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by Sunni Gressock From Merlin to Mary Poppins, there has never been a more magical story told about witches and wizards until J.K. Rowling’s Harry…
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by Kenny Butler Frank Ocean has been drawing some attention as of late, and whether it’s good or bad has yet to be decided. Aside…
![Oreo](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/tree-at-sunrise_w725_h544.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Ryan Hubbard Whether surfing the web, watching the news, or just conversing with everyday citizens, it is very apparent that pop culture is saturated…
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by Shayna Hughes Wes Moore’s memoir, The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates, tells the story of two men with the same name, growing…
![Structure and Discipline](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/big-black-stones1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Zach Green The memoir The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore, is about two kids who grow up on the same…
![The Idea of a Man](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/ocean-beaches-sky1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Jacob Dodds The memoir The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates illustrates the differences between how masculinity is defined and developed by two African…
![Welcome Home to the Dead City](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/fortescue-waterfalls_w725_h544.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Andrew Crooker As the dark blast doors open up with a blaring alarm, you fear what lies on the other side of that door….
![Life in Reverse](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/cave2.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Ashley Cosher “‘Wir werden Amerika,’ we are going to America, is the only thing I remember from the conversation with my parents. I was…
![The Salesman](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/grand-canyon1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Noor Hindi The store was alive. The city was dead. Anorexic wallets, water shortages, lack of food; this was only the beginning. But his…
![A Monster](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/hot-spring-1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by C.L. A handsome young man stands before me in a dimly lit kitchen. Tall, now strikingly slender with a tamed afro of curly blond hair…