Director: Frank Miller Running Time: 108 Minutes Rated: PG-13 2008 has been a wonderful and progressive year for comic book/graphic novel adaptations and interpretations to the big screen.  They have effectively brought an artistic vision to life and created true film adaptations.  However, this transfer is no simple feat and without proper care or guidance, […]

On July 31st of 2007, John Tierney wrote an article in the New York Times on the 237 reasons that people have sex. He was writing about a study done by psychologists at the University of Texas at Austin. These researchers asked approximately 2,000 people for reasons why they had sex and came up with 237 reasons.

In today’s society of sexual endeavors with the Adult Entertainment business grossing around $12 billion dollars a year, porn has proven over the years to be both a lucrative and a sustaining industry. The sexual exploitation of such work is acceptable by law and a means of accumulating wealth for many Wall Street investors. This […]

The  concept  of  war  conflicts  with  the  principles and values  of  our  Humane  Society, even though  throughout  history  war  and  violence  have  been  a  vast  notion  of  sustaining  the Americas  as  well  as  many  other  countries’  imperialistic qualities. It’s  nature  is both  reckless  yet  sometimes  necessary  to impose concepts  of  governing  and  manners of conduct. […]

It’s human nature to be greedy. The levels of this greed vary, but everyone has it within them. Greed, however, is a very general phrase and can, in fact, be divided up into three other categories: materialistic; lust for power; and self-centeredness.

In the quarter system, it seems that finals come around more often than the flu. There is never a sense of calm in academic circles, because it’s either the class introduction, midterms (which begin the 3rd week and continue through the week before finals) or finals. This never-ending liteny of assessment can make a person […]

How much are you worth? Just take a look around your room to find out.

Are men really the dominant gender in society?

On December 4, the UCSF Synapse (the university student newspaper) published an anonymous article called “Proposition 8 and Our Society–The Majority Perspective”. You can find it here. The author makes some valid points. First of all, one of the most fundamental rights on which our nation was founded is the right to freedom of speech […]

I met my friend Richard in 2007 while attending Orange Coast College; by chance we ended up in the same geography class. His mother is originally from Myanmar, and his father grew up in Hong Kong. They met for the first time in Taiwan, but soon immigrated to Singapore after getting married. Richard was born […]