A publication of the Department of English & Philosophy at Drexel University

DrexelOne
by Michelyve Petit
Oh, Excuse me DrexelOne, I just had to run to the bathroom for a quick second [...]

Welcoming the West Philadelphia Fresh Food Hub to the neighborhood
by Teresa Lopez
As I was walking back from class up Lancaster Avenue the other day, I noticed a [...]

A City in Motion
by Nichole Hulse
By now, I’m sure everyone in Drexel has gotten wind of the Mad Dragon Concert lineup. [...]

Drexel Holi adds cultural color to campus
by Ari Melman
On Saturday, Drexel undergraduate Indian students association (DISHA) and Urban Playground brought Holi to Drexel. Holi [...]

Maya 2012
by Margo Jones
The end is near. That is, if you believe the hype about 12/21/12 and the end [...]

Sports in Philadelphia
by Lindsey Fratz
Honestly, I can’t say I know all that much about what goes on with sports here [...]

Flux
by Olivia DiPasquale
I hadn’t heard of Flux until I saw an ad for the Grandchildren concert at the [...]

#Drexel Problems
by Makane George
This is my fourth year at Drexel. Of course I am a five year student, and [...]

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Music Reviews in the Age of Technology

There is little doubt the music industry has drastically changed in this age of technology. Besides new sounds, there is the endless debate about downloading music as evidenced by the government’s recent efforts to stop it with acts like PIPA and SOPA. The internet has definitely altered several facets of the industry. Read More


Memories of Bosnia

My first memory of Bosnia and Herzegovina is neither the guard who half-glanced at my US passport nor the rows of vineyards and plum trees in every yard, but rather a yellow house and the smallest hummingbird I have ever seen. Read More


My Life is Theatre

Everyone has that one thing in life that defines them, tells everyone else who they are. For me, that one thing is theatre. Ever since I can remember, theatre has been a part of my life. Whether I was watching a theatrical production on TV at home, from the audience, or on the stage itself did not matter. Theatre has been a constant, a thing to lean on and rely on, my entire life. Read More


Emotional Levers

For the longest time, I was convinced that words only gave great orators their ability to evoke emotion from their audience. It is one of the reasons that I read voraciously when I was a child. I was convinced that if I read enough, I would have the appropriate vocabulary to be a good orator myself one day. That changed when, during a trip to play hockey for my high school, St Andrews College in South Africa, I learned about the other important skill that great speakers have. Read More


Puzzling quotation marks
by Anna Clay
I’m traveling to Glasgow this summer and decided to look up concert venues there. Above is [...]

Words as an Offering
by Rebecca Ingalls
My daughter is a week away from being 3, and she is quite small “for her [...]

Ineffective Writing
by Makane George
Ineffective writing can be one of the most useless things that people ever have to put [...]

Investing in you
by Olivia DiPasquale
A few days ago I attended a Drexel CEO workshop called “Things We Wish We Knew [...]

Poetry: free verse or forms?
by Teresa Lopez
Yesterday in my Writing Poetry class, a discussion arose about free verse poetry versus poetry forms. [...]

Reading between the Rhymes
by Nichole Hulse
When I signed up to take Writing Poetry at the start of the semester and began [...]

I’ve had it with all this social-media news
by Ari Melman
The New Yorker poked fun at the circlejerk of articles about social-media ending up popular on [...]

Printable House
by Margo Jones
Things that are necessary to build a house: hammer, nails, wood, and a printer? Well, yes, [...]

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