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Tennessee Summers
I can remember summers as a kid Running around outside in a field of grass Riding in the back of pick up trucks And the smell of sweet...

Bethany Ward
Jan 24, 20222 min read


Reframing Your Consciousness
Discovering American scholar Gloria Anzaldua’s article 'Towards a New Consciousness' was like finding a key that unlocked a deeper...

Bethany Ward
Jun 10, 20216 min read


Young People in Politics
Anthropology and psychology prove that whenever there is a group of people who collectively experience some kind of dis-ease, it is...

Bethany Ward
Mar 28, 20214 min read


Alternative Medicine
An American woman goes to the doctor and is diagnosed with cancer. She is prescribed chemotherapy treatment and begins it immediately....

Bethany Ward
Dec 12, 20207 min read


He Awoke me as I Slept on his Shoulder
It is said that people come into each other’s lives at a time when it is needed. I needed exactly him. 6’0. Tall, dark and handsome. A...

Bethany Ward
Nov 18, 20204 min read


Is Madness the Plight of Creativity? What is Madness?
Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe, Michelangelo and Beethoven would trap themselves in their rooms in mental agony, dealing with an...

Bethany Ward
Nov 16, 20204 min read


Generation Z's Collective Depression and 1950s "Housewives Disease"--a Parallel?
Young people's collective experience of anxiety and depression reminds me of the collective experience of "housewives disease" in the...

Bethany Ward
Nov 16, 20202 min read


The Power of Mind Body Connection
America’s beloved poet Walt Whitman is known for his famous line: “I am the poet of the body, I am the poet of the soul.” Walt Whitman...

Bethany Ward
Oct 2, 20208 min read


Pandemic Writing: "Blood on my Quill"
Emma, Instead of writing an essay analyzing the novel “Mrs. Dalloway,” I decided to follow in her footsteps and try a stream of...

Bethany Ward
Oct 2, 20208 min read


“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” A 1970 Art Historian's perspective on female genius
American art historian Linda Nochlin published a famous article in 1971, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” in regards to the...

Bethany Ward
May 5, 20204 min read


Entropy: How This Law of Physics Reveals the Human Condition
Imagine living in a house that naturally got cleaner instead of dirtier. Imagine having a mind that naturally bettered its mental health....

Bethany Ward
Dec 5, 20193 min read


The Paradox of Progress
Despite longer life spans, better medicine, lower childhood mortality rates and technological advancements, Americans’ happiness levels...

Bethany Ward
Dec 5, 20193 min read


Columbia Application Material: "Thought Undressed"
Spinning spinning spinning. Is the mind the end of itself? To see beyond a dancer’s spinning body into the circular depths of their...

Bethany Ward
Dec 5, 20192 min read
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