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Let’s Talk About: How Netflix’s “Squid Game” reveals the darker side of human nature

Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol October 20, 2021
"The Hunger Games" and "Squid Games" may have a similar premise, but ultimately say different, disturbing things about human nature.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room with a View: Behind the scenes of consumerism in Hollywood

Antonia Lehnert March 15, 2021
“Eyes Wide Shut” and “Fight Club” show us that if we continue to consume material items in incredible quantities, sooner or later we will be the ones indefinitely consumed by them.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Life is long if you know how to use it

Antonia Lehnert March 1, 2021
Time is a valuable resource. The only lifelong activity we should be pursuing — with no fear of wasting time — is learning, and “it takes the whole of life to learn how to live.”
From left to right: Penn Loh, Wilton Tejeda, Adam Strom and Mr. Body Homicile speak at a talk on gentrification Wednesday evening hosted by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. RACHEL SHARPLES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

MFA City Talks series questions immigrant experience in Boston

Becca Campbell November 15, 2018
The Museum of Fine Arts welcomed an eager group of visitors Wednesday night, who were combatting the cold. The group gathered at the museum for a conversation, part of the “City Talks” series, that featured stories about migration and the theme of belonging.

MARK: An unbroken series of successful gestures

Daily Free Press Admin May 1, 2013

“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”-Daniel Webster Conclusions are the easiest part of any essay. I...

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