Cassandra Michalakis

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Worked on 63 assignments, created 40, named on 27 bylines for The Montclarion.

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It's Time To Get Ready for Political Discourse During the Holidays

With the midterm elections just concluding and the constant turmoil of the presidential election in two years time, it is not far-fetched to assume grandma’s stuffing won’t be the only talk at the table in a couple of weeks. Holidays are intended to bring people together, yet that does not mean necessarily uniting them unless you count agreeing on which...

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Technology Has Made Us More Social, But Also More Uncertain

I was in class with a professor who said their class was difficult because we had to do something school had ripped out of us. We had to have an opinion. I understand what they were trying to get at, that we should think critically about how we come across and articulate our ideas by wrapping up our thoughts into...

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What Does Free Speech Mean Exactly?

This might be saturated with irony, to which the reader would be correct in assuming. In a lighthearted manner, I acknowledge that what I write here ultimately contributes to the cacophony of comments the internet suffers no shortage of. Ironically enough, I began to draft this article prior to Twitter’s ownership change. It initiated my reflection on how I convey...

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