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Graduate student at Columbia Journalism School.
I am not a vegetarian, but living with a vegetarian roommate for over three years in college has always sparked my interest in testing out the vegetarian lifestyle. I decided to start a challenge of my own: the Vegetarian Challenge. I challenged myself to stay away from meat for five whole days.
It hasn't been easy to keep a healthy diet during college. My love for pizza continues to grow each semester, and one slice is never enough. There are quite a few obstacles to eating healthy, starting with not enough time.
The Decline of Church Attendance: Brooklyn Church Becoming Community Center She was 10-years-old, a homeless orphan trying to find a place to sleep in Mexico City. Verduzco found her refuge in a Catholic Church, where she attended mass so frequently that the priest invited her to sleep over the church one night.
It was through tears that I finished typing up the statement of one our asylum clients. This wasn't the first asylum case I've worked on, but it was the first one after Trump's administration and his recent executive bill to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.
With the presidential election right around the corner, it seems like all the strongly opinionated "politicians" on your Facebook friends' list who've been in hiding for four years are finally coming back into the limelight.
If there's something we learned during this election, it's that the Latino vote is an important one to win over if you want the keys to the White House. Candidates are so eager to win the hearts of Latinos that they are turning to "Hispandering," expressing fake interest in Latinos - as well as their issues and their culture - in an effort to gain their vote.
If there's something we learned during this election, it's that the Latino vote is an important one to win over if you want the keys to the White House. Candidates are so eager to win the hearts of Latinos that they are turning to "Hispandering," expressing fake interest in Latinos - as well as their issues and their culture - in an effort to gain their vote.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court announced it deadlocked in a case challenging President Barack Obama 's immigration executive action with a 4-4 vote. PLUS: Indiana Teenager Stuck in Mexican Border Town, Barely Speaks Spanish In 2015, Texas and 26 other states challenged Obama's action, which would have protected as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allowed them to lawfully work in the country, calling it "unconstitutional."
The year was 1990 when a young newlywed couple migrated to Miami, Florida with all their savings and an engineering diploma from the best engineering university in Peru. At the time, Peru was undergoing terrorism and financial turmoil that kept worse...