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OPINION WRITING
Strings by Jiye Park
The Opinion section is a space to argue, persuade and propose opinions you're passionate about through writing or video. All works should be well-thought out, have evidence and citations.
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ARTICLES
The Compounding Cost of Systemic Racism in Access to Healthcare
By Anushka Roy
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Financial inaccessibility to healthcare stretches beyond differences in salary and reveals an intimate connection between healthcare and the cracks in society, extending the discussion to that of systemic racism. In a report, published December 13th in 2017, the WHO reveals that 800 million people spend 10% or more of their household budgets on healthcare, and almost 100 million of them cannot afford these expenses without being pushed into "extreme poverty" (World Bank and WHO: Half the world lacks access to essential health services, 100 million still pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses). In PayScale’s 2020 investigation into the racial wage gap in the United States, the uncontrolled group showed that black and Hispanic women, both...
The Essence of The Cold War
(1947-1991)  
By Nandini Sarin
In many minds, the concept of war settles on a form of revenge. For example, World War 1 (amalgamated with the long due causes of nationalism, militarism, alliances, and imperialism) was triggered by the urge of the ‘Triple Alliance’ to avenge Archduke Franz Ferdinand. World War 2 was triggered by the urge to regain the ‘German pride’, as a form of revenge for the damages experienced by Germany in the previous World War. This abstract of revenge was one that the Cold War ignored yet remained as fatal due to its hidden motives. Through evaluating the several strategies of the Cold war, one can distinctly recognise and understand the imperialistic greed that was transformed to be known as the passively fought “ideological battle”...
