Hi! Here is Chang^^

I’m 24 years old and I’m from Shanghai, China. I am a postgraduate student, studying journalism at Fudan University. I can speak Chinese, English and a little bit of German. I’m looking forward to everyone practicing German with me. My hometown, China, has a long history and culture. There is also a lot of good Read More

All your efforts will down the drain under the new government?

New Year is coming, but some youth are under considerable pressure. We are going to welcome the new year soon, but the season of Japan’s entrance exam is coming as well. However, the statement regarding the policy of entrance exam by Japan’s Education minister Shinsuke Suematsu has caused a stir. Taking the situation of Omicron Read More

The journey to find myself still goes on!

Time flies so fast. Almost 5 months has been passed since I started the new life in Munich and at LMU. Most of you would come up with the word “Time flies really fast” in your mind. I’m thinking the same as well. Looking back at those months, everything was new, fun and interesting. Sometimes Read More

Building muscle or ego?

To say that today’s Hollywood standards of male beauty are unrealistic would be a crude euphemism. The aforementioned action heroes dehydrate their bodies as much as possible just before filming, then tricks with makeup and lighting come into play, and behind it all is a dark secret in the form of widespread use of anabolic Read More

SMALL BUSINESSES ARE SHUTTING DOWN

Caterina Cainca It has been devastating watching my parents struggling to keep their shops. It is more or less March 2020 and many shop owners are forced to shut down their businesses. Cities are almost dead; a city is alive as long as there are restaurants, bars and stores, but all people who run these Read More

Is it ethical to vaccinate children, who are part of a non-risk group, in order to, supposedly, create herd immunity and eradicate the virus?

Ana Mafalda Cabral For the past three years the Portuguese people, as the majority of the world, have been trying to survive through a pandemic. Each individual fought for their health and stability while the government kept throwing controversial debates to exacerbate the situation even more. The latest one, one that puts part of the Read More

It’s Life or Death: We Should be Forced to Donate

“First pig-to-human heart transplant” is what I came across yesterday, during my morning newspaper read (Instagram scroll, actually). The average of deaths by day in the U.S is of 8.159, and we still need to resort to pigs to find donors? Pigs should keep their hearts and human organ donation should be made compulsory. Pigs Read More

I thought I could survive Zoom without burning out. I was wrong.

Computer-mediated communication has made everything possible in the digital dimension. But it comes at a price, as the human mind and body is exhausted. Luckily, we can do something about it. “I’m not a cat.” What a hilarious statement. Mr. Ponton, a lawyer who was attending an online hearing on Zoom, attempted to claim his Read More

The Gag law under socialist rule

The Spanish Organic Law for the Protection of Public Security – also known as Ley Mordaza (or Gag Law in english) – has now been in force for seven years. The controversial law introduced by the Popular Party (PP), considered by many to be a barrier to freedom of expression, is therefore a barrier to Read More

Where goes the line between influencing and educating?

More than ever, now in the year 2022, social media is influencing our daily life to an extent that is affecting our everyday perspective, and most importantly it affects our opinions. In Sweden, many influential people on social media who have a younger audience have been involved in the electoral movement with either inviting political Read More

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