracted to one.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Reaction Time: My Little Bullies

Comments (56) | backpack, Bronies, bullying, children, Columnists, columns, Education, grayson bruce, michael morones, My Little Pony, neon tommy, North Carolina, reaction time, response, schools, suicide, TV, violence

Grayson Bruce poses with his banned "My Little Pony" backpack (BileRico.com)

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

A school responds to bullying by punishing... the kid who was bullied?

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