CULTURE

Club Penguin , during the golden age of the kid web, holds the record for the most popular child-oriented MMO game in history, with over 200 million registered users by 2013. (Credit: Club Penguin Legacy ) The year is 2008. You have just arrived home after a long day of elementary school. You enter your home, drop your backpack to the ground, and rush over to the family computer (located, of course, in the family computer room). There, you log on to your favorite website, whe

Social Isolation is known to have many adverse mental, physical, and emotional effects The 18th-century French poet Joseph Roux  once said that “Solitude vivifies. Isolation kills.” There has been much debate  about the distinction between the states of solitude vs isolation  – if you can even consider them states of being, rather than places, conditions, mindsets, or afflictions. As supported by Roux’s quote, solitude doesn’t necessarily bear the negative connotations that i

St. Bonaventure Catholic Church- Decades of scandal, secularization, and cultural shifts have seen organized religion relegated to the rear of culture, leading to a poorer civil society and a more polarized populace. (Image courtesy of Abandoned America and Matthew Christopher) As American life has continued to change and evolve, one of the most dramatic, if underreported, shifts in its culture has been the decline of both religious belief as a whole and organized religion in