Going Yards for Goyard

As you walk down the streets of Manhattan, you can see all types of bags in your view. On the NYU campus, backpacks, tote bags, purses, and crossbodies call attention to bags as functional and fashionable accessories. Perhaps you’ve noticed one type of bag in particular that stands out from the rest: the Goyard.

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Generational Bias Towards Tattoos

Plenty of my friends and acquaintances from various cultures have tattoos, and most of them have a story about how their community had a negative and biased reaction towards them due to the fact that their skin is no longer blank. My wonder about this generational bias towards tattoos went through the roof, so I decided to formally interview a select handful of people to understand their opinion and reactions toward this bias.

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Synthetic Humans and The Language of A.I.

Let’s face it: I could have put in a few key words into ChatGPT when sitting down to write this piece, and had the computer write it for me completely. No longer are we using computing technology to aid in our own production of language, as the computers can generate their own words from ours.

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“Ugwaljanza mill-qalb”

Whilst in the United States there are heavy connotations of religious standpoints with political ones, in Malta, this relationship is quite different. As one of the world’s most Catholic countries, it is simultaneously one of the most progressive for LGBTQ+ rights. 

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