Half The Sky
Northeastern’s Half the Sky Campus Ambassadors Noreen Leahy, Jessica Iocca, Sarah Lombardo, Olivia Allen & Cinnamon Bottaro It is estimated that over 100 million women and girls are ‘missing’ from the global population as a result of gender-based oppression. Issues ranging from sex trafficking to maternal mortality, place not only a disproportionate burden on developing […]
Division in Northern Ireland: Protestants, Catholics and ‘Others’
It can be easy to belittle the progress made by the political and social systems in Northern Ireland (NI) since the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998, but let there be no mistake that the headway being made in NI is remarkable. Despite this growth, the society remains segregated. The two principal groups are […]
Massachusetts Fishery Management Plans: A Public Field Hearing
This article is written in reaction to the author’s attendance of the October 3rd, 2011 public field hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to review Massachusetts Fishery Management Plans. It can be easy to forget in our modern metropolitan world, the long history of the New England fisherman. The ground-fish industry […]
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
As with so many of our natural resources, we are slowly coming to the realization that nature’s bounty is not as limitless as we once so naively thought. Less than a century ago, fishing for cod was a staple of the fishing industry. While it was a gruelling job, there was a lot of pride […]