The young Canadian director Ben Proudfoot is one of the most prominent names in the documentary short film community. Through his Breakwater Studios, Proudfoot releases two shorts each year, which premiere in major festival venues such as the Tribeca Film Festival or Telluride Film Festival. In 2021, he won his …
During the peak of the internet’s spread in the early century, the media and the world were still coming to terms with the reach of this new medium. One of the questions and a new understanding related to information access: shifting from the concentration of it in selected vehicles and …
When discussing the sociopolitical problems of the United States, health care and housing are the primary issues in American society. The elevated prices of houses are due to the real estate industry, which raises the costs of residences to gain higher profit margins, benefiting from a basic human necessity: a …
Immigration is a central aspect of humanity. Since the beginning of time, the human being has had the need to transition from one place to another. Yet, the reasoning behind that shifted throughout the years. At the outset, individuals would move to access food and protect themselves from danger. However, …
Some labour and activities have existed since the beginning of human organization. One of them is midwifery. The assistance of a female individual during the birth of a child became an ordinary practice for several centuries. Yet, the professionalization of obstetrics replaced midwives with nurses, who assist the doctor during …
Airplanes are a relatively new technology and type of transportation. Igniting in the 1900s, aviation quickly developed, taking less than 40 years from the first flights to their use as war machinery in World War II. However, at the end of the 1700s, the creation of balloons occurred. Even after …