Post of the Week
In case you missed it, check out Ashley McGuire’s post, “The Sinister Nature of Dove’s New Advertising Campaign.” It’s our Post of the Week. The post Post of the Week appeared first on Acculturated.
View ArticleTo All the Nice Sorority Girls Out There
You’ve probably heard about the profane letter that a Delta Gamma sorority girl from the University of Maryland wrote to her chapter, chastising her fellow sisters for not meeting her social...
View ArticleManjari Sharma: A Brooklyn-Based Artist on a Spiritual Quest
Manjari Sharma, a Brooklyn-based photographer, is not just an artist. She is a mythmaker. Her latest artistic endeavor, a project called “Darshan,” seeks to recreate the transcendent feelings that she...
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Caught in the celebrity-baby craze? Why are we so obsessed? Check out this week’s Post of the Week by Abby W. Schachter. The post Post of the Week appeared first on Acculturated.
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Is Life Still Good After Boston?
I’m currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania in positive psychology, the study of human well-being. This semester we’ve been learning about organizations and companies...
View ArticleDo Children Make Us Happy?
Several months ago, the novelist Zadie Smith wrote an essay for the New York Review of Books on joy, a complicated emotion that lies at the heart of parenting she argued. In the essay, Smith captured...
View ArticleHugo and the Importance of Purpose in Kids
I’ve been meaning to watch the 2011 movie Hugo since it came out to great acclaim a couple of years ago for a while, and I just got around to doing so this past weekend. The story, based on a book, is...
View ArticleThe End of Summer Doesn’t Mean the End of Fun
It’s like something out of a Disney movie, except it’s real life: A polar bear and dog, otherwise mortal enemies, start playing with each other in a snowy field in northern Canada. Brian Ladoon, a...
View ArticleDoes Today’s Pop Music Suck?
Back in February, Nick Gillespie, the editor of Reason magazine, took my generation to task for its bad taste in music. Actually, it’s not just that our music stinks, it’s something even worse. Our...
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And the Best Behaved Celebrity of the Year Is . . .
The results are in for our annual Celebrities Behaving Well Award! It was a tight race among Angelina Jolie, Kevin Durant, Pope Francis, Taylor Swift, and Kate Middleton—but the winning celebrity,...
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