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Coral's on-point review of Robin Thicke's new summer hit, "Blurred Lines," got me thinking about music and the trouble with catchy songs that happen to be all tied up with terrible messages.

The ipod came onto the market with a bang when I was in middle school along with some not-so-safe websites like Limewire and Napster, and all of a sudden music…

Teen pregnancy is a big topic. Huge. Mostly because no women is unattached to the topic. I have friends and family who were teen moms and, as a teen, I had to make choices about my body with very little help from my school, family, or community. 

Myths about teen moms…

The name itself - facebook - tells us something about this site that now has over a billion users (fun fact: if facebook was a country, it would have a bigger population than the United States).  The word "face" lets us know that this site emphasizes the users' "faces" and their physical, superficial appearance. The word "book" is where it gets interesting. Book are usually long and hard to appreciated unless you read the…

Whether you just graduated from high school (congratulations) or from college (a thousand congratulations) or even graduate school (a hundred thousand million congratulations!), the pressure to find a practical and financially secure job is on. 

My older sister, Rebecca, just graduated from college with a degree in Media and Cultural Studies and in…