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A Green Guide to Black Friday
The season of deal-hunting and gift-giving frenzy is around the corner! After a year of sluggish economic activity and belt-tightening measures, this year’s Black Friday is to make a grand comeback that reminds us of the old normal shopping sprees. This article will give some tips to enjoy this holiday season without leaving an overwhelming amount of carbon footprints!
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How To Halloween Amid a Pandemic?
The spooky festivity is in full swing after a year of hiatus. Everyone is already making plans for a comeback that is bigger than ever before. Pumpkin carvings, trick-or-treat, costume parties, you name it all. However, the surge of Covid-19 cases due to the Delta variant poses a big question to us: How to do so safely? Don’t worry because I got you!
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Halloween in Asian Cultures
We have Halloween. What’s it like elsewhere around the world?
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Costumes and Cultural Appropriation
A non-Japanese person walks into a Halloween party wearing a kimono. Before putting the garment on, they’ve done their research. They’ve learned the cultural significance of the kimono, and have grown a new respect for it. That person makes sure to get all of the features right in order to feel authentic. Is this person committing cultural appropriation? Or a case of cultural appreciation? Well, it’s complicated.
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Senior Spotlight: Jamie Weiner
Hello, I’m Jamie Wen Weiner and happy to say that I’m finally graduating UD with a Bachelor of Science degree in Apparel Design and minor in Fashion Management. Life plans after college, TBD, but I’m working towards my goal of becoming an apparel designer.
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Senior Spotlight: Sabrina Lee
Hi everyone! My name is Sabrina Lee and I am graduating from UD with a B.S. in Fashion Merchandising and minors in Business Administration and Sustainable Apparel & Textile Innovation.
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FSA Culture Night
Culture Night Feature Interview
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Kim Pegula: Businesswoman, Philanthropist, Activist
As the weather starts to get warmer, people are starting to partake in more outdoor activities. One activity I highly recommend is a game of catch with a football-- or, for those who love to run, have someone throw the ball to you during your light jog!
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An Unforeseen Lineage
As amazing as it is to have so many prominent Asian female idols in history and the media, sometimes the ones who empower us the most are those from our everyday lives. Before coming to the University of Delaware, so many students like me grew up in predominantly white communities, and we did not really have mentors that we related to culturally. I never thought that one day, I would find a group of women just like me who once felt the same way.
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Christine Hà: The Blind Cook on Her Journey to Reclaim Herself
“If you can’t see how steep a mountain is, then you can’t fear it.” That is how Christine Hà, a then 33-year-old home cook with visual impairment, stepped into the U.S Master Chef’s legendary kitchen and mesmerized Gordran Ramsay with her Vietnamese comfort food - clay pot-style catfish. From that moment onward, I know I am watching the history of the culinary world in the making. I see a star is born.
