In junior high English, I learned about oxymorons. Oxymoron: “a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect.” So when I stumbled upon thisContinue Reading
It sounds like something one would read in a history book. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their home countries as refugees from war and persecution seeking safety and freedomContinue Reading
“With each blast of the gun, I thought I was going to die,” said Collins Wetangula, an eyewitness of the April 2 massacre at the University of Garissa in Kenya.Continue Reading
Three weeks after the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, one panel still stands out to me. Maybe it was because, for the first time that I hadContinue Reading
What if there was global threat that put 2.5 billion people at risk of disease or even death? It would seem like a fairly large threat that ought to beContinue Reading