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“The Cold Hard Truth”: Kevin O’Leary’s Advice to Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Austin Strykowski On October 1, 2024, Kevin O’Leary came to Miami University’s Millett Hall as part of the Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series of the Farmer School of Business. He titled his lecture “The Cold Hard Truth” as he spoke about his upbringing, personal business decisions and experiences, and businesses that he has invested in. The…
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Op-Ed: “They’re Eating the Dogs” Was Not The Most Extreme Thing Said During the Trump vs. Harris Debate
Note: Op-Eds represent the opinions of individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Miami Political Review as a whole. Image Credit: Saul Loeb, Getty Images Meredith Perkins On September 10, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris met for the first time in Philadelphia to complete a 90-minute presidential debate moderated by ABC News.…
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What I Wish My Family, Culture, and Friends Told Me About Srebrenica: A Macedonian Woman’s Perspective on Exile, Massacre, and Multi-Ethnic Tolerance
Anastasija Mladenovska I was born in 2003 in Kumanovo, the third largest town in suburban Macedonia, a 30 minute drive away from the Serbian border. Our dialect, heavily influenced by Serbian, is almost indistinguishable from the mannerisms spoken in many of the southern Serbian regions. Because of this, we were often called Serbs by Macedonians…
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Art and Politics at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Annabel DeChant Earlier this summer, I studied abroad in Venice, taking classes on art history. One of the classes focused on the Venice Biennale, and a major part of the course was visiting the 2024 Venice Biennale, which is currently going on. The Biennale featured a wide range of contemporary artwork, arranged in the group…
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EU Parliamentary Elections 2024
Annabel DeChant While studying abroad in Venice, another Miami student and I tried to take a waterbus off the island to go see the Dolomites mountains, only to find out that we needed to take an entirely different line – the waterbus had reduced hours due to the EU parliamentary elections. Despite this hiccup, I…
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The Future of the Legal Labor Market
Legalcurrent.com Terius Madrigal For every student or graduate looking to potentially go to law school in the future, this article is for you. It’s always important to know what future job opportunities look like for the career you plan on pursuing. As I plan to go to law school myself, I did an analysis on…
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The 2024 Youth Vote
Pexels Annabel DeChant As we’re approaching the 2024 presidential election, voter turnout will be key, and one of the most interesting voter blocs that we can look at is the youth vote. To gain some insight into what the youth vote might look like in 2024, one can look at a variety of predictions, both…
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In Defense of a Humanities Education
(Illustration by The Chronicle, ISTOCK Images) In October 2023, Miami University announced it was considering cutting eighteen of its humanities programs in an attempt to relieve its budget deficit: an announcement that created a campus-wide discourse on the future of our humanities programs. As a double major in creative writing and diplomacy with minors in…
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We are flushing our forests down the drain: A Look into Proctor & Gamble’s Paper Harvesting Practices
(River Jordan for NRDC) Between 2020 and 2025, Cincinnati-based consumer goods company Proctor & Gamble has promised to support the planting of 1 million trees to “protect and enhance the forests we all depend on.” Simultaneously Proctor & Gamble cuts down primary forests at a rate of 1 million acres per year for the production…
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Decoding Dollars: Navigating Ohio’s Opioid Settlement Funds Locally
(Erik McGregor/Sipa USA/Newscom) Opioid manufacturers and distributors are now forced to confront the consequences of the global opioid epidemic, as recent settlements have required them to pay out over $50 billion to state and local governments across the United States. Ohio, one of the more severely impacted states with one of the highest overdose rates,…
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