Page 20 – Crux

The Generational Consequences of Child Labor

Child labor, like almost every other issue of the sort, is a double-sided coin. While it is undoubtedly a social and moral hazard, it is also a primary source of income for those who practice it. Considering this fact, the question that arises is whether taking action against child labor would do more harm than…

ByZainab HasanNovember 17, 20200Comments

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Teachers & Students Struggling with the Digital Makeover of Education

UNESCO has reported that “Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. These nationwide closures are impacting over 60% of the world’s student population. Several other countries have implemented localized closures impacting millions of additional learners.” According to …

BySeirut JavedNovember 14, 20200Comments

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The Necessity of fighting Negativity Bias

When we say “bad is stronger than good”, we are generally referring to the phenomena that the effects of bad things outweigh the good things in a human’s life. Bad means that the event or situation harms one’s mind while good means that it has a positive effect. It has been concluded that bad…

BySeirut JavedNovember 12, 20200Comments

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Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Who is more likely to chip your brain?

The Disease and The Cure The world is racing to procure a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Russia, China, the United States, and the UK are current forerunners in this race to combat the virus. There are multiple clinical trials in various stages of production at this moment. A vaccine could only be months away…

BySaad RashidNovember 10, 20200Comments

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Focalism; The Culprit Responsible for Clouding Judgment

People in life often indulge in focalism when they narrow down their vision and focus solely on one event or one aspect of an event. The complete ignorance of any other factors is strong and even accounting for any new factor cropping up is out of the question. This tendency is called focalism or…

BySeirut JavedNovember 8, 20200Comments

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The Contribution of Social Media to Body Dysmorphia

We know that a notable number of industries, such as film, beauty, advertising, etc., capitalize on their consumers’ insecurities, but what is it that prompts those insecurities in the first place? Our distorted perception of what we should be and what the world sees us as gives rise to self-doubt, along with an all-consuming need…

ByZainab HasanNovember 5, 20200Comments

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The History, and the Future of Diets

Considering the incredibly important role that diet plays in an individual’s health, it is surprising how late it made its way into the mainstream. Early Days In the modern world, the introduction of our diet as something that influences how we live our lives can be pinpointed to around the time vitamins were discovered. The…

BySaad RashidNovember 2, 20200Comments

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Hikikomori Hermitism and the Recluse

Since the Coronavirus reached pandemic proportions back in March, the lives of many people have been changed beyond recognition. Even people who are not among the old and the sickly have had to undergo the stressors of lockdown. Quarantine, currently the only weapon we have against the virus, is not without its own drawbacks. Fear…

BySaad RashidOctober 31, 20200Comments

The Candy Coup, Why Fat isn’t Evil.

Fat. That one word is the boon of millions of people throughout the world. To make things more precise, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, two billion people on this planet are either overweight or obese. Around one in every ten people are medically obese. Of course, the issue of fat-shaming is another…

BySaad RashidOctober 29, 20200Comments

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