Apartheid – – – Apartness
Authors . Culture . Politics . Society“Don’t question things. You are an American. Don’t rock the boat.” This is what my grandfather told his six children in the late 60s and early 70s when they started questioning the system of apartheid. “We were in a bubble,” reflects my aunt Tara Marshall. She was only 5 when her family uprooted their life
The Dangers of Domestic Abuse
HealthOn December 27th of 2019, Angadbir Sandhu didn’t really feel any pain, but the adrenaline had kicked in as he began to notice the blood dripping down his forehead. His mother and sister were startled by his appearance, more so, his open head wound. Said wound was caused by his older brother’s rage and a
Let’s talk about Mental Health
Health . Society . Student life“It has controlled my life since I was 9 in almost every way. In the limit, it freezes me, so the only way I figured to prevent that from happening was, and still is, to prepare myself before any situation that may disturb me. In my experience, I believe, it emerges from the need of
Beauty canons and Social media
UncategorizedTo start with this report I wanted to ask the following question: Who sets the canons of beauty? Is it a public opinion? Advertising has been changing over the years and in a certain way towards better, although not always. Beauty is still a very polemic topic. Above all I can see it with greater
The War on Poverty: Experiencing Poverty Firsthand in America
Culture . Health . Politics . SocietyWhen Detroit natives, Robert and Rosemary Reid, visited Kentucky for two weeks for humanitarian work, they had no idea how it would impact the rest of their lives. Robert was working at Ford Motor Company in the 1960s when President Lyndon Johnson declared a national “war on poverty”. This political effort aimed at not only
Visit to BR Funkhaus
Excursions . Media . UncategorizedWithin the course Professional Communication in Munich the students did their second field trip to the broadcasting studios of Bayerischer Rundfunk. There, they got a tour through three of the eight radio studios of BR. One of them was a really big studio which is also used as a concert hall for orchestras and other
Over the boarder
Culture . SocietyCristian Fernandez (30) moved to the U.S. when he was 16 years old. Having to adjust to a whole new culture and way of life opened his eyes to new possibilities as well as understanding what he is capable of. Why did you move to the U.S.? My dad has U.S. citizenship and wanted us
Me, Myself and I
AuthorsMy name is Laura. I am in my Junior Year of university at Wayne State University in Michigan, USA. I am half German and Argentinian but I haven’t lived in Germany since I was 5 years old. At home we speak German with my dad and Spanish with my mom, but since I have noticed
Who’s behind Alexa?
AuthorsAs she was studying communication at LMU, Marie Kilg never thought she would have ended up working for Amazon as Alexa Content Manager. But here she is, only 24 years old, soon moving to Seattle to follow her career path. However, it is pretty comprehensible she couldn’t tell after all: just a few years ago
World Traveler in Training
Culture . Student life . TravelAsha Ress is a 20-year-old student of criminology at University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, and a current member of the study abroad program Junior Year in Munich. Already in her short life, she has visited over a dozen countries and plans to visit many more during her year abroad. Asha says that one of her lifelong