“America’s favorite playground,” “Monopoly City,” or the gleaming “city-by-the-sea.” Call it what you like, I as well as many others, have fallen in love with Atlantic City and made many fond memories in our little South Jersey treasure.
Opinion
Rule Out Location When Rooting for Out-of-State Sports Teams
When it comes to deciding on a sports team to pull for, most people tend to make their decision based on the area they live in. In this part of Jersey, that tends to mean seeing a lot of “Big Blue” decals on cars or fans decked out in green pulling for the “J-E-T-S! JETS! JETS! JETS!”
Social Media? More Like Anti-Social Media For This Generation
Now I admit it, I am on my iPhone just as much as everyone else; I check Facebook almost every hour, I am constantly updating photos to my Instagram account, and I am always checking Twitter to see what my favorite celebrities are up to, but how much is this really helping my social skills? Sure, it is called social media for a reason. It helps you keep in touch with your family, friends, celebrity icons, and even your favorite department stores and brands, but what many people don’t think about, is how social media is ruining our generation.
Veganism Health Hype Is Overrated
Many people who consider themselves to be “vegan” have been very misinformed as to exactly what being a true vegan means and are potentially putting themselves at risk.
Appreciate Your Internship
Internships have become a major part of the college experience. Here at Monmouth, students cannot graduate unless they complete at least one of them and gain some experience working in their respective fields.
Women Have Right to #BoycottNFL #GetRidofGoodell
In this country, football is a great American tradition. Many individuals, especially a large population of the youth, idolize the strong, tough and larger-than-life NFL players.
Jeter’s Farewell Changes Face of Baseball
Derek Jeter is baseball. Before the start of the 2014 Major League Baseball season, the Yankees’ captain announced this would be his last. This season marked Jeter’s twentieth and final season wearing Yankee pinstripes. With the Yankees missing the playoffs this season, and the regular season having ended Sunday, Sept. 28, the face of Major League Baseball has changed forever.
Perks of Hook-Up Culture
As millennials, we are criticized daily. From our attitudes on life, to how much we drink, and of course how we interact with the opposite sex. Article after article is written on why the hook up culture of our generation is so detrimental. I have read articles that claim our generation will wind up alone because we cannot form relationships. That could not be farther from the truth.
Appreciate Autumn and All the Fall Festivities it Has to Offer
Autumn – the bright and colorful leaves are falling; the temperature cools down to a crisp degree and lives fall back into their familiar and comfortable routines again as summer winds down and students return to school.
Proclaimed “Hippie” Culture Today is Not Similar to the Sixties
We all know those people. The self-proclaimed hippies of today (or sometimes referred to as hipsters) that walk around in overpriced clothes from Urban Outfitters, listen to Sublime, and have some affiliation with weed. They claim to be hippies and channel their ancestors of the sixties and seventies but in reality they don’t know the first thing about what it meant to be a hippie fifty years ago.