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Yo-Kai Watch is Dying

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer May 29, 2025

Yo-Kai Watch was a semi-popular series of monster-catching RPGs released throughout the mid-2010s. Despite what that may imply, no, the Yo-Kai Watch games were not attempting to copy Pokémon or imitate...

Eating A Salad

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer May 16, 2025

I work at my local Meijer as a greeter. I do not like my job. The only reason I am still working there is because the pay is actually quite good. After a while, I check my wheelchair’s clock and notice...

The Final Curtain

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer May 14, 2025

While karaoke is simply seen as an enjoyable pastime here in the United States, it is wildly popular in the Philippines. For those unaware, karaoke is the practice of singing along to the lyrics of a song...

Parking in Disabled Spaces and Why it is Illegal

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer April 22, 2025

After the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, in 1990, the inclusion of accessible parking spaces was made a mandatory requirement for all buildings and establishments across the country....

What Was the 504 Movement

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer April 15, 2025

Think of the 1970s, what protests come to mind? Maybe Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement, the Feminist Movement or the various anti-war protests relating to America’s actions abroad. Those...

Students with Disability

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer March 13, 2025

America has come a long way since the 1927 Supreme Court ruling of Buck v. Bell, which legalized the forced sterilization of people with disabilities or mental illnesses under the umbrella of 20th-century...

Trump’s Healthcare Policies Could Hurt Millions

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer March 7, 2025

When I heard the news that President Donald Trump had signed several executive orders “freezing” federal funding for numerous government agencies, I immediately grew anxious regarding how such an outcome...

Being Home for 4 Days

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer February 24, 2025

I do not remember much from the hours immediately following the extraction of my wisdom teeth, only that my dentist was rambling on about something called “dry sockets” to my parents. The remainder...

Coats, and Why I Don’t Typically Wear Them

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer February 13, 2025

It is currently a Monday, 7:30 in the morning and snow is strewn across the streets of my neighborhood and the grass surrounding my family’s driveway. My mother spent an hour before she left the house...

The Korean War Explained

Dawson Maxwell, MVC writer January 31, 2025

During the second World War, the Korean peninsula was a core tenant of the Japanese war machine. Minerals from the region's mountainous north, like iron, zinc and large reserves of coal, helped fuel the...

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