Northern Light - Spring 2024

Adjusting the Flow of Money: Campaign Finance Reform by Kavonte Batiste

In this age of superpacs, it is important to understand how campaign finance affects our elections. This essay explores one position on campaign finance reform. Whether or not someone agrees with campaign finance reform, this paper can help others understand our election process and how it affects them, or it can help them form their own opinions. Campaign finance can be a complicated, but this paper attempts to demystify it. To read more, click here.

How Converting to a Minimalist Lifestyle Can Improve Overall Quality of Life  by Isabella Bridges

This essay explores the benefits of minimalism and how any individual can make the steps to align their choices with a more simplistic lifestyle. By making these choices we can contribute to a healthier inner peace of mind by desiring less from the outer world. Together we can gain a better understanding of what makes us feel empowered as people and resist dependency on the capitalist machine of consumerism.  To read more, click here. 

Exploring Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Privacy Concerns with the Key to Cold Cases by Hannah Antonsen

The field of Forensic Genetic Genealogy has polarizing viewpoints regarding individual privacy and public safety. This cutting-edge investigation technology has sparked the interest of many because of both its power and its invasiveness into innocent lives.  This essay is an in-depth analysis of the way these investigations work, while considering the ethics of this matter and our Constitutional rights to privacy. To read more, click here.