Ashley Branch
Senior Columnist
Class of 2013 English
abranch1@binghamton.edu
37 Articles
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Choosing your major — it’s all about you
Friends and family often make us lose focus on what really matters. We should be looking for the things that make us passionate. ...
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Rielle Hunter is not a hero
I really want to like Rielle Hunter, but she makes it so difficult for me. While promoting her tell-all book, “What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me,” on shows including...
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Reflections across the pond
LONDON — This week marks the end of my stay in London. As I begin to pack and study for exams, I’m reflecting on what I’ve done this semester and how living...
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When true citizenship doesn’t require a test
LONDON — How does one define citizenship? I contemplated this over the weekend as I gave my Britain-born friend a tour of Central London. As I walked her through New Oxford Street,...
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Armchair activism in digital age isn’t a sign of true heroism
LONDON — Unfortunately, superheroes don’t exist. On the upside, real heroes do. They live just as you and I do, but with a twist. Between lunch breaks and long talks with friends...
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Whatever, I’ll pray where I want
LONDON — I’ve been a member of the Roman Catholic Church since birth. Am I a Catholic now? Depends on who you ask. Since I graduated high school, I’ve questioned the strength...
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Put Shakespeare in his historical place
LONDON — Shakespeare has been one of the major aspects my of semester-in-London experience. I’ve visited his grave site at Stratford-upon-Avon as well as the home of his wife, Anne Hathaway. I...
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Speak softly, carry a small stomach in UK
Greetings from London! I hope all of you in Binghamton are having a more productive and hopefully warmer start to the spring semester than I am. Not to imply that I haven’t...
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Developing nations beware: This is not a post-colonial world
Imagine a country where the people and the government view themselves in such high regard that they felt morally obligated to impose their culture on other nations. Imagine that this country produced...
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Can you read this? Don't take that for granted.
I wasn’t sure what to be grateful for this Thanksgiving — besides eating a home-cooked meal — until I read about James Arruda Henry. Henry was illiterate for most of his life...