By Isobel Haynes | gargoyle@flagler.edu Imagine pausing your life at the drop of a pin, taking all your belongings, putting them in suitcases, and moving to another country. You’re beyond stressed, you’re beyond worried, and frankly, you’re scared. The only comfort you have is that…
By Joseph McCann | gargoyle@flagler.edu The last ten years have given the LGBT community the most progress it’s ever seen, and it may seem to be getting better. It’s easy to believe that statement, but this would be wrong. The push back against the…
By Jared Talbot | gargoyle@flagler.edu As I threw my cap into the air alongside my 176 classmates at my high school graduation, I never felt the overwhelming sense of pride that I’d always heard about. I looked around at people’s faces and saw tears of joy…
By Joseph McCann | gargoyle@flagler.edu My mother is a high school history teacher and always talked about the historical origins of the issues we have today. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, so I’ll be doing exactly that which my childhood-self detested. We see North Korea portrayed in…
By Joseph McCann | gargoyle@flagler.edu On Friday, October 13, Donald Trump decided to decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal. Sigh. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran Nuclear Deal, is a 2015 agreement from President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry that limits the Iranian ability to make nuclear bombs, in return for the…
By Katherine Hamilton | gargoyle@flagler.edu I’ve heard a great deal of hullabaloo about how Donald Trump doesn’t represent the values our country wants to portray. After the election, the in-unison out cry of “He’s not my president!” streamed all over Twitter, Facebook and my college campus. Many…
By Katherine Stairs | gargoyle@flagler.edu I couldn’t remember anything after waking up in a hospital room, trapped in a screen bed. From what my parents told me, I couldn’t take care of myself either. I was like a toddler learning for the first time what…
By Jared Talbot | gargoyle@flagler.edu It all started with a call, which changed the course of my summer as well as my life. At 12:30 a.m. on July 9 I got a call from my sister’s boyfriend Tyler. He told me that there had been…
By Joseph McCann | gargoyle@flagler.edu This article is an introduction to a series that will (hopefully) give a basic knowledge of current events and political issues in the United States in a plainspoken manner, entitled “Who, What, Why: (topic),” so that we can all ruin…
By Liz Browning | gargoyle@flagler.edu At four years old, my father passed away in a car accident, leaving my mom to raise me and my sister, who was just seven years old. We were able to overcome this tragic incident because we had unconditional love…